The workings of the soul
QUESTION: Masters why must souls learn from being on earth, when there are so many souls “at Home” that could give lessons and teach about any issue? Do souls feel pain, or is it only the physical ego who can feel it? Is “my soul ” willing to reach out to my ego and set up a meeting? ~Kjetil, Norway
ANSWER: Souls come to Earth so that they may work through understanding who they are and what powers and abilities they possess. Those who are at Home can share how it was for them, but since each person learns differently, it may not mean much to the student.
It’s very much like running a marathon or participating in an athletic competition. You can watch others do it, you can read all about the various stages the body needs to go through, and you can visualize the event. But unless and until you physically experience the preparation, the exertion, the difficulties, and the triumph of success or the pain of failure, you will never truly know what it is like. A soul does not gain the wisdom of the opposite of perfection until they have experienced it for themselves.
When not having a human experience within a body, souls are amorphous clouds of energy with no nerve endings, physical emotions, or exposure to negativity. Of course, there is also no ego because that is the purview of the duality on Earth. So, the soul has no pain.
Your soul is the unconscious habitat of your higher self. Your ego is the judgmental mental musings of a physical body. Ego exists only within the duality because negativity is needed to use its tools of judging, rating, and grading everything. It is very difficult for a soul or higher self to deal with a mind that is controlled by ego, since the soul is positive, unconditional love only, and the ego requires negativity to function.
Spiritual enlightenment can occur only when the human releases ego’s hold over its being and resides in positive energy – where the only tool is evaluation, and nothing is determined to be “right” or “wrong.”