Seven dimensions of experience and the eternity of the soul.

We are souls in matter and we exist as interconnected beings and this may be hard for some to experience, that at this moment in time our energy is part of a wider energy and a cosmic collective, we are finite but we are also eternal .. I just wanted to share this piece of writing by Deepak Chopra on the seven circles or spheres of existence and the eternity of our soul. Our thoughts create patterns and send energy so when we heal in our thoughts then our capacity to unite improves and if we cannot have contact with someone due to some difficulty we can always find a way to be connected to them etherically. His experiences and thoughts following his father’s death really mirrored my own, after my Mum passed, I felt her to be part of everything, and I still grieved but I also knew that, at any moment we were connected.

This is taken from Deepak’s book The Deeper Wound : Recovering the Soul From Fear and Suffering.

The soul, or true self, is not inside you, nor is it outside. Like gravity or truth or time, your soul is everywhere. Therefore at the moment of death it has nowhere to go – it has already arrived. Imagine a series of concentric circles, one within the other. Then imagine yourself living in each of these circles, beginning with the smallest.

The first circle is your body and the physical world of the five senses. Here you live in time as it passes.

The second circle is the pattern of brain waves that create your thoughts, feelings, and desires. Here you live in the mind.

The third circle is the invisible pattern of energy from which the brain was created. Here you live in the play of natural forces.

The fourth circle is the field that extends infinitely through the cosmos, from which all energy is born. Here you live in a fluctuating waves of the cosmic ocean.

The fifth circle is the silent, unmoving field that unites all force fields, from which space and time arose. Here you live within the ocean itself.

The sixth circle is the womb of the universe – infinite dimensions wrapped within each other. Here you live in the cradle of creation before creation occurs.

The seventh circle is the uncreated – God, Brahman, the One and all. Here you live eternally.

All of these realms exist at the same time. You and I meet on the street as two bodies, but we also meet as two minds, two souls, two citizens of the cosmos. Ultimately we not meet at all – we merge into the ocean of spirit. We are one. You and I choose the circle we belong in, and once we identify it, we call that reality. Ego offers the most constricted reality, the innermost circle.. Looking over the wall to a larger reality, or even to another person’s point of view, ego says, “What has this got to do with me?” But ego does not exist to deny the soul. Ego exists because it is necessary.

The force of evolution tugs on us, coaxing us to see into larger realities. The source of this tugging is the soul, which already knows every layer of reality, from the darkest depths to the eternal light.

For many centuries no one had the faintest ideas about brain functioning, or gravity, or subatomic particles. The fact that we did not perceive them, did not mean that they did not exist. Rather that infinitely expanding reality waited for us to cross our own boundaries. As we did, perceptions shifted, giving birth to new worlds.

When you can experience grief and yet are able to come to recognize the work of the soul, you will feel elated. The hidden message of suffering will have revealed itself. For my self, I was able to accept the loss of my father in a completely new way -as no loss at all. He became more present to me than ever before. I felt that I was meeting his true self as I met mine. This was our soul connection. I had crossed a boundary that was very difficult on a level of feeling. My father’s beloved face, his voice, his physical closeness were gone.. I had deeply feared that he, as an individual was also lost. Now I can celebrate that nobody is an individual self, not at the soul level. You and I roam the univese pretending to be individuals. Loss is a phantom projected by the ego which only believes in the individual “I”.

What are you and I really? We are an expression of the entire universe. The universe gave birth to you and me as separate persons, but id didn’t let us out of eternity’s embrace. At this very moment we stand outside time as surely as inside of it… You are the only way the Universe can experience exactly the things you feel, see, touch, think, and desire as no one else can. Patterns arise and fall, passing away like dust. With one side of your being you play in these patterns, creating dramas of light and dark. But with another side of your being you are pure awareness, pure creativity, pure possibility. You are the source. Therefore, when you die, the same process occurs that led to your being born. The source rearranges the patterns once again. Look upon the afterlife as you look upon this instant, as both a new birth and a new death.