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BRAVE NEW WORLDS OF BODY, MIND & SPIRIT: The Soul, by Carl Llewellyn Weschcke

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

Bringing together the best of the Old and the New
The fourth—this focusing on Soul—in a series, by Carl Llewellyn Weschcke

(As I've prefaced the previous editorials in this series, I want to state that I do not consider myself an "expert." I've been a student all my 77 years of this lifetime, and I’m well read in most areas of Body, Mind & Spirit sometimes, called "the Occult." I'm also well read in Psychology, Philosophy, Religions, History, Mythology, the Healing Sciences, Science, and those alternative areas sometimes called "strange science" that include the Paranormal, UFOs, Politics, Human Behavior and Sexuality, and various observations that don't quite fit the predominant belief system. I'm not a clairvoyant, an ascended master, a channel for advanced beings, or anything else that would enable me to claim to know more than you do. But, I think a lot and I'm writing about what I've come to believe as the result of study and thinking. That's it. I'm an old man who reads, meditates, and thinks—and I'm sharing my personal beliefs. I also want you to know that I am optimist. I think we'll survive 2012, and that we will co-create a better world.)

In my last editorial, I am writing about Soul and Personality, the big "I" and the little "I."

Do you have a Soul? Or does a Soul have you? Think about it: If you believe in reincarnation at all, you don't believe it is your body that is born again. Nor do you believe it is your Mind, because if it were, you should have conscious past life memories. Is Soul then Spirit?

Before answering that, let's see what we really mean when we talk about your body and your mind. Your body is a particular coming together of physical substance guided by your DNA and other codes and filled with life energy. The most amazing part of the process is the formation of a "matrix" through and around your body directing the flow of energy. Within this matrix are the several auras, the chakras, and the various meridians and channels that make the totality that functions as your physical and energy body.

Your Mind is not your brain, although the brain is its primary physical vehicle. Like the physical body, the Mind is a coming together of mental substance guided by the "I." The "I" is not who you think you are, but is, in fact, the main manager in charge of mind and body. The little "I," as I call it, the Personality, has the prime responsibility for trying to make your life meaningful and expressive of your "life purpose."

"Life Purpose!" Where did that come from? It's the job you were given for this lifetime. It is not the job of being a mom or dad, of being a responsible person and citizen, or the one you are paid for whether you are a field worker or President of the United States. Your Life Purpose is a "plan" for the lessons you're learning. It is not written out as a series of steps like a study program but rather as a goal you will hopefully fulfill. And the goal may seem very simple, but all those goals together define the entire plan for humanity. A "plan for humanity?" We can get into that, sometimes called "the Great Plan," another time.

Where did your Life Purpose come from? According to the research of Dr. Michael Newton and others, it involves your Soul and various guides. The Soul is the "permanent being" behind the Personality, the Mind & Body combination that is yours alone. The Personality is the little "I" that you think of as your self, but it is not the Soul. In a "mythic" sense, the Soul is "up there" and the Personality is "down here." Of course, in an ultimate cosmological and spiritual sense, there really is no up there and down here, but we are not yet anywhere near that ultimate unity.

Just as the body is an assembly of physical substance, and the Mind an assembly of mental substance, I believe the Soul is an assembly of spiritual substance—what we commonly call "Spirit." At the physical level, we work with physical substance in a variety of ways and forms. At the mental level, we work with mental substance, and the Soul level we work with spirit substance. All of this leads to the realization that the ultimate, big "I" is not physical, mental, or spiritual.

(We have a big problem because of the loose way we use words. We think of "spiritual" as the opposite of "physical." It is not. We do not have a good word for "that which is above that which is below," so we say "spiritual" in an abstract sense to mean, essentially, that which we are striving toward. It is our goal for our "becoming more than we are.")

Just as the Personality is not Soul, I believe that the Soul is not the big "I," but is a vehicle just as the Personality is. And just as there is a kind of "disconnect" between Personality and Soul, so is there a "disconnect" between Soul and the big "I." By "disconnect" I mean to convey the Soul may not be paying a lot of attention to the Personality, but can be appealed to through meditation, prayer, and ritual. When a connection is made, there is a flow of Love and Intelligence called the"Knowledge & Conversation with the Holy Guardian Angel."

How do you make the connection? Firstly, when the student is ready, the master will appear. You cannot command this, but you can prepare for it, and you can ask for it, you can pray for it, and you can "open the way" for it. I like to call it "bridge building"—like a bridge between worlds. The point is that we have to work to grow, and growth involves transformation so that we become more than we are and it is in becoming that we fulfill the plan.

Everything we know about the universe shows that change and growth always happen. Species evolve, the Universe expands, and the Soul grows. The "substances" that compose all things evolve through the experience of life moving through them. The Soul evolves as it accumulates abstract human experiences retained as memories. "Memories" are like computer folders containing many files. We can "drill down" and examine any of those memories through past life regression and other techniques of self-knowledge. Through self-knowledge, we learn the lessons for our life purpose.

At each level, substance is organized into entities by thought-forms and life-force. At the human level, Intelligence and Soul are added. Soul is ever incarnating to grow as an individual. Each of us results from a push and pull—Push from the past of evolution and heredity, Pull from the future by the Divine Matrix of "In this image did We create them."

