Sunday, July 20, 2025

 

SOUL SICKNESS AND SOUL LOSS #1


Seven things that can destroy us.

 (And cause soul sickness.)


Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Knowledge without character
Commerce without morality
Science without humanity
Worship without sacrifice
Politics without principle   

Mahatma Gandhi

 

“It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”
  

William Ernest Henley


At the end of the day Soul Sickness or Loss can sabotage our quest for the Higher Self or our Soul.

 

“It is very dangerous (for the soul) to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities…” Kierkegard


The search for the True Self or Higher Self or Soul is at the heart of all motivation whether, subconscious or not, we believe it or not, or do anything about it or not. We all are heading home to that Light eventually and aremade in the image of that Divine light.


"Before the soul enters this world ... it is show the first light which when the world was created illluminated all things... Why is the soul shown this light? So from that hour on it may yearn  to attain the light and approach it rung by rung." (The rungs on the Tree of Life or the Chakras.) Talmud

 

The soul is pure and whole. We are responsible and will be accountable for our actions that affect the soul when we face a spiritual tribunal at the end of our days. They will challenge the choices we made. The laws of karma are defaults for keeping the soul aligned with the body. The soul, made in the image of the Divine, is unified and does not split. Some mistakenly believe that the soul can be broken. It is the ego that gets shattered, usually, from severe abuse or trauma, not the soul. However, the soul can separate from a body polluted by submitting to sensory pleasures or an ego damaged by severe abuse or trauma of any sort.

 

From the sound of my sighing has my essence cleaved onto my flesh.

Is speaking of the soul’s essence lodging comfortably in the body... 

 

This wisdom can be found in king David’s psalms. What David means is that when we find ourselves in a state of equanimity and peace (my sighing) our body (flesh) merges with the soul (essence) to become as one. This happens to us but usually only fleetingly after a deep meditation a yoga class, a walk on the beach or a good massage et al... No doubt it happened to David tending his sheep and singing his psalms to the Creator. This is why the Ancestors are in favor of a bodily oriented spiritual practice best designed to enhance the senses.

 

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 bodily imbalance and illness (which can become sickness).
The body’s (flesh) attachment needs to be broken so the soul (essence) can return to the body.

 

“The soul by reason of lust had become the principle accomplice in her own captivity.” Plato

 

Although poetically described, Plato is mistaken. The soul is neither a captive nor an accomplice to lust from the body. The soul, being pure, moves away when it becomes challenged by toxic behavior due to ego, monkey mind or shadow (evil inclination) from within or an attack from dark forces spiritual or otherwise from without. It is never imprisoned by it - quite the contrary. This separation can cause soul sickness or even loss.


“The soul is pure ...” 

Rev Nachman


One should not separate the soul from the 

Senses, 

Joy/happiness 

 The heart and love...


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


We are here on the planet to enjoy our senses responsibly, enhance the creation and help all the Four Beings of Nature. Having our senses is a gift to be savored. Once we pass over to the Elsewhere we jettison the sensory body with its five senses. The senses then can only be experienced in the imagination which is not the same. Being in a sensient body is a gift but we need to handle the gift consciously.


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


From my flesh shall I behold the Creator.


Love of Self and love of others are key. Self-Condemnation or Recrimination, guilt and especially shame are impediments to the soul's attachment to the body. Loving Self and others are catalysts for the connection.

 

“To awaken the heart is to awaken the dormant soul.” M. Gandhi

 

When the heart is muffled the soul shrinks (away from the body.)

 

 Pride and the lust for "stuff," prestige, fame and power get in the way of the connection between body, heart and soul and connection with that part of us made in the image of the divine. 


"God (and the Self) cannot be realized if there is the slightest trace of pride." Upanishads


An increasing number of our world's leaders are suffering soul sickness and even loss, the toxic effects of which are projected onto their citizens.


The primitive mind (Monkey of Narrow's survival Mind) often get in the way of what the heart must embrace in order to coax the soul to open.

 

The soul’s language is learned by listening with the heart...

To the extent that the soul partly separates from the body, soul sickness can occur. Soul sickness can lead to soul loss which can have a grim prognosis. Soul sickness is more easily corrected.

Soul sickness can be associated with many factors including: 

The wrong rules of life. Attachment to the lures of materialism and a lack of a spiritual life - the "yoke" of being attached to the ego and an unawareness of Self - the True Self. Revelling in the ego, the persona and shadow against any spiritual awareness. The toxic side of social media, television and technology. Being impregnated with bad news concerning murder, pandemics, war or fear of impending war, climate change, earth calamities and the deteriorating condition of the planet etc. Others causes include violence, abuse of any form, misery, isolation, loneliness, extreme fatigue, burn out, severe illness, depression, malignant politics and a morbid fear of death. 

Many have an elements of PTSD from the above which can cause a degree of soul sickness.

The rugged individualism in the United States and a "Lone Ranger" mentality can create loneliness and isolation. Paul Simon’s song; “I am a rock, I am an island, and a rock feels no pain and an island never cries.” is the antithesis of what is required for the heart, love, soul and happiness. Vulnerability and connection to others are the key to soul health.  

“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love. It is the prerogative of the brave.” M. Gandhi 

We think of vulnerability as being weak when in fact it's the opposite. Being vulnerable is being courageous and is a love vibration. Vulnerability is also about loving oneself - to admit to and forgive one’s iniquities. God and Jesus will forgive us for anything we have done to our Higher Selves but we have to be able to forgive ourselves.

God is not a test of love. God's love is not a test.

Karma is the test. The Creator does not micromanage and everyone is capable of redemption.

Soul Loss is more extreme than Soul Sickness and can come from: 

Self-abuse including that from sex, drugs, alcohol and addictions. Severe abuse from another or others - emotional, material, physical or sexual. Critical illness, trauma, violence, war and rape. Indulging in cults; satanic and religious ones especially when associated with war, murder or violence (Isis, Boca Haram, drug cartels and others.) 

Spiritual diseases such as intrusive spirits and even possession by a dark spirits, energetic pollution, witchcraft and sorcery can cause sickness or even soul loss. Some of these are unsupported by Western thinking and are discounted but are real.

Soul sickness and loss may result in a myriad of maladies; “dis”-ease, misery, isolation, fatigue, depression, anxiety, suicide, divorce, family disintegration, substance abuse, eating disorders, hopelessness, doubt, disbelief. denial, resignation, detachment, depression, desperation and false convictions arising from lying dogmas. “Dis-ease” can also lead to disease.

 




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