Anyone who has asked the question "Why do bad things happen to good people?" will find it clearly answered in Life Lessons: our purpose in being human. The Masters of the Spirit World selected for this book 40 souls- channeled by Chicago-based psychic Toni Ann Winninger-who freely chose their life lessons before they incarnated on planet Earth. In dialogue with the book"s editor, Peter Watson Jenkins, the souls were identified as having previously lived lives in many parts of the world over the past 100 years. They each tell the story of how they met, with varying success and failure, the challenges that represented the lessons they had chosen for themselves. The book is divided into four sections: Prosperity (wealth and poverty); Health (Depression, Handicaps, Illnesses, Addiction); Physical Challenges (abandonment, domination, abuse); and Emotional Challenges (Ambivalence, Bigotry, Validation, Enlightenment). The selection is illustrative of many life lessons, but there are many...