DOOMED TO MAKE CHOICES?

I had a great teacher in my life, Carl Jung. I was studying early to be a
Jungian analyst. He said, “At the same moment that you’re a protagonist in
your own life and you’re making choices, at the very same moment, you’re
also the spear carrier or the extra in a much larger drama.” He said, “All of
you are doomed to make choices.” And it sounds like such a contrast. If
you’re doomed, how could you be making choices?

But within our physical bodies, we’re doomed. I mean, Esther showed up
in a female body of a certain height and certain color hair and certain
things. And I showed up in a 6'1" male body and hair is falling out and
growing in my ears and all of the crazy things that are happening to it. And
I’m just watching it.

But I also have choices to make about this body. I can feed it well. I can
exercise it. I can do so many things. So I’m making choices within sort of a
doomed state. But what about the other part of us, the spiritual side of us?

Well, we can understand how someone who is trying to explain to someone
who is, in this moment, not on the high-flying disc, why they may use words like
doomed.

Right.  He  didn’t  mean    it  in  a,  you know—

Meaning that there are unwanted choices. But what we have noticed is that as
you sift through the details of your life for a longer and longer time, and more
personal preferences are born within you, you become clearer and clearer about
who-you-are and what you want. And then that is usually when we begin to meet
you, because now you are beginning to desire the ability to have more control in
your own reality. You just don’t know how to go about it.

This is a new conversation that we are having these days with our physical
friends because we want you to understand that in your physical form you
intended to explore more contrast than we do from our Non-Physical vantage
point. And from the contrast comes more detailed desire for improvement in this