Working with Spirit for 50 Years

[Arcturian108]

I was born in New York City during World War II. I was raised in a poor, religiously observant household, but from the age of three didn’t believe in God. I was quite bookish, and shy as a child, and excelled in academic subjects. In my junior high school of 750, I was first in my class in all subjects. When I graduated from high school, I was given a full 4-year scholarship to a good private university, and through my doctoral degree never paid for my education. (Recently I realized that my interest in international cultures, and early support of the goals of the United Nations, probably resulted in my being groomed by the globalists from about the age of 18.) By the age of 24 I was fluent in spoken Japanese. In my twenties I preferred to live in Japan, rather than the United States.

My younger sister caused a change in my life’s direction when she became a teacher of Transcendental Meditation, and encouraged me to learn. I took up that practice, but continued to be agnostic until I was 31. At that point I met the founder of Transcendental Meditation, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and he both made me a teacher of T.M. in 1975, and also introduced me to deep spiritual experiences for the first time in my life. That was the beginning of my working with spirit.

Teaching meditation was a complete joy, and changed so many peoples’ lives. But the T.M. university administrators in Fairfield, Iowa wanted me to return to working as an administrator, so that resulted in my being cocooned in their midst for another two years. When I emerged from that experience I could clearly discern the difference between their world and the outside world. Their world was like living in honey, where everything flowed naturally with little friction. Desires were fulfilled rapidly. I will never forget my experiences as I was about to leave that cocoon. One example is the following. It was late spring of 1976, and I had been accepted into the history doctoral program at the University of Iowa. I realized that I would be spending another four years in frigid Iowa, and longed to return to Hawaii, at least for that summer. Without mentioning my desire to anyone, the next day I was offered a summer T.M. teaching position in Maui, Hawaii. For the following eight months everything that I desired came about. This was a powerful demonstration of spiritual energies at work. It felt like the classical description of enlightenment according to Indian traditions.

Still I regarded the real world as paramount, and didn’t believe that I had a future involving spirit. I taught history at the University of Iowa for the time I was there, and subsequently taught history and journalism at two Tokyo universities until 1990. When I was 44, I had had the typical mid-life crisis that both ended my academic career, and caused me to rethink my future. By the end of that year I became aware that I was extremely psychic and started doing past-life readings for foreigners living in Tokyo. I wasn’t clear about who my spirit guides were, but I was being given new information that was not in any literature that I had read at that point. I wasn’t trained to be psychic and the T.M. movement was highly critical of anything New Agey, so I began to diverge from its teachings, and strike out on my own. Meanwhile I had enough of Japan by 1990, and decided to visit Australia, to see if I liked it there better than America, and I did. I spent three years in Sydney, totally in love with everything. I continued to give past-life readings, and by this time realized that my main spirit guide was Babaji of the Yogananda tradition.

Babaji was the one who taught me everything I know about human souls. And because of my academic background, I was soon able to understand how my new thinking about souls diverged from traditional Western historical ideas, and also how it diverged from commonly accepted Eastern ideas as well. I had found that many people I was seeing had more than one soul running their body. I knew that what I was seeing was not multiple personality disorder. While I was in Sydney, in 1992, I self-published a 25-page booklet called Multiple Souls and sold a thousand copies within a year. I felt that at some time in the future I would publish a full book on this subject, but that took another 23 years. That book is available on Amazon and is called Your Multiple Souls: How They Direct Your Creativity, Genius, Complexity, and Moods (c. 2015)

About a month ago, I had promised Avalon members that I would start a separate thread about my understanding of soul phenomena; so this is that thread. I am open to any, and all questions regarding my understanding of souls, both animal and human.

[rgray222]

It sounds like you are living a very full and interesting life. I am not familiar with your books (Multiple Souls, and Your Multiple Souls: How They Direct Your Creativity, Genius, Complexity, and Moods) but I would like to learn more. I have many questions, but I think it might be best to start with a few very basic questions.



Still I regarded the real world as paramount and didn’t believe that I had a future involving spirit.


