One-Duality of the Soul

We are Authentic when we see through and beyond individuality and Universality.

That we are both and neither, that is the key to this ‘new’ hybrid Holistic mind which denotes the presence of the consciousness of the soul or Soulness.

Let me explain. Pure Awareness (the pure minded Non-dual state) doesn't 'see' individuality. It cannot. So from the perspective of a Holistic Multidimensional being we could say that this 'view' is lacking, for it overrides our sense of individuality, which appears as a dream or illusory. 

And yet, as a fully functioning integrated human being we realise that we are a part, a whole and more. We are Dual, Non-Dual and more. We are Multidimensional beings; separate, inseparable and integrated. Limits and no limits – everything and nothing – here and everywhere; the acceptance of two opposing poles (the Dual and the Non-dual) supports the evolution of consciousness and our transcendence to Soulness.

Acceptance of All-That-We-Are arises from the realisation of the Non-dual, and yet any sense of Non-duality which ignores the sacred realm of Duality and the dynamic value of separation is incomplete and lacking. A sense of identity which ignores or excludes Duality is only half way to soul-realisation. 

To express Soulness in a simple equation, to find the answer to the dualities of 1+2, we had to create a ‘new’ figure 3. And yet if we look closely, the ‘new’ figure 3 is neither 1 nor 2 and yet is both 1 & 2  – and is therefore the transcendent sum. The ‘new’ figure arises from allowing the convergence of the two old figures. If we apply the same system of thought to the Polaric thought of the mind, we can see that momentum forward is produced once the two poles are accepted, for only then are they transcended by the ‘new’ which contains both the old and the new.

We could say the same applies with colour. One says black, the other white. So the ‘newly’ formed grey is the transcendent colour which holistically encompasses the two opposing poles. Both are in it, and neither are it.

And it is the same in consciousness with the integration of Individual and Universal identities. Neither is complete. The Dual excludes the Universal, and the Non-dual excludes the ego. However, once the two are seen and accepted, they converge to produce the ‘new’ hybrid consciousness, the consciousness of the Soul or Soulness. 

It is beyond the Dual and the Non-dual - and I call it the One-Duality of the Soul.

Purpose

Every single one of us has a purpose, a reason to be. We may not see it yet, and we may at times be misled or confused by the mind-set of ourselves and others. 

Life is a journey, a step at a time. We all get lost, we all fall down. Accept this as part of the flow of life. 

But we can all get back up. Sometimes we feel we can’t, and that 'life' is too much. But this is when we’re surrounded by doubt and fear. The fear of not knowing.

If we don’t give up, we can find the strength to accept and embrace the wonderful possibility of change.

We each need to experience the dark side of life to appreciate the beauty that surrounds us, the beautiful mystery that we are ALL a part of.

We are not what we appear to be. We are much, much more.

We can each do something unique and fulfilling if we find and follow our true path and naturally connect with our inner and outer purpose.

If you follow the rich rewarding abundance of your human spirit, then you will do things that inspire yourself and others. You will be living the journey of your Soul. 

Find what you love, and follow it. See it through with your entire being and you will discover a life of value and worth you could never imagine possible.

Go for it! 

What's the most we can do?

