Mind, Body, and Soul
I have copied out a chunk here from one of the chapters in Conversations with God 3. I have edited it in parts, but have only edited stuff that is diverted from this subject of Mind, Body, and Soul. There have been many discussions on the nature of Mind, Body, and Soul over the last 3 months. This is a perspective that I particularly like which covers a lot of ground I feel, it doesnt mean its necessarily true of course, but it works well for me.
Neale: Is there such a thing as a human soul?
God: Yes, it is the third aspect of your being. You are a three part being, made up of body, mind, and spirit.
Neale: I know where my body is, I can see that. And I think I know where my mind is - its in the part of my body called my head...
God: Wait a minute....your mind is not in your head...your brain is in your skull. Your mind is not.
Neale: Where is it then?
God: In every cell of your body...What you call the mind is really an energy. It is..a thought. And thought is an energy not an object...
Neale: So the mind is in every cell?
God: Yes. And there are more cells in your brain than anywhere else, so it seems as though your mind is there.
Neale: So where is the Soul?
God: It is everywhere.
Neale: Like the mind?
God: Whoops. Wait a minute. The mind is not everywhere...there are spaces between the cells. In fact your body is 99 per cent space.
Neale: This is where your soul is?
God: The soul is everywhere in, through, and around you. It is that which CONTAINS you...the soul is larger than the body. It is not carried within the body, but carries the body within it...The soul is that which holds you together - just as the soul of God is that which contains the universe, and holds it together.
Neale: But if the soul is, in a sense, the 'air in and around us' and if everyone else's soul is the same, where does one soul end and another begin?
God: There IS no place where one soul ends and another begins....Its all the same soul!
Neale: ....And if YOU are that which contains the universe, just as we are that which contains our bodies, then there is no place where YOU end and WE begin!
God: Yippee!
Neale: But hold on here. If there is no place where one soul ends and another begins, does that mean there is no such thing as an individual soul?
God: Well, yes and no.... This is a Divine Dichotomy....Divine Dichotomy holds that it is possible for two apparent contradictory truths to exist simultaneously in the same space....the greatest Divine Dicchotomy is the one we are looking at now. There is only One being and hence One Soul. And there are many souls in the One Being.
Neale: Can you explain how this works?
God: While there is no actual separation between souls, it is true that the stuff of which the One Soul is made manifests in physical reality at different speeds, producing different degrees of density...All of life is a vibration. That which you call life is pure energy. That energy is vibrating constantly. It is moving in waves. The waves vibrate at different speeds, producing different degrees of density, or light. This, in turn, produces what you would call different 'effects' in the physical world - actually, different physical objetcs. Yet while the objects are different and discreet, the energy which produces them is the same.........The 'clumps of energy' which coalesced into discreet units that held in physical beings are what you have chosen to call 'souls'. The Parts of Me that have become the lot of You are what we are talking about. Thus the Divine Dichotomy: There is only One of us. There are Many of us.
God: We are all the same energy, coalesced, compressed in different ways to create different forms and different matter. Nothing 'matters' in and of itself. That is nothing can BECOME MATTER all by itself. Jesus said, "Without the Father, I am nothing." The Father is pure thought. This is the energy of life. This is what you have chosen to call Absolute Love. This is the God and the Goddess, the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. it is the All-in-All, the Unmoved Mover, the Prime Source. It is that which you sought to understand from the beginning of time. the Great Mystery, the Endless Enigma, the eternal truth. There is only One of Us, and so, it is THAT WHICH YOU ARE.
Take care,
Andrew