The Soul Returns: Reclaiming Your Inner Guidance

The soul returns. There was a time when I walked through life and it was turned off. Why should it turn on if I do not have the time, attention, ability to honor it? It started to come back, oh, I cannot tell you when nor can I tell you how. I just knew I wanted to know my place in eternity even if it meant I could never be the same among my fellows again. I didnโ€™t care to be with my fellows if being with my fellows meant I had to forfeit my one link to peace. Real and Lasting Peace.

Why should the soul turn on if I do not have the time, attention, or ability to honor it?

The collective mind of man – the socialized, civilized mind, the suppressed, repressed mind – has done nothing for me but give me bouts of insanity which were most unnecessary. I have a mind conditioned to negate the only reality I care to honor: The Reality of My Soul’s Incarnation. Hark and Hear: My Soul is the centripetal force, the real power, the source of all significant decisions which have ever been made in my life. If you havenโ€™t heard its musings recently, have faithโ€ฆthe soul returns.

The Cause of Suffering: Society and Its Intermediaries

Why are so many people suffering such pains while they still walk the earth?  I observe that many homo-sapiens choose to believe they are suffering from a doctor’s diagnosis.  However, there are so many ways for the individual to suffer. Maybe I am suffering because I am single and my mother has taught me that marriage and childbearing are the true successful markers of a woman’s life.  So it is my mother who is the cause of my suffering? No. Another person is never the cause of my suffering. Although, it is always easiest to blame someone else. Society encourages scapegoats. It will never encourage the individual to own their own suffering and transmute that suffering into a closer communion with Life Proper, Life Transcending All Limits, All Dualities.

I do not heed the authorities that society raises up to power. An authority can take the form of a psychiatrist, a life coach, a priest or religious figure, even a paternal figure or a sponsor in recovery groups. The more power that I give to an authority to command my life the less I am listening to the direction my soul wants to lead me. I feel a certain relevance in casting politicians as such authorities given the recent election. Many believed if only their party could win, then all their problems would be solved. When they learned the results of Novemberโ€™s election, they were either devastated or elated. Their very identity seemed to be wrapped up in the outcome and they elevated the potential victor to the level of a savior. However, in reality, no politician or political party is coming to save us – that rests solely on ourselves.

Suffering is not caused by others; itโ€™s the absence of the soul in oneโ€™s life.

The truth of my experience is that suffering – the origin of the ongoing, existential suffering – is the absence of the soul in oneโ€™s life. I may feel or believe โ€œsomething is missingโ€ and convince myself that this something is to be found in an exercise regimen, more sex, or changing jobs. All of that matters little because such defunct solutions are not solutions at all. They are the products of the mind running on fumes, the head leading the body as if it were a workhorse and not the most grand chariot I could ever hope to ride. Time. Energy. Patience. These are my “horses” that I must train if I have some place worth going or something worth doing.

I have heard the inner call, the place in my own heart that is the source of my divine imaginings; a vision solely my own. ย If I do not take the Time, Energy and Patience needed to manifest this vision in reality then something will be lost. The Divine Song is missing a note. A rest stop, perhaps? I must think of that divine aspect of Self if I am to help – not only myself – but others.

How To Access The Soul

The soul returns. How? Air out the windows! Play music! Dance! Sing! Cry! Scream! Babble in gibberish! The soul does not come on command nor does it put much stock in words but before the words there is a space. Find the space and do whatever – do everything – that you have it in you to do to expand that space. When you feel as if you are beyond hope that is the time to be very alert, very patient. All the old constructs have been forfeited. You feel your wretchedness. You are open to the experience of Life. Life! A life you would want if it were only for a day because it is yours and not comparable to anyone elseโ€™s. You are in love with it, but at this point you are no longer even the same you that perhaps is reading this now.

The soul flows. Listen to the silences between the beats of your heart, and youโ€™ll find it.

The moment you fall in love with the life force, thrumming throughout all of your quarks – trillions of nucleusโ€™ are bright and happy again because they are being attended to by a power of limitless love and joy and acceptance. No, indeed you are no longer you. You will never be โ€œyouโ€ again. The soul is the only pure lover and when it loves your body and recognizes it as its own chariot – all that obstructs its journey shall be pushed over the edge, all that is weighing you down – all the expectations of yourself and others, all the assumptions you have concocted about what is โ€œowedโ€ to you, all of your plans of fame and success in society.

I am suggesting a state of being which aligns with what others call โ€œFlowโ€ . To โ€œbe in the flowโ€ of life is the greatest experience I have ever known. The soul flows. When we take direction from it, we get to participate in this absolutely delightful way of being. If you donโ€™t know how to listen to your soul, listen to your heart. Inside your heart, a little to the left, is the seat of your soul. Donโ€™t take my word for it. Hear the silences between the beats of your heart. Hear the still and most quiet voice. Perhaps it is only a whisper. Listen with all of your being. You will hear the soul. You will save your soul because you will hear your soul.

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