Soul is our religious term for the mind-body connection, while spirit, a window into our eternal history. Every moment of every day, we perceive the conversation between mind and body as physical sensation – our soul. The challenge of soul is to balance the two ends of this continuum – us, the Higher-Order Conductor, at one end, and at the other, those foreign competent minds, our Lower-Order Bodies. Our spirit is our religious term for a tenuous bridge to intuition, insight, even otherworldly memory. Access, however, is limited, filtered by our physical bodies, creating spiritual amnesia – something we all signed up for, as this paradoxical state is foundational to our mortal journey. Information that fits our quest is included, while that which does not, excluded. The challenge of spirit is translating the models of biology and behavior from the past into the present. Sometimes those models closely match, but other times, they do not.
The soul is assembled from morphic-resonant dialects – those informational models of energy and matter that shape behavior and biology. They are essentially flexible patterns – behavioral scripts a body uses to accomplish its objectives. Scripts are build by “chunking” actions together, the way letters are chunked into words, words into ideas, ideas into stories, and stories into the guiding light of our lives – the frameworks of Love or Power.
The singular goal of picking up a ball, for instance, is different between a dog, using their mouth, from a human, using their hand. The mind encodes the general pathway to meet an objective as neural circuitry – a dialectic “phrase” (behavioral model) made of “words” (a flexible, lumpable script of specific actions). Morphic-resonant dialects are experienced as emotions and feelings – we see the ball, want the ball, and feel the ball in our … well, hand or mouth, depending on our body and corresponding models. Over many lifetimes, we develop and retain these models in our Signature-Frequency Set as the language of soul. Learning requires success and failure. Repeated trial-and-error, coupled with attention, interest, and if one’s fortunate, expert guidance, leads to mastery; for the novice, however, sufficient interest and effort is generally enough to reach proficiency on their own.
When we’re speaking these dialects, who are we speaking with? The LOB-HOC hierarchy is a multilevel structure filled with independent, conscious actors, each Lower-Order Body a Higher-Order Conductor for its own LOB. Every cell, atom, organ has its own soul, its own mind. Our feelings and thoughts are really just our direct, “smoothed-out” experience of the LOB-HOC conversation – a compression of irreducible granularity into a reducible story, like thousands of chattering voices transformed into a cogent “word cloud” of emphasis, specifics, and meaning. Ideally, this is a productive, back-and-forth process that leads to desirable behavior; however, Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs) are disturbing impulses that come from “out of nowhere.”
How do we recognize the ANTs in our heads? It’s the simple difference between canny (like home) and uncanny (like home, but horribly off). If the thought runs counter to our preferences and priorities, it will disturb us in ways we may or may not comprehend, but that uncanny feeling is the telling red flag that we’ve got an ANT in our head. ANTs arise from our LOB-HOC hierarchy, like a crowd shouting out random ideas, that bubble up into bizarre, and at times, terrifying thoughts – post postpartum depression, for instance. A mother, in one moment, feeling an impulse to harm the baby, and in the next, shocked by the thought, isn’t a “bad” mother, simply a mother exposed to a particularly nasty ANT. However, the misattribution of such a thought is where things get dangerous, and postpartum depression becomes psychosis. When we believe the uncanny thoughts are hidden truths about ourselves, the formation of these new behavioral models alter our neurobiology, and like any virus, infects our system with dire consequences.
The solution to this profound problem doesn’t require years of therapy, magic rituals, even exorcism. It just takes recognition and acceptance – “name it and claim it.” Understanding that our body is a hierarchy filled with foreign minds with independent ideas and agendas allows us to separate the maelstrom’s impulses from our own thoughts and ideas, based on that simple standard – is canny, does it “feel like home,” or uncanny, does that sense of “home” somehow feel profoundly off? Once we recognize the cue, subtle or not, we can challenge or simply ignore the ANTs in our head. However, identifying with those ANTs – believing that we’re somehow the horrible source of the ideas – only feeds the ANTs, leading to more ANTs.
