It’s actually very simple. Call them to you. Most people don’t believe it’s that simple. But. . .

. . . you must be ready to recognize their signs. They may speak to you in a whisper or come to you in a dream. You may feel them as a disembodied presence. They can bring an object to you that will help you with your decision. They can show signs, literally, such as street signs or words on the side of a truck or in a book. But you must take the first step and call them to you.

Most people think you have to set up amazing altars or perform complicated rituals. But it’s not necessary. Maybe you want to set the mood for yourself with candles and a serene safe place. Or maybe you want to go into a church. Kneeling is a good way to approach angels because it shows receptivity and humility.

Really though, you don’t need to set the mood. Sometimes you will need to call your angels in the midst of danger or chaos. There’s no time to get fancy and decorative. Just call your angels within your heart and allow yourself to feel their presence.
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Also, don’t look at your watch and start making demands; “It’s been five minutes and I haven’t gotten a sign yet!” The angels come to you in their good time, when it is the right time according to their higher wisdom. And that may not be when you think it is the right time. We cannot force them. Out of their love for us, they never let us down, but we must be open to their signs.

“. . .there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought. Thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. . . . All things that truly matter—beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace—arise from beyond the mind.”

I love this statement because, as civilized beings, we depend so much on our rational minds. At least we think they are rational, until we make mistakes, forget things, and look at the history of the human race and its sanctioned insanities.

Yes, the mind is a great tool and it comes up with all kinds of solutions to practical problems. But the mind offers no comfort during a sleepless night or when we are delving into past mistakes and future fears. Yet we think we are all this mind. That these non-stop thoughts are who we are and what we are. They take us on a white-water raft ride, through swirling whirlpools and craggy rocks over the precipice of a cascade, into our doom.

But if we access the intelligence beyond this maelstrom of churning thoughts, we finally find a connection to deep serenity and peace. The mind can carry on all it wants, we are watching its antics but not getting swept away by them. But first we must put this part of our minds into its place, through accessing the present moment. If we are constantly swirling around with past and future thoughts, that field of peace is blocked to us.
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One of Eckart Tolle’s missions is to show the clear path out of this thing that we think is us. He offers many practices to clear the way. And then, all that brings joy and happiness are there for us, just as they have always been.

When someone does a terrible wrong to us it isn’t easy to forgive as soon as possible. Sometimes it takes a while to work through the issue. I don’t want to put anyone under time pressure to forgive as soon as possible. I would rather say, “Forgive and let it go for your own freedom and happiness, when you can do it.”

How long it takes for us to forgive depends on how much we want to forgive. Sometimes, holding on to a grievance feels right to us, even though it impacts our health and happiness in negative ways. This is because we are “right.” They did bad stuff to us that we didn’t deserve. But, unfortunately, being right in this case doesn’t lead to health and happiness. it keeps us stuck in the painful event.

Forgiving doesn’t mean we thought what they did was OK. It just means that you are releasing it and letting it go so it won’t further plague you. You already suffered enough. Why keep going over it?
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Letting a grievance go instantly may not be possible but it is desirable. And this is not because it impacts our Soul. Nothing can hurt our Soul. This is a principle many people who survived torture, false imprisonment, and unspeakable humiliation have grasped. “They can do all kinds of things to my body, but nothing can touch my Soul.” The Soul is inviolate. But the mind must free itself of grievances if we want to experience a happy life on Earth.

Certain memories stay with us lifetime after lifetime. They are part of the aggregate that comprises our Soul. We come into this life remembering some things from past lives. Sometimes we don’t consciously remember these things but they play themselves out in our lives anyway.

Mozart was 5 years old when he created whole symphonies with no mistakes. He credited this miracle to past lives in which he was already an accomplished musician. He was tapping into memories to bring forth this amazingly complex material, even if he didn’t know precisely how this phenomenon operated. He was humble enough to acknowledge this.
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It doesn’t work for us to remember every event of every past life. We are meant to be in the present moment and not continually dwelling in the past. We don’t even remember much about this life on a detailed level. But the overall pattern of our Soul and its unique expression is for all time in our Akashic Records. Whether we access them or not, they are still there.

I would not want to live forever in any world, whether ruled by animal survival instincts or by a more evolved collective consciousness. We are destined to go through all the phases of earthly life. Each chronological age has its lessons on the enlightened path. It is arrogant to extend any of the natural stages through manipulation of genes and nanotechnology because we think some of the stages are distasteful.

Enabling humans as they are today to continue indefinitely will bring on a global disaster. Only the wealthy will be able to afford the longevity treatments. That does not look like a future I’d like to inhabit. But then, I am not afraid of death and see it as part of a beautiful, natural process.

Just as in a forest, we have trees in different stages of growth and decomposition, so humans go through their stages. When we get to the point where the Prana or Breath of Life no longer flows through us, our eternal soul is no longer tied to the physical experience and rejoins cosmic consciousness. Our bodies are no longer alive. This is not a bad or fearful thing. Our bodies have been changing constantly since we were little babies, so why all this fear around death? It is one more change in an endless cycle of something that was and is always changing.

