Post 12

What I am most baffled by in the world is that the experience of Soul or Spirit is relatively rare in a survey of people on the street. In our culture we often lose contact with this early in our lives and some of us never experience it with any regularity again. Granted, we have to want to discover our Soul to actually do so, unless we’re one of the rare few who spontaneously pop into Its awareness. Usually this is preceded by great suffering, or so I hear.

But to my point, the Soul is closer to us than even our breath, and so it’s shocking that so seemingly few of us take it seriously as anything more than a myth or a metaphor. The reason for this is not entirely our own fault. We have been born into a dis-enchanted modern world for hundreds of years now. We are told we are nothing but brain processes and the headlines tell us we have no free will. Add to this the generation upon generation of trauma we heap upon our children’s heads and the shock begins to wear off. It’s difficult to feel the sweet subtly of Life through so much numbness and so much pain, so much noise, disinformation, distraction and stress.

In my view, from the Soul perspective, “normal”, everyday existence without Soul’s conscious awareness is incredibly dull and difficult. We are caught in time and everything takes extreme effort, or we acquire power over others and rule by violence, greed and fear. When we are consciously aligned with Spirit there is always enough energy for the task at hand, and we resonate with a frequency that is outside of time. We don’t need patience or too much hard effort because patience and worry are of the mind. The Soul is deeper and more powerful than that. The Soul is interconnected with the Source of intelligent life energy. Ultimately so are the body and mind, yet we accumulate trauma and beliefs through which we close ourselves off to the powerful energy of our Source. When were are plugged in, Life energy flows through us to guide our actions and we can be more in flow with the course of events in the world. Harmony can begin to reign and greater ease sets in to our actions when we are aligned in this way. Ultimately everything is of this one Source, which holds the potential for all forms of good and evil, but who’s nature is Peace, Love and Harmony when we learn how to work together with it for good.

We begin to do this work when we make the choice to suspend our disbelief in the intelligent flow of interconnected Life. If we can surrender the notion that we are separate and alone, fighting for our own survival, and begin to allow that we might be met halfway in our desires and plans, in our healing, we allow for the possibility that it can be so. Simply allowing the possibility is an energetic shift that can begin to loosen our grip on how things can be. Small miracles (and larger ones) can happen this way.

I don’t want to give a false hope. Not all of us are so easily able just to surrender our grip and our conviction that the world is a pain and we must struggle. Many of us are very well defended from this kind of vulnerability and understandably so. Pain and mistrust have been passed down in our families and cultures for generations so we have closed ourselves off to surrender and vulnerability as children of the Unviverse. When all we get is hurt it is reasonable to defend ourselves from it.

So our minds are closed and don’t even allow for possibilities, but so are our hearts and bodies. Even if we get to a place of surrender and decide to suspend our disbelief, there can still be much work to do before the energy of Divine flow can bless us. We must find a path to the opening of our hearts and bodies, where we have stored pain and darkness passed down for a vary long time.

People talk in therapy for decades trying to make progress on this project. There are both newer and ancient remedies that can be much more effective. Sitting with a practitioner already open to Soul energy and sensing into one’s own immediate embodied experience is a powerful tool for freeing stuck places and clearing old patterns and energy. Sometimes mere Presence is not enough. Spiritual teachers often stop at offering satsang or a few words of wisdom. There is much truth and power in many of these teachers, yet at times we have to add more skillful means. Presence plus some skill and willingness to guide an individual through the maze of stuck-ness and belief can rapidly increase progress in healing. When people participating in their own healing begin to gain some freedom from old patterns, increasing their level of awareness and choice, adding psychedelics to the healing process can be like adding rocket fuel to the timetable of their freedom and awakening. Many people state they move farther in one or two sessions than they had in years of talk therapy alone.

There is so much to feel compassion for in the loss of awareness of the Soul. It is our own deep nature that we lose when we lose our faith and our flow, and the wonder of life seems to disappear. In my practice I use spiritual psychology, the somatic practices of directly experiencing the body, the frequency of Presence and psychedelic medicine to help people get back to their Source.

This is the process that is so badly needed by so many of us on our planet today. The time has passed for me to be too shy to say it loudly. The world needs all of our gifts right now. It needs as many of us as possible to plug in and become architects of a new, co-operative way of life. We must flow with Life energy instead of holding it captive in our pain. We must share peace, love and equity with each other, all species and the planet if we are to survive ourselves. For this we must become consciously aware of our interconnected Souls and let Life lead the way in healing us all.