World of Souls

There are some who say there is a world of souls after death. Journey of Souls by Michael Newton is an example. It appears, to me, that this soul world is part of the dream of separation, an extension of the me of the body, but without a physical body. Everything else in the soul world seems familiar, except more light, more compassion, less fear (although fear seems to persist). The world of the soul does not seem too far removed from the world of the body in consciousness expressing. I suspect it is the same expressing manifesting on a greater scale than we know in body alone. The soul world seems to know about the physical world more than we know about the soul world. The soul world extends our perceptions of separation without our acceptance of oneness that is twia, or consciousness. Anyway, reading the book opened my eyes to the dream of separation being greater than what we experience in this existence on planet Earth. If there is a soul world, and Newton is correct in his presentation of it, then death of the body does not change things much from the physical world we know as existence. Our existence continues, as is, but in a much more ethereal way. Newton adds that we return from the soul world to Earthly existence and that this becomes a continuing cycle of reincarnation as we develop the consciousness needed to leave the cycle and go elsewhere, wherever that is. The thought of separation manifests on several planes. Planes are varying densities. All involve individuation, separate mind-sets, self-discovery journeys. Planes allow us to move with or without a body. In all planes there remains unity and relationship. Existence in separation is not isolation. I am not isolated in this body. It manifests thought of separation as does many manifestations that reflect twia. Concurrently, twia is totality and individuation. Twia is discrete in the wholeness of awareness, maybe like molecules are discrete in the wholeness of water. Journey of Souls helps me to think about separation as existence beyond the physical world. Death does not end separation. It changes our perception of it. We perceive it less concrete and more intangible. But we still perceive separation and a kind of spacetime that goes with it. I often wonder in reincarnation, which is presented as fact in Journey of Souls, why we limit ourselves to returning to this world and the story we left. Maybe we did not leave the story of our life by dying? Maybe we are much more than a single life in one body. If reincarnation is true, maybe the manifestation of separation is greater than we know on this plane. The book describes new souls, younger souls, older souls, mature souls. There is a birth of souls and a passing of souls, eventually, to another plane. This, to me, implies beginnings and endings with growing and developing in between. How does a soul start? When does it end? Is there evolution of the kind we know on Earth? The implications are that this soul world is as transitory as the world of our Earthly existence. It is transitory and therefore not eternal. Like our earthly plane, it is separation and not reality. Newton suggests an Ultimate Reality beyond God (gods). Kabbalah does too, in a way, with its ideas of light and emptiness. The light, according to Kabbalah opened to make way for God to appear and create the world. This is a simplistic statement of the idea, but it serves here to show that an Ultimate Reality beyond God is not a new idea. It fits, too, with Taoism, which says that Tao is the mother of creation. I accept the idea that our existence is in an emptiness that is nowhere. I call the emptiness, consciousness, as found in Hinduism. This consciousness, as I see it, is an eternal field of infinite possibility that lies in an emptiness that is nowhere. The soul is our being. There is the me of the body. There is being. There is twia. Then awareness. Finally, consciousness. This is a nesting, like Russian nesting dolls. Or, the Tree of Life from Kabbalah. It, too, is much like nesting dolls. One within the other as wholeness rather than separation. It is hard to say with words. Imagine a stack like this:

emptiness that is nowhere

consciousness

awareness

twia

being or soul

me

collapsed into one nesting doll then smooshed to rid the contents of distinctions, yet the essences survive. (Something like that.) Soul mind vs. human brain. How is it that all memories are stored in the existing brain? Or do souls have brains? How do souls have brain/mind/sensory functions without a body? There is a lot of moving about, interactions, and conversations in his world of souls. Is the Earth-bound and soul-bound one world in two forms? They seem to be separation by nature rather than oneness. Is the soul world or after-life the same story of fear as this world? Seems to be to some degree. Souls have issues to work on with guides. They fear, at times, returning to the plane that is Earth. There must be a sense of lack if souls are developing from young to old. Lack can bring about fear of not enough. Body is a denser level than being. Body and being seem to be acting together in this book to develop the soul. It is one manifestation of separation at two levels of density. There is an entity (my soul?) of separation that does not inhabit both worlds at once. It moves between them regularly as it matures. Neither body nor being seems fulfilling to the soul, though being seems to have less suffering. It has patience and caring but is still separation like love is separation in the world because it counters fear. An aside: This is an amazing portrayal of life after death. It is fascinating how those who are dying find what works for them to ease their passing. This book has helped many. There is much comfort in thinking another home awaits us and accepting what it might be as fact. There is the me of the body. Is there a me of being? Appears so in the book. Does the me continue as same between body and being? I am thinking so because the separation is still in effect. No oneness seems to be realized after death in these stories. Everything is still a separation of me from you. p.54 “reaching into…my being. Tired of last life with body I had.” “…who am I as a being…?” How do souls think, sense, and maintain memories? They seem to experience past-present-future – and aging from new soul to old soul. The bevy of guides and teachers speaks even more of separation in the soul world as found in the physical world of bodies. And the soul world does not sound like it is eternal because there is time with its beginnings and endings. p.58 “I wasted a lot of time.” All the foibles of human life are on display. There is right-wrong, good-bad, better-worse, etc. It is duality in soul world, just like on ole planet Earth. We do not seem to get far from the world of separation even upon death. The souls seem to be us: Western Culture and Civilization. For example, what would be the suicide disclaimer if we were not allowing medical suicides? These souls and Newton’s interpretations seem to reflect earthly beliefs, which I do not find surprising. I think we take exactly what we think we are at death to the other side in this soul world Newton is describing. This shows me there is little difference between living with a body and living without a body. The illusion of separation still gives me existence where there is none. The soul world seems to be part of the dream. Death does not leave the me of the body too far from the tree of separation. I doubt if reincarnation is limited to this plane of existence. To be caught up in ghosts, guides, angels is still to be caught in the web of separation, which is illusion. With all the possibilities, there must be something other than returning to what we just left. I accept the soul world as a form of separation. The manifestation of separation must have many forms, planes, existences. The universe is but a bit of nothingness in the emptiness that is consciousness. I am not my soul any more than I am my emotions. The soul must be the me of the body but without the physical body as described by physicists. The soul in the book seems barely different from the me of the body if it has to be guided and taught; if it has to overcome feelings such as envy, have stages of progression, have a beginning, and develop and mature. It appears in its end to transform to even another stage or plane. This is separation; that is, what we do in body as well. It is not twia. There seems to be no oneness in the soul world. It is still separation. It is a world of MEs; like this world, but with more compassion and less destruction and suffering. Evolving of the soul must be part of separation. How else can something not be whole, complete, perfect, eternal. It does not happen that we end our perception of separation at death. It shifts somewhat due to the absence of a dense, physical body. We can experience a less dense existence, which seems to garner more compassion and less fear. We still are working through our stuff. Trying to shake off our feelings and restore our goodness. We still feel inadequate and need help. There is a shift in perception without the body. We perceive existence, but in a lighter form. The existence is lighter, freer of density, but it is still what we make of it. We go in death to another world of our own making, which is why I wonder if we are limited to Earth in reincarnation. Why come back here in our dream when we could perceive separation in so many other ways as well? The whole of the all most likely experiences separation on more than one level. It could be many levels. The point is we are not our bodies on the earthly plane. We are twia. Twia is the reality of consciousness. We exist not only in reality, which is eternal oneness, but simultaneously in separation which is transitory. Our being takes on multiple forms in multiple places at multiple times which are all at once in the reality that is consciousness.