A soul is born

Short story

A SOUL IS BORN

People sometimes wonder: where do we come from, what are we doing here, and what is the purpose of life?

That theme comes up once in a while when I see people get involved in a deep spiritual discussion or certain situations.  There are two kinds of people for that matter. You have people who think: this is the only and final life, beyond: the game is over. That would be very simple thinking, but I understand the way of thinking. They are short-sighted in the life they know as the only life they have because of the old indoctrination of religions they follow. Then there is a large part of people who think they come back in a way. They know there will be another life after this one. They are more open-minded, have a different consciousness, and feel that the reason they are here is to learn how to do better next time, once they see this life will be over soon and they have contemplated it.

Imagen there was nothing after death? Blackness, emptiness, no source of being. It’s almost not imaginable. In ancient civilizations, men and women wrote and uphold a lot of theories about this matter. They suggested all men had a soul and came back in a way, proceeding a life path on their journey: from stone to plant to human, from animal to divine creature. They believed that the transcendence of a soul was an evolution in different kingdoms as they call it. For them, each living creature had a spark of that divine level of consciousness in his body, therefore their soul. When you read some of the esoteric writings, you hear about the kingdoms of Shambala, Walhalla, Nirvana, Heaven, Hell, and so on. They talked about places which not existed physically in this world but are mentioned as different universes or plains. Other dimensions that are existing somewhere beyond our senses and physical bodies. Can we see it? No, of course not, but there are people with higher consciousness and vibration/frequency, and or connection to the Source, who can. The Source is described as the Universe or the Christ-consciousness. Or for that matter: the great Consciousness in general.

How to understand where we are coming from? What does history say? What is the evolution of souls and this world? Lots of intriguing questions that need a story to understand. Therefore, I will tell you a simple story to understand it, as I got it from India somewhere, where I met some remarkable people.

I Imagen there was nothing. This is hard to understand because could even ‘nothing’ exist without having a border or a reference to something we know in the 3rd dimension? Nothing is made up of the absence of conscious thoughts about anything. Anything can be something as long as it has someone to make sense of its existence. Nothing can be something as someone tries to describe it, I guess. According to quantum physics, even vacuums are not empty. Constant fluctuations in energy can spontaneously create mass not just out of thin air, but out of absolutely nothing at all. But, let’s keep it simple. Let’s say there is a space, a dimension, without limits so big, you never would reach the end of it. Travel through this space would be done using thoughts, and converted into light-years means nothing to the purpose. You could move your being, your entity (without a body of course) just by thinking. (That’s why we have the expression: you are always there where you think you are. It is described in Atlantis before duality existed). As a little young soul or consciousness-being, you would fly and move around from one place to another with your fellow soul-brothers, living the existing in abundance, love, happiness, and no worries, no pain, no sickness. You had some older souls that were your ‘parents’, or perhaps wise guys telling you what and when to be or do. As a soul, you always listened to them, because that was the way to do so. All about good trust in the wisdom of the elder.  

One day, a little soul came from the far edge of nothing and had seen something special at the edge of nothing. Another world or dimension was shimmering through. He found this very interesting and intriguing. He thought himself back to the elder and asked them what it was.

“What was that what I saw over there? It looked so different”, the little soul asked.

“My dear little one, that is not of your concern. You are too young for these things”, the elder spoke.

“But I want to know!” insisted the little soul. The elder thought wisely about his answer and after a few earthly years, he said: “This is a place where all the elder has been. It’s a place where you develop to know what you are now.”

That was an answer the young one didn’t understand. How can I develop into what I am now? Why should I develop what I am now because I am now what I am? After a long earthly time, he asked the same question and said he wanted to go there. The elderly talked to each other and said: “Okay, you can go there but you have to come back to us and rapport. Even more, you have to bring all the knowledge you can gather there to us. Here is an envelope with white sheets in it, and put everything in there, everything you experienced and learned. Bring it back with you so we can talk about it and check how your experience was.”

