The Soul & Spirit

1. What is our soul?
I think it is the real "me" as created by God to be His joyful companion and extension in the spirit world.

2. Where does it reside?
Our human mind does not understand where the soul abides until it is shown to us through God's grace and revelation to us. Although I seek it through a meditation that looks inward, Jesus says that it is in Him just as He is in us, and since He says He is the Father, that puts us there too. A Course in Miracles also points out that the contents of our minds can be shared through the work of the Holy Spirit. So beyond our grasp and beyond these worlds, I believe the soul is part of the oneness of all that is.

3. What is the necessity of a soul?
It is the product of God's creation, being able to experience in that dimension the peace, love and creativity of God as its own.

4. What is a spirit?
I think of that word as God's building block of Himself by which He shaped the Creation, including the "material" of our souls.

5. Where does it reside? How is a soul and spirit different?
Like the soul, I think it exists "everywhere" in God's creative dimension.

6. Why are we made up of flesh and spirit? Why not just one or the other?
We wished to imagine ourselves different from God's creation in its spirit form, with different characteristics in order to play at being an initial creator, and invented the state of flesh in our game. But we experience both states because God will not relinquish His hold on us as He created us in the first place, so the real "us", the spirit being walks around with a flesh "clothing" which can be discarded any time we are tired of the game and have helped God in our specific ministry of aiding others to find the path home too. The moment of "discard" is determined by God Who carefully makes sure that we feel in sense of loss by discarding the body and awakening to our true sprit self.

7. Do they work together well or are they constantly opposing one another?
The flesh was created to oppose the awareness of the soul, and fulfills its job quite effectively in this world. But the Holy Spirit has the capability for using the body as its healing tool, pointing out its lost state to our awareness when we are caught up in its shenanigans that place us in constant self doubt and fear, and fulfills its job quite effectively in this world.

8. How do I bring my "flesh" and "spirit" together, working as a unit?
When we spot how lost we are in our flesh mind and its state of existence, we have automatically activated the Holy Spirit within us Who encourages us to bring the problems that our flesh cause us to the Spirit in prayer, and receiving the Holy Spirit's outlook. I pray this constantly throughout the day as the Holy Spirit enables me to catch my fantasies or reminds me that I'm thinking again rather than being attentive to God- "Thank you Love for making me aware that I'm thinking again. Help me to be attentive to you." I then can receive the Holy Spirit's presence at that moment and His giving me a choice of staying in my own flesh mind or seeing what He sees of my lost thoughts and return to the inner concentration of the Divine, and blessed peace.

9. How can I bring an awareness of the spirit? How can I experience my spirit and know it is my spirit self?
Your human mind never wants to have an awareness of the spirit because it wants absolute control of you and brooks no competition. There is a portion of your mind still connected to the spirit which decides that we're in difficulty and knows no answers. Now we can welcome other options. It is that knowledge which enables the Spirit to move within you without causing conflict or opposition to your will. The Spirit also knows how to let you know to distinguish between its appearances as compared to some concoction of the human mind. It is highly personal. With me it was out of the body experiences. But there are many ways, highly personal to each individual which accomplishes that same purpose. There is one other characteristic which enables you to know your spirit awareness. It brings an inner peace. The human mind cannot produce that peace.

10. How are the flesh and spirit different?
The flesh of human mind has as its emotional base, the experience of fear. Something is very wrong about you, you've done something wrong, feeling guilt, believing that God is displeased and even punitive (the concept of hell) and a fearful state is chronic.

The spirit state exists in a complete and imperturbable state of love and peace, knowing that it is unchangeable in that very format. It interprets deviations from that state simply as errors needing correction and makes no negative judgments about such deviations, neither in itself nor in others. It also knows that the Holy Spirit will correct all such deviations in perfect manner. And, there is no hell except the ignorance causing us to be in mistaken fear of our Father's judgment, which of course is an erroneous outlook.

11. How can I take care of each part of me?
It is already taken care of. You can't change your spirit state by just imagining that you are a body, or that the world created by the human mind is real. Because part of the plan in creating the human mind in order to believe that we are an original creator meant to block out awareness of our true Creator, we don't know how to get back to the healed state.

Thus the Holy Spirit, which does know the process, must be in charge of the healing process and your well-being. I remind you again that your only job in the healing process is to wish to be healed, nothing more. The Holy Spirit directs everything after that, including your awareness and dawning on you when and how to pray issues as they arise, the length of time that your healing will need to take place, and the sequence of steps that your healing will involve.

12. Are there any other parts in me I should know about?
The only parts I've spotted in myself, is my human mind, my divine mind and the ability to distinguish between them which I think is actually a portion of my divine mind that recognizes when I'm off base and need help.

13. Where does God live in me?
I just associate God with mind. I notice though that in experiencing divinity, I experience a locus at the crown of my head, but I can also receive His effects in many places within my body.

14. We are told the Holy Spirit uses us as His temple. Why?
In this world, the body is a vehicle for communicating with each other. We created that link, and the Holy Spirit uses it for its own purposes in healing.