Reincarnation Revisited by Stuart Wilde

This is interesting, but everybody should keep in mind that no one person has the complete picture of what's going on.   Stuart seems to possibly still be missing some pieces of the puzzle.  Namely, I've heard from several people (including an aware/intuitive woman who has met and hung with Stuart and did one of his Aya work shops) that there is a "quarantine" going on with Earth right now.  She wasn't the first person I've come across who's noted that.  The gist of the quarantine idea has to do with darkness having infiltrated the Earth plane, and higher stuff putting this planet on lock down so that whatever got in stays here and doesn't spread any further.  It also means that more negs couldn't get in to help the negs that were already here....and positive help couldn't get in either to help "the good guys."  Take it with a grain of salt, but, it is another component that I've heard is going on with this reality.  And if it's true, then it means there's a little more going on with the incarnational 'round and 'round than Stuart believes.  It's not a simple case of, "Oh, you're bad, so you need to go to this correctional facility until you get your stuff together."  If there's a quarantine going on then I'm suspecting that even the good ones who've learned their lessons aren't able to get out and break free of the Earth's astral realms.   We're all possibly being continually recycled, round and round and round.

Which leads to those who believe in "The Wave," courtesy of the C's.  The idea that some shift is upon us and it's our window of opportunity to get out of here.  Which means that when it's not that window of opportunity....then you're screwed.  I don't necessarily believe in that idea as it's believed by fans of the C's, and recently my own personal research into the matter has revealed to me that there is no "future" wave to sit around waiting for.  The time is *now* to get out of here.

There's also the talk of trickery happening in the after life realms.  Entities using people's belief systems against them to round them up into traps after they die where they then feed on these unsuspecting souls who don't realize they're drifting aimlessly through what basically amounts to a holographic illusion.  That was discussed at length here in NR in one particular thread, including several poster's personal knowledge of this.  it was REALLY eye opening stuff.  Til that thread, I'd never even considered the possibility, but it makes sense.  If we have neg entities, or "ghouls," as Stuie refers to them, swarming around humanity while people are alive.............why would they stop meddling just because people are dead? 

Anyway, just some thoughts that the reincarnation cycle on the Earth plane may be a bit more complicated than it initially appears.   I did enjoy reading this piece though, and found the bit about how only about 6% of the western world actually have souls and are "real" to be really interesting.   It's something I've noted myself and do believe......although how this came to be, I don't know, but I'm curious to find out.  Were they born this way?  Did they start out souled, but then exited stage left somewhere along the way?   It's not a popular idea with spiritual types and new agers, who believe we're all the same and souled and children of god and are "one."  We may not be.  It seems that many in fact may just be animated pieces of meat, unfortunately.     And it really is unfortunate because it really throws a wrench in the works for the rest out there who are souled.  It's hard enough to try to get one's stuff together, but even worse when one also has to contend with "people" who aren't even fully real or there or souled.  Makes things very tricky and confusing.  Non-souled, non-real people don't play by the same rules and don't live the way we're supposed to live.   And Stuart didn't really get too much into that, about how that really makes Earth like a circus zoo, and probably would make getting out of here a little more difficult.  Non-souled, non-real people create a LOT of havoc.......a lot of anger, frustration, causing good people to sink into hate and negative frequency emotions. (of course it is ultimately up to the real people to learn how to control their responses via awareness...but until they do, it's easy to get caught up in the anger and frustration and hate towards fake people who are acting nutso.)  So one of the biggest things that people could stand to realize to help themselves along would be to realize that we seem to be dealing with a proliferation of non-souled types out there.  So treat them as a background character, pay them no mind, worry about working on and fixing yourself, and do whatever good you can do where you can do it, and don't let them distract you or bring you down.  Because they're not real.   And while many spiritual types out there that we should feel adoring love for everybody no matter how nasty or empty they are, to that I say, No.  You don't have to feel adoring love for the nasties and empties.  Just try to at least shoot for neutrality.  And don't feel badly about that.  It's okay to not love them.  But hate isn't good either, so, neutrality works.  Realize what they are and what's going on and just coast in neutral awareness with regards to them.  Even Stuart said that in one of his articles.   At first I'd only read Stuart writings that advocate the "love love!" thing, which made me frown and shake my head, and I resolved that No, I'm aiming for neutrality.  Because I'm not deluded, I know I can't feel love for them.  But I'm tired of feeling too.  So, neutrality.  There you go.  Then I did find one mention buried in some Stuart article where he did advocate neutrality if you can't feel the love, so, that was good to read.