What is your definition of the soul?
What is your definition of the Spirit, and can you elaborate a bit more on the statement above?
What are your religious beliefs today? If you do not want to answer, that's fine.
What convinced you that you had genuine psychic abilities

[Arcturian108]

It sounds like you are living a very full and interesting life. I am not familiar with your books (Multiple Souls, and Your Multiple Souls: How They Direct Your Creativity, Genius, Complexity, and Moods) but I would like to learn more. I have many questions, but I think it might be best to start with a few very basic questions.



Still I regarded the real world as paramount and didn’t believe that I had a future involving spirit.


What is your definition of the soul?
What is your definition of the Spirit, and can you elaborate a bit more on the statement above?
What are your religious beliefs today? If you do not want to answer, that's fine.
What convinced you that you had genuine psychic abilities

These are great questions by the way.

What is your definition of the soul?
Quoting from my own book, page 20 of (Your Multiple Souls):

"In the more than 6,000 years of recorded history, there has been little agreement about the nature of the soul. In attempting to define the soul, most people who have tried to do so fall on a continuum between materialism and spiritualism. Historically, materialists have conflated the soul with matter. Absolute materialists do not believe the soul exists. Spiritualists sometimes fuse the soul with God, thus eliminating the soul as a separate entity. [For the next few pages I summarize Western and Eastern thinking on the subject of "soul".]

Then I give my own opinion on pages 22 and 23 as follows:

"I see the soul as an energetic envelope, separate from the body, and as a discretely diluted version of God--something like a homeopathic elixir, where the original substance can no longer be found in the potion, but something of God's essence is still there. From my perception, if the soul could be visible, it would be larger than the body."

I will answer your other questions later today.

[Michi]

About a month ago, I had promised Avalon members that I would start a separate thread about my understanding of soul phenomena; so this is that thread. I am open to any, and all questions regarding my understanding of souls, both animal and human.

Hello Arcturian

Thank you for your valuable post.
Souls - a very intriguing subject!

My question: what do you make of the term "higher self"? Would this be the main self aware "soul" or consciousness which oversees all soul "fragments" that are splattered all around the universe or dimensions (living their own unaware life)?

[Michel Leclerc]

Thank you, Arcturian108.

An exploratory question comes to my mind. In order to summarise to interested people my views on how we are constituted, I occasionally use a shorthand phrase that elicits different thinking in them: "we are not individuals, we are dividuals".

Does this formulation ring a bell for you – or would you consider it tangential maybe, but not kindred?

p.s.
Your language learning feat soothes my heart. A question: have you, out of interest, while teaching in Japan, also conquered reading and writing?
Practised calligraphy maybe?

[Arcturian108]

It sounds like you are living a very full and interesting life. I am not familiar with your books (Multiple Souls, and Your Multiple Souls: How They Direct Your Creativity, Genius, Complexity, and Moods) but I would like to learn more. I have many questions, but I think it might be best to start with a few very basic questions.



Still I regarded the real world as paramount and didn’t believe that I had a future involving spirit.


What is your definition of the soul?
What is your definition of the Spirit, and can you elaborate a bit more on the statement above?
What are your religious beliefs today? If you do not want to answer, that's fine.
What convinced you that you had genuine psychic abilities

My definition of Spirit, and more about the "real world" versus the "world of spirit"

I think of "spirit" as any entity, or energy that has a nonphysical, and/or unknown basis. By nonphysical, I mean not third dimensional. According to my angels Earth has 32 dimensions, the higher the dimension the more ethereal it is.

The "real world" for me was defined by our mutual cultural and educational systems, of which I was fully submerged in the first half of my life. There are no university courses in psychic development, or on the subject of souls. The Catholic Church developed our higher educational system, and they made sure to keep us focused on a variety of external materialistic subjects.

What are your religious beliefs today?

I have imbibed beliefs from many different religions. I do not adhere to any one religion, but I am 'bound back' (one definition of the word 'religion') to several prominent religions, including Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and pantheism. Also, I am influenced greatly by astrology and numerology, and Bushido from a past life as a samurai. I have a deep appreciation of America's founding fathers, that borders on worship. I daily do T.M. meditation, and an ancient Egyptian reversal-of-aging meditation.

