Your Energetic Soul

Your soul is energy. Your soul is not physical. It is part of the metaphysical realm that is mostly invisible to our eyes and other senses. Because our soul is not physical in nature, it does not need to conform or obey the physical laws of nature, like gravity or laws of motion. For example, it can defy gravity - our soul can float and fly. Our soul also moves by the speed of thought, which is much faster than the speed of light or speed of sound. You essentially just have a focused thought on where you want to go and then you are there. The movement and change of location is that fast. 

Your energetic self, your soul, can conform to physical spaces, such as the human body, but it doesn’t need to. It can be confined or not. It is flexible in how it behaves. It can also fragment into smaller pieces of itself. This allows the option to be in multiple places at once, which means that part of the soul can stay inside the physical body, for example, and other portions can leave the body and be somewhere else.  

In addition, all the parts of the energetic soul can communicate with each other and do not need to be physically connected in order to commune. It is always connected with itself no matter where the other parts of it are located. The energetic soul is really rather wondrous. 

Because your soul is an invisible energy field with tremendous flexibility and communication skill, it allows you opportunities beyond physical restrictions. For example, while you are sleeping, you may have sent a portion of your soul to visit your Higher Self on the astral plane. You would do this because your Higher Self is the conglomerate sum of all your prior incarnations and knows your life objectives and what experiences you have already learned in prior lives. This is your primary and best source to help you navigate your life journey. 

Or perhaps, during a meditation, you feel an expansion and then have a portion of your soul wander off and be directed to check on your kid at school and make sure he is OK.  Or you may develop skills to project outside of your physical body and send your energetic self to the bedside of someone to give them a remote Qigong medical treatment. These are some of the things you can do by learning how to use your energetic body to help you in your physical reality.

But there are other opportunities for new and different experiences within the energetic field of the Tao. For example, an energetic soul could send part of its soul to explore parallel timelines. Or you could have your soul go and explore all the dimensions of the Tao itself. The soul could even project itself back to the past and visit prior incarnations, for example, or even project itself into the future. It is even possible for an energetic soul to decide to completely leave its physical body and allow a totally different soul to take up occupancy in that physical body. These are all possible. AND, they are all being done right now.

There are many possibilities and ways to learn, grow, and explore in our lives. But tapping in and using our energetic soul to open up new doors of discovery is another possibility and a new reality. There are many more and different adventures ahead of us.

You Have a Physical Body, a Soul, and a Higher Self

One of the most basic building blocks in our life is understanding who we are. All of us are aware we have a physical body, but not everyone is aware (or believes) this is just a small part of who we are. We also have non-physical elements to our being; we also have a Soul and a Higher Self.

What is the Soul?

• The Soul is ALL of your subtle energies.  It includes:
• Your life force energy (from the tao’s fragmentation).
• Your spiritual body (your chakras, your dantiens, and your qi (chi).
• Your energy body (your channels, meridians, and your acupoints)
• Your mental abilities, aspirations, feelings, and desires.  

Your Soul is also an extension of your Higher Self. Your Higher Self is sometimes called your Higher Soul or your Holy Spirit. 

What is the Higher Self?

​​Unless this is your very first experience and incarnation on the physical plane (earth) everyone has a Higher Self.  If this is your first experience in a physical body will not have a Higher Self as of yet.  But when your physical body dies, the energy body of the Soul that remains is called the Higher Self.  With each incarnation after this first incarnation, your Higher Self will remain on the astral plane while your energy body has a new physical life experience on the earth. Your energy body in this new incarnation will be in a new and different body. Then, when this incarnation ends and the body dies, the energy that remains is then added to your Higher Self.  

As you experience more incarnations, more energy bodies will be accumulated within your  Higher Self. This accounts for the Higher Self’s increase of knowledge and wisdom as you gain more experience and opportunities to learn, grow, and progress.

Your Higher Self is the sum total of all your former incarnations - lives and experiences from each and every previous lifetimes. I personally think of it as being similar to the cloud I use to store all my computer documents. I have many files stored and saved on the cloud. When I need to find and access the information stored in one of my files, I go to the cloud, find the file, retrieve and use that information when I need it.  I view my Higher Self acting similar to this concept or storage and retrieval of my personal information.  