Soulless Beings
"We elbow soulless men in the streets at every turn," wrote H. P. Blavatsky. This is an actual fact. The statement does not mean that those whom we thus elbow have no soul. The significance is that the spiritual part of these human beings is sleeping, not awake. They are animate humans with an animate working brain-mind, an animal mind, but otherwise "soulless" in the sense that the soul is inactive, sleeping; and this is also just what Pythagoras meant when he spoke of the "living dead." They are everywhere, these people. We elbow them, just as H. P. Blavatsky says, at every turn. The eyes may be physically bright, and filled with the vital physical fire, but they lack soul; they lack tenderness, the fervid yet gentle warmth of the living flame of inspiration within. Sometimes impersonal love will awaken the soul in a man or in a woman; sometimes it will kill it if the love become selfish and gross. The streets are filled with such "soulless" people; but the phrase soulless people does not mean "lost souls." The latter is again something else. The term soulless people therefore is a technical term. It means men and women who are still connected, but usually quite unconsciously, with the monad, the spiritual essence within them, but who are not self-consciously so connected. They live very largely in the brain-mind and in the fields of sensuous consciousness. They turn with pleasure to the frivolities of life. They have the ordinary feelings of honor, etc., because it is conventional and good breeding so to have them; but the deep inner fire of yearning, the living warmth that comes from being more or less at one with the god within, they know not. Hence, they are "soulless," because the soul is not working with fiery energy in and through them.

A lost soul, on the other hand, means an entity who through various rebirths, it may be a dozen, or more or less, has been slowly following the "easy descent to Avernus," and in whom the threads of communication with the spirit within have been snapped one after the other. Vice will do this, continuous vice. Hate snaps these spiritual threads more quickly than anything else perhaps. Selfishness, the parent of hate, is the root of all human evil; and therefore a lost soul is one who is not merely soulless in the ordinary theosophical usage of the word, but is one who has lost the last link, the last delicate thread of consciousness, connecting him with his inner god. He will continue "the easy descent," passing from human birth to an inferior human birth, and then to one still more inferior, until finally the degenerate astral monad -- all that remains of the human being that once was -- may even enter the body of some beast to which it feels attracted (and this is one side of the teaching of transmigration, which has been so badly misunderstood in the Occident); some finally go even to plants perhaps, at the last, and will ultimately vanish. The astral monad will then have faded out. Such lost souls are exceedingly rare, fortunately; but they are not what we call soulless people.

If the student will remember the fact that when a human being is filled with the living spiritual and intellectual fiery energies flowing into his brain-mind from his inner god, he is then an insouled being, he will readily understand that when these fiery energies can no longer reach the brain-mind and manifest in a man's life, there is thus produced what is called a soulless being. A good man, honorable, loyal, compassionate, aspiring, gentle, and true-hearted, and a student of wisdom, is an "insouled" man; a buddha is one who is fully, completely insouled; and there are all the intermediate grades between.
Soul
This word in the ancient wisdom signifies "vehicle," and upadhi -- that vehicle, or any vehicle, in which the monad, in any sphere of manifestation, is working out its destiny. A soul is an entity which is evolved by experiences; it is not a spirit, but it is a vehicle of a spirit -- the monad. It manifests in matter through and by being a substantial portion of the lower essence of the spirit. Touching another plane below it, or it may be above it, the point of union allowing ingress and egress to the consciousness, is a laya-center -- the neutral center, in matter or substance, through which consciousness passes -- and the center of that consciousness is the monad. The soul in contradistinction with the monad is its vehicle for manifestation on any one plane. The spirit or monad manifests in seven vehicles, and each one of these vehicles is a soul.

On the higher planes the soul is a vehicle manifesting as a sheaf or pillar of light; similarly with the various egos and their related vehicle-souls on the inferior planes, all growing constantly more dense, as the planes of matter gradually thicken downwards and become more compact, into which the monadic ray penetrates until the final soul, which is the physical body, the general vehicle or bearer or carrier of them all.

Our teachings give to every animate thing a soul -- not a human soul, or a divine soul, or a spiritual soul -- but a soul corresponding to its own type. What it is, what its type is, actually comes from its soul; hence we properly may speak of the different beasts as having one or the other, a "duck soul," an "ostrich soul," a "bull" or a "cow soul," and so forth. The entities lower than man -- in this case the beasts, considered as a kingdom, are differentiated into the different families of animals by the different souls within each. Of course behind the soul from which it springs there are in each individual entity all the other principles that likewise inform man; but all these higher principles are latent in the beast.

Speaking generally, however, we may say that the soul is the intermediate part between the spirit which is deathless and immortal on the one hand and, on the other hand, the physical frame, entirely mortal. The soul, therefore, is the intermediate part of the human constitution. It must be carefully noted in this connection that soul as a term employed in the esoteric philosophy, while indeed meaning essentially a "vehicle" or "sheath," this vehicle or sheath is nevertheless an animate or living entity much after the manner that the physical body, while being the sheath or vehicle of the other parts of man's constitution, is nevertheless in itself a discrete, animate, personalized being. (See also Vahana)

Soul
This word in the ancient wisdom signifies "vehicle," and upadhi -- that vehicle, or any vehicle, in which the monad, in any sphere of manifestation, is working out its destiny. A soul is an entity which is evolved by experiences; it is not a spirit, but it is a vehicle of a spirit -- the monad. It manifests in matter through and by being a substantial portion of the lower essence of the spirit. Touching another plane below it, or it may be above it, the point of union allowing ingress and egress to the consciousness, is a laya-center -- the neutral center, in matter or substance, through which consciousness passes -- and the center of that consciousness is the monad. The soul in contradistinction with the monad is its vehicle for manifestation on any one plane. The spirit or monad manifests in seven vehicles, and each one of these vehicles is a soul.

