“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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Every part of the world interacts with every other part of the world. So the world would be different without me from that point of view. But otherwise, the trees will go on tree-ing, the birds with go on migrating, the oceans will keep on in their fascinating patterns and the traffic will keep whirring by.

The human ego makes us think that we as individuals are extremely important. It can’t imagine that we are part of an immense totality that all fits together perfectly and that death is part of it. So it thinks we need to strive to differentiate ourselves by attention-getting acts and accumulating treasures and fighting against death as hard as we can. But deep down, anyone who has the slightest powers of observation, or the ability to think, has concluded that the world will go on very nicely without us.

It was going on well before people appeared on it. A case could be made that it would have been better off altogether before people ravaged its resources and did not renew them.

Part of the perfection of the world is the process of birth and death. But the ego can’t face death. It fears it because it cannot comprehend the eternality of the Soul. So it creates a scenario that it must fight against. “I will make a name for myself so others will remember me long after I am gone.” If you examine history books you may observe that most of the people who insisted on changing the world were the tyrants and mass murderers of their age.
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The planet was designed to function, without many of its components in tact. None of the dinosaurs exist today but the planet is still here. Volcanoes spewed their ashes and created large die-off of plants and animals. Yet the planet survived. It will be here even if people, in their spiritual blindness, exterminate each other from it.

Twin flames are united for eternity. It is a soul connection and, as such, cannot be broken. It is what abides long after the bodies of different lifetimes come and go. It is not subject to the rule of time. Clock time does not apply to twin flames.

Eternity means forever. And not just forever going forward. But forever long before this particular lifetime. Twin flames have united and reunited for their spiritual good and gaining, to learn a lesson left unlearned, to resolve something left unresolved, and to continue their journeys together.

They may not show up in each lifetime together. That is why some people feel they have not met their twin flame in this lifetime. This may not be the lifetime for that. However, when you meet your twin flame, it is an unmistakable sensation and knowing.
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Your twin flame may not agree with you on everything but underneath it all, you feel that unity. That unity is forever.

First comes Soul, which is the ground of our being. And then comes awareness of our Soul, which is consciousness.

Soul is our eternal essence. It is the undying spirit within that unites us with the energy fields of the Universe. It is always peaceful when we are at rest at the Soul level of awareness. Some of us are conscious of it, while others are not. This doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

Consciousness is another name for awareness. Some of us cloud our awareness with our constant mind-stream of fearful thoughts. When this happens, it is difficult to live from our Soul.
Animals have more awareness of the universal ground of their being than humans because they do not cycle through worrisome thoughts about the past and the future. But, because they cannot communicate this verbally to us, it might be lost on us.

Humans are the only beings on this planet who can verbally communicate the qualities of the Soul. Yet in doing so, they try to define this amazing state of being with narrow definitions. Consciousness, too, has different levels to it, when we are talking strictly about awareness.
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Does a person in a coma not have a Soul, simply because they are not aware of their surroundings? No. The Soul precedes awareness and can never be destroyed. We may lose our physical senses but our Souls are forever.

Our brains control and regulate all the functions of our bodies. They have logical and computational abilities. All our senses are processed through our brains. And our brains are tied to our emotions. But our souls do not originate in our brains.

The soul is that aspect of ourselves that is indestructible and eternal. The brain is subject to all kinds of diseases and accidents that can impair its functioning. It can be crushed by weapons or destroyed by poisonous chemicals. We could be completely brain-dead yet our soul is still intact.
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Our brains enable us to communicate our experiences through language, the manipulation of vocal chords, and muscular movements of the mouth. The soul is more of an experience than it is an object. It is not a thing that lives in a certain part of our brains. If anything, our miraculous brain lives in our soul,, which is something we will never see but can easily experience once we know the path.

We are Universal creative energy housed in a physical structure, our bodies. This physical structure is itself a manifestation of Universal creative energy. Within this body is a mind, which most people confuse with who they are. This mind is an instrument that enables us to perform tasks and survive in the external physical environment.

Yet we are not this mental appendage that allowed the organism to rise to the top of the food chain. This mind continues to fret, fear, worry, be anxious about the future, unhappy about the present, and depressed about the past. At one time, it actually helped us to survive in a dangerous and hostile environment.

Now we don’t need this part of us—just as we no longer need our appendices or tonsils. Yet it persists and blinds us to the inner being that is really who we are. It is outer directed—always scanning for what is wrong or could go wrong. It wants more and is never satisfied. It is always trying to prove it’s right and strengthen itself in its unhappy course.
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The soul is inner directed, finding the fundamental peace that lies at the heart of the infinite Universe. It can let people and things be who and what they are without making everything into a problem. Its roots are joy and well-being and it does not comprehend suffering.