The Plan
I’m thinking about re-titling my book in progress as THE PLAN. The working title currently is LIFE: IT’S YOUR MOVIE but I’m leaning towards THE PLAN.
What’s The Plan? The plan is some form of predestination, but not in the way we’ve been conditioned to that word. It’s more free-flowing and elastic than the traditional definition would lead us to believe.
“Why does this always happen to me?” is a question that suggests that there is patterning running behind the scenes that causes you to run into the same set of circumstances time and again. That’s part of the ego’s plan. That’s not THE PLAN.
“Why did this specific, unexpected, unexplainable, or unfortunate thing happen to me?” is a question whose answer brings you closer to the finding THE PLAN. The answer to this question is the plan for you could not unfold the way it is scripted unless “this specific thing” happened. This specific thing was not delivered by your ego. It is part of THE PLAN.
Who’s doing the scripting? Certainly not your ego. Your ego (bundles of conditioned, repetitive, patterned thoughts and behaviors) had nothing to do with your arrival on the planet or the plan for you. That’s because the ego wasn’t formed at your birth. But, the ego, once formed, stands in the way of your plan being fulfilled by blocking its entrance with its collection of outdated beliefs and conditioned thoughts and behaviors that keep you from being free to live according to plan.
THE PLAN is not for you to become identified with your role – a nurse, a mother, a spouse, a cowboy, a dancer, a fireman, a bubble gum factory worker. That would be the ego’s definition of predestination and it would lack any notion of free will. The Plan will happen through you in any role you freely choose.
THE PLAN remains hidden to us because of the stimulus/response conditioning that makes up the ego.
It may be helpful to know that the idea of free will has been bastardized over centuries of conditioning to mean determinism and willpower. It’s not that at all. Those are two tools of the ego that give you a false sense of who you are (role) and a false sense of progress, and they stand in the way of you finding THE PLAN.
Freewill does not exist in the customary way we think it does. We have been programmed to think we can will ourselves to do anything, and the evidence just doesn’t support that interpretation. The ego and its stimulus/response patterning stand in the way of real free will.
Authentic free will begins by recognizing that stimulus and response are acting as one integrated unit that puts us on automatic pilot. Once we become aware that they are separate components and take the time to create a space between the two of them, then authentic free will shows up. We finally realize we are no longer robots. The free choice we make when we put a wedge between stimulus and response allows THE PLAN to flow.
Out of that unconditioned awareness of free will, comes the directions to fulfill our plan.
Looking back often gives you a glimpse of the plan at work. How many times in your life have you noticed that something wonderful or fulfilling that you now experience could have never happened if something specific didn’t happen? Many times that something was not a pleasant experience, yet you, in retrospect, recognize it was a necessary step to get you to where you are now. You may have never consciously written that script but if it wasn’t written for you, you would have never arrived.
That event, unfortunate or otherwise, was the plan knocking on the door from the inside to be let out.
We don’t have the sensory perceptions necessary to recognize that a cornerstone to our future is being laid as a result of a misfortune or a trip down an unforeseen side road. That view can only come with retrospection.
What can come in the moment of misfortune or reality is the awareness to allow ourselves the humanness of our feelings and not ignore them. It’s valuable to delve deeply into a painful feeling (not the story) and feel it to its fullest. There may be tears and emotional aching. These are necessary components of the transition. This sensory exploration to the fullest is the fastest way to transmute the pain and eventually see it as an essential element for freeing THE PLAN.
Jerry Stocking, a gifted teacher, gives us an enlightening view on this transition. He says,
“The purpose of an emotion is to wash away the thoughts that are stuck in your head.”
As long as the thoughts stay in place, the pain remains and THE PLAN remains held at bay.
So who scripts THE PLAN?
Whomever you refer to as the creative force is the scriptwriter. You can call it call it God, Serendipity, Reality, Universal Consciousness, Divinity, Fate or whatever word works for you. The ego (the devil, if you like) constantly attempts to thwart the plan. If the ego allowed the plan to come through, that would mean its death and the demise of its controlling patterns.
THE PLAN is for you to discover authentic free will. When you get that wedge between stimulus and response, the floodgates open and THE PLAN comes pouring out. It doesn’t need you to shape it or control it or know in advance what it’s going to be. It just needs you to open the door so it can flow through your life.
THE PLAN will be discovered in your lifetime. If your ego has its way, you may not get it until seconds before you give up control at death, but it will come. If you want to speed up the process so you can discover the plan for you – your purpose in life, open up a gap between stimulus and response and find out what specifically was meant to flow through you. That’s THE PLAN.
All the best,
John
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