This was a question I had on my mind for sometime.
And last year, something happened which answered it in full.
At the end of September I managed to take two weeks away from work.
The first week was spent in a small house in the mountains, gardening and going about general D.I.Y repairs in the Tarn, France. Each day was a bit cold and grey, and I have to admit, slightly depressing. Was this going to be the extent of my much needed break from running one of the largest retreat centres in the UK?
By the end of the week, I moved out of the mountains, and into the sunnier climes of the Languedoc.
I stayed at a lovely little 'gite' hidden away in the countryside.
It turned out to be the most amazing week of my life.
The area is steeped in stunning gorges, rivers and the sweet smell of herbs on the warm air of the garrigue is never far away. It was so deliciously warm and dry.
I was overcome by a sense of wanting to write, which was the last thing I expected. So I purchased a decent pen and a couple of exercise books, the type children use for schoolwork.
I sat on the sunny terrace and began to scribble.
Within a couple of days, I had filled the two notebooks.
I brought all the local places into the story, and everything which happened became part of the spiritual fantasy novel I was writing. Journeys and visits became part of that story, as did people and places.
I returned to the UK feeling fulfilled, and went back to work as usual.
A few months later, an unexpected debacle at work led to many changes, including my departure.
It was a difficult few months.
Then I remembered my book.
I started transcribing it onto the computer, and contacted a few people.
Each person responded positively, and I spent the next 7 months working solidly on the manuscript.
Following the synchronicity of the Soul, I found a literary agent and manager, and collaborated with a Grammy Award Winning producer and a talented young script writer.
Now, life has changed yet again.
I have a near completed novel 'The Soul Whisperer' and I am doing the work that I LOVE.
Through words and music, I feel I am contributing my utmost, and can actually feel the resonance of that in my being. It's like I know without knowing or doubt, and that brings fulfillment.
It's as if that time in France provided me with not only a new career path, but also the answer to my question. So what's the answer?
Well, I think the most we can do is find and follow what we LOVE, for in doing so we converge with the light of the Soul. The true nature of the Soul works for the totality. So in following Soulness (the consciousness of the Soul), we all contribute uniquely, but benefit the individual and the whole.
Soul is Whole.
Holy Soul!
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By the way, the novel is called 'THE SOUL WHISPERER' - please visit my new website which will be online from February 2015.

www.AuthorJMHarrison.com

DIVINE BIRTHRIGHT

When I had a seizure and collapsed to the floor in 2007, I left my body. After the fear of dying subsided, I experienced a beauty and peace that was vital, interconnected, empowering, peaceful and loving. It took me a long time to get my head around what I had experienced; several years in fact. Eventually I came to the realisation that this was the experience of my Soul. This recognition remains with me today, and underlies my sacred and holistic perception of life.

I am writing these words to share with you, to share the Truth that each one of us has access to a profound, subtle, emerging universal intelligence. Shockingly we don’t really know it’s there until we sense, feel and understand it. However, it’s true to say that who you really are is an amazing and wonderful luminous being offering you a life of infinite possibilities.

You were born into this world with unique gifts and qualities, but each one of us has a Divine Birthright. It is your Divine Birthright;

·         To realise you are an empowered, creative being who has an integral relationship with all forms of Life. You are part of a greater whole.

·         To shine. Share your purpose, your gifts, talents and passions, for in doing so you will inspire others and shine a light into the world. 

·         It's really OK to be prosperous and abundant. The Universe is a place of abundance. The Sun does not switch its rays on and off, it simply shines life into the world.  

·         To live in your Joy. Peace is found when the personality converges with the Soul.

·         To live in the self-knowledge of your own Divinity. We are all sons and daughters of the Divine. No more, no less. 

·         To be, feel and act on the Love that is in your Heart without neglecting the gifts of the head. 

·         To be FREE. Only self-knowledge allows you the freedom you seek.

All of the above are not gifts for a special few, but are Divine gifts given to all humankind. But do you know (feel and sense) these treasures of life to be true to you? You were born into this world as a Soul which knows all of these birthrights, so all you need do is to get to know and BE your Soul. To get to know your Soul, the head (brain-mind identity) would have you think that you need to constantly work on your apparent weaknesses and failures. This may lead to permanently identifying with our suffering, our stories, our losses, and the conditioning all humans have to varying degrees. But the 'new' way of the mind (the Holistic Mind) teaches us otherwise. The Soul knows that the way to deal with unresolved emotional patterns and conditions is from the Love within. The deeper you become aware of the living presence of your Soul, the more Love you will feel and sense. The more Love you feel and sense, the more naturally and efficiently you will heal, and the quicker you will let go of what was in the way of your Divine birthright. So the Soul teaches us not to dwell on our apparent misfortune, but to bathe in the love and joy within. That is the way to evolve, and the only way our race will survive. The way to resolve fear is not by facing the fear when we are fearful, but to Love ourselves. If we love ourselves, the fears, worries and regrets we hold on to, will naturally arise, but will also dissolve. Similarly, the way to resolve any problem is to find the SOUL-ution. Your Soul speaks from love and openness, from intuition and compassion, and so has the natural remedy to any problem. As Einstein pointed out to us … “We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” And the Soul takes it further than that. To survive and evolve, we need to learn to resolve from Love. Any SOUL-ution is from Love because it honours the whole truth and needs of any given situation.

