Tim Wyatt – England
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For aeons humanity has struggled to explore and explain the mysteries of matter and the deep secrets of the cosmos – whether in the infinity of space or the microscopic world of transient particles. It’s faced an even tougher job when it comes to the metaphysical side of things – especially when trying to explain itself.
Mankind may be gearing up to venture to other planets and colonise new worlds and yet it faces an greater challenge here on Earth. And this is to discover its true nature – a reality hidden in plain sight but largely ignored – the existence of that invisible, eternal vehicle which conveys us from life to life, the soul.
The soul provides a continuity of existence as well as a central spiritual identity for what theosophists used to call the peregrinating monad as it evolves, reincarnates and tumbles its way through eternity.
Although this is every individual’s principal identity, it remains as enigmatic as some shimmering exoplanet in a galaxy thousands of light years away. Let’s face it, a great many people flatly deny the existence of the soul, regarding it as some kind of outmoded religious superstition or optional extra.
Paradoxically, events are conspiring to persuade greater numbers of people that something indeed does lie beyond the physical plane which is so familiar to us. But because of widespread conditioning to the contrary, this is an activity reserved for a relatively small minority. The irony here is that the material world has become so numbingly familiar and distasteful to some that a default mechanism takes hold and people wish to escape its clutches. Maybe it’s always been this way.
Unlikely as it sounds, a covert spiritual rebellion is gradually unfolding and sometimes rebellions boil over into revolutions. While most revolutions usually fail and leave a situation even less desirable than the one that created them, this kickback against the material-only paradigm represents a major uplift in human consciousness. Unknown to most people, this spiritual expansion has been emerging for some time although the outward signs of this are far from obvious. In fact exoterically the evidence would seem to indicate an era of spiritual stagnation.
An awareness of the soul isn’t only desirable to secure human progress. It’s essential. Without that vital knowledge we may delay or even derail the human project entirely or at the least remain in deep ignorance of why we’re here in the first place. Recognising and reconnecting with our souls is the paramount spiritual priority at this time.
Despite the grotesque excesses of the material world and the cloying, limiting consciousness it imposes, I sense that this rebellion and revolution is very real – and possibly even imminent. History is replete with examples of unimaginable events happening overnight.
And yet how can this breakthrough be achieved? Some religions – especially the Judaeo-Christian varieties – have signally failed to tell their followers the deep truths about themselves, their potential and their destiny. Whether due to their own ignorance or for other more sinister reasons, these religions have continuously and systematically distorted the realties and mysteries of life and death. These truths were subsumed and disguised by rigid dogma, ritual and hierarchical control.
Of course, it’s a very different story with the major Eastern religions of Hinduism and Buddhism as well as with various indigenous traditions. They have no problem at all with the notion of a soul which regularly reincarnates in new physical bodies. And this, among other things, is what makes Eastern consciousness so different and often irreconcilable with its Western counterpart.
The big irony here is that these connected Abrahamic religions have often been more interested in maintaining ignorance than in promoting enlightenment. This is why they represent an infantile and de-energised form of spirituality. For centuries millions of Christians couldn’t even understand the Latin masses they were obliged to attend. But then they didn’t need to understand – just obey the priests and higher ecclesiastical authorities. And largely they did. In contrast, there have also always been dissidents and heretics who harbour ideas dangerous to whatever status quo prevails at the time.
For the past four centuries science hasn’t exactly been hyperactive in its mission to explore the soul. You might have thought it would be a key mission for those intent on unlocking the secrets of life. Apparently it isn’t. Mention of the soul rarely appears on its radar or in its research papers. No doubt it would endanger reputations and research grants, not to mention the egregious damage it would inflict on individuals’ career-paths.
Indeed, these days the vast bulk of science’s practitioners are in complete denial that a concept so woolly and indefinable as the soul even exists. It’s a topic strictly off limits to those who spend their lives exploring the physical universe. After all, this thing some claim to be a soul can’t be weighed, measured, data-harvested or bombarded with particles in an atom-smasher. Science has yet to get to grips with exploring non-material phenomena. Therefore, scientific methodology as it stands forbids its investigation.
The soul can’t be physically demonstrated or suddenly manifested in the laboratory. It can’t be isolated in a test-tube, mixed with other elements and subjected to the many processes available to the modern chemist or physicist. The soul is a strictly non-physical phenomenon and this is why science neither likes nor accepts it.
Perhaps somewhere or other some scientist is busy trying to replicate the soul using the very latest exotic materials, AI and tantalising algorithms. Perhaps the aim of the wholly sinister and alarming transhumanist movement is ultimately to set up a factory (almost certainly in California) to mass manufacture these new wonder synthetic souls they crazily imagine can replace and improve on the traditional versions.
Despite the current enthusiasm for such human manipulation – so-called ‘enhancement’ – all such vile ventures are destined to failure and ruin.
So, if not science or religion, who or what is at the vanguard of this putative spiritual rebellion I claim is being unleashed? There’s certainly no large corporate body either spiritual or secular engaged in this enterprise. But there are individuals and small collectives of people attempting to hammer home core truths about the existence and function of the soul. This is essentially how it’s always been down the centuries. It’s almost always free-thinking, imaginative and innovative – and rebellious – individuals who’ve followed isolated paths to pioneer brave truths not mass movements.
So while the soul remains terra incognita for millions, it won’t stay that way for ever because it’s humanity’s prime prerogative to discover this essential component in the human constitution. And yet as with all human aspirations it takes a long time and a lot of effort. (Recall how difficult it was for those off-planet visitors, the Lords of the Flame from Venus, to instil the mind principle in infant humanity way back in Lemurian times.)
And another essential principle comes into play here. The Law of Polarity informs us that events can only drift so far and for so long in any one direction. Then a reversal kicks in and events drift back towards their polar opposite.
It strikes me that this is very much the situation in which we find ourselves now. The prevailing materialistic paradigm has stretched as far as it can and it’s become clear to many thinking people that a spiritual appraisal and explanation of ourselves and the wider world is required as a matter of urgency. The problem is that despite all the overwhelming evidence that the old order is fracturing, this isn’t widely appreciated – yet.
Widespread global turmoil, increasing instability and a breakdown in a great many traditional systems and methodologies has left many people angry, confused and frightened. The world is so drenched with a pervasive veil of pessimism that few people can easily identify a route to those sun-drenched uplands which potentially lie ahead for us. Most are consumed and paralysed by gloomy, apocalyptic and dystopian visions of the future they’ve been fed for so long by the mass media and which have completely conditioned them into a state of depressed servility.
Will it be a war, a virus or an environmental collapse which will wipe us out? Will starvation, disease and pollution finally put paid to the human project? Will it be a natural disaster, global warming, an asteroid strike or a nuclear holocaust? Choose what you like from the extensive Hollywood menu of disaster and destruction – providing it’s grim, scary and will annihilate lots of people.
This doom-laden collective thinking amounts to a deep spiritual paralysis in the world. When we see only the material world and identify only effects rather than causes, we’re living in a world of absolute make-believe. When we refuse to accept the existence of every human being’s most vital component – the eternal vehicle, the soul – we diminish not only who we are but who we can potentially aspire to be.
Discovering and co-operating with the soul is humanity’s most pressing task – if not sole purpose.
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