Evolution is a fact, but it is given direction by the Divine Matrix, the Great Plan. I like to use that word, "Light." Humanity has been enriched by the "messengers of Light" and at the same time we must reach for the Light. "Light" is more than a metaphor. We can say that it is a spiritual reality, for as we meditate and see ourselves filled with Light we are using that experience to change and transform the Personality to call to the Soul and open the way for that union.

It's a long journey (the entire formula of the Tarot), but all journeys begin with a first step and progress with more steps. That journey is our Life Purpose. For us, it is a combination of Knowledge and Action. We study Knowledge, but unless we Act with purpose, we have yet to take the first steps on the Journey.

Selected reading:

Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives, by Michael Newton, Ph.D
Life Between Lives: Hypnotherapy for Spiritual Regression, by Michael Newton, Ph.D
The Gaia Project: 2012, The Earth's Coming Great Chances, by Hwee-Yong Jang
What Happens After Death: Scientific & Personal Evidence for Survival, by Migene González-Wippler
Beyond Reincarnation: Experience Your Past Lives & Lives Between Lives, by Joe H. Slate, Ph.D.
Magical Use of Thought Forms: A Proven System of Mental & Spiritual Empowerment, By Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki & J. H. Brennan
Meditation as Spiritual Practice: Meditation for Expanding Consciousness & Awareness, by Genevieve Paulson
You Are the Answer: Discovering and Fulfilling Your Soul’s Purpose, by Michael J. Tamura

Carl's other editorials are also available:

Brave New Worlds of Body, Mind & Spirit: The Body

Brave New Worlds of Body, Mind & Spirit: The Mind

Brave New Worlds of Body, Mind & Spirit: The Spirit

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2008. All rights reserved.

I've had the same dream over and over. It's about a house I used to live in. In my dream, I'm very happy to go back there but someone else has been living there. Now that I'm back, I don't want anyone to know in case the authorities catch me and tell me to leave. Sometimes the house is warm and inviting but other times the house is dark, the windows are broken and the curtains are blowing through the broken windows. What does this mean? Thank you for any help you can give me on this.

Paula

Astrea:

When houses themselves seem to be central or significant in dreams, they often represent us. The house in your dream is YOU: it symbolizes your conscious and subconscious feelings at the times you're having those dreams. (Remember that the things that appear in our dreams are generally SYMBOLS of actual people, places or things.)

If you keep a dream journal, you'll discover that certain things in your waking life are causing these recurring dreams of your old home. When it welcomes you with that warm, inviting feeling, you have probably had a waking experience that was good and pleasant, so your subconscious returns you to a time when you felt happy and free while living in this old home.

When you dream of the house being broken down, perhaps you've been angry or hurt by something in your waking life, and this is represented in your dream by the sorry state of the house. The authorities you're avoiding in your dream are authorities you're struggling with in your waking life: your husband, friends, parents, or anyone you let boss you around at times.

As these real life events may come days, weeks or months before you have a house dream, you may want to start journaling. By keeping a journal of when that dream occurs for six months, a pattern will emerge that will tell you what stimulates your subconscious to send you these messages.

The more you work with the symbols in the dream by relating them to the choices you're making and the actions you're taking in your waking life, the clearer this will all become for you.

I want to point one thing out, however. You say the windows are broken when the house is in disrepair in your dream, and this could mean that it's time to get your eyes tested in waking life.

I don't feel this is true here, however - I think it means there is something obvious you need to see while you're awake that you've not noticed yet. Most likely, this concerns a parent or a sibling and a problem that you're ignoring or avoiding.

After you solve that problem, when you dream of your former home, it will be warm and inviting every time.

*****

Susyn:

Often when people dream about a house repeatedly, the house represents the person themselves and the state their life at that moment. Because this was a house you once lived in, it may represent the state of mind you were in back then.

I dream of a house regularly too. Though I've never lived in it, it always appears to be located near where I was born. Each time I have this dream, I can see correlations between the changes in the house and my current state of affairs.

For example, I dreamed of the house being inhabited by strangers, and discovered that to be a symbol of my inability to be true to myself when others are around.

To dream of returning to a house you feel someone else has been living in could imply that you've been letting other people make your decisions or influence your life in undesirable ways. For example, if you are involved in a relationship that tends to color your choices, the house may symbolize the fact that someone else has taken charge.

The fact that you feel you don't belong in the house and fear that the authorities may find out you are there suggests you might be hiding something or feeling guilty about something going on in your life. This dream could be sending you messages that some behavior or choice you've made is making you feel uneasy.

These choices may seem warm and inviting at times, while at other times they could leave you feeling empty or uneasy. Broken windows with the curtains blowing through them suggest a void or the sense that you are feeling unsafe, unprotected or exposed.

Because you don't mention any specific events currently going on in your life, you'll have to figure out if the dream refers to a personal relationship, job situation, or some health or financial difficulties you are walking through.

In any case, taking action on whatever aspect of your life may be in turmoil should produce happier dreams about this house in the future.

This dream will continue to return to you, and each time it does, it will provide a wonderful way to evaluate the current state of your life and what changes you may need to make.

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.