1. A sense of having a specific mission or purpose involving a major transformation in human experience, but being unable to articulate what this change might be.
2. A strong sense that the mission, whatever it is, is getting closer in time.
3. A compulsion to master certain fields, skills, or professions, not only for career advancement but in preparation for this half-understood personal mission.
4. High levels of empathy; a sense of feeling what others feel.
5. An urgent desire to lessen or prevent suffering for humans, animals, or even plants.
6. Loneliness stemming from a sense of difference, despite generally high levels of social activity. One woman summed up this feeling perfectly when she said, “Everybody likes me, but nobody’s like me.
7. High levels of creativity; passion for music, poetry, performance, or visual arts.
8. An intense love of animals, sometimes a desire to communicate with them.
9. Difficult early life, often with a history of abuse or childhood trauma.
10. Intense connection to certain types of natural environment, such as the ocean, mountains, or forest.
11. Resistance to orthodox religiosity, paradoxically accompanied by a strong sense of either spiritual purpose or spiritual yearning.
12. Love of plants and gardening, to the point of feeling empty or depressed without the chance to be among green things and/or help them grow.
13. Very high emotional sensitivity, often leading to predilections for anxiety, addictions, or eating disorders.
14. Sense of intense connection with certain cultures, languages, or geographic regions.
15. Disability, often brain-centered (dyslexia, retardation, autism) in oneself or a loved one. Fascination with people who have intellectual disabilities or mental illness.
16. Apparently gregarious personality contrasting with a deep need for periods of solitude; a sense of being drained by social contact and withdrawing to “power up” again.
17. Persistent or recurring physical illness, often severe, with symptoms that fluctuate inexplicably.
18. Daydreams (or night dreams) about healing damaged people, creatures, or places.
Author: Lissa Rankin"
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