I grew up Catholic. In religion class I was told that I had\na soul. I always wondered what this was and where it was. I wondered why it was\nconsidered separate from me. Eventually I concluded that I didn\u2019t care about\nsomething that wasn\u2019t me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf you sin your soul will be tainted,\u201d a nun told me once.\n\u201cYour soul won\u2019t go to heaven.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSure, but what about me?\u201d I asked. \u201cThat\u2019s great for my\nsoul, but what happens to me after I die?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I never got a satisfactory answer to that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the decades I meditated and visualized and tried to find\nmy connection to Spirit. It\u2019s only recently (when I wrote my book The Old Soul<\/em>) that I twigged on what\nthose nuns were trying to tell me. (I don\u2019t think they understood it either.\nIt\u2019s what happens when you perform a ritual or repeat dogma without any\nunderstanding.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n For some reason there is a physical universe and an angelic\nrealm. Materialists never understand this distinction because they believe that\nwhen you die, you\u2019re dead. This low consciousness belief I call the Man is Meat\nTheory of Life: When the body dies your consciousness disappears from the\nuniverse forever. Uh, no. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The point of life is to get beyond these childish ideas and\nto find the higher self; to understand your personal connection to God\/Spirit.\nMaterialists (fascists, communists, Nazis, dictators of every stripe) don\u2019t\nunderstand this. When they come to power they tear down churches and religious\nbuildings in an attempt to prevent the people from finding their connection to\nthe divine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What exists in the angelic realm? Souls. Souls are\nnon-corporeal consciousness that yet have personalities. Personalities develop\nbecause of the experiences gained while incarnating in the physical universe.\nJoe is meek and mild, Karen is boisterous, Pete is sensitive, Mary is\ncompassionate. These traits develop by living lives in various environments and\ncultures on earth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n There\u2019s only one problem: The body can\u2019t contain the energy\nof the soul. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When you incarnate you have to leave most of your\nconsciousness behind. The part left behind is the soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, the soul actually IS you. The challenge in the material\nuniverse is to discover that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to various spiritual leaders, channellers, and\ngurus, the biology contains an esoteric component: a gateway to the angelic\nrealm and the higher self. The more of your soul you can invite into your\ncorporeal body, the healthier you are, and the more aware you become.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSounds pretty simple bro, so how about a formula or a\ntwelve-step procedure to get there?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, there\u2019s another problem I forgot to mention. The soul\nexists in the angelic realm, which is (for want of a better world)\nmultidimensional. It\u2019s beyond the linear, 3D box we\u2019re living in. Asking a question\nlike \u201cHow do I do find my soul?\u201d is unanswerable because it\u2019s utterly personal.\nWhat works for one person may not work for another. There\u2019s no twelve-step\nprocess because that\u2019s a linear idea. The soul is non-linear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m not bright enough to understand what the divine plan is.\nI used to think I did, but the wiser I get, the dumber I get. All I know is\nthat when I connect to my soul for those brief moments, I feel more ME. I wish\nI could be connected that way 24 hours a day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Apparently the physical universe is very, very important,\nfor it allows Spirit\/God to experience and thus develop divine personalities,\nor aspects, of Itself. When you go from a divine (soul) personality connected\nto God, and come to earth, you experience from a completely different and\nisolated POV. The body is a separate unit and so human consciousness always\nperceives from a unique perspective. All of us literally have a different angle\non life. Geometrically speaking, we always occupy unique coordinates in time\nand space, even during the same event. That\u2019s why ten different people will\nhave ten different accounts of an accident. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When human\nconsciousness reunites with the soul at \u201cdeath,\u201d that unique perspective caries\nforward. \u201cDeath\u201d is just that portion of your consciousness that inhabited the\nbody, returning to the soul in the angelic realm. It\u2019s a re-uniting of\nawareness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A personality results from experiencing in the physical\nuniverse from unique coordinates in time and space. Maybe that\u2019s why it\u2019s so\nimportant. Otherwise reincarnation makes no sense to me. Why separate yourself\nfrom a place where everything is beautiful and filled with love in order to\ndumb yourself down and suffer in a physical body, where you try to attain that\nwhich you already are before you got here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeah, I\u2019ve heard the stuff about incarnating to earth to\nadvance the vibration of the planet and the galaxy, but that\u2019s a childish\nexplanation. Explain to me what all the suffering is for? <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is a planet of free choice and every soul chooses to\ncome here and participate in a Great Experiment. Over thousands of years, humanity\ncollectively made the choice to go to low consciousness. Now we\u2019re working on\ncleaning up the mess we made.