So, the little one left with his white envelope and thought himself to the new dimension he saw shimmering through. He didn’t know what to expect but was very curious. He went down a spiral staircase, let’s call it a vortex, and came into a new dimension. Everything was strange and new. He ended up in a whom, moist and dark. He heard voices and sounds, also vibrations. When he was liberated from his captivity, which seems to him to last for ages, he found out that time was at a different level, much slower. He had suddenly a body and was not able to move much. Now he was able to communicate with people, also with bodies. He felt emotions and he thought it was a hard time, not comparable to the dimension he came from. He decided to go back to the vortex with a lot of questions on his mind. He saw a flash and when he crossed over to go back to his earlier dimension at the spiral staircase, the upper vortex, he filled up his envelope with all the items he had gathered in that short life on earth.

When he went up de the same vortex again, he handed over the envelope to the elder.

“Tell me, little one, what did you experience?” the elder asked when he was looking at the sheet of paper in the envelope.

“It was very strange but everything seems to go slower than over here. I also had a sort of feeling. It was like a cushion around me, it was warm and had a tingle around my being,” said the soul.

“Ah, yes, we call that tingle “energy”. This is a power you need when you go down to the vortex and stay for a longer time”, spoke the elder, “otherwise, you cannot survive.”

“More down the vortex? Is there more?” the soul asked.

“Yes, but it becomes tricky. Here, in this universe as you know it, there is no such thing as choice, all is one. Over there you have a choice of what you want to be. You develop a personality or become a thing. We, elders, recommend you start at the bottom. You can be a plant or animal”, replied the elder.

“What is that? Plant or animal?” asked the little soul.

“Once you go deeper into the vortex you learn how to become an elder. It’s a very long journey, because time as they know it, goes very slowly. It is not like here; we do not have that concept. For now, you had a small glimpse of how it could be when you should start your journey over there”, the elder said.

“Time?” the little one wondered, “plant, animal… very strange.”

“If you want to go back, here is another envelope, use it. It’s a small one because you do not need a big one at this moment”, said the elder.

The little one left with the new envelope given to him and went down to the vortex again towards the energy world he experienced. After a while of dwelling around that world, he saw an opening that showed him a new dimension. All was blue and white, and the dimension was a round globe. So, he entered by falling on the earth and picked the first seed he saw. He had some drawings with him, so he knew what he was looking for. Everything was so dark again. He nestled into the earth and waited. As he was growing into a real plant, first small, just bearing his head above the dirt, he saw a big world of things he has never see

n before. He saw colors everywhere. Everything was so huge. He recognized height and dept. He couldn’t talk in this dimension but just think with a part of the consciousness he brought with him for his purpose.

“Wow,” he said, “this is just amazing.”

For the first time, he could touch and feel the wind blowing on his head. After a while when the sun was shining on his head, he became thirsty. The rain was so refreshing, he felt like bursting. Suddenly, there was a little tension in his head he felt uncomfortable about. What was happening? His head exploded and a colorful flower arose above his head. He was so excited. Such beauty he didn’t know existed in his world. He stayed like this for days to come. He was very proud when people came by to look at him. But he was not alone there. There were many of the same brothers with the same flowers sticking out their heads. He could feel them, almost like communicating.

Then it happened, a big animal came towards him and the warm breath of his mouth touched him. Suddenly a quick pain came over him, darkness followed, then a flash of light, and suddenly, he was back at the staircase of the upper vortex, where he was earlier. He still had his envelope with him with all his experiences. So, he went back to the elder and asked him what was that all about.

“You arrived on planet earth as a plant, and your life experience was terminated by an animal. Some of them need plants to survive. We, as souls, give and take; we are souls meant to be there for each other, to give meaning to other souls”, the elder spoke wisely. “Remember the first time you went over? You send it over to have the first experience. It was a short journey for you, but a very long journey for the parents. They are also on a journey to become an elder”, he said.

“This is very strange. Does that mean that all of us have to do this?” the little soul asked.

“Yes, you do. I suggest you go back and try to feel how it is to be an animal. You will see that the plant you were before was born to help this animal to grow and follow his path”, answered the elder.

“And where is that path going then, for this animal?” the soul asked.

The elder responded: “Wait and see, here is another empty envelope, and take also the one you brought with you. You can recommend it anytime you want. The paper in the envelope is white and unwritten. This is good because your soul over here in this parallel universe is also unwritten. This means you were pure and served your purpose without changing the purpose.”

