FROM DIVINE DESIGN INTO PHYSICAL FORM
What is Divine Design?
Divine Design is the fundamental blueprint of human existence, where each soul is a light star projecting itself into physical form to experience life and gather insights. It connects every individual to the infinite source of creation, guiding us through all earthly and cosmic experiences.
My First Encounter with Divine Design
My first encounter with Divine Design came through an experience that completely changed the way I understood myself, incarnation, and what a human life actually is. I did not have the language for it when it happened, and I certainly did not have a theory of it. I was simply taken into an experience where my ordinary human identity disappeared, and where I found myself existing in a reality that felt infinitely larger than the physical world I knew.
I experienced myself in the universe, surrounded by the vastness of space, but I was no longer Ann-Peggy in the form I knew from Earth. I had no physical human body, and yet I was not without form. I existed as a being made entirely of light, and the closest description I have ever been able to give of the shape I had is that it resembled the central body of a butterfly. There were no physical wings attached to me, but the shape of a butterfly is the closest earthly reference I could find for something that was much more complex. My form was elongated and luminous, almost as if consciousness itself had taken shape. Within this larger body of light were hundreds of belts or bands of light, layer upon layer, held within the totality of what I was.
I did not experience those hundreds of light belts merely as beautiful structures surrounding me. I understood that every one of them contained an expression of me, and that each of these expressions could be projected from this greater field of light into physical form. I was able to witness how one of these belts of light moved from my larger luminous being toward physical existence, and as it entered the density of physical reality, it became a human incarnation on Earth.
I saw something that I had never before understood in this way: the human life was not the whole being entering physical form. It was an expression of the whole.
The greater light-being remained complete while one part of its light was projected into an earthly incarnation. This gave me an entirely different understanding of what we are when we become human. I experienced each incarnation as carrying a certain portion of the total light of the Divine Design, almost as though every earthly life contains a percentage of an infinitely greater consciousness. I was never given a numerical percentage, and I do not believe that was the point. What mattered was the understanding that the human personality I know as myself in this lifetime is real, but at the same time it cannot be contained within one body, one personality, one biography or one lifetime.
Many Lives Emerging From the Same Light
Until this experience, it was easy to imagine reincarnation in the way we often speak about it: one life following another, one person dying and later returning as someone else, with time stretching like a long line behind us. What I experienced was different, because the lives did not appear to me as separate identities loosely connected across time. They belonged within the same architecture of light. The hundreds of light belts were different from one another, and yet every one of them originated within the same greater being, which meant that the lives were individual expressions without ever being separate from their source.
This became the foundation of how I began to understand Divine Design. For me, Divine Design is the greater architecture of consciousness from which our physical incarnations emerge. Each life has its own body, its own relationships, its own family, its own circumstances, its own wounds, gifts, choices and experiences. And each life will therefore develop a completely unique human expression. Yet beneath all of these different incarnations there is a continuity of essence, because they emerge from the same deeper field of consciousness.
When I think about past lives today, I therefore do not primarily imagine a collection of former personalities that I once was. I experience them more as expressions belonging to the same greater consciousness that is expressing itself through me now. They are different lives, different stories and different human experiences, while at the deepest level they arise from the same Divine Design.
This also changed my understanding of the question Who am I?, because if this human incarnation contains only a portion of the greater light that I experienced myself to be, then my identity cannot be reduced to the story of Ann-Peggy in this particular lifetime. My human story matters enormously, because this is the life I am here to live, but it does not contain the entirety of what I am. And I believe the same is true for every human being.
When I meet another person today, I know that I am meeting far more than the biography standing in front of me. I am meeting one physical expression of something much greater, even when that person has completely forgotten it themselves. Behind the personality, behind the roles, behind the survival patterns, behind everything that has happened to that person and everything they have learned to become in order to survive this world, there is an essence whose totality cannot be seen through the physical body alone.
Why Would Light Enter Matter?
From the perspective of the human being we often experience the body as a limitation. We become tired, we become ill, we age, we experience pain, we lose people we love, and eventually the physical body dies. Yet when I saw incarnation from the perspective of the greater being, physical life did not appear insignificant or inferior. It appeared extraordinary. There are experiences that become possible precisely because we have entered matter.
Here on Earth, consciousness can feel cold water against skin, soil beneath bare feet and another human being’s hand resting in our own. We can smell the forest after rain, taste food, hear music move through the nervous system, feel the warmth of the sun against our face and stand beneath the northern lights while the sky moves above us. We can carry children in our bodies, hold them in our arms, love another human being so deeply that their joy becomes our joy, and lose someone so precious that grief changes the architecture of who we are. We can experience desire, fear, intimacy, separation, exhaustion, tenderness, beauty, longing and the almost unbearable vulnerability of loving something we know we cannot keep forever. All of this belongs to physical incarnation.