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n OK, that\u2019s a little better. But why create a \u201cplanet of free\nchoice\u201d in the first place that has led to so much suffering?<\/p>\n\n\n\n There\u2019s no good answer to that, other than, \u201cEarth is the\nWild Wild West. Only the most adventurous souls come here. Nobody forced you,\nso enjoy the ride. It\u2019ll be over in 80 years and you can go back to Spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n I can buy that. But it doesn\u2019t have the sacredness I\nassociate with a divine plan. What\u2019s sacred about suffering? <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt feels so good when you stop doing it.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Nah. I\u2019ve learned that there\u2019s no value or sacredness to\nexperiencing anything negative. You don\u2019t learn anything except that you don\u2019t\nwant to suffer any more. I learned that when I had a personal bout of suicidal\ndepression some years ago. You don\u2019t get brownie points for feeling bad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The answer is that we\u2019re not supposed to suffer. Suffering\noccurs when we put up barriers to our own divinity. That makes sense because we\u2019re\nall responsible for the decisions we make. We are free to reject the\nprogramming given to us by parents and society. The earth experience is a gigantic, magnificent test that we all\nwanted to take. It\u2019s basically a game of hide-and-seek that we all choose to\nplay. \u201cCan I find myself even though the magnificent part of me is hidden?\u201d When\nI look at life in that way I feel lighter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One thing I\u2019m certain of: If I can ever bond with my soul\nwell enough I\u2019ll have the answers to all of the esoteric questions about the\nmeaning of life. (Then I won\u2019t have to write blog posts like this, and I can\ngive you all the answers.) For reasons I don\u2019t understand, part of the Game on\nearth is to hide human consciousness from the soul, and to determine whether\nhuman beings are bright enough to see their spiritual component.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve tried the intellectual and scientific route to discover\nthe meaning of life. For me it just leads to enormous complexity as our\nscientific understanding broadens, and more and more data becomes available. That\u2019s\na good segue into a dream I had last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I dreamed that Bernie Sanders somehow won the Democratic\nnomination. He was debating Trump on a stage somewhere. The two candidates were\nthrowing down on each other, and it was pretty nasty. Everybody in the audience\nwas really into it, shouting when their guy made a point. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Then something happened to Bernie. He\u2019s 78 years old, and had an incident with his heart last year. Bernie was firing back at Trump when his face went white and he stopped speaking. He started mumbling, \u201cI can\u2019t do this anymore, I don\u2019t want to do this anymore.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n The audience quieted. You could hear a pin drop in the place,\nwondering whether the old guy was going to drop over. I expected Trump to go\nover and wallop Bernie and declare victory. Instead, he walked slowly over to\nthe older man with his arms apart. \u201cCome, brother,\u201d he said. \u201cLet\u2019s stop the\nfighting and try to work together despite our differences.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bernie recovered and stood up straight. He walked right into\nTrump\u2019s arms and the two men hugged each other. \u201cCome on,\u201d Trump says, \u201clet\u2019s go\nbackstage and get a doctor to look you over.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The two men walked off the stage and the debate was over. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The media was silenced. For the first time in world history,\nnone of the talking heads had anything to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That was the end of the dream. There was a really good feeling about it. The takeaway? From something nasty, hopefully understanding and compassion for the other side will come forth. Maybe Bernie won\u2019t win the nomination, but whoever the candidates are, understanding and compassion is what is needed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I grew up Catholic. In religion class I was told that I had a soul. I always wondered what this was and where it was. I wondered why it was considered separate from me. Eventually I concluded that I didn\u2019t … Continue reading The Divine Plan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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