Robert Schwartz has been investigating pre-birth plans with the help of four gifted mediums and channels. His book Your Soul’s Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born (2009) presents the actual conversations people had with their future parents, children, spouses, friends, and other loved ones when they planned their lives together. For readers, suffering that once seemed purposeless becomes imbued with deep meaning. Wisdom may be acquired in a more conscious manner; feelings of anger, guilt, blame, and victimization are healed and replaced by acceptance, forgiveness, gratitude, and peace.