In our culture we get in the habit of thinking only about the physical. When we experience the world through our souls, everything changes. We are connected to one another, and if we are open to the experience, we are connected to everything. An act of kindness can resonate throughout a community. Even people who don’t know what has happened can feel a positive change. We know that what we do makes a difference. We know that we are alone only if we choose to be. We can connect with others in our community because souls are designed for just that purpose. This meaningful connection is the third reason that souls matter.
I believe our physical existence is a great experiment to create something new in a universe of souls. There are places where the glory of this creation can be felt. Some say the wilderness is best. But I find the same kind of joining together can happen with art or music. Think of the joy you see in videos of a flash mob music and dance performance.
So having souls lets us heal and grow. Souls let us be part of something that is important and know that the effort we put into our lives will make a difference. Souls let us feel our connections to others even while we are in bodies that separate us. Deep inside us we want meaningful lives and loving relationships and the knowledge that we matter. It’s work to get all those, but having souls matters because souls let us accomplish all those things.
I want to end with something you can do right now and every day to make your life and the world better. It’s called The Cloak of the Angels, which I learned from Orion Foxwood. The physical movements for the first two lines are raising your hands up above your head and – in soul reality – bringing a cloak down out of the sky. In the next two lines place the cloak around the shoulders of a person (or a community, or the world or even yourself, if you need it). Fill in the blank with the recipient of the blessing. You can do this in person or at a distance.
I call down the cloak of the angels.
Fall down as a waterfall of light.
Guiding, guarding, blessing __________,
By day and by night.
Tom Blaschko has studied karate since 1970. He has experience in using shamanic practices and Emotional Freedom Techniques for healing. He saw the ghost of his uncle when his uncle died and had other experiences that just can’t be explained by Western science. But his real passion is sharing information about souls, especially practices that help us to heal and grow. He wrote "Calculating Soul Connections" as a first attempt to look at soul reality. After learning a lot more, he is writing "We All Have Souls and I Think I Can Prove It." It will be available in 2016. You can follow his work and sign up for his newsletter on the website WeAllHaveSouls.com.