[Johnnycomelately]

Good thread OP/premise, Arcturuan108. It has a quality of verity that has me turning inward, exploring my understandings in light of what is expressed by you and three responders so far. Your answers to rgray222 have been encouraging, and I look forward to seeing this thread unfold (“unwind” would be a better term, if not for implying failure. Nobody folds actual thread anymore, if they ever did).

To me, our spirit nature is as a light that coexists with, and is handled (against our will) to more or less extent, by programs. The programs are my own responsibility, I take it, since I have seen how I both create programs and abate them. I affirm a view of reincarnation et. al. which affords ample time and opportunity to screw myself up this much.

I see such different personas appear in me when I am stressed in some way, that represent me in real life interactions, you might say that is a different person. But I have experienced abating character flaws like sneak-theif, bully, wanker, and more that I can’t find words for right now. Not done on some, more than others, but enough that I don’t feel a need to ascribe them (the programs) to another theoretical soul that I share this body with.

[Arcturian108]

It sounds like you are living a very full and interesting life. I am not familiar with your books (Multiple Souls, and Your Multiple Souls: How They Direct Your Creativity, Genius, Complexity, and Moods) but I would like to learn more. I have many questions, but I think it might be best to start with a few very basic questions.



Still I regarded the real world as paramount and didn’t believe that I had a future involving spirit.


What is your definition of the soul?
What is your definition of the Spirit, and can you elaborate a bit more on the statement above?
What are your religious beliefs today? If you do not want to answer, that's fine.
What convinced you that you had genuine psychic abilities

What convinced me that I had genuine psychic abilities

In 1987 when a small esoteric school in Somerset England sent me a pendulum to help me determine what foods were good for me to eat at that time, they didn't tell me it was a psychic tool. They also told me not to use it for questions about my love life. But that only peaked my curiosity. So I began using it to forecast the daily weather, and when after about six months it proved to be 100% accurate, I ignored their admonition, and began using it for personal questions that were bothering me at the time. Then one day a close Japanese girlfriend sent me a photo of her mother who was dying of cancer and asked me for my help. Touching her mother's photo I asked through the pendulum when did her mother make the decision to die, and I kept going back in time, but kept getting a 'no' until I went back before she was born, and then got a 'yes'. I was shocked that I could get such information through a pendulum. That day I realized that the pendulum was a powerful psychic tool, and began asking about my own past lives, and got answers every time. Then for the next two years I experimented with doing people's past lives, and if they had had other readings, I would ask them afterwards how my readings compared, and found that my readings were similar to professional past-life readers. That was 38 years ago, and while I still don't feel I am 100% accurate when I ask questions through a pendulum, I do feel that I am about 85% accurate. I make all major life decisions through this method, especially now that I know who from the other side is guiding me.

Now that I am more aware of psychic phenomena, I have learned that there are at least five different type of psychics based upon the 5 senses. The most famous psychics are clairvoyants (sight), and clairaudients (sound). Less famous, or unknown are the clairsentients (touch/feeling), and clairolfactants (my term for smell), and clairgustients (my term for taste). I am a clairsentient psychic.

[Arcturian108]

About a month ago, I had promised Avalon members that I would start a separate thread about my understanding of soul phenomena; so this is that thread. I am open to any, and all questions regarding my understanding of souls, both animal and human.

Hello Arcturian

Thank you for your valuable post.
Souls - a very intriguing subject!

My question: what do you make of the term "higher self"? Would this be the main self aware "soul" or consciousness which oversees all soul "fragments" that are splattered all around the universe or dimensions (living their own unaware life)?

I do like the term "higher self", and heard a definition many years ago that resonates with me. I was told that it was a combination of one's Solar Angel (guardian angel) and the wisest part of one's own soul. In my soul work I haven't dealt much with soul "fragments" but am aware that the shamanic tradition deems them to be important. I believe the closest I come to that is the idea of soul "chords" or attachments to other people, that might need to be cut.

[thepainterdoug]

I believe I mentioned this on another post, Acturian helped me on my soul work and it provided to me very powerful information regarding my past, an incident that happened to me when I was a young child regarding my father that has been a fleeting disturbing memory I push away, and when I heard it, it made perfect internal sense that this is what happened to me.
I believe Acturian is very wise and gifted in this area. I thank her for her what she did for me.

