"The Seat of the Soul," by Gary Zukav
"When a question is asked that cannot be answered within the common frame of reference, it can be classified as nonsensical, or it can be dismissed as a question that is not appropriate, or the person asking the question can expand his or her consciousness to encompass a frame of reference from which the question can be answered. The first two options are the easy way out of a confrontation with a question that appears to be nonsensical or inappropriate, but the seeker, the true scientist, will allow himself or herself to expand into a frame of reference from which the answers that he or she is seeking can be understood."
"We, as a species, have been asking the questions, "Is there a God?", "Is there a Divine Intelligence?", and "Is there a purpose to life?", for as long as we have been able to articulate questions. The time has now come for us to expand into a frame of reference that allows these questions to be answered."
"The larger the frame of reference of the multisensory human allows an understanding of the experientially meaningful distinction between the personality and the soul. Your personality is that part of you that was born into, lives within, and will die within time. To be a human and to have a personality are the same thing. Your personality, like your body, is the vehicle of your evolution."
"The decisions that you make and the actions that you take upon the Earth are the means by which you evolve. At each moment you choose the intention that will shape your experiences and those things upon which you will focus your attention. These choices affect your evolutionary process. This is so for each person. If you choose unconsciously, you evolve unconsciously. If you choose consciously, you evolve consciously."
"The fearful and violent emotions that have come to characterize the human existence can be experienced only by the personality. Only the personality can feel anger, fear, hatred, vengeance, sorrow, shame, regret, indifference, frustration, cynicism and loneliness. Only the personality can judge, manipulate and exploit. Only the personality can pursue external power. The personality can also be loving, compassionate, and wise in its relations with others, but love, compassion and wisdom do not come from the personality. They are the experience of the soul."
"Your soul is that part of you that is immortal. Every person has a soul, but a personality that is limited in its perception to the five senses is not aware of its soul, and, therefore, cannot recognize the influences of its soul."
"As a personality becomes multisensory, its intuitions – it hunches and subtle feelings – become important to it. It senses things about things about itself, other people, and the situations in which it finds itself that it cannot justify on the basis of the information that its five senses can provide."
"It comes to recognize intentions, and to respond to them rather than to the actions and words that it encounters. It can recognize, for example, a warm heart beneath a harsh and angry manner, and a cold heart beneath polished and pleasing words." Gary Zukav
In reading about the two different actual types of human beings -those who live secluded in a frame of reference of the five senses, and others with a much broader frame of reference makes all the difference in the world in how you live your life.
My first 46 years I lived pretty much in a five sense body, and in the framework of the FALC. All questions asked were brought to this network and answered there or dismissed. Mostly, in my experience anything that would mar the shiny surface of the FALC, were labeled inappropriate.
Stepping out of that tiny framework, a whole big world opened up. It was like leaving a boxed in life…to live free.
Now, when questions arose, there was nothing stopping me from exploring deeper or being fearless of the answers 'wrecking' or damaging the belief within the small frame.
Living within in a small frame of reference, allows very limited responses. And tossing out questions and ideas is much easier than pondering why they can't be answered within your framework.
The 'simple faith' is to remain in a very small framework.
The saying to believe like a child doesn't ring true. For children are born frame-less and we build a framework for them to live inside. I believe that children are naturally curious and inquisitive and are fearless as they seek answers, not caring what side of the framework threatens to collapse based upon what it finds.
A secondary framework is the family, like a box in a box…where there too are questions we don't ask or label 'inappropriate' in order to keep the framework from collapsing.
Seeing your life as being framed by family and religion, will allow you to see the setting upon which you stand.
I didn't know how blocked in I was, until it all collapsed around me.
As the framework lay on the ground, I was left standing…the part of me that wasn't tied into the framework, my soul.
The soul me didn't fear any questions or the truthful answer. It was a part of me that had been covered up and repressed for years….and blocked out by the framework.
I know that those who can't explore deeply the questions or follow a gut feeling to its end, have way too much of themselves invested in the framework.
Their point of reference lies within its walls.
The answers to the questions depend more upon where you are asking them from, than where the answers are coming from. In fact, some are not even allowed to ask the questions…or ponder their existence.
Most strict religions work diligently to put their children in the churches framework, and to keep the child separated from their natural curiosity, frankness and Truth, to separate the child from their Soul.
A free soul does not fit into their framework.
Photograph by Hannah Jukuri
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