I have come to understand that we literally ARE gods. [What is interesting here is that while I was wanting to type big G for "G-O-d" that my higher self was tinkering with me just now and made me type little "g" God in its place and capitalize "ARE." Once you figure out you are in a passion play for their(other spiritual beings) amusement AND LEARNING THEN(Notice how my own higher self emphasized " "AND LEARNING"
in the sentence when that was not my mind or bodies intent. It was just pure spiritual manipulation. I(My body is just a puppet for my soul... Once you figure that your body and brain(Thanks Allen) are being manipulated by your soul then you can begin to understand the dynamics of the "Morality" game that your body and brain have been thrust into that they are mostly unaware of. It is like a theater production and you have your role that you agreed to follow before you were born.
You can play your part of what your soul contracted with all of the other souls and spirits that your soul knew before you were born as your "A" plan for your soul and your life may seem close to how it might be on the other side. But if your soul is of the cruel sort and most souls...once they dip themselves into a body and can't see the light anymore... become attached with spirits that are cruel...( Have you seen a little baby learning to be selfish when he learns the word "Mine!"?) Real spiritual growth begins though when the little child learns to share... Some bodies and minds never learn that lesson so their souls begin to form a separateness from other souls. When this separation occurs...our souls are often neglected and then our souls often just tag along and are seldom used until the body and mind eventually die...
If you want to grow spiritually then then teach your body and mind to learn that giving whatever spiritual and physical gifts you have to give with joy allows one to follow their "A" plan more easily. The soul should also learn to not be so tough on the body they have chosen to live in as well. If we are on plan "B" plan or "Z to the 5th power" plan then the soul should not be so hard on the body it picked for its weaknesses. Our souls chose us but if our soul doesn't give our body what it needs then the body will reject the soul. Our souls need to learn to live in harmony with our bodies and it the same as this the other way around as our bodies need to learn to feed the soul. The morality play is just going to piss off the body attached to the soul if the the soul's main mechanism for coaxing the body into doing its will is guilt. If a fallen soul wants to grow beyond the limitations that time restrains them with then it needs to move beyond the system of punishment and rewards.
The soul who falls into a body believes they can do a better job with their body than other souls but true growth only comes when we quit competing with other souls and learn the lesson of just living joyfully. Some little old ladies and little old men have learned that lesson... I say little because their ego is little. They no longer hold any judgment for those around them. They just love everyone and want to share that love with whomever crosses their path. The one's that do not surrender to their soul are often prime candidates for falling again into a body again or begin manipulating another soul in collaboration with others from the inbetween worlds... The best possible outcome though is to move beyond the morality play though and on to timelessness... where there is no competition for love... Love is everywhere beyond time and all lessons beyond time are joyful...
If one is still mucking around with guilt for themselves or judgment for others when they die then they will have "residual spirits" attached to their lives that will want to complete the morality play they left unfinished. Leaving this world without judgment or guilt is optimal. War and hatred... judgment and cruelty... These are powerful physical acts of mankind that often compel a soul to fall again. Forgiving those who have been cruel to you releases others and yourself from spiritual stagnation... Letting go of another's cruelty to you not only releases them from being drawn back into another body for their cruelty...it also releases you from being drawn back into another body for being judgmental... Even if you are being murdered.... smile at your murderer and forgive them... If you can prevent another from murdering you though...that does the same thing... Learn to duck.
I am opposed to war for any reason. Supporting wars that kill others makes one into a believer in the separation of souls. Once you understand that other people of other nations' souls are made out of the same indestructible stuff that your soul is made out of(light) you may gleen an understanding that killing their bodies or justifying others killing their bodies leaves you with an unlearned lesson that may beg your soul to learn it in another body. We should however do our best to prevent those we love from being killed or caught up in supporting war because they may not learn that lesson about loving everyone...no matter what... and it may stunt their spiritual growth... Wars happen but we as spiritual sojourners should be doing as little harm as possible. We keep falling or playing in the morality play(hell) until we leave this world no longer judging others or ourselves. War seems is a final judgment for the women, men, and children who die in them but it is also a judgment on those who support them. Letting go of judgment of ourselves and others... we move on to mingle our souls with the spirits and souls with whom we loved while we lived in a body but more... we mingle and learn more lessons of love with those who are kindred spirits on the other side... War stunts spiritual growth and separate us from those we love.
The soul doesn't know the system of rewards and punishments and that is why they fall. They want to believe they can do better than other souls in a competition for those rewards and punishments. When we are born into a body we are often closest to our soul. You can more often see a joyful young child who has has yet to rebel against their soul. Tehy are often called angels.
