Did you catch my https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/the-human-spirit-duality-e456c0729e99 the other day? I tagged you and included a citation to and quote from your story The Human Self and the Soul Self, Two Parts of the Same Being https://jodieshelm.medium.com/the-human-self-and-the-soul-self-a0f42bb60440

Regarding your passage here, "I still struggle with the human/soul connection, and it’s still hard to believe that any part of me would plan some of the things I’ve dealt with during my life. I don’t remember my life plan, I don’t know what comes next, and I don’t understand why I had to experience some of the things I have," my essay contained this thought: "Recently I had this realization about the human-soul duality — the goals of the human and the goals of the soul may be, from the human perspective, irreconcilable. Humans want nothing but happiness but perhaps the soul came here to experience the opposite so that it can learn to guide other humans when it is not incarnated and is assigned as a spirit guide or to some other work in heaven."