Lately I’ve been giving some serious thought about what I’d like to do in my next life. Maybe it’s because I’m older now and realizing my current body has a shelf life that may expire at any time, or maybe I’m being nudged in a certain direction by the great unknown.

I have always said that every life is a stepping stone to the next one. After all, we are the sum of all of our existences. Every thought, word, and deed that we have had over the centuries has been recorded in the Akashic Records, giving us a roadmap as our soul continues its journey across time. 

In looking over some of the past lives I remember, I plainly see a pattern. A teacher of light in Atlantis. A scribe recording history in Egypt. A monk preserving historical manuscripts in 10th century France. A medieval Italian poet. A Native American medicine woman. An 18th century enslaved woman who kept a secret diary. The list goes on, but you get where I’m going.

When I was in college, I majored in history, specializing in Early American history. I had a professor tell me I had an uncanny feel for the 18th century, and I knew he was right, but I didn’t know why. I loved spending hours in the library researching little known figures of that time and then writing about them. He seemed impressed with my work and encouraged me to continue it as a profession. I fully intended to go into teaching, but this was during the Viet Nam war and at that time, boys could get out of the draft if they became teachers. The teaching profession was glutted and we (meaning we girls) were discouraged from pursuing that path. 

I suppose that doing past -life research and therapy is the next best thing. I get to go on incredible journeys with my clients as I get a first-hand account of life in other centuries and in other countries. In that way, I have a front row seat to the evolution of man. And of course, I do write about it, but it’s not a genre readily accepted by the masses so my audience is small and the Pulitzer Prize continues to elude me!

Nonetheless, I am firmly committed to following my heart and becoming a scribe of history in my next lifetime. I’ve put my request out to the Universe and as often as I remember, I reaffirm it so there’s no mistaking what direction my soul wants to go the next time around.

Are there any guarantees this will happen? Of course not. After all, there is such a thing as free will.  When I am in the afterlife planning my next life, I may decide there are other karmic issues I need to tend to first. But it proclaiming my heart’s desire, I’m forming a foundation for the next life upon which I can fulfill my desire to ignite a love of history, and the lessons it teaches, to some future generation. I just need to remember to make that clear when I take my last breath, as I have often told clients, your last thoughts as your soul transitions from the body back into spirit, often set up the next lifetime. 

So start thinking about what you have yearned to accomplish, but perhaps have fallen short, and put it on your next life’s bucket list. Spirit will listen and help you design the life you truly want to live.