Dharma

My question is about dharma in terms of finding our purpose in life.
I have for a long time tried to find my dharma and I think I am on the right way, but lately I have started to wonder if this about dharma is just part of an illusion and the play of the universe and corresponds to the level of consciousness we are at? If it is true that we are infinite possibilities, that at our core self we are God. How can we then have a dharma?

If I am everything, how can anything particular be my purpose in life?

Isn’t this purpose just a part of my karma? A constellation of my memories from all incarnations and the story I am telling about my self?

If I am totally free and totally melted together with God, when I truly know and live from the state of consciousness where everything is possible, how can I then have a specific dharma? At that point, isn’t everything just for fun and possible to chose and change?

Learning Lessons

Some spiritual thinking suggests that patterns of (unwanted) events keep reoccurring in our lives, until we understand the lesson it is trying to teach (and change the pattern). I can understand how this may be applied to, for example attracting dysfunctional personal relationships with the same type of person, but I am wondering if you can help me understand this:  My mother, who I love deeply, has a metal health illness of 25 years

with periods where she does very well, and then periods that require psychiatric hospital care (bi-polar/ schizophrenia). Each time she gets sick I try to understand what I am supposed to learn, and then maybe if I get it, it won’t happen again. I try very hard to understand, and that maybe it’s about unconditional love for her, patience, letting go, but the thing is, is that year after year she continues in the cycle of wellness, sickness regardless. Am I on the right track to think that I can change the pattern of reoccurrence of mom’s illness if I can just see what I’m supposed to learn? Or is “getting the lesson/changing the outcome” something that is not applicable here? I find it difficult to see the bigger picture from a spiritual perspective.

San Francisco Chronicle: Backwards World

By Robert Lanza and Deepak Chopra

The universe evolves backward in time, not the other way around as we were taught in school. “The histories of the universe,” concedes Stephen Hawking, the famed physicist “depend on what is being measured, contrary to the usual idea that the universe has an objective observerindependent history.”

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Archetypes

Could you please tell me where I can find a list of archetypes? I would like to find out what mine are but I do not know where to access this information.