The little soul went back to the down-vortex with his ‘plant’ and ‘animal’ envelope, not really understanding what was the purpose of his exploration. The vortex was like a funnel. To go down it became narrower. Once through the narrow vortex, it widened again and you enter a new dimension. But he trusted the elder and went down the vortex of energy. He was waiting for the right moment for being activated into animal life. Once in the whom, he waited. It took ages! Why was the time such a big issue?

Anyway, he had learned about patience and once he was liberated from that dark, warm and moist environment, he came into the light. He had that experience before. He remembered when returning from the vortex into the “soul “world, he had that flash of light too. He fell onto the ground and saw an animal, which appears to be his mother. He was very glad that she was there because moving around was very difficult. Here in this world, everything goes slower, he thought. But after a short while, he could do what his mother was doing, running. This was fun. He had weight and felt earth underneath his feet. Now he was looking around and saw the same animals. It was the same recognition as his previous experience, where he was attached to the ground and saw others who had flowers on their heads and couldn’t move. He was not alone. Now he could move. There were more like him. This was so funny like he was living in a movie. He stayed for a long time with his mother. He decided to go his own way and left his mother. He wanted to explore the world that seemed so big to him. It was full of color. He smelled a lot of things.

Suddenly, he came across another animal. He didn’t know this one. He was standing on both feet, had two legs and arms, a head, and was very tall. He held something in his hand, a thing he couldn’t recognize. He freezes a moment and fear came over him. His body couldn’t move for a moment. He heard a loud noise, like a bang. Then it was dark and the flash of light was there again. He saw the staircase of the upper vortex again and start climbing up. What was that about, he thought. That was not his plan at all. He gave the envelopes to the elders and sat down, watching their faces as the verdict was to arrive soon.

“Little one, as an animal, you saw the plants you ate to survive and gave a human your body to feed him. This is the chain you follow now. Look at this envelope: it had white papers in it with all the written experiences of that life. Some of them starting to get gray and we can’t read the grey part. You learned about fear. The first fear of your life. Fear is a feeling This means you have to go back”, said the elder.

“What is the grey part saying?” the little soul asked.

“This was a flash of fear you created”, the elder spoke, “once you reach the moment that pages are getting darker, we talk again.”

“Why do I have to back? I have seen enough”, wondered the little soul.

“Once you started the journey, you have to finish it to the end. We cannot accept gray or dark papers here, they have to be white when you return would you become an elder. This time you have to go down the vortex again and put on a suit”, said the elder.

“A suit? What suit?” asked the soul.

“We call it a body. You have to understand that the way of coming back here is not easy. As you want to become an elder like us, you have to follow the journey. The journey is not that long, but in the dimension of the earth, it feels different”, said the elder.

The little soul left again down the staircase with three envelopes in his hand. One of a plant, an animal, and an empty light gray one for a human: the body or suit as the elder called it. Again, he had to wait for the perfect timing to descend at the right moment. The elder told him before, that a man and woman had to come together before he could make his move. It was not allowed to go there on your own. He said when a man, called an American and a woman, called a Canadian come together, he could go. So, he waited.

The next moment it was dark, moist, and warm again. He experienced that before when he became energy and an animal. He hoped he made the right choice. If he was mistaken, he would enter the light again as an animal, or a plant, or perhaps end up at the staircase again. But not much could go wrong, the elder insured him.

“You have to follow your intuition and instinct. All is given to you, you have a part of the source in you that will guide you’, he said.

After a while, he freed himself from his surroundings and came into a bright light. There were a lot of noise and big people were looking at him. The senses he felt at that moment were enormous. He could not express himself, but he immediately felt the warmth of his mother, just like he felt when he was in the animal world. The suit around him was a bit tight, but he hoped that would loosen up when he would grow. He saw the size of his parents and they were huge.

In the beginning, he couldn’t move around as he did in the animal world. He was carried around. He didn’t mind, this was easy. Eventually, he grows up and could walk around with other humans.

As time went by, he got very bored. Everything went so slow, even slower than when he was a plant or animal. His life span was longer than what he had experienced before. But he could speak, hear, smell, taste, and think much faster than the brothers with their flowers on their heads or the brothers crawling and running in the dirt of the earth. Life wasn’t that bad. During this life, he ate a lot of animals and plants. Every time he thought: wow, I’m eating my brothers. But hey, I was there once, so it isn’t that bad. He had no guilty feelings.

