What is the soul? It's described as the essential connecting force of life, bridging the physical and spiritual realms. Each soul is on a unique adventure, facing challenges that awaken inner creativity and nobility. We explore our original soul agreements and how societal influences shape our journeys. Discover the importance of reconnecting with our inner guide for true happiness and personal transformation. Through life's crises, we learn about spiritual awakening and the bonds that connect us to eternity.
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Soul as Vital Life Force
The soul is an animating and connecting force essential for life yet cannot be directly seen or scientifically proven.
It acts as the missing continuity of life, the vital ingredient when everything around us falls apart.
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Soul Between Spirit and Matter
The soul exists between spirit and matter, participating in both physical and spiritual realms.
Losing touch with the soul means losing connection to life's pulse and feeling truly abandoned.
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Soul’s Unique Life Dream
A soul enters life with a unique preformed pattern or life dream that shapes a person's existence.
The soul’s descent is likened to a bird choosing its parents and life situation, carrying an essential imagination.
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In this revised and expanded edition, Michael Meade delves into the territories of fate and destiny, using traditional wisdom stories, poetic language, and personal scholarship. He explains how the limitations of family and fate form the inner threads from which individual destiny emerges, and how wounds can become doorways to one's deepest gifts. The book offers insights for both young people seeking a genuine path in life and older individuals looking to value their lives and touch the threads of their own destiny. Meade emphasizes the importance of remembering the spirit of eternal youth and the unique life of the individual soul[1][4][5].
This episode begins with an often asked question: What is the soul? Michael Meade describes the soul as “the animating and connecting force without which we cannot live,” yet that “cannot be seen directly or simply be proven to exist.” He further describes the soul as “a betwixt and between thing, neither simply physical nor strictly spiritual,” but rather “the third element in the trinity of existence, that fills the subtle space between spirit and matter.”
Soul is the connecting tissue and the hidden continuity of all of life. It is “the missing ingredient when everything seems to fall apart. When we lose our way in the world, it is the soul's way of being that has been lost. For we are most lost and truly abandoned when we have lost touch with our own soul, with our own inward style and way of being. Each person born enters the world as a unique soul on a unique life adventure. From the view of the soul, the troubles and obstacles we encounter in life are secretly intended to awaken the inner nobility and creative energies that are part of our soul’s inheritance. As unique souls we live on the verge of awakening to who we already are at the core of our being and how we can best contribute to a world in need of more soul.
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