Soul
“The
requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer
sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spirituality—to
become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us
to align ourselves with the values of soul—harmony, cooperation,
sharing, and reverence for life.”
Gary Zukav
Some of us have
difficulty with the concept of soul—what is it, where is it, where
does it come from and where does it go when our body succumbs to
death? I have no answers to these questions any more than you do, but
I can tell you what I believe to be true. The soul of each human
being is one manifestation of a greater entity; it is part of a
greater soul that we call the universe, or the source, or God. It is,
like every other thing in this universe, energetic in nature. It does
not appear to us as an observable entity any more than the wind does.
We don't doubt the wind's existence because we can look with our eyes
and see the trees waving around and we can hear the sound of the air
whizzing past our ears. We can feel wind on our skin and blowing
against our clothing. The soul is like the wind—we know it through
our senses, and through our intuition. Zukav explains it this way:
“You experience your soul each time you sense yourself as more than
a mind and body, your life as meaningful, or you feel that you have
gifts to give and you long to give them.” I would also posit that
we experience our souls in those rare moments when we feel one with
everything—when the boundaries that define us fade from awareness
and we are simply part of all that is.
Darwinian theory
indicates that only the fittest are most likely to survive and
propagate. Fitness is more that physical strength; it also includes
adaptability, ingenuity and endurance. In the distant
past, the fittest were those who could run fastest, had the most secure
habitats, and an ample food supply. We have gone through many layers
of evolution as a species, with each one advancing our knowledge base
and therefore our definition of fitness. But, we've developed an
imbalance because of our reliance upon weapons as our means of
security. That type of technical ingenuity has outpaced our
understanding of what is truly necessary to make us secure—which is
where the soul comes in. It is leading us away from what I call
weaponized religions—ones where we kill or enslave people who do
not share our beliefs—to a spirituality that perceives all humans
as precious. In the future, the fittest will be those people who
embrace unity, and not those who hold the divide-and-conquer
mentality of the past. The qualities of justice, harmony, and
reverence for life will be the survival skills that push humanity's
evolution forward.
Today, I hope you have an
opportunity to experience your soul.
In the Spirit,
Jane
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