Along with the suit came also a brain. This was the main computer that was organizing all the movements and controlling the suit. It wasn’t always perfect of course, but it functioned well. The brain had a nasty side effect, that was true. It created emotions and that was sometimes not funny. The little soul had some fun and pleasures of course, but also sadness, jealousy, pain, negativity, and sickness. He felt sometimes that there was an overload of feelings. He was yearning for the time he was a little soul living in abundance, love, and freedom, without sickness and pain, without worries and other heavy feelings.

  After 80 earthly years, he decided he had seen enough and was curious about what the elder would tell him. So, he went back to the staircase with his three envelopes: the plant, the animal, and the human. He had difficulty carrying them because they were growing on him. They felt heavier than the times before. Also, he was still carrying his suit. He didn’t know where to leave it. He was sure he left it behind, but it felt like it was still there. He brought back a load of energy that was attached to the body he felt.

He was very happy to see the elders again and told them about his experiences. He had to admit it wasn’t what he would like it to be, but he thought he did a great job on his journey. To his surprise, the elder opened up the third envelope and he saw that there were grayer and even black spots in it. More than the other envelopes. The first one was white when he came back and now showed also gray and black dots on it. He thought: ups, this is not good.

“Dear little one, you see what we meant by: this is not an easy path. Now you have to go back until all papers are white again. So, take this fourth envelope and look at the other papers. Do not do anymore what was written in the darkest papers. Try to solve it in your next journey and that way, you can become one of us, an elder. When you do the opposite of what was dark, that page will turn white again. When all the pages are white, you can stay here forever once again”, the elder said.

The little soul thought about the wise words the elders spoke to him and was kind of disappointed. He thought that this bit of curiosity about going down the vortex would be a sort of excursion. What had he done? The little soul went down the vortex again and for many lives to come, he came back with more suites, more envelopes, which became a burden. He didn’t have the energy anymore to climb the staircase and he needed more bags to keep all his envelopes in.

Halfway through the staircase, he called out to his brothers floating around in happiness, love, joy, and freedom. He called for help. Suddenly a white light came to his aid. It was a woman. She touched him on his forehead and whispered soft words into his ears. This beautiful creature with long white hair sang the universal song into his ears. He recognized it. It was far way better than the music he heard in the many lifetimes he went through. The lyrics were like warm winds that caress his spark of divinity. He truly knew at that moment he came to the end of his journey and could sit with his fellow brothers, now the elders. He understood the message very clearly. This time, he was determined to solve the burden he was carrying around. He went down the vortex again, grabbed a suit, and whilst growing up in his young life on earth, he remembered all the dark pages in his envelopes. He was conscious of it and carried out all of his tasks the best he could.

After a respectful full life, he wanted to cross over again. There was the flashlight again which became so familiar. At his left, when turning for the vortex, there was an office he never noticed before. An elder was sitting there and said to him: “Please, can I see your envelopes?” He gave them to him and was a bit surprised. The elder checked them one by one. They all seem to be white except for a few greys. He stamped the grey ones as approved and threw them in an oven behind him. The soul was dismissed and he could carry on. This was a surprise for him. He could walk into the vortex without any effort, no bag, no suit, and as he went higher up the vortex, he became lighter and more transparent. He entered the big nothing area where the elder was waiting for him. He felt the energy again and knew it was good.

His job was done and now he belonged to the same group of elders. He wasn’t the little one anymore. He had wisdom, patience, joy, freedom, abundance, happiness, and love. He sat down next to them and was looking at the movements of the other little souls around them. Full of joy, he watched the little souls floating around. It reminded him of his own time as a little brother moving with the speed of joy and love. It felt like yesterday. One day, a little soul came from the far edge of nothing and had seen something special at the edge of nothing. There was another world or dimension that he found very interesting. The little soul thought himself back to me and asked me what it was.

“What was that what I saw over there? It looked so different”, asked the little soul.

“My dear little one, that is not of your concern. You are too young for these things”, I said.

“But I want to know!” replied the little soul. I thought a short about my answer and after a few years, I said: “This is a place where all the elder has been. It’s a place where you develop to know what you are now.”

That was an answer the young one didn’t understand. How can I develop into what I am now?

When I saw the look on his face, I knew it was time to let him go and explore.