Here on Earth, in our human society, we live in an atmosphere of division, of pigeonholing. At the root of this are our ideas about time and space, about masculinity and femininity, and our fears. Fear creates duality: you versus what you fear – often other people. Duality creates borders, and borders create boxes; for example, the boxes we call countries.
The world of the soul, on the other hand, is a world of unity, a unity that transcends all borders. The basis of that unity is love. There is a field of tension between the world of the soul, the world of unity, and our world, the world of division, of time and space, of fears. They are almost opposite in their premise: love versus fear. This field of tension ensures that the soul is suppressed, that it is difficult to get in touch with our soul.
If you look at the journey of your soul on Earth, your soul’s plan, you can distinguish a number of phases, which have to do with the relationship between these two worlds. These phases are different for every person, because one person is better able to maintain contact with the soul than can another person. Yet for everyone there are schematically four phases in earthly life.
1. The phase of forgetting
The first phase is the phase of forgetting, of losing contact with the soul. This is also the stage of discovering the energies and ideas of human society. Initially, a newborn child is very open and very aware of the energies of the environment, the atmosphere, the culture and the country in which it is born. That is all internalized. Also fears: the fears of your parents live in you. Often there are even deeper layers: personalities that you have once been on Earth you will feel again in your new life.
You start your journey here as a baby. You can actually consider this child as the soul itself, stripped of all layers, of all wisdom, of all knowledge surrounding it, of all memories of past lives. A baby is a very pure manifestation of the soul energy. And the intention is that that core remains during life, and that new experiences grow around it.
You could compare it to a tree. A tree has a core – in our case that core is the inner child – and many layers grow around it: the annular rings of a tree. This is how it should be with us: the child remains central, with layers around it which help the child – the soul ultimately – to manifest here on Earth. Think of those layers as things like knowledge of world, wisdom, and experience in the way you have to deal with other people. And also specific know-how. For example, if you want to make music because you feel the urge to do so, you have to learn the techniques: singing techniques or the technique of playing an instrument. And of course that applies to everything you are going to do. If you want to become a speaker, you will have to learn to master a language well. But whatever you do or learn, the original soul impulse should be at the core. The function of the outer layers is to ensure a full manifestation of the soul energy into this world.
This image immediately clashes with the traditional ideas that prevail on Earth: a person is not supposed to be original and to produce something new, but to adapt to the existing. And so the original impulse has to be suppressed, which means that we suppress the child in us. We do this by placing the child in the past; when our childhood is over we can’t be kids anymore. In doing so, we create an artificial wall between ourselves and the child, and consequently there is a loss of contact with the soul. We are no longer the child, we think; we have changed, we have grown up. And that means that our thinking has completely adapted to society in which the soul is not welcome.
Growing up in our world also means becoming a man or a woman. However, the child is neuter, it includes both the masculine and the feminine. The child learns from adults that it is a girl or a boy. Being male or female is one of the boxes we push ourselves into as we alienate from our soul, which encompasses both aspects. When the child has finally become an adapted adult man or woman, the forgetting phase is complete.
2. The phase of crisis
In the long run, this “forgetting” leads to a crisis, in whatever form. The phase of crisis has been called “the dark night of the soul’, because our inner sun, the soul, is no longer seen or felt; life no longer fulfills. You start to feel unhappy, you feel that something is not right. And you often think that you don’t fit into this world, or rather the “performance society”.
In fact, that feeling is correct. Only what does not suit you are the constructed ideas you have about yourself and all the fears you have internalized. And also you, the original you, doesn’t fit the source of those ideas about yourself: the human society that is so out of balance.
The crisis phase ends when the realization comes that the ideas you have about yourself, about who you think you are and, therefore, also the ideas you have about the world and how you should live, are not really correct, even though they are generally accepted. It is precisely these ideas – the judgments, the pigeonholing – which block the light of the soul.
Letting go of who you think you should be and thereby allowing who you really are is the way out of this crisis.
This is, of course, not easy, because we have come to identify completely with certain ideas about ourselves and how we should be. The only solution is to let go of that identification and surrender to the flow of life itself. Life wants to restore contact with your inner child: the soul impulse.
There are often two attitudes that block this process: 1. wanting to go back to the past, and 2. victimization. The first is an active attitude: there is a problem, eg an illness, breakup, etc, that needs to be solved. Then everything will be fine again and we can go back to the old life and continue to live as we used to. This does not work. The impulse that pushes us towards the light of our soul through the crisis cannot be easily suppressed.
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