Human nature is a complex thing. As it exists now, as we see it operating on the world stage in history as well, it consists of a lot of murder and tyranny over others. In short, the bullies ruled the playground and still do. I thought that we would have moved beyond the politics of hatred and fear by now, but a look at some of the countries of this world today makes me realize we are not there yet.
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What would be the point of living forever under the conditions of an un-evolved human consciousness? Is it worth it to keep your body alive when faced with no change in the madness of ego-driven human nature? The decision to live forever under conditions of insanity is based on fear. Fear of the unknown, where suffering is better than nothing at all. We fear going into nothing and this carefully constructed story will vanish. Yet, at bottom, we are eternal souls who freely express eternal life.

“Deja vu” is a way of ascertaining the eternity of our Souls and the existence of our past lives. It is sometimes the only way people can be convinced that they have lived before. It is an undeniable feeling that surprises us because it cannot be planned.

We feel that we have been here before, seen this person, heard their voice, felt this feeling. It is distinctive and pronounced when we go through an episode of deja vu. This is because for one instant, we have witnessed “the crack in the cosmic egg” that gives us a glimpse into our eternity.

One of the reasons we don’t remember our past lives is that it is too confusing, as we navigate this current lifetime, to have images of other lives obtruding on our consciousness. We are meant to focus on the now in this lifetime and not be dazzled by who we were centuries ago. Yet it is still important to understand who we were in past lives. Knowing about them can explain many of our talents, predilections, choices, inclinations, loves, hates, and even illnesses and pains. But we are not meant to cross into that territory on a daily basis.
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Every once in a while, however, by whatever grace or confluence of energies beyond the scope of the human mind, we catch sight of another life. It is brief and stunning and a reminder that we have lived many times and will live again in the never-ending miracle of existence.

“Uncover” is the correct word to use. The soul is there but it is covered over like a lightbulb covered with masking tape. This masking tape is the endlessly chattering mind with all its fears about the future and regret about the past. So we must, literally, uncover our souls and free ourselves from this clutter.

People have used various techniques from yoga and meditation to chanting, self discovery satsangs, and ecstatic dance. Anything that works to quiet the mind and its anxiety-generating mechanisms will lead to discovering and uncovering the soul. Then you will feel the profound peace that underlies all this turmoil.

Dulling the mind with substances is not the path because they do not weaken the chattering mind, they only paralyze it temporarily. The only way that is lasting is to weaken the monkey-mind by overriding it, allowing it to carry on, as you dive deeper into the profound peace that underlies it all.
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Recognize that thoughts and feelings come and go, bodies and minds come and go. They do not last. What lasts is the soul. Allow yourself to feel this and you will want to live in it. Only things that last are real. When you realize this, it becomes easier and easier to dwell in your soul and find the tranquility within.

NPD, or Narcissistic Personality Disorder, can be seen as evidence of a “young soul” as opposed to an “old soul.” Old souls have cycled through many lifetimes and have a firmer grasp of, and familiarity with, the world of the Spirit because of this depth. Young souls have few past lives compared to the highly-diversified past lives of the Old Souls. Therefore, they may not display the soul-filled qualities of empathy and concern for others, the humility of a spiritually committed person, and the serious intention to discover who they are in the eternality of their Being.

Narcissists are deeply absorbed in the image they are trying to project to the world. They want others to worship their image to fill a void within. This is not a spiritual journey or even the first step into egoless-ness. It is a mis-step. It is a journey into the pitfalls of the human mind and its constant need for validation due to fear and insecurity. It is a pit of need that can never be filled and offers no real satisfaction.

Narcissists do not think there is a problem with their approach to life. They will rarely seek the egoless state that is the center of spiritual practice.
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All souls eventually awaken to their union to Source Energy, Cosmic Creativity, and Expanding Bliss. Narcissists take more lifetimes to get there because they are on the completely opposite path to the one that leads to the egoless state of spiritual awareness. Yet even those with NPD are just delaying their eventual awakening in a future life.

Not everything has a purpose. Some things just exist. It is like asking, “What is the purpose of the Universe?” It just is. The Universe is not on a path towards some goal in the future. The soul is like the Universe. It is boundless, endless, without beginning, and without the need to get somewhere to fulfill itself. It is already completely fulfilled at at every moment of its existence.

The soul, being eternal, is not bounded by time components such as past and future. It is that part of us that cannot die, is not born, and is not bound by the physical properties of time and space. It is therefore outside of the laws of cause and effect. Cause and effect imply time and space: You throw the ball. In a split second the ball flies through the air to another space. Newtonian physics do not apply to the soul.
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Therefore, to understand who you are as an eternal soul, ideas such as purpose and usefulness, practicality and future payoffs, are not relevant. If you put the question another way, “What is our true purpose?,” I would reply, “It is to get acquainted with who we really are as our souls.” But the soul itself, like life itself on the highest level of contemplation (beyond eating, procreating, and grabbing a bunch of toys before we die), is gloriously purpose free in its grandeur and magnificence.

The fastest way to finding your soul is to sit in the presence of a guru or an ascended master who is already living in that vibrational field. Instead of trying to do this on your own, be humble enough to accept the pointers of this enlightened being and you will eliminate a lot of trial and error.

Yes, you can leave attachment to all worldly things, too. But it must be done from the consciousness that they are not real and they are not eternal. If you approach this from the point of view that you are buying yourself into heaven, it will not be an effective way. It all must take place in the Now and not be put off to some future event.
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Finding that silence within, unperturbed by the ceaselessly chattering mind, is the path to discovering your soul. There are many paths that lead to this state of Unity. You may even find it by reading the words of an inspired yogi who is speaking from the heart.

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