Wednesday is Question and Answer Day on the blog…a time for exploring many of the questions that people have recently asked about the nine Conversations with God books and the New Spirituality. This week’s entry is actually a trio of questions on the soul, and when life begins.
Question 1:
When does life start, when does the soul incarnate? during
conception, or in the womb or at the first breath?
It is my awareness that Life starts with the first heartbeat. Why does the heart start beating when it does? What causes it to do so at a particular and precise moment during the development of the fetus? Conversations with God tells us that it is the sudden animating influx or “jolt” of increased Life Energy marking the joining of the soul with the body that “jump-starts” the heart muscle. It is at this point that the newly arriving Soul takes over from the parenting entities the process of personal creation in the life of the individual. Prior to this moment that process has been completely biological, a mixing of the physical elements from the mother and the father. Now it becomes a metaphysical process as well, involving the spirit as well as the body. This is the progression: 1. physical body. Then, 2. body-plus-spirit. Then, 3.- body-plus-spirit-plus-mind. All three Tools of Creation are then “in play,” so to speak, and another Individualization of the Singular Entity begins its manifestation.
Question 2:
What does the soul look like?
The Soul is pure energy, localized and individualized, and does not have a single appearance, but rather, “looks like” whatever it is manifesting Itself as (and it may manifest Itself in more than one way) in any particular moment. A “moment” is really a location. It is a particular place in the Space/Time Continuum that pinpoints and therefore differentiates the Only Moment of Now. As the Soul moves through the Continuum, it changes or alters its appearance in physicality. It will do this throughout its physicalization (which we call its “life”). The Soul never looks the same in any two moments (or locations) in the Space/Time Continuum. It is constantly changing. Indeed, everything is constantly changing, from one nonosecond to the next.
In the same way that no two snowflakes are the same, but each has its intricate and elegant appearance, so, too, are no two moments the same in terms of the appearance of the Soul. In each moment the Soul has its intricate and elegant appearance, and there is no duplication throughout the entire journey of the Soul.
Question3:
How do i remain close to the source, my original nature, my essence,
in everyday life situations?
You cannot be other than close to the Source, your Original Nature, and your Essence in everyday life situations, you can only think that you are. If you think that you are, you will experience that you are. Your imagined experience, however, has nothing to do with Ultimate Reality.
In Ultimate Reality you ARE the Source, you ARE your Original Nature, you ARE your Essence. You cannot be “away from” What You Are. Asking how you can “remain close to the source” is like asking how you can remain close to your Self.
Your mind and your thoughts are everything. From the moment that your Mind begins playing its role in the Process of Personal Creation, your thoughts become the key to your experience. The Tools of Creation are given to the Individuated Singularity (that is, to a person; to a human being) one at a time, in this order: Body, Spirit, Mind.
The first part of the Process of Individualization is physical. This occurs at the union of the foundational elements of physicality from the contributing parents. The second part of the Process of Individualization is spiritual. This occurs at the joining of the developing physical body by the spirit, or Soul, which is the animating energy of Individualization. The third part of the Process of Individualization is mental. This occurs when the spirit has sufficiently animated the physical to allow it to create on its own. It has then been imbued with enough spiritual energy, now stored in the body in the place called the Mind, to convert the spiritual into the physical (this occurs at what is sometimes called The Age of Reason — somewhere around age seven) through the metaphysical process of alchemy. At this point, Thoughts become Things.
You can remain close to your awareness of yourself as Source, Original Nature, and Essence, by thinking that you are the Source, Original Nature, and Essence. Think only of God (which is the Singularity of which you are an Individualization), set your mind on Godly things, see God and You as One, and you will expand your consciousness to the point where you will have an awareness of the Truth of Your Being.
(Ask Neale may be accessed on a daily basis in the Messengers’ Circle at Neale’s personal website: www.nealedonaldwalsch.com. Each week Neale selects a question from those posted there and publishes it in this blog.)