Encodings (Initial Inquiries)

Dear Reader:

In preparation for the real-time launch of Encodings sessions and courses, I have 12 core inquiries for you to reflect upon. My latest book, Where is God in all of this? A Conversation is a good place to start as well. This is going to be juicy!

CORE INQUIRIES:

(1) In your efforts to clarify who you are—and why you are here—in this lifetime, what paths have you explored, and what specific steps have you taken?;

(2) To what extent have those efforts helped you to make those clarifications? To what extent do you still feel unclear?;

(3) If religion and/or spirituality have been part of your journey, to what extent have they served you and helped you to make sense of this life? To what extent have they obstructed your road to clarity? Where has the soul shown its beautiful face on your path? Is there a place for more of that? Would that be a welcome addition? If so, why??;

(4) I see Encodings as a soulcentric, embodiment model. In other words, the stuff of who you are is something ‘encoded’ within your soul and the bones of your being. You are born with and to it. It’s all over you. It is you. What experiences have you had that (may) align with this perspective? Have you caught glimpses of the most authentic version of you? How would you describe those moments? How did you know?;

(5) As many of you know, I have lived through a painfully unexpected political crucible over the last years. Apart from surviving it, my work is to see what it (may) mean with respect to my own unique encodings. In other words, was this just a tragic stage (one where I may have learned things, but grew little on the encoded levels?) or was it somehow fundamental to what I was born to experience? I don’t believe that everything is ‘grist for the soul mill’, but I do believe that many things are. In your life, what painful crucibles have you endured and survived? Have any of them revealed themselves to be soulcentric opportunities for transformation? In what ways? Do you believe that the events themselves might have been pre-encoded? If so, how do you know?;

(6) If you were to imagine your most soul-actualized self, how different is she/he/they from who you are in this moment? How can you close the gap between your current humanifestation, and one that is more fully actualized? And, do you recognize a distinction between the soul’s development—and the growth of your psyche—or do you see them as the same thing?;

(7) Many people are currently doing deep and courageous work on their emotional wounds and unresolved personal/ancestral trauma. Is it your view that healing is always a good (and necessary) thing with respect to your soul’s expansion, or are there times when it actually distracts from your soul’s purpose(s)? In other words, when is a good time to focus on healing, and when is a good time to focus on other transformational paths on the path of you?;

(8) In the same way as you may encounter people in your life that you just know are somehow encoded in you as part of your' soul’s journey, I am inclined to believe that there are certain sacred geographies that are also intrinsic to the path of you. Perhaps a place to complete a previous life’s sequence, perhaps as a place to initiate a new experiential sequence in this lifetime? What places have you been to, or imagined visiting, that you just know in your bones are fundamental to your journey? What is their role in this lifetime?;

(9) Our soulpod often changes throughout our lifetime. Some resonate for a short time, others for a long time. Who have been the main players, or “collaborators”, in your soulpod in this lifetime? What role have they played on the deeper levels?;

(10) Do you have faith in the possibility of reaching the end of your life knowing with relative certainty that you became what you were born to become, and did what you came here to do? If not, what has to shift, or heal, or open, or get a kick in the ass, before you can believe in those possibilities? And because I hope to spend the rest of my days building this model… What can I do to help you to feel passionate about the life you were encoded to live?

Treasure yourself, Jeff

p.s. Most of my 10 books can be helpful with respect to preparing you to join and genuinely benefit from the Encodings Soulpod. The two that are most directly relevant are Where is God in all of this? and Soulshaping.

I’m not interested in growing something that serves a limited, or limiting, purpose. I want to grow something utterly beautiful that spreads from village to village because it is unstoppably helpful. Not as a crutch, but as something that calls to your soul and ignites your faith in a soulcentric life. I love God (or Creation, if you prefer), but I particularly love God when I can encounter him/her/them in human form. For me, that happens when I encounter humans who are aspiring to live encoded lives. That is, the emblazoned lives they were born for. That’s the key to the whole game. Walking the path of you.

Links for Encodings sessions and initial Encodings course coming soon. Rest well. There’s great work to be done! We’re gonna fix this damaged world and if we can’t, we are going to LIVE trying!