Transcend cosmic forgetfulness

One perspective is that much of humanity is lost in worlds of illusion. From this vantage point, human beings have selective amnesia about their true origins beyond the physical realm.  Plato described it as the 'shadows of the cave.' Buddhists and Hindus describe this state as 'the veil of Maya.'  Neo brought this into popular culture by calling it The Matrix.  What now?

Spiritual ideas are said to be awakening within the soul of every being who moves through certain stages of awareness.  As you mature along a spiritual path, you no longer accept everything you are told at face value.  Part of you works to integrate what you are taught to believe with what you feel. The mind moves from accepting everything based on perceived fact, to accessing esoterc inner knowing. This enables a person to appreciate allegory and metaphor in historic stories and experiences.  You are creating bridges for transformation.

As you awaken to the depth of the present, you begin to sense certain of your beliefs and perceptions do not jive.  If all things are aligned within your scope of understanding, then illusions dissolve and you reconnect with an energetic essence that is you. This means you forgive, love unconditionally and are suddenly aware of vast inner mysteries at a conscious level.

Although everyone has not yet reached a mental place of complete fearlessness, more and more people are learning what it means to listen closer to their own inner voice of higher awareness.  Many people are also starting to tap into a more expansive vision of themselves in relation to the cosmos.  The year 2012 is often referred to as a crossroads.  Even now, everyone has choices; to stay in a rigid mindset or to take steps to heal the internal dissociation from the true self.

On a more intimate level, you grow to trust intuition more than doubt or question.  You are beginning to grasp waves of energy vibration, the significance of thoughts and feelings in your own power of co-creation.   You are coming home to the self.  You are beginning to move beyond the conditioned impulse to seek power, separation and create fear. One key revelation is heaven in inside. You return to realign with soul.  It never left.  The state of soul reflects growing self-love and acceptance.

Caroline Myss & what is soul-level thinking?

As you continue whatever it is you consider worthwhile and important in the moment, it is useful to integrate soul-level thinking into your life. You may ask what does this mean?

The higher self or soul-level consciousness is that part of you that knows what is required for balance, harmony and inner peace.  It is constantly noticing your thoughts and behaviour and whispers exactly how to get back on track.  Do you listen?

Caroline Myss explores examples of soul-level reflection in her books Sacred Contracts, Anatomy of the Spirit and Entering the Castle. All of these works invite readers to reframe purpose and find intrinsic value everywhere. Consider these sample suggestions and how you are or could raise soul awareness.  Shere insight into how this impacts your life perspective; 

1) Distinguish soul energy from imagination and emotions.

2) Notice a soul-level calling benefits more than just you.

3) Find stamina and will to seize soul-inspiring opportunities.

4) Engage the soul more fully in your inner healing process.

5) Trust advice in the inner voice with loving intentions. 

6) Know promises are mortal agreements and vows are sacred, soul commitments with God with cosmic consequences. 

7) Feel how soul-level reflection evokes pure timelessness.

8) Soul awakening invites self-examination and contemplation.

What is soul travel?

Soul travel means different things to different people. Consider what this means to you and why you come to feel this way.

Some people sense soul travel is like dreaming. At different perceived periods of time, often at night, part of you floats to separate from the physical body and reconnect with identity that is not related to your physical person. This process includes rejoining the body after perceived experiences in dream worlds. Such experiences are described as out-of-body experiences (OBEs), astral travel and lucid dreaming.

In another way, soul travel is sometimes viewed as a roller coaster ride through emotions. You sense the origin of feelings and sentiments and begin to discern subtle, underlying messages. They are generated as learning tools to shift focus of mind.  Soul encounters artifical happiness to transcend it.

As you raise awareness of a higher self, that inner voice with noble intentions, you access a detached perspective on your life choices.  This sense of courage always knows the higher good. In this way, soul travel is also associated with reincarnation, past life regression and future life progression.

Still other people sense soul is the spiritual part of your being that is only truly set free when it is disembodied permanently from your physical self. This happens from the moment of physical death. Stories and experience teach you soul has a mind of its own and exists in formless states, like when a ghost haunts a mortal person or you sense the presence of a deceased loved one while you are alive.

Another view is that soul travel is constant, inter-dimensional and multi-sensory energy. This idea suggests every being is engaged in soul travel every moment, but that their conscious awareness is not aligned with this core truth. Awakening to realities beyond the one you are conditioned to focus on reveals the single, divine Source. Your perceived identity or soul is fragmented from the Source and always on route back to aligning with the original Source. Paths back home vary.

If soul is understood as every human being, then wherever you consciously or unconsciously perceive to travel is soul travel. By extension, wherever any part of your energy essence chooses to travel, this is also soul travel. In fact, if you sense soul-splitting consciousness, you sense you are engaged in many different journeys, on different missions right now.

You might ask, if you leave dandruff in the bathtub and that goes down the drain, is that soul travel? If your clipped nails go out with the trash, is that soul travel? On some level, the answer is yes. After all, part of you is going somewhere.

In essence, many levels of soul travel exist. How you view and experience soul travel relates to awareness of energy vibration and expanding consciousness. Some levels are obvious to the human mind and others remain beyond the scope of your current understanding. Be content wherever you are.

How to be more experientially-connected

Every moment, you have opportunities to change the way you perceive and process information.  You have choices whether to view things as you always have or, to prepare yourself for something unfamiliar to the conscious mind.  How and what you interpret orients what comes next and how you view 2012.

Every energy vibration you register is based on deep personal experience you gradually raise to conscious awareness. This is a process of deliberate soul re-alignment. Many people ask how to be more experientially-connected. Consider 7 ways;

1) Move beyond established ways of exploring reality.

2) Learn to align the physical body with Earth's energetic grids.

3) Sense the human psyche is integral to the cosmic matrix.

4) Recognize cellular level of the body views human-created boundaries as arbitrary and irrelevant to the truth.

5) Note all events are recorded in an immaterial energy field.

6) Be open to visionary experience & multi-dimensional travel.

7) Prepare for the emergence of a new human species. 

What is the point of emptiness?

Zen koans invite you to step outside of conditioned thought to perceive differently.  You learn to discern value in situations that resonate wisdom as you choose to open the mind to new possibilities. What revelations does this koan awaken in you?

Subhuti was Buddha’s disciple. He was able to understand the potency of emptiness, the viewpoint that nothing exists except in its relationship of subjectivity and objectivity.

One day Subhuti, in a mood of sublime emptiness, was sitting under a tree. Flowers began to fall about him.

“We are praising you for your discourse on emptiness,” the gods whispered to him.

“But I have not spoken of emptiness,” said Subhuti.

“You have not spoken of emptiness, we have not heard emptiness,” responded the gods. “This is true emptiness.” And blossoms showered upon Subhuto as rain.