At the later stages of your many incarnations, when you incarnate, you no longer require as much spiritual energy; more energy can be retained by your Higher Self.  This process can help and influence your earthly life because the Higher Self will be stronger because most of your energy force is with your Higher Self.  That is why in the older soul age stages we see some people who seem to intuitively know about things. This is because all that knowledge is within their Higher Self and is automatically being transmitted by that strong Higher Self.

Your Higher Self is Your Personal Resource to Understand Your Life Purpose

Because your Higher Self includes the information of all your prior incarnations, your Higher Self is a tremendous source to provide guidance and information to you in this life. This resource is focused on just you and wants you to succeed and complete what you planned to do in this life. Your Higher Self will be nudging you towards the experiences you planned.  

Your Soul and your Higher Self are very closely related. They work very much as a single unit, but also separate. Your Soul is an extension of the Higher Self as well as the physical self. This allows a special communication to occur. This also allows the soul to be instructed not only by the Higher Self, but by the physical self, too. Therefore, the Higher Self automatically produces the feelings, sensations, information, insight that the soul desires.

You Are More Than Just a Physical Body

I believe the value in recognizing you are more than just a physical body is an awareness you have more resources to help you succeed in your life journey. When you are sick, you can expand your ability to heal by allowing your spiritual and energetic body to partner and help your physical body heal. You can use acupuncture, Qigong, massage, tapping, sound, chants, rituals, meditation, and the like. Using tools to engage and help the energetic side of your physical self can exponentially expand your ability to heal.

In addition, when you are confused, frustrated, or depressed, or can't make a decision, there are methods and tools available to help strengthen your spiritual energetic self to get you rebalanced and renewed. 

Reincarnation – A Way for More Experience, Growth, and Knowledge

The Tao's desire to expand consciousness and awareness led to the Tao dividing itself into fragments. We are a fragment of the Tao and are part of the process to have many life experiences in order to learn, grow, and progress. One method for more life experiences is through the process of reincarnation.

John U.K. my Spiritual Guide and Teacher said, 

“Besides breaking into fragments of the Tao, a process was developed and created that could help the fragments rejoin the Tao. But part of that process was to learn and gain experience. It was the process of going through different experiences and incarnations that would help the fragment, as well as the Tao, learn, progress, and grow. And the most frequent process used for gaining experience, learning, and growing was done by first incarnating and then assessing the incarnation after one dies. And then after that, planning a new incarnation with different experiences to see how the fragment would react and engage in those different circumstances.

“Reincarnation provides everyone with the opportunities to experience what the fragment needs or wants to learn or experience. It also provides the ability to pay off karmic debts they have made and not yet repaid. The basic concept is that each living person at each visit to a life has a separate energy anatomy that is distinct from what is called the physical body. The effect of this energy body is to give life to the physical.

I asked him, “How soon after we die do we reincarnate?” John U.K. said, 

“That depends on when the fragment or person feels the desire to return to the physical plane. One may reincarnate quickly after a physical experience or may take their time. The average span is usually around 200 of your years. Eventually the fragment learns and experiences all they set out to do. Then, the fragment combines with another fragment, becoming a dual or combined fragment. The fragment then continues with their progression and eventually will combine as a trio. In this process the fragment, and the joined fragments, experience life in and through a myriad of levels of the Tao and eventually recollects back to the Tao as a whole.”

Reincarnation is a way to change the variables and give us a new opportunities to experience life differently in each incarnation. We learn by experiencing and personal choice is part of the learning process, too. This means we choose the type of life experience we want to have. 

Before We Were Born

We are fragments of the Tao. The fragment is what makes up our soul. The Tao had a desire to have more experiences and in order to learn, grow, progress, gain wisdom, knowledge, as well as expand consciousness and awareness, it fragmented into smaller pieces to increase the probability of having lots of new experiences. As a fragment of the Tao, we are part of this process to provide more experiences and thereby be part of the process for the Tao to learn, grow, expand consciousness as well as awareness. 

One of the ways for all these invisible soulful fragments to have more experiences was to have a life journey on the physical plane; earth. We begin this journey when our soul takes up residency in a physical body. This journey ends when we die. Between this journey is the pre and post part of the journey - what happens before we are born and then what happens after we die.   

John U.K., my Spiritual Guide and Teacher, shared this information about what happens before we are born on earth.

“In your pre-planning experience before you were born, you would have looked for a parent that had planned a life experience with a child. You would then determine if this parent (the race, the economic situation, the physical traits, etc.) would provide you with the best match for the other circumstances you desired in this incarnation.