When I understood myself as that greater being of light, I began to see earthly life as an extraordinary movement of consciousness into density, where something vast allows a portion of itself to enter a body precisely so that life can be experienced through limitation, sensation, relationship and time. In the realm of pure light, I could experience myself as a greater totality, but here on Earth I can experience what it means to be touched. I can experience what it means to have a heart that beats faster when someone I love enters the room, what it means to cry until the body shakes, what it means to walk through snow, to become exhausted climbing a mountain and then stand at the top while the whole landscape opens beneath me.
For me, this is part of the sacredness of incarnation. We do not come into physical form merely to endure matter until we can return to spirit. We enter physical form because there are dimensions of experience that become available through having a body, through relationship with other embodied beings, and through our intimate relationship with Mother Earth.
Mother Earth and the Experience of Being Human
This understanding also deepened my relationship with Mother Earth, because Earth is not simply the background against which our spiritual journey takes place. Everything we experience as human beings is made possible through our participation in her physical reality. The body through which I experience this incarnation is built from the elements of this planet. The water moving through me belongs to the same cycle as the oceans, rivers, rain and snow. The minerals within my bones come from the Earth, the oxygen entering my lungs is part of her atmosphere, and the food that becomes my physical body has grown within her living systems. To incarnate here is therefore not simply to become human. It is to enter into an intimate biological relationship with Earth.
This is where Divine Design becomes physical. The greater essence enters matter and meets gravity, biology, ancestry, family, culture and time. It enters a nervous system capable of fear and safety, a heart capable of opening and protecting itself, a body carrying inherited patterns, and a world where every choice creates consequences that cannot simply be thought away. The light enters a reality where it must learn to live through limitation, and where remembrance is no longer automatic.
That last part has become increasingly important to me, because when we arrive here, we do not necessarily remember the totality from which we came. We become deeply identified with the particular light belt we are living through. We learn our name. We learn who our family believes we are. We inherit stories about life, God, love, success, failure, safety and belonging, and gradually the identity created within this incarnation can become so complete that we forget there was ever anything beyond it.
Yet the Divine Design has not disappeared simply because we have forgotten it. The greater essence remains the source from which this life emerged.
The Journey of Remembrance
When I look back at this experience now, I understand it as one of the first times I was shown the architecture that would later become central to so much of my work. At the time I could only describe what I had seen: the universe, my luminous butterfly-like form, the hundreds of belts of light within me, and the extraordinary moment when one of those belts was projected into physical existence and became a human life. Only later did I begin to understand the implications of what I had experienced.
It gave me a language for why a human being can sometimes carry memories, longings, fears or recognitions that seem larger than the biography of this life. It helped me understand why certain relationships can feel ancient from the moment we meet, why particular places can awaken something within the body before the mind understands why, and why the deepest spiritual experiences often carry the strange quality of remembering rather than learning something new. Most importantly, it changed the way I see the human being.
When I look at someone now, I cannot see only the life circumstances they are currently living through. I know how easy it is for us to become completely absorbed by the physical story, especially when life is painful, and to believe that our wounds, failures, illnesses, losses or identities describe the totality of who we are. My own experience showed me something profoundly different: behind this temporary human expression exists a greater architecture, and the life we are living now is one way that architecture has chosen to enter experience.
This does not make our earthly life less important. For me, it makes it infinitely more precious. Because if only part of our greater light enters this particular body, then this incarnation is not something to rush through while waiting to return to wherever we came from. This life is the place where that light has the opportunity to become embodied. It is where consciousness can become action, where love can become touch, where compassion can become the way we meet another human being, where wisdom can become choice, and where something that exists as potential within our greater being can become lived reality.
That is why Divine Design, as I understand it, is not somewhere outside us waiting to be discovered. It is the deeper architecture from which we are already living, even when we have forgotten it. The journey is therefore not about becoming Divine. It is about gradually remembering enough of our greater nature that the life we are living in physical form can begin to reflect more of the light from which it came.
When I saw myself there in the universe, carrying hundreds of luminous belts within a body of light, I understood that I was much larger than the single incarnation through which I currently know myself. Yet I also understood something equally important: this human life matters precisely because it is here that one expression of that greater light has become flesh, senses, relationship, choice and experience.
For me, that is the movement from Divine Design into physical form. It is the movement from light into life, from essence into experience, from the vastness of consciousness into the extraordinary intimacy of becoming human on Mother Earth.
We are all God Within