Prophecy and Purpose: A Look Into Redfield’s Control Dramas

Finding your purpose, the reason you were born here on Earth, seems to be a popular subject for many people right now. They read books on it hoping to find their answer. They try different things throughout life wondering if this career or that job is their purpose. They pray to God to show them the way. They might even be a genius, born with an incredible talent, and wonder if it is their true, ultimate purpose.

There is nothing wrong with all that. Keep in mind, however, the quote above. Our purpose is to love. This includes loving yourself. Our “purpose” may change through the years, too. You were born for many things: to learn, to create, to give, to enjoy God’s blessings. And, every person’s job (how they make their living and provide for themselves and their family) is important to the whole. If you deliver mail or if you heal the sick, you are important. Even if you do not have a job, you still give to the world in other ways. A simple compliment, a sincere gesture, a creation of art, and much more. It may sound corny, but the thing is—you do matter.

I think many people search for purpose because they have jobs they do not like. God instructs us to do everything in love. Take out the garbage with love. Scrub the floor with love. Care for your children with love. Create your independent film with love. That’s not to say that if you are unhappy with your employment and want a change that you should keep putting up with the unhappiness. No. God wants you to be happy, to be content, to have peace. Comfortableness or uncomfortableness in your work could be a sign that it is time for something new. So, now we’re back to thinking about our purpose. . .

I’ve mentioned James Redfield in prior blogs. This is because reading his book, The Celestine Prophecy, many years ago has changed my life. I haven’t read The Tenth Insight, yet; but, when the time is right for me to read it I will feel a prompting. Anyway, in this book an ancient scroll is found in Peru: The Celestine Prophecy. He wrote this novel about his adventure in discovering the insights this manuscript reveals.

Through this adventure, Redfield discusses how the world and everything in it is made up of energy. He describes how each person has a control drama—a behavior they do in order to acquire energy (described in the Sixth Insight). However, this is an unhealthy way to acquire energy. The best way to gain energy is by tapping into the universal energy of God: love. We can do this by seeing the beauty in nature, for instance. In order for us to acquire energy a better way, we first need to recognize and admit our own control drama (a dominant behavior we have developed and done through the years to acquire energy). Then we need to dig deeper and consider our parents’ control dramas. There is a reason we were born into the families we were born into. After we figure out our parents’ control dramas we should examine reoccurring patterns in our specific life (good and bad). What thing or activity have you always gone back to throughout your life? What comes to mind? How does this relate to your parents’ control dramas? Doing this and asking yourself these questions leads you to your life question. Redfield believes the insights found in the prophecy explain that every person evolves spiritually and every person has an evolutionary question. Once you figure out your life question, you figure out your purpose.

On this path, you learn how to acquire energy through loving, and you enter the flow of synchronicities (coincidences) that lead you forward as intuitive direction guides you. The key is to ask the right questions. In order to do this you must keep your evolutionary question (your life question) in your mind. When a synchronicity appears ask yourself, how does this or that relate to my life question? These smaller questions lead your quest. Doing all this builds energy and you begin vibrating at a higher frequency (the energy mentioned), actually feeling lighter, connected to all life, as you fulfill your purpose, your personal mission.

So, what are these control dramas? The chapter titled, Clearing the Past, describes them: this struggle for power. The first two are aggressive, the last two passive:

1- The Intimidator: This person verbally or physically threatens another. The fear or attention the other person gives is the energy the intimidator steels by pulling them into their control drama.

2- The Interrogator: This person asks question after question until they can find something to criticize in the other person’s life, pulling that person into the drama and giving the interrogator the energy he/she wants.

3- The Poor Me: This person uses guilt to take energy from others. They will tell you all the horrible things that have happened to them in order to get you to believe that you should help them. They want you to believe that if you don’t help them these horrible things will continue. They make the other person feel like they aren’t doing enough. This guilt gives them the energy they acquire.

4- The Aloof: This person gets vague and distant. By becoming a mystery they suck your energy.

We all have one dominant control drama formed from childhood. If we do not face it (bring it into consciousness) and learn to acquire energy a better way, it will be less likely we will discover our best path in life. The reason why we analyze our parent’s control drama is because certain control dramas from parents create certain control dramas of their children.

If this doesn’t make sense to you now perhaps someday it will. Maybe you’ll run across Redfield's book. If so, it’s not a coincidence.

I have figured out my control drama as well as my life question. Even if I don’t make a living fulfilling my “purpose,” I know that my true purpose is to love. To love others, to love myself, to love life as much as I am able. Life will give us challenges, sadness and anger will pop up here and there. No matter what, as I sit comfortably in my home with my cat and my crystals, I know that God is in control and he loves each and every one of us so much. He wants what’s best for me. He wants what’s best for you. The key to living a happy life isn’t only love, it is trust—trusting Him.

Love,

Tracy

For more information check out James Redfield’s website.

I haven’t yet read the book from the quote at the beginning of this blog, so I will not be recommending it until after I’ve read it. But, if you are interested, it is titled Inside the Divine Pattern.

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