I write this today as a sort of foundational understanding that is helpful for building upon. In order for the mind to grasp deeper esoteric wisdom we must first have a common grasp of the soul. Many psychics and spiritual teachers have had much to say about this topic. From Rudolph Steiner’s portrayal of the soul as having different layers one of which he calls the ego but that is different than the common definition in use today that comes from the work of psychologists, to the channeling of Ra and the Law of One material. Ra outlined the soul in its timelessness spanning multiple dimensions and sharing wisdom back from the future. I heard another teacher recently say something on the order of, “our soul is not in us, we are in it” and that could also be true especially from Steiner’s perspective where the soul radiates out from our physical incarnation into layers of aura around us.
So having read all of this and synthesized many esoteric writings into a workable understanding that my mind can grasp, I’ll share here the nature of the soul as I have envisioned, visualized and experienced it from many perspectives.
We are souls that have chosen to incarnate into a physical existence in the earth plane. Birth and death as we perceive it here on earth relate only to the physical body and not to the soul. It’s like getting into a car and driving around. The car can crash and burn but we can exit the vehicle un-harmed and take with us the experience of driving, crashing and exiting a burning vehicle. Experiences we could not have if we never entered the vehicle. Incarnating is like that. And if you’ve ever read Rudolph Steiner’s The Kingdom of Childhood you might also carry the awareness that for a soul, free and expansive in the universe – to force itself into a fetus about to be born is particularly uncomfortable. Restricting. Awkward and hard to get used to. We could even go one step further to say that many souls cannot sustain themselves in an infants body long enough to reach full ability to navigate the physical form. Like a full sized person trying to get into a tiny clown car and drive it well. Infant mortality may have more to do with souls giving up than physical sustainability.
So now we have the vision of a soul fitting into a body like a hand in a glove or a person into a car. The hand in a glove may be a better analogy because the entirety of a soul cannot actually fit wholly into a body as is the case of a person in a car. Just as the wrist emerges from the edge of a glove – somewhere at the edge of our physical body our soul emerges and reaches high into the etheric realms.
Now we must pivot and understand another nuance to this thing called incarnation. And that is the veil of forgetting. In third density, where most human life on earth currently is – the soul crosses through a veil of forgetting as it enters into a human form. That part of the soul that is firmly incarnated into third density does not remember who it is or where it came from. Like children’s games, some are performed with a blindfold on, Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Donkey or breaking open a piñata. Maybe a game of tag with eyes closed. Earth school has this built in feature to make the school more interesting. We are able to better emerge into the physical reality of earth to experience all that has been programmed into the earth experience for us. Every time we play we forget everything we learned in our last incarnation. At least we consciously forget. Somewhere though deep within us we have a knowing. And that knowing is coming from our cellular memory that is feed by our soul and that is connected back to part of our soul that exists beyond our body. This part of the soul that extends outside our physical form is often called the higher self.
The higher self extends from current time to far into the future and also the past. Our soul doesn’t just live in the present time it lives in other dimensions. 4th, 5th, 6th and even higher. From those higher dimensions our soul can feed back information to us that can help us now. And also our soul carries all the wisdom we’ve collected along the way from before our current 3rd density incarnation. We draw on this wisdom through the knowing of our soul even though it’s not a conscious memory stored in our physical brain.
The other interesting piece to the awareness of the soul is that when we sleep our soul leaves our body. Or at least most of our soul. That is actually why we sleep – to give our soul a break from the incarceration within our physical form. When we sleep our soul is free to move about. Leaving only a layer that looks after our body and ensures the continued operation of our automatic responses like breathing and blood movement to sustain life. For everything we remember about our waking life we also have an equal amount of life lived in our sleep that we do not consciously remember. You might think of it like our soul has a night shift job. Some souls do good work at night. And others are not so focused, running around exploring the earth realm without the it body. Moving through walls like a ghost and spying noticing all that is going on in the world. Maybe even going on in secret. There really are no secrets. That’s a silly concept of the human who is unaware of the soul and its ability to be a flying any wall when it’s human self sleeps.
Sometimes people report knowing things that they cannot know. Or dreaming things that happen in the future. Dreams are an old communication vehicle between the soul and the conscious human. If one is aware of the nature of the soul they can acutely tune into and tap into the small ways of knowing things outside our earthly program.
One spiritual teacher refers to the rustle of the morning stars. We all have a few moments upon first waking, before we move or speak to draw in and remember some brief awarenesses that came in our dreams or that are in our unconscious and in that brief morning moment we can bring those impressions into conscious awareness. Some of the most brilliant, insightful and psychic knowings can come into our consciousness this way. Maximizing the transition of our soul outside the veil of knowing back into our body. And threading a few threads of wisdom from the unknown realm in with it.
Meditation is another way we can transcend from soul awareness within our body to soul awareness outside our body and similar to the first waking technique when we draw back into our body and conscious awareness we can sometimes bring back with us from the meditative state some wisdom that falls into our awareness like a download.
Lastly, I’ll share that my teen age daughters shared with me recently that there is a social media meme going around that says the reason drugs are illegal is because life is a simulation and the drugs allow you to see outside the simulation. This is true. Drugs can temporarily remove the veil. They also have their own lens depending on which source the drug comes from but if you are willing to be subjected to the lens you can realize many things about reality beyond the veil of forgetting. Drugs were once administered by medicine men and women to facilitate trips outside the veil. Now they are abused and can very easily cause loss of life because as the soul can experience flying – the body vehicle cannot at this time. And so without proper facilitation it is dangerous if sustaining physical life is the goal. The soul is fine either way, with or without a body makes no difference. The soul does not die. The body mind complex on the other hand may not function as well if its perception is continuously distorted with drugs.
The soul is sweet and connected to the universe in a way that is a cosmic experience of one love. The soul is not separate from all other souls in the ways the we perceive separateness in our individual incarnations. They commingle. In fact it is believed that the soul cannot fully appreciate the one live of the universe while it is immersed there and that is why it chooses to incarnate – to experience separateness to more fully appreciate the one love in contrast.
The soul can become frightened if we experience trauma or pain. It can literally jump out of our body. Psychology refers to these moments as dissociation. Frequently we do not remember what happened at various traumatic events if we have dissociated from our body in times of traumatic experience. They can seem like a dream in our sleep state. Often when memories of childhood abuse return to adults they will say I’m not sure if it’s real or if I dreamed it. But they know it’s real – the memory just is one of a dissociated soul rather than a fully embodied soul experience.
As we learn to evolve into higher realms of consciousness through meditation and spiritual seeking we will find ourselves remembering things that we logically cannot know. Past life awareness is one of those things that tends to come back like a memory when we are adept at traversing the soul’s consciousness both within and without our incarnation.
And I’ll save for another day the talk about dual activities entities. When one soul experiences two incarnations simultaneously. A profound soul experience that can really be difficult for the mind to reckon with because it lies far o it side the current human program in the earth experience. Although the phenomenon is prevalent now – more than 30% of people currently incarnated on earth are estimated to be having this experience.