Loehr-Daniels Life Reading Reports
Roscoe—a Personality from a Lazy Soul
Did it ever occur to you
that a soul could be lazy? Many New Age philosophies think of the soul as being
perfect, but Dr. John has told us that souls are godlings, individualized, with
extensive potential, but are not perfect. They must develop their good
characteristics and reshape any weaknesses.
The
first Loehr-Daniels Life Reading has the story of
Desiree—the prostitute whose husband urged her to ply her trade in order to
support him. This was in spite of the fact that he had been a priest for ten
years. It was while researching her material that I discovered her husband,
Roscoe—a personality from a lazy soul. He received his own life reading. In his
reading, Dr. John gives the background of his soul:
Dr.
John: That portion of the soul that is incarnate now comes from the basically
masculine framework and has come into this lifetime following incarnation in
the feminine. He is a young soul in earth living. This is only the fourth earth
life for this one. There were two in masculine expression, then the feminine,
which was the immediately prior lifetime, and now the masculine again.
Now
the soul started well in earth living. It didn’t make a big splash but it got a
good start, in what might be called two strenuous masculine lives with a
quantity of experiences. We will go into those later.
Then
the soul came into feminine valence and this was a much more quiet life; not so
much was demanded of it. There was not a great pressure to achieve put upon the
personality. In essence the soul could in that personality life just relax and
enjoy it. The result was that this soul was not ready to come back into
masculine living at this time. It would like to have stayed in feminine
expression. It has identified feminine living as pleasurable and easy, and it
cultivated somewhat a lazy characteristic in feminine expression, and is simply
not too eager to get into the rough and tumble that it has known in masculine
living.
The
result has been a compromise made on the part of the soul in this earth life.
It accepted the divine order of things and has come into masculine expression.
The soul achieved a good masculine expression, a good physical development and
a fine specimen of manhood physically. But the soul has carried an insistence
that it not be made to participate too strenuously in earth living as a man.
This was the initiating drive behind this personality interest for several
years in entering the religious life.
Now the personality was
interested, had a genuine religious response. For a time the personality
genuinely conceived priesthood to be its place in earth living. But the deeper
driving force which initiated that interest in the personality was a drive from
the soul level to stand aside from earth living, not to get into the thick of
it, not to take a major role or carry any major responsibilities while in the
present masculine expression.
Now this same drive in the
soul has shown up subsequently since the release of this personality from the religious
vocation. It has shown up in the fact that the personality has not prepared
himself to move forward in this earth life in the sense of building toward a
career. He has not trained himself in any particular framework, nor does the
personality accept much responsibility. He does not have a good record as we
see it from this side on carrying responsibility as a husband or as a father.
There is a quality of laziness and inertia in this life. There is a failure to
take hold of earth living and win mastery from it. And there is lacking the
initiative, the drive, to move forward and make a success in terms that earth
beings generally consider success.
This overall failure in the
personality life has rootage in the soul, because of the soul’s lack of sincere
acceptance of this life in masculine expression. But the lack of drive and
cooperation from the soul level does not excuse the personality in its
weaknesses. It gives a source of explanation—this is not the entire source, but
it is one source of explanation. But the personality is not expected to rock
back on his heels and fold his hands and simply accept this picture and, with a
shrug of the shoulders, just excuse himself from effort on the grounds that his
soul doesn’t want to. That is hardly a constructive way to go through earth
living.
Now in spite of the
resistance on the part of the soul, this can be a very good earth life for this
personality and for the soul getting the experience, if the personality will
take the initiative, make the decisions, and get going. He is a relatively
young man. He is intelligent. He could expand that native intelligence he has
and discipline it by going to school. He could go to night school and carry a
job in the day. He has a healthy body, he has vigor, and he could carry two
such programs simultaneously. He can do something to break the
ineffectual pattern of living in which he is presently engaged...The
personality has the strength to offset the lackadaisicalness of the soul. In
fact as we look at this picture we can find no reason from the soul level, or
even from the personality level, why this personality cannot take himself by
the shoulders, give himself a shake and start walking in a more creative,
positive direction.
Later in the life reading,
Dr. John gives details on the Roscoe soul’s past three lives. His first full
lifetime:
Dr. John: This soul had its first incarnation in the 1500s AD in Spain, in masculine expression...He was born into poverty, in nothing but a hovel, in the middle of a large family with older and younger brothers and sisters. His mother was too busy with oncoming babies to pay him much physical attention after the first ten months. However, there was one thing that that home had that each member of the family shared in common, and that was the love between the husband and wife and its radiation to their children…
The atmosphere of the home
helped him develop a friendly outgoing personality that gave him contacts with
people. Along with this, he had a drawing talent…Gradually he attracted to
himself a Patron and he became a rather fine portrait painter, married, had a
family. Although it was a successful life in that framework, it involved a
great deal of effort on the part of the soul…Following that lifetime the soul
had the choice given by its guides and teachers to rest. It chose not to, but
it wanted a less strenuous pattern of earth life...
It chose a masculine
lifetime set in France in the 1600s…The father was a baker and he and the
father had a good relationship and the son became a baker…He chose a setting
where there was ready made work for him and that lifetime rolled along rather
comfortably…It was a sunny, lazy, happy-go-lucky life and the baker grew lazier
and fatter as the years went along. This was an easy framework of living, but
it had a problem in it. The baker married a woman with a great deal of ambition
and drive, who wanted to better herself socially and who kept prodding the
baker in directions he didn’t want to go…
He saw his daughter grow into a duplicate of her mother in a negative way. He saw his daughter marry and bring much unhappiness to her own family. This caused pain and suffering to him. Again the soul experienced a strenuous Earth life, although now on an emotional level…The third lifetime was feminine, in Switzerland in the1800s--goat herders in a small village in the alps…Nothing disturbed either the personal life or the family life or the village life…She married a boy who had been her playmate from the time she was six, had four children of her own who were really a joy, presenting no major difficulties.
The
masculine soul liked this life. Here was a quiet lifetime in which it was taken
care of; it was watched over, life was good. It wasn’t exciting but it had fun
in it, it had pleasures in it, and all was well.
Following
that lifetime the soul was presented with coming back into masculine living,
which it did not majorly reject. If it had, there would be many more
complicating factors in the present life than there are. The soul accepted the
present masculine expression without much enthusiasm and, as we said in our
opening remarks, with a certain attitude of laziness and unwillingness to move
forward into it. And that brings him into the present life. (1945)
The Roscoe soul has had only three past lives: two were strenuous and one was easy, requiring no big effort on the part of the soul. That third life was purposed to give it the rest that it needed, but souls cannot expect all lives to be effortless. Roscoe’s soul has to realize that Earth is not its playground, but is its responsibility. In this life it needs to stop leaching off Desiree and shoulder its own responsibilities.
Life on Earth is not easy, but it is the soul’s laboratory to put into practice what it has learned in cosmic schools other than Earth. If souls refuse to work on their growth, they will eventually lose their birthright as souls. If the Roscoe soul does not wake up in this life, it will be forced to work even harder in a future life.