ANTs are generally not born of a single source, but Frankensteined together as a mashup of impulses from multiple Lower-Order Bodies. For instance, the stomach rumbles with hunger, the pancreas produces insulin, the eyes spot a favored source of glucose, the amygdala detects no threat, and suddenly, the impulse to steal candy from a baby crosses one’s mind. It isn’t that the idea arose, but what one does in response that defines one’s self, one’s true preferences and priorities. The most effective technique is to simply note the uncanny foreign source and allow the idea to dissolve away. If we try to diagnose or parse the exact cause, the complicated root-ball of various coalescing causes might mean more harm than good. In the end, understanding the general impulse – hunger – is all that need be taken away from such a moment, not the idea that one is a potential criminal on the loose.
Over lifetimes, we assemble the soul’s embodied lexicon from the ground-up, first becoming quantum particles, then molecules, tissues, organisms, mammals – a personal process of information evolution and acquisition, not Karma. How does one become human? One wants to, prepares to, and takes a leap of faith. How well one does as a human is a matter of proficiency, not reputation. Those with “natural talents” are not more deserving, better people, or blessed by “god,” while those with deficits are not cursed or working off past-life debts. Instead, it’s simply a matter of experience. One might only need more practice with certain “phrases” in order to speak the body’s language more effectively.
Mold spore dialects differ from houseflies, whereas the dialects of houseflies and whales are more similar to each other than either are to spores. All three move about in three-dimensional space (floating, flying, swimming), but only houseflies and whales consume nutrients, produce offspring, and are self-propelled. If one’s goal is to become a blue whale, having only been a spore does not prepare one as well as having been a housefly – even better, become a cod in the interim. Each moment of every life we live fills our Signature-Frequency Set with these models, these morphic-resonant dialects. Each time we’re born into a new form, these dialects reassembled through the wisdom of our spirit. However, the job of our spirit is more than simply bridging our current body with our SFS tail’s long history, but also, providing proper context for a valuable life.
While part of our insight and intuition is the timely revelation of spiritual information, this “spiritual amnesia,” created by a human body, is intentional, valuable. Knowing everything we’ve learned from every past life would certainly make things different. How seriously might we take death if we all knew for certain what lie beyond? Many destined to return to the Concert Hall have chosen, on purpose, to live difficult, costly, precious lives – not of the storied lives of “saints” and “heroes” of myth; not the great leaders of society or inspirational artists of renown; not the kind healers or energetic best friends. Such aspirational lives appear most valuable from the living’s perspective, but for many in the Concert Hall, they are the least valuable. Instead, the crude, gritty, “wasted” lives of suffering are most sought out. Why? They are the lives not otherwise possible in a place where Love connects all in Complete Information, whereas those storied lives are far more common. It’s important to realize that for some human monsters, there are wonderful, compassionate, loving people hidden deep within, as there’s no other way to learn those lessons, impossible in the Concert Hall, without first becoming that monster, at least for that moment. This is not to excuse such behavior, but to understand its origin, its value.
For example, imagine someone in the Hall who has never experienced the joy of reunion and reconciliation. In the Hall, it is impossible to “lose” a loved one, to betray a friend. In order to experience the profound joy associated with these healing emotions, one must, first, wholeheartedly believe that absence of a loved one might be permanent, a belief the spirit knows not to be true; and second, totally lose track of a friend’s point of view in favor of one’s own, something impossible in the Hall, where all views are equally understood by all in communication. These perspectives are, however, possibly in a Novel Universe, where death might take those loved ones from us, while a lack of Compete Information means one must act in mist of silence, or worse, misinformation. From our mortal perspective, absence is permanent. Through this fear, this loss, this betrayal, the pair might reunite through forgiveness, and both might fully experience a joy not possible to create in the Hall, but might only be retold through the emotional stories of one’s time spent in a Novel Universe.
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