Who has the plan? Where is the map? Where are we all going and what should we all be doing? There are, of course, many who purport to have such answers. Cults, religions, philosophies, even political visions are constructed out of these. But they don't all agree, which rather implies that the world may still be short of an ultimate answer. And anyway, it is not such a wide-ranging, all encompassing explanation that you seek now, just a direction that makes sense for you. You are nearer to this than you think. So there we were, formless souls and spirits, floating in the infinite void of eternity. We were happy enough in that state and then we saw a little advert pinned to a passing star: 'Holiday opportunity! Visit Planet Earth. Inhabit a physical body. Discover the thrills and spills of feeling trapped by time and space. Embrace stress, tension and occasional euphoria. Duration approx 70 earth orbits.' We couldn't resist. You came here for magic, not misery.