The Architecture of the Soul #2

To continue our journey from the Soul and its Breath are pure, to Destiny and the Senses.

DESTINY

We are made in the Image of the Divine

“The souls of people on their way to earth-life pass through a room full of lights. 

Each takes a taper, often only a spark to guide it in the dim country of this world. 

But some souls by rare fortune are detained longer and have time to grasp a handful of tapers which they weave into a torch. These are the torchbearers of humanity – its poets, seers and saints who lead and lift the race out of darkness towards the light. They are the law givers and saviors, the light bringers, way showers and truth tellers and without them humanity would lose its way in the dark.” Plato

The taper that Plato refers to may be our mission, purpose, destiny, archetype or core or signature strength (Seligman.) Those who are gifted with many tapers are fortunate but it is important to realize that 

only one of those is your prime "taper" 

and the other talents should serve the one. 

Many of the readers here, I am sure, have many gifts and it can be confusing as to which to choose for one's focus. Moreover, to whom much is given much is expected. Your way will be more difficult and demanding unless you choose to squander it.

 We are all given a destiny cup to fill. Some have an easier time since their cup is smaller. Those with huge cups may try to be "a jack of all trades and master of none" - gratifying - but not fulfilling in terms of our karmic requirement.

We are made in the image of the Divine. As above, so below, as without so within - as below so above, as within so without …

 

“All the talents of God  
are within you.
 How could this be  
otherwise when your soul is derived from His
genes!” Hafiz

"In every person there is something precious which is in no-one else. And so we should honor each for what is hidden within them for what only they have."    The Talmud

 

“Despise no human and consider nothing impossible, for there is no person who does not have his hour and there is nothing that does not have its place.” Talmud

 

One’s destiny is soul work. The second agreement Meade talks about below is ego work.

 

“…Each soul makes Two agreements upon entering the world. The first binds the individual to a distinct destiny that becomes the soul’s great project in life. The second entangles each person in the limitations of fate and responsibilities for family and community. While all second agreements can be renegotiated, 

                          the first is non-negotiable.”                                                     Michael Meade

Fate is the cards we are dealt in life which depend somewhat on our karmic profile. Buddhist practitioners pray to inherit a next lifetime so they can continue their spiritual journey at a higher level. That may not be true for many of us. We are meant to rise above our fate in order to find that unique destiny gift we were given by the Infinite One. This gift is designed to enable us to help heal the planet and correct injustice. 

One of the key questions in my divinations that I do for others that often comes up is:

What is my destiny? 

Or alternatively the bones say, 

"you are not in line with your destiny."

 Because of this I am extending this week's meditation to those who choose to listen, to these three songs which embrace the Ancestors' teachings. The songs also come form the spirit world. Their essence is in the vibration and the words and not the singer (me.) For any others who choose not to dwell, proceed to the sayings on The Senses and maybe use the sound to enhance the meaning of those wisdoms.

Click, play and meditate 

02_Be_Yourself.mp3

“Be who you is, ’cause if you ain’t who you is, you is who you ain’t.” Brennan Manning

11 Run Away.mp3

07 I Make the Future..>

 

 THE SENSES

 We are Sentient Beings !

 

One of the gifts we are given when we are reborn is to be in a sentient body. When we die we lose this gift. Across the veil between worlds sensation can be imagined but no longer experienced. We are meant to enjoy and savor the senses while we are here, but responsibly. We will also be accountable to the extent that we did not enjoy those opportunities.

From my flesh shall I behold God.
The route to God is through our senses.

The soul's conversation is not of the mind. It is best heard with the senses.

     The soul's fulfillment is through the experience of the senses.

The soul’s essence should lodge comfortably in the body.

Our soul is made for joy and the more we truly love the more we will experience it and become its very essence.

 

“From the sound of my sighing has my essence (soul) cleaved onto my flesh (body).” King David

 

King David was first a shepherd. He was nature bound and communed with God in the Creator's masterpiece of wilderness. The “sound of sighing" is when we achieve equanimity and unity and we feel as one with our Self (Soul) and our body. This is why the Ancestors stress the power of sensory, active meditations.

The soul yearns to do the Creator’s will and clings to the body when all is well.
A body caught up in cravings and attached to sentient pleasures distances the soul.
The soul withdraws causing illness.
The body’s attachment needs to be broken so the soul (essence,) can return to the body. Sound is a powerful way to bring the soul back into the body.

Soul sickness or loss occurs when the soul which is pure separates from the body from the disgust of the persona reveling irresponsibly in sensual pleasures ("sex, drugs and rock and roll"). This can also occur from guilt, shame and humiliation as a result of severe abuse early or late in life. Other factors can also be responsible; such as severe grief from loss of health a job or a loved one, a lack of any meaning in one's human existence, isolation, addictions, burnout, illness, trauma, as well as spiritual diseases such as intrusive spirits, energetic pollution and sorcery.

The soul - made in the image of the Divine - is pure and whole. When faced with these toxic challenges the soul may separate from the body. Soul sickness or worse, soul loss is sickness in a body deprived of its soul's purpose from any of the above traumas. 

The soul is unified – it does not become split itself but can split with the body.  

Plato is mistaken according to the Ancestors. The ego (parentheses,) monkey mind and the shadow alienate the Soul from it's persona. The soul is not an accomplice, She just checks out.

Some thinkers describe the soul as being broken (or even split.) It is the Ego, Monkey Mind and the Evil Inclination or Shadow that overwhelm Big or Spacious Mind and our inclination to do good, discarding the Higher Self or soul. The heart also pays the price.

To follow in the next blog...

 THE HEART AND LOVE

KARMA