In fact I can go as far as to say that everything is resolved by Love. Of course we need to use the rational mind as a tool too, but a natural combination of heart and head is the real art of Soulness. To evolve (and we must) we need to learn to listen, feel and sense from the heart before taking appropriate action with the head. This is what I call Doing from Being and is the effortless action of the Soul.  

So how can we get to listen, feel and sense from the heart? Well, first we need to learn how to deal with the residual content we each have. This residual content is present in our heads in the form of emotions, beliefs, addictions, patterns and conditions. For example, the fact that you were accidentally scared by a large man in a suit with a moustache when you were six years old doesn’t simply dissolve. That information received from the senses (large man, suit, and moustache) stays in your memory and becomes a way of identifying with ‘scared’. You will identify with that residual content as real when it is not.  So we each need to learn to see through our residual content and converge with the loving flow of life. 

Love and Peace are ours. Let's reclaim them now. 

Remember?

You are a Soul. You took this incarnation because it was what you needed to learn to remember. You have lived and died many times, as different personalities. You have undertaken this journey to remember who-you-really-are.

What you think of as you, your name, your story, will all fade into the infinite at some future point in time. What will not fade or die is your Soul. Your Soul knows what you need to do to find your way back to Love.

To remember your Soul is to remember the Truth of who you really are.

Thoughts for a friend

Awareness is the universal beingness within and beyond all life.

It is YOU and not you.

The you that thinks, wishes, desires and plans is not THIS.

And yet the YOU that flows at one with the intelligence of the Universe is THIS.

Both are needed to become a whole being. 

One without the other leaves a human incomplete.

And yet there is only one captain, one pilot - 

YOU are THIS

That's the way home. 

Within the wholeness of the self – there is no longer the notion of higher and lower, ego and non-ego, for all ‘selves’ converge into the one being. The whole is recognised, realised and actualised. That holistic sense of being transcends both the individual and universal expectations of the mind. There is an expanded undeniable sense of both individuality and universality, a realisation which cannot survive within the old framework of the mind. The new way of the ‘mind’ allows for the transient freedom to be the sum of all parts from the depths of who-we-really-are. A person awake to the consciousness of Whole Being cannot categorically say “I am not the body” and neither can they say “I am the body” yet both statements may be seen to be fundamentally true. The wave is in the ocean as the ocean is in the wave. This may seem that Whole Being is somewhat confused, but nothing could be further from the truth. In Whole Being it would be true to say “I am the body and I am not the body” for from the apparently ‘opposing’ poles of matter and Spirit, each of these statements is relatively true. But what is it that sees the Body-Spirit relationship and does not identify with one of these poles? It is the long lost Soul, the pure and holistic sense of being in humankind, which transcends the limitations of duality and Non-duality. The Soul is Whole. Soul knows its dual reality and its Non-dual reality. Soul knows it is Divine, while simultaneously realising it is not ‘the’ Divinity. Soul knows it is free because it is not held by the poles of the mind. As ego sees ego, so does Soul see Soul.

The Secret to Life : Being a Tree

It is human nature to grow; not only physically but mentally, emotionally and spiritually. What often happens is that specific patterns and memories remain unresolved in our computer-like brains, and this 'stuff' prevents us 'being in the flow'.

Remember how to be a tree. Look at how the tree works in alignment with nature and embodies that universal energy. It sheds what it needs in order to grow. If it didn't shed, it wouldn't grow. It has shed so much and continues to do so - - as it continues to grow. If we were to follow the example of the oak tree, we would all be free. We would not get caught up in the old doubting human mind of  'should and shouldn't' but simply be guided by and reflect the Intelligence of Life itself. If we were all to do that, then life on Earth would change. It would become powerfully simplified.

