"Who on earth told you that life is fair?"
So wrote an English friend to me of her father's wise words after she had been through hell.
Yes unfortunately life is unfair.
It's true ... of one of our lives!
It's untrue, however, of our little-known secret life, the life of the soul.
In finding this other life we find fairness, true justice, even self-empowerment.
This is not just some wild convenient theory.
Nor is it a religion (I don't belong to any).
I know. I've done it. I found it waiting to be discovered.
I've experienced it. Tested it. Studied it. Observed it in others.
So what is it?
What is a soul?
Our secret soul life existed before we were born and it will continue to exist after we die.
More importantly, it still exists during our lifetime ... like right at this minute ... from the moment we were born until the day we die.
In fact, it's eternal.
It's commonly referred to, but greatly misunderstood and misinterpreted, as our soul.
In Greek it's psyche which also means soul.
Our soul would be better called our soul-life, our real life existence.
Your soul-life is a hidden life, invisible to you, to which most of us pay little attention.
Yet it's of far greater significance - and influence - in our daily lives which is regarded as our physical life.
It seems to me that we need to understand what this other life is and how it impacts upon our physical everyday existence.
We ignore this other life at our peril.
This has not so much to do with our religious beliefs as understanding the rules or Laws that operate in our normal lives, minute by minute.
This is the secret of flipping the unfairness, the injustice, the powerlessness on their heads.
We put so much faith in this physical world yet, since it's not right there in our face all day long, we hardly know it exists.
It's this secret world that is fair and just which we can depend on to get us through the other in-your-face world of physical activity and struggle.
The ancient gnostics and others advocated turning our backs on the physical world.
This is not what I'm saying.
We need to live to the full in this physical world, experience all it has to offer, enjoy it and succeed in it.
Living in both worlds enables us to do just that.
Living in only one world gives us only half a life - which surely is a life wasted.
Isn't it about time we investigated this soul-life, this secret world of the soul?
So wrote an English friend to me of her father's wise words after she had been through hell.
Yes unfortunately life is unfair.
It's true ... of one of our lives!
It's untrue, however, of our little-known secret life, the life of the soul.
In finding this other life we find fairness, true justice, even self-empowerment.
This is not just some wild convenient theory.
Nor is it a religion (I don't belong to any).
I know. I've done it. I found it waiting to be discovered.
I've experienced it. Tested it. Studied it. Observed it in others.
So what is it?
What is a soul?
Our secret soul life existed before we were born and it will continue to exist after we die.
More importantly, it still exists during our lifetime ... like right at this minute ... from the moment we were born until the day we die.
In fact, it's eternal.
It's commonly referred to, but greatly misunderstood and misinterpreted, as our soul.
In Greek it's psyche which also means soul.
Our soul would be better called our soul-life, our real life existence.
Your soul-life is a hidden life, invisible to you, to which most of us pay little attention.
Yet it's of far greater significance - and influence - in our daily lives which is regarded as our physical life.
It seems to me that we need to understand what this other life is and how it impacts upon our physical everyday existence.
We ignore this other life at our peril.
This has not so much to do with our religious beliefs as understanding the rules or Laws that operate in our normal lives, minute by minute.
This is the secret of flipping the unfairness, the injustice, the powerlessness on their heads.
We put so much faith in this physical world yet, since it's not right there in our face all day long, we hardly know it exists.
It's this secret world that is fair and just which we can depend on to get us through the other in-your-face world of physical activity and struggle.
The ancient gnostics and others advocated turning our backs on the physical world.
This is not what I'm saying.
We need to live to the full in this physical world, experience all it has to offer, enjoy it and succeed in it.
Living in both worlds enables us to do just that.
Living in only one world gives us only half a life - which surely is a life wasted.
Isn't it about time we investigated this soul-life, this secret world of the soul?
Neil Smith
www.grannysghost.net