Another example is the musician Mozart. He desired a life experience in musical ability and therefore chose a life and physical body that would help him to obtain this ability. He determined he would need a stern and controlling father within a certain economic level to provide that higher probability of providing a life in music, so Mozart planned a life that would give him that higher probability.

We see the results of that by the life he lived; he was enveloped in music from a very early age and produced magnificent works. We also see his personal life was often chaotic, challenging, and he died as a pauper. But he did accomplish what he had pre-planned and desired; he had a life experience that was totally enveloped with music.”

You may want to reflect on why you chose the mother you have. Was it because you already had a bond with her from another incarnation? Or did you desire a mother-child relationship that was a close bond, or perhaps one that would be with conflict? Or perhaps you desired physical traits that were in her gene pool or perhaps an economic level that she could provide. Perhaps you determined any mother would do so and so you accepted any available mother and have relatively no close ties at all with your mother.”

Thomas Jefferson planned his life around the desire to help create a new democratic government with a focus on preserving and protecting individual rights and civil liberties. His desire was to create a mechanism for the positive aspects the government can provide, but to be balanced with the needs of individual’s rights and expressions. He sought to maximize the needs of the Tao by creating positive energies through government, but also for fragments to enjoy based on their individual trust and personal desires and freedoms.”

Many will live lives that may seem plain and ordinary and others will live lives that seem to impact greatly, but much of your life was programmed and decided by you before you were even born. Some will desire notoriety more than others, and others will have chosen a subtler approach so they can learn and develop in a more serene and secure manner. There are advantages and drawbacks to each approach. For example, the one who has more flash and notoriety will generally create much Karma – either good or bad. And because of the way or magnitude of the impact made this karma is usually in very large doses. On the other hand, this impact can generally help other souls and therefore the karma is positive and can speed the process of returning to the Tao. So as a rule, those who desire the big splash progress faster but enjoy less. Those who progress more slowly develop deeper understanding and insights but require many multiple lives on the same level to achieve the impact of one life.

You decided to come to earth and have a physical body. You decided what type of experiences you wanted to have on the earth. You identified your priorities, decided on your gender, race, culture, personality traits, etc. You were then provided information on what the probabilities of each of your desires were in regard to upcoming birth possibilities. You could make temporary visits to check things out during that pregnancy. You could even change your mind. If you decided you didn't want that body, it could be made available to another soul.

If there was a miscarriage or abortion, which sometimes happens, then another option would be provided to your spiritual self. You could choose to stick with this mother and wait for another pregnancy possibility, or you could choose other parents. Or you could even decide and wait it out for a couple of centuries and catch life on earth in another century.”

John UK then explained the process this way, 

“Before a person is born, the fragment (person) will be held or go to a waiting area on the astral plane (heaven) to get ready for their birth. The spirit can visit their physical body but they do not stay or commit until the birthing process. At the birth, their Higher Self stays on the astral plane in a place called the Higher Self plane, and the person’s spiritual essence enters the physical body or closely after the birth. The Higher Self plane houses all the Higher Selves of everyone who is currently physically alive on the earth.”

Before we chose to be born on the earth, we assessed, identified, and then decided on what our objectives were going to be. We determined what we wanted to accomplish, learn, and what karmic debts we desired to get rid of. We planned some of the decision points we needed to help us make certain decisions to take us down certain roads. Some even created back-up plans should those decision points get ignored or for some reason, not present themselves in the way we planned and hoped. Some of us created interactions with certain people to help motivate us to take certain paths. Some created "pulling forces'' or "persistent desires" to make sure we would eventually get pulled on the path we needed. We choose our gender, race, and talents we thought we needed. Sometimes our talents are associated with our parents, so we may decide our parents based on their gene pool, or their own skills, or we can choose our parents based on other factors, such as “she was a friend of mine in another life, and this time I want her to be my mother in this incarnation”.

Knowing we are part of the Tao and that it fragmented to create as many different types of experiences as possible implies that we are here to have experiences the Tao has never had before. Diversity is what creates opportunity for learning, growth, and change. It benefits the Tao as well as us all.

Knowing we made choices of the type of life we desired can free us from assuming we are a victim and have no choice. We chose the path and we are responsible for the our life journey and the experiences we have. For me, this information is an awareness that can be freeing and comforting.