After all, what do we really need? Of course there are the basic physiological needs such as food and water, shelter and warmth - but what else do we really need? To grow we need to feel secure and safe, and to interact and exchange thoughts and feelings with family and friends. Then we need to feel a sense of fulfilment in our role, our occupation or our daily tasks. I wonder how many feel this?

But beyond all this, as human beings we have a drive, a need to recognise, realise and actualise our real selves. This is not about ego or non-ego. It is beyond both. It is about uncovering and re-connecting with the essential Love we all are. If we do that, we will all become happy, creative, fulfilled and loving beings.

In the next stage in the global evolution of human consciousness, the approaching dimension is the Soul. It is not the ego and neither is it non-ego. Soul is a hybrid of the two which sees and acts from both. It is individual and Universal, so I call it UNIVIDUAL. In this consciousness we learn to use the non-physical senses and expand into other dimensions, feeling, sensing and utilising energy and essential Love. To be able to do this, we need to clear our old habits, patterns and addictions, because these simply become obstructions, creating doubts and confusion.

Re-connecting with the Soul will initially feel like using a new piece of equipment. In truth, we have overlooked our inner being for so long, it has become camouflaged by layers and patterns. When we do re-connect, we start thinking from deep within and not solely in our brains. This means feeling, sensing and acting from the Divine Loving Heart of who we are. This works because it is organically connected to the individual and the whole. Then the unusual becomes the norm and life takes on a whole new meaning.

So if you're ready to grow, then be honest and open with your life, do your inner work - and Be your Soul.

SOUL IS WHOLE

We spend our entire lives (and perhaps many of them) trying to get back home. The bizarre reality is that home is in you now, always and forever. Home is not elsewhere or in another (although it can feel that way at times). The freedom of knowing and being who you really are (in the deepest sense) is the realisation of home.

When you look at nature, you can see that beauty all around AND within you. When you look at people, you can see the beautiful in you is also in everyone. When you have touched this beauty inside long enough to no longer doubt its presence, your mind is no longer driven to rationalise if it exists ---- because it's just there. It just is. You can sense it, feel it, and may become full or fulfilled by the awareness of it.

That home and sense of real connection is what I call the Soul. It is the Universal Individual or UNIVIDUAL which is the next deepening of consciousness for humankind. It is a wonderful adventure and an illogical mystery that everyone may realise.

Only your Soul is Whole. Only your Soul really knows. It doesn't know in the way of the rational mind, but if communication comes from the Soul, then it may be translated via the rational mind to varying degrees. In the consciousness of the Soul (SOULNESS) - all is included and accepted. This is the only way to Freedom. If we accept all our experiences, then, in time, only the Real remains.

The Soul can see your weaknesses and strengths, the Soul can recognise all planes of consciousness, because it connects and senses all the way from the Ego to the Divine. The old way of the mind would seek to identify with one area alone (such as Ego and Ego-less or Duality and Non-Duality) - but the Soul is free to move, free to experience any and all dimensions of human beingness.

If you listen to your Soul everyday, you will recognise its wisdom, and it will come closer and closer to you, until one day you will not be able to find the Soul because it will be known to be YOU.  The idea of self and Self will dissolve and you will be living in harmony with Universal Intelligence. This means you will be acting for the whole. Rather like a tree is being a tree, or a flower is being a flower, --- you will be being YOU.

SURRENDER TO THE SPACE OF INFINITE POSSIBILITY

When you don't know how to resolve a problem in your life, then there is a way, a practice you can use to help. When a problem is new to you (one you have never experienced before) - and you are unable to get clarity, then try the following;

• Let go of the idea that you control the outcome
• Surrender to the Intelligent Love of the Universe
• And remember ... Love resolves any problem 

Universal Intelligence is intelligence beyond (and inclusive of) individuality. Human Intelligence as we know it is only a tiny fraction of Universal Intelligence. So intelligence is only limited by how separate we perceive ourselves to be.