People have different ideas on the concept of a Soul, or even if we have a Soul at all, so I can only speak about my own beliefs and experience.

I talked in this post about energy and the fact that energy cannot be destroyed, it only changes form – it’s a fundamental law of physics. And I talked about Spirit in this post, as the invisible, intangible essence that makes up who we are. So what happens to our energy and Spirit when our body dies?

I believe we have a Soul and it is the home, the container if you will, of both our Spirit and our unique energy. It cannot cease to exist so after it is released from our body it inhabits another one. The purpose of this continued earthly existence is spiritual growth. Have you ever met someone who is wise beyond their years and who you describe as an ‘old Soul’? I believe these are Souls who have re-incarnated many times.

While our brain has no physical memory of our previous lives because it’s a newly created, blank slate our Soul absolutely does, though our brain may not be consciously aware of it. I had a vague concept of this in my head until a couple of years ago, when I met a Soul with whom I had shared previous lives. Almost from our first meeting he felt like home and I had a connection to him I’ve never had to anyone else in my life.

I could tell when he was thinking about me and to test this out I asked him about specific dates and times and he would confirm I was correct. I could manifest text messages from him by pure thought and knew when he was feeling strong emotions, even from many miles away. The signs and synchronicities between us were beyond chance. He felt none of this I hasten to add and thought I was bonkers, so he employed a Clairvoyant to give him the low down. She confirmed, without being prompted and having been given details of other relationships in the man’s life, that we were Soul connected. I’ll do a post about this relationship because it was an incredibly important indicator for me that Soulmates really are a thing.

I firmly believe that we make Soul Contracts with other people. That we agree to meet in order to work through past trauma, heal past wounds and advance our Soul growth. It may not always be a positive encounter (remember that adversity grows our Spirit in advanced ways) and we have free will as to how we choose to act, but if Soul growth does not occur we will simply repeat the experience in our next life until we have learned what we need to.

I really have had the most relentless adversity in my life and when I look on that objectively nobody has that much bad luck. I have clearly chosen accelerated Soul growth in this life. That’s not to say that we don’t encounter simple bad luck because we are subject to the will of others and experiences we have no control over such as natural disasters and issues like the Covid pandemic. But we do also choose specific experiences in order to facilitate growth.

What is the ultimate aim of the Soul? I have no idea. I have no idea about many things. I don’t believe in ‘enlightenment’ where we become God-like and sit on a metaphorical cloud all day – what would be the point of that, exactly? And I wonder what the purpose of population growth is and where all the new Souls come from. I guess I’ll only find out after my Soul leaves my body and then I won’t be in a position to come back and tell anyone because I will either be between human forms or in a new body with no memory of what happened before.

There are, of course, lots of people who don’t believe the Soul exists. That we are merely sophisticated computers and when we die everything that makes us uniquely us simply ceases to be. And, yet, that doesn’t explain the consistent human need for spirituality, which has existed since the dawn of time and across all cultures. It doesn’t explain the research which has documented young children who have reported very specific details of a past life, which have later been verified by investigators. It doesn’t explain consciousness, psychic or supernatural phenomena, near death and out of body experiences, or many other types of unexplainable events.

I sometimes look at my life and wonder if I’m an older Soul. Is that why I am an Empath, why I could recognise my Soulmate, why I experience supernatural phenomena, why I can read energy? I’m continuing to explore all these avenues and it will be interesting to see where they lead.