Is EVERYTHING placed there by your Higher Self?

[APeacefulWarrior]

It's also worth keeping in mind that the free will of the incarnated entity is also a major consideration here.  My own understanding is that when it comes to incarnated life, the 3D entity's free will is ultimately supreme - even above that of their higher self which has designed the experiences.  Hopefully their wills are mostly aligned, but if their desires or goals end up diverging, the 3D entity is ultimately "captain of the ship."  As such, they would be free to ignore, avoid, or even outright reject planned lessons.

Plus, there's always the matter of having the free will to decide what meaning to take from any particular lesson.  That's the really tricky part, since communication between an incarnated entity and its higher guides is extremely limited.

There's a cute example of this in the materials:

105.12 Questioner: I have come to the conclusion that the meaning of the hawk that we had about a year ago when we started to move the first time had to do with the non-benign nature, in the metaphysical sense, of the house which I had picked for the move. If it isn’t a problem with the Law of Confusion I think that it’d be philosophically interesting to know if I am correct with respect to that.

Ra: I am Ra. What bird comes to affirm for Ra? What bird would be chosen to warn? We ask the questioner to ponder these queries.

While Ra's answer is -obviously- quite deliberately a non-answer, it seems like Ra is more or less implying "The bird means what you want it to mean" and that there isn't a single set meaning attached to such things.  One is capable of finding lessons in EVERY aspect of 3D life.  But it's entirely up to them to decide which lessons they find.

(The "Parable of the Two Villages" also seems relevant here.)