BTW I love the homeopathy analogy to our souls and god


"I see the soul as an energetic envelope, separate from the body, and as a discretely diluted version of God--something like a homeopathic elixir, where the original substance can no longer be found in the potion, but something of God's essence is still there. From my perception, if the soul could be visible, it would be larger than the body.

[betoobig]

a soul is one of Source´s fractals and there are different levels, levels of consciousness, upon those fractals move mainly upwards towards source. those levels of consciousness are like umbrelas which hold under lower consciousness, etc... by octaves

[rgray222]

BTW I love the homoeopathy analogy to our souls and god


"I see the soul as an energetic envelope, separate from the body, and as a discretely diluted version of God--something like a homoeopathic elixir, where the original substance can no longer be found in the potion, but something of God's essence is still there. From my perception, if the soul could be visible, it would be larger than the body.

Yes, this also jumped off the page at me, a homoeopathic elixir. I have put that thought in the back of my mind as I go about my daily routine.

[norman]

Yes, this also jumped off the page at me, a homoeopathic elixir. I have put that thought in the back of my mind as I go about my daily routine.

Beware of any 'spiritual' conceptualisations.

They may be intellectually (as illuminations or philosophical or religious) aspirational conceptualisations but they are only ever going to be of the facsimile the intellect creates to fill that hole only faithful love can fill.

[rgray222]

Yes, this also jumped off the page at me, a homoeopathic elixir. I have put that thought in the back of my mind as I go about my daily routine.

Beware of any 'spiritual' conceptualisations.

They may be intellectually (as illuminations or philosophical or religious) aspirational conceptualisations but they are only ever going to be of the facsimile the intellect creates to fill that hole only faithful love can fill.

Yes, I would agree that we should use caution against overreliance on intellectual or conceptual frameworks, particularly those pertaining to spirituality and religion. It is a mistake to use conceptualisations as substitutes for genuine emotional and relational experiences, particularly when it comes to unconditional love. However, that should not hinder people from searching for the ultimate or sacred meaning and purpose in life. I think we are all looking for something with a deeper connection to something beyond self.

[norman]

. . .However, that should not hinder people from searching for the ultimate or sacred meaning and purpose in life. I think we are all looking for something with a deeper connection to something beyond self.



'Sacred', 'Meaning' and 'Purpose' are all intellectual conceptualisations.

There seems to be something we call free will involved, which occurs despite not because of lingual cognitive training so it's a fine line between hinder and loving touch.

[Arcturian108]

Thank you, Arcturian108.

An exploratory question comes to my mind. In order to summarise to interested people my views on how we are constituted, I occasionally use a shorthand phrase that elicits different thinking in them: "we are not individuals, we are dividuals".

Does this formulation ring a bell for you – or would you consider it tangential maybe, but not kindred?

p.s.
Your language learning feat soothes my heart. A question: have you, out of interest, while teaching in Japan, also conquered reading and writing?
Practised calligraphy maybe?

I would have to look up the root of the word 'individual' to get a better idea of what you are suggesting. If the root reflects the idea of division, or divide, I don't see much difference with your new word.

Regarding my knowledge of the Japanese language, I did study it formally, with the U.S. State Department paying for my training. I was fairly proficient in reading, with the ability to recognize half of their 2,000 kanji (characters). While living there for the last 5 years of my stay, I was picking up new kanji all the time. While I didn't study calligraphy, I did receive traditional training in playing the instrument called a 'koto'. I absolutely love that instrument, and still have one stored away.

[Arcturian108]

Yes, this also jumped off the page at me, a homoeopathic elixir. I have put that thought in the back of my mind as I go about my daily routine.

Beware of any 'spiritual' conceptualisations.

They may be intellectually (as illuminations or philosophical or religious) aspirational conceptualisations but they are only ever going to be of the facsimile the intellect creates to fill that hole only faithful love can fill.

I agree that intellectual conceptualizations can only approach any topic with a poor attempt to describe a phenomenon. I am aware at how the English language limits our discussion of spirituality. Thus in Japanese the word "amae" (甘え) from the verb "amaeru" (甘える) describes a feeling or behavior of relying on another's love, indulgence, or benevolence, often in a childlike or deeply trusting way. Not only do we not have a similar concept of this in English, but Westerners are totally puzzled when they witness this behavior between adults in Japan.

