The Way to the Soul
Posted by queenbee on January 11, 2011 at 3:25pm
Conversations with God tells us that we are three-part beings, made up of
Body, Mind, and Soul. In the weeks ahead here in the Bulletin, I would like to
explore together the pathway to the Soul, because I get many questions about the
Soul, and how to "get there."
I'll begin by asserting that the way to
the Soul is the way out of the Mind. The Soul and the Mind do not exist in the
same place. They can move hand-in-hand, so to speak; they can operate
co-jointly---but they do not occupy the same space. They are not one and the
same, nor should they be thought of as identical. The Mind is one thing, the
Soul is quite another. Both have a purpose and a function in the human
experience.
The problem with Life is that we do not understand it. And
that it why it has become so problematical.
Very little in Life is
working the way it should be working, do you know that? I mean, it wasn't meant
to be this disruptive, this disjointed, this disappointing. It was never
intended to be this difficult or this injurious or this challenging.
That
having been said, all of Life is challenging at the outset, for every emerging
species, because all species spend all of their early developmental moments
trying to figure things out, trying to "get" what's going on, trying to
understand what it does not understand...the understanding of which would change
everything.
We humans, however, have spent far too much time on this part
of the evolutionary process. And when a species spends too much time in its
earliest developmental phase, it runs the danger of never moving beyond that
stage---for the principal reason that, operating from that extremely limited
level of awareness, the species simply extinguishes itself by virtue of its own
behaviors.
It does itself in. It extinguishes its particular Life Form.
Not Life Itself, but Life in that specific form.
This is the danger
facing us. We humans are an emerging species, let's make no mistake about that.
Let's have no misunderstanding around this. Anyone who thinks that the Homo
sapien is a highly evolved species need only look at our collective behaviors.
They will be quickly disabused of that notion.
So let's be clear. We are
in the earliest moments of our development, of our evolution. We are still
trying to figure things out, still trying to understand what's going on here.
And we are making one huge mistake as we search for answers: we are using our
Mind as our principle investigative tool.
This is a huge mistake because
the answers we seek will not be, and can never be, found in our Mind. What is
tantalizing is that we can almost get there. We can almost understand. But we
cannot fully perceive what we need to perceive in order to move the evolutionary
process forward at anything other than the slowest pace.
And so we find
ourselves at a virtual standstill. We have not made any major evolutionary
advance now for several thousand years.
We still think we are separate
from each other and from everything else.
We still think there is "not
enough", and that we have to struggle with each other in order to get
"enough."
We still think we have to kill each other if we can't get
"enough" by struggling with each other.
We still think, even after we get
"enough," that we don't have "enough."
These are the thoughts of a
beginning species, of a very primitive race. And these are the very thoughts
that drive the engine of humanity's present experience---of our economics, of
our politics, of our social systems of every kind, and yes, even of our
religions.
These are the thoughts that we tell our offspring in the
stories that we call "education." And the problem is that these are just
that..."thoughts."
So long as we stick with our "thoughts" and call them
"truth," we will remain a primitive species. So long as we insist on using our
Mind as the chief tool of our investigations, we will be lost in the labyrinth,
unable to find our way out of our own constructions. We will remain in a prison
of our own devise.
What we need now is what philosopher/author Alan Sasha
Lithman calls "a mutation of consciousness." And we'll talk more about that, and
how we can achieve it, next week in this space.
Love and
Hugs,
Neale
© 2010 ReCreation Foundation - http://www.cwg.org - Neale Donald Walsch is a modern day spiritual messenger whose words continue to touch the world in profound ways. His With God series of books has been translated into 27 languages, touching millions of lives and inspiring important changes in their day-to-day lives.