This is an interesting focus for all beings, particularly as a New Year is approached. It is always good to ask within, "What is my purpose?" or "Am I fulfilling my purpose?" In truth, everyone should ask these questions on a regular basis, but it is particularly important at the dawning of a new year.

When all is said and done, the one thing you take with you throughout all your experiencing is what might be called your "body of experiencing." In fact what else is there besides your experiences and the impressions you have drawn from them? Because there is really little else, it is important that you see how precious your experiencing really is. It is from your perceptions of your experiences that you, in fact, create your present moment. In truth, those impressions and perceptions are right now generating the energy for your future lives and your personal flight through the cosmos. Those impressions and perceptions have been replicating themselves throughout your creative stream all throughout time and space. As you generate experiences that demonstrate the smallness of those perceptions and impressions, you gain a vaster view of the cosmos, and you replace those smaller experiential demonstrations with vaster, more complete ones.

Your experiences are also precious because so many of them are shared with other people. This sharing process gives you a view into the creational (i.e. experiential) realm of others, which can clearly prove useful to you. This sharing process also gives you poignant moments which punctuate your creative expressions with the many flavors of your emotional palette. Thus, your creational experiences become colored with the energies of those with whom you have shared experiences, adding verve and life to the experiential spectrum of sentient beings.

As far as future plans for sentient beings, the goal of the whole process is to step beyond the boundaries of the mind with its tyrannical tendencies to only replicate the past. This begins with something as basic as just seeing the deep and profound worth of every being, whether or not they see the world in the same light as you do. Then, a larger application of that basic appreciation is generated, and you share vaster ways of being in relationship with one another. The ultimate goal is to transcend suffering -- both the experience of suffering, as well as the need some feel to make others suffer.

This transcendent way of seeing and being is rooted in the recognition that this planetary experience is ONE experience, not billions of experiences all going on at the same time. Of course, each must use the lens of his or her own experiencing to view the vaster process. Ultimately, the personal way of seeing dissolves into a "para-personal" way of seeing, and it is only then that true Oneness can be experienced. As this kind of consciousness dawns in the collective human process, individuals are truly able to begin seeing the Divine in each other. Eventually, they even come to recognize that the Divine they see in others is but a reflection of the Divine within themselves. Then they notice that there is no difference between self and other, that all are expressions of the same Divine Consciousness, and that the purpose of the physical realm is to discover the Divine hiding in all parts of it.

The good news is that in the end, one discovers he/she was never separate from Divine Essence, even though at various times one could not feel or recognize Divine Essence within themselves and others. Given such, it would have been impossible to have created the life stream any differently than it was created. Looking back from the perfected point, one sees that everything all along the way was somehow perfect for the lesson it taught.