In the in between youth and great age... this is where there is the greatest rebellion against spiritual learning... Many who go to the other side may have many joyful memories of childhood and late life but their struggle in between may be nearly void of joy. If the bodies needs are not being met and a body whose soul is not in harmony with her body then there will always be rebellion. When we are children the soul surrenders to the body often because the body is living joyfully...but then somewhere along the line the soul and body are not in harmony. Living a life surrendered to the soul allows for doing very little harm to those that surround us but these souls are rare. Most bodies have to learn the lessons of surrendering to soul only when the soul learns the lessons of surrendering to the body. Living body and soul in harmony is where "greater things than these" occur and by living in harmony with body and soul we get to keep some of our middle life to keep as treasures on the other side.
Most often in great age.... is where the body often surrenders to the soul again and finally begins to live joyfully. For many children...the soul surrenders to the body as the body is already living joyfully... In these states of surrender... this is where we are closest to God who is love... In either case...surrender is the key component of a joyful life but this is not most often where the morality play that our souls often participate in is played out.
(Speaking of Soul Now)Before you were ever born into the body you are in "right now"... your soul on the other side is a complete spiritual being with a personality... with a history of learnings'... and attachments to other spiritual beings to a greater or lesser degree... Some of the other spiritual beings are very close to you while others are far away and everywhere in between... but the one's closest to you are your spiritual family. Your spiritual family(or ancestors) is not necessarily your physical family that you will be born into when you fall into a body but still there are likely to be those in your genetic line that are your in your spiritual family. What makes them family is that they pool their light with your light on the other side.
Knowing you are in a spiritual family as opposed to an exclusive genetic family can make it a little more understandable as to why the biological family in your life at times may seem like strangers to you. Knowing you have a spiritual family... one should try to find them and try to figure out what you need to learn from them so you can then go on to do "greater things than these"... and I know I have met many of my spiritual family right here on these lonely pages... connected to bodies whom I have never seen in person and more than likely people I will never see in my physical life...yet because of our common desire to learn certain lessons... we find each other... Finding our spiritual family helps make our lives in our physical bodies a little less stressful... and finding this family... even if it is with our typed words about our journey on a message board...one can begin to feel we are part of something bigger than themselves.
Finding that bigger community of alike souls may even be easier out in the world wide web than in the physical but it is as real to your mind and soul as anything you will ever do in your body... so one should proceed with caution before tangling with others on the internet. If you find you are saying and doing things that you would never do in person then this is where there is some growing up that one can do. If we are acting with less love and compassion than you do in person then it might very will be that your mind and body are rebelling against your soul. Surrender to love and compassion as much as you can but forgive yourself when you can't.
Don't believe your soul knows what your body and mind are going through... Your soul does not. She does not... He does not feel your pain... If our soul is going to grow up then it needs to learn that our bodies they have put in impossible situations... will reject their own soul... if they keep putting them in positions that hurt the body... The soul will just keep on driving you into the dirt until you die unless the soul backs off a little to allow the body to meet its needs... For the soul to grow... She needs to learn that even though he can not feel our pain... that pain is real to our bodies... Empathy is a hard thing to teach a soul but if we are to grow spiritually then our soul...while it can not feel our pain... should at least begin to recognize that her constant putting us in miserable positions may make him learn but it is cruel to make the body one has thrust their soul into to misery.
When we reach out to try and understand what we are going through and find someone who understands then our soul will often begin putting us in so many positions that hurt us physically and mentally. We will more than likely never find the answer of love in another human being. We are prodded on by pain as our bodies and minds are as a marionette to find our spiritual family and still our bodies and minds have some say in the matter. If our soul keeps putting us in positions of extreme mental and physical abuse to make us move on... our bodies and minds may learn to mistake that abuse and pain for love... If we are going to spiritually grow up... we have to teach our souls to not ignore the bodies needs.
Finding your spiritual family that is also here in body and mind is rare but possible. What we allow into our family here in our body and mind is important though. Joy is less rare when we can find our spiritual family and live in harmony with them... All of that said... letting go of judgment of ourselves and others frees us from those not as far along the path of timelessness. Don't let those you love and care about you lure you back into the morality play. It can trick you back into a body to help them through it next time and you may never even get to see them in person in the next life... We don't need to wear our loved one's guilt on our own soul... Shake it off and move on to grater love... Forget all harm... and live joyfully... Forgive your body when it misbehaves but do try to do as little harm as possible. Have empathy but don't let the pain of others stick on you... Live joyfully... Live Joyfully and the rest doesn't really matter... Sorry I rambled when it all could have been said with two words... live joyfully... Live Joyfully... Live Joyfully... all the way past this world into the arms of the most joyful loving mother and father I have ever known... I wanted to add that I am only part way down that path... This is why I am still here... I would much rather just walk out of this place and go back home...