Speaking of karma, soul contracts and life purpose...

[SheilaT]

3. It is my understanding that

we are here to learn various lessons. Sometimes I feel as if it's clear what a given person's lessons are, other times not so obvious. We have no real way of knowing for sure about this.

But looking at Cheney's life so far, I'm going to make up that some of his lessons involve the use of power, especially power over others. It may well be that he needs to be here for some particular span of years, and the heart transplant just enables him to have that length of time.

In the end, we are all totally responsible for what we do here, and lessons we don't learn in one lifetime will pop up in another. We all also get distracted by actually being in a body, and all that happens because of that. We don't consciously know exactly why we are here in this lifetime, and so may get side-tracked.

At least that's my take on things.