‘Mystery, Enchantment, and Poetry Incarnate’ — Getting to Know and Love My Soul
We use the word soul a lot, especially metaphorically. But what the heck do we mean?
Old King Cole was a merry old soul and a merry old soul was he…
But what’s a soul?
We all seem to have one, and some of us seem to be one — old, merry, or otherwise–but how do we understand the concept?
I first formally studied the soul at a Science of Mind church as part of a trinity–Spirit, soul, and body. Soul, being in the middle, appeared to be kind of a conduit between the heavier material body and the invisible lighter substance of Spirit.
Might it be more precise to say our souls are the way Spirit is individualized as each of us?
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. ~ Rumi
Since I do a spiritual creative process called SoulCollage®, it would behoove me to be clear about what the soul is and how it works in our lives.
To that end, I went back to SoulCollage® creator, Seena B. Frost’s book, SoulCollage® Evolving: An Intuitive Collage Process for Self-Discovery and Community,