The Path Of Most Resistance

Artwork courtesy Jenna Calabro

Earth date: February 14, 1993

I’m standing at the gates of Heaven, looking down at the mass chaos brewing on Earth below me. I’m still adjusting to my soul having just jumped into this strange meat suit known as a human body. I’m squirming as I try to get comfortable in this costume I’ll be wearing for the next who-knows-how-many Earth decades. Being in a body feels new yet eerily familiar at the same time.

I’m eager to touch down on Earth, but I’m simultaneously preparing myself for the grief that will inevitably come from the loss of my soul’s freedom.

“Miss?” A voice startles me from my daze.

“Sorry, what?”

“I asked you — are you sure?”

It takes me a moment before I remember, “Oh! Yes. Path of Most Resistance, please.”

“Alright then,” the gatekeeper answers in a tone that suggests he thinks I’ve either lost my marbles or am the bravest warrior to ever return to Earth.

I don’t know why I chose to reincarnate again. I guess I don’t feel like I had a choice, really. A voice within incessantly urged me to give this Earth thing one final shot.

This time I will reach enlightenment. I know I will.

It’s understandable — the gatekeeper’s hesitancy regarding my decision to choose the Path of Most Resistance.

“You are aware that 98.4% of our Earth travelers, both new and reincarnated, choose the Path of Least Resistance. Pain, sickness, suffering, death — these are all givens on Earth. However, most choose the Path of Least Resistance because it allows them the ability to function mostly (with the exception of the occasional anxious and depressive episodes) on an unconscious level. The Path of Most Resistance, on the other hand, involves living in a state of constant awareness, completely tuned into the subconscious mind. You will face daily inner tension, turmoil, confusion and neuroticism, not to mention continual ego deaths. Are you sure you would like to proceed with this path?”

“I like a challenge,” I respond confidently, swallowing a lump in my throat. What am I doing?

The gatekeeper hands over my contract, and already I am acutely aware of the first (of many, I’m sure) subconscious challenges I am to face: A stubborn sense of rebellion accompanied by an even more stubborn refusal to submit to the opinion or suggestion of anyone with even the remotest degree of authority over me.

This should be interesting.

31 years later — Earth date: April 11, 2024

Well, the good news is I haven’t died yet.

The bad news is I have died. Internally. About a thousand times. (Just as the gatekeeper predicted, I’m seething to admit).

The death and rebirth cycle is never-ending. One minute I know who I am and the next, I’m swimming in a sea of utter confusion and hopelessness, questioning my identity to the very core of my being. The continual access to unconscious realms, the holding of polarities, the ego masking and unmasking… it’s all utterly exhausting.

On rare occasion, I spot other Path of Most Resistance travelers. Our souls recognize each other instantly. We are marked by our shared uncontrollable urge to have a staring contest with every uncomfortable, fearful part of our ego. To stare her down until the eyes are hot and burning, and tears are streaming down the face. To show fear it has nothing on us.

And it’s in these showdown moments that I realize my purpose: To alchemize fear into love, and pain into purpose. To cram as much learning, growth, and ancestral healing into one lifetime as I possibly can. To show my human — and other humans — that the soul is very much alive within all of us, if we only dare to look.

Jenna Calabro is a mystic guide and published author and illustrator. Reprinted with permission from Jenna’s substack. You can explore more of her work at www.jennacalabro.com.

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