[Johnnycomelately]

I agree that intellectual conceptualizations can only approach any topic with a poor attempt to describe a phenomenon. I am aware at how the English language limits our discussion of spirituality. Thus in Japanese the word "amae" (甘え) from the verb "amaeru" (甘える) describes a feeling or behavior of relying on another's love, indulgence, or benevolence, often in a childlike or deeply trusting way. Not only do we not have a similar concept of this in English, but Westerners are totally puzzled when they witness this behavior between adults in Japan.

Intellectual conceptualization, as demonstrated by your example of cultural language, is a self-licking ice cream cone IMO. Amae makes sense for a culture that behaved the way they did in WWII, when lives were given for their culture of their King and nation, by the practice of kamikaze warfighter actions.

Our English language is full of such culture-specific features and vibes. Like, what do you think “science” means? Besides the fact there are still unknowns, let alone unknown unknowns, the word has been hijacked by MSM and Big Gov to mean a static reference validated by the basturization of another word: concensus. lol.

My point here, respectfully, is how do you filter out cultural biases from your study of spirit? How do you know you’ve got to the truth of it?

[Arcturian108]

I agree that intellectual conceptualizations can only approach any topic with a poor attempt to describe a phenomenon. I am aware at how the English language limits our discussion of spirituality. Thus in Japanese the word "amae" (甘え) from the verb "amaeru" (甘える) describes a feeling or behavior of relying on another's love, indulgence, or benevolence, often in a childlike or deeply trusting way. Not only do we not have a similar concept of this in English, but Westerners are totally puzzled when they witness this behavior between adults in Japan.

Intellectual conceptualization, as demonstrated by your example of cultural language, is a self-licking ice cream cone IMO. Amae makes sense for a culture that behaved the way they did in WWII, when lives were given for their culture of their King and nation, by the practice of kamikaze warfighter actions.

Our English language is full of such culture-specific features and vibes. Like, what do you think “science” means? Besides the fact there are still unknowns, let alone unknown unknowns, the word has been hijacked by MSM and Big Gov to mean a static reference validated by the basturization of another word: concensus. lol.

My point here, respectfully, is how do you filter out cultural biases from your study of spirit? How do you know you’ve got to the truth of it?

How do you filter out cultural biases from your study of spirit, and know you've got to the truth?

You might know that people who wish to study Kabbalah are discouraged from doing so before the age of 40. I believe it takes that long to overcome some of one's own social conditioning, and separately to have the classic mid-life crisis around age 42 induced by transiting Uranus opposition to natal Uranus in one's birth chart.

So, I had my mid-life crisis at age 44, starting in January of 1987, that lasted a year. This crisis was so severe that for months I was just glad that I wasn't suicidal. I sought help from a Christian minister, and then from the only rabbi in Tokyo. The rabbi made me laugh for the first time in four months, when after hearing my long sob story, he said: "You have a roof over your head and a good teaching job, so what's your problem?"

So many months later, when I was given a psychic tool, and within a year realized I was somewhat gifted in its use, I started to learn things I had never learned in school. And remember that up to that year I had been a perennial student, who majored in American intellectual history, East Asian history, and American religious history. At that point I was also fluent in written French, and spoken Japanese. I had been a bilingual guide for the American government at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan. My Master's degree was obtained through the auspices of the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii, and at that center, I was close friends with Filipinos, Hawaiians, Tongans, Fijians, Koreans, and Japanese. By divulging all this, I am trying to establish my cross-cultural CV.

However, all my budding psychic abilities, and past-life readings starting in 1989 would be almost meaningless, unless I truly was using all of my knowledge and gifts to either help people slightly improve their lives, or to majorly improve their lives. Before 1991 my work was interesting and rewarding in a minor way. But that year everything changed, when with my new abilities I helped to save the life of a baby girl in Sydney, Australia (see the first chapter of my book Your Multiple Souls)

So the basic answer to your good question is that I have had my psychic soul work verified by probably about a thousand real-life experiences, releasing people's depression, and suicidal ideation.