On the higher planes the soul is a vehicle manifesting as a sheaf or pillar of light; similarly with the various egos and their related vehicle-souls on the inferior planes, all growing constantly more dense, as the planes of matter gradually thicken downwards and become more compact, into which the monadic ray penetrates until the final soul, which is the physical body, the general vehicle or bearer or carrier of them all.

Our teachings give to every animate thing a soul -- not a human soul, or a divine soul, or a spiritual soul -- but a soul corresponding to its own type. What it is, what its type is, actually comes from its soul; hence we properly may speak of the different beasts as having one or the other, a "duck soul," an "ostrich soul," a "bull" or a "cow soul," and so forth. The entities lower than man -- in this case the beasts, considered as a kingdom, are differentiated into the different families of animals by the different souls within each. Of course behind the soul from which it springs there are in each individual entity all the other principles that likewise inform man; but all these higher principles are latent in the beast.

Speaking generally, however, we may say that the soul is the intermediate part between the spirit which is deathless and immortal on the one hand and, on the other hand, the physical frame, entirely mortal. The soul, therefore, is the intermediate part of the human constitution. It must be carefully noted in this connection that soul as a term employed in the esoteric philosophy, while indeed meaning essentially a "vehicle" or "sheath," this vehicle or sheath is nevertheless an animate or living entity much after the manner that the physical body, while being the sheath or vehicle of the other parts of man's constitution, is nevertheless in itself a discrete, animate, personalized being. (See also Vahana)

Eighth Sphere or Planet of Death
A term used in the more esoteric or inner part of the teachings about which little can be said, for over this part of the doctrine there has always been drawn a thick veil of secrecy and silence.

Frequently the term is confused with avichi, but this is incorrect, because the two, while closely connected, are nevertheless quite distinct. While avichi is a state where very evil human beings "die and are reborn without interruption," yet not without hope of final redemption -- something which can actually take place even on our physical plane in the cases of very evil or soulless men -- the Eighth Sphere represents a degree of psychomental degeneration still more advanced. As just hinted, even in avichi there is a possibility of reinsoulment by the ray of the spiritual monad; whereas in the Eighth Sphere or Planet of Death such possibility finally vanishes, and the entity which has sunk to the Planet of Death is what is technically called in the esoteric philosophy a "lost soul." In the Eighth Sphere the lost souls are ground over and over in nature's laboratory, and are finally dissipated into their component psycho-astral elements or life-atoms. The Eighth Sphere or Planet of Death is an actual globe. It is also of course a state or condition of being; whereas the avichi is almost exclusively a state or condition in which an entity may find itself, although obviously this entity must have position or place and therefore locality in space -- on our earth or elsewhere.

To clarify what I meant by neutral - I just meant the middle ground between feeling and feeling (picture hearts pouring off the smiley face.)   I wasn't talking about being passive, not doing anything, not having awareness, being a preyed upon victim who allows negatives and empties to steam roll over us, etc.   And I never advocated just sitting back and observing while people hurt innocents.  You'd better believe I'd step forward and put a stop to something like that.  The word "observe" never appeared in my post, as my post was not about how to act........it was how to feel inside in our own minds as we make our way through every day, hearing stories on the news, and watching how people in the world live their lives, from family, friends, neighbors, roommates, coworkers, fellow train and subway commuters, etc.  While it may be justified to feel towards them and how they are, in the end it gets us personally nowhere, and so if one can't feel all lovey dovey for the nasties and empties (and I don't blame anybody for not being able to.....it's hard) then at least just try to feel neutral towards them.  No sense in walking around stewing in our minds with grrrrrrrrrrr! thoughts, bringing ourselves down and taking ourselves out of the positive frequency picture.  That's probably not going to get each of us out of here any faster.   (and to double clarify - I'm not trying to imply that I've achieved this myself yet.  I know it's the way to be...but getting there is another issue.)  What I've discovered that helps a lot for me is to try to remember those times when I've been.....less than aware, and reacted less than stellar towards people and been frivolous and superficial and stupid and done dumb things.  It helps remind me that while I managed to pull myself up to a decent enough level in the present, that certainly wasn't always the case, so, try to cut others some slack...and realize I still have a long way to go.  It helps with trying to achieve a neutral mentality, versus one of frustration or hate. (although this can be problematic when watching people do things that I never did even at my worst, when me and others' "worst" is actually a "best" level that they could only hope to achieve.  Then it gets weird.  And while I can intellectually say that I realize that we're all coming in with a different set of tools from the toolbox, and at different evolutionary levels, it does get hard to *know* it and live that awareness.)

Anyway.  Just to clarify.