HOW DEEP IS YOUR SOUL?
by Rev. Sheila Van Houten, DD, PhD, March, 2009
This article will be a featured chapter in a forthcoming book by the authors of The Tao of Intimacy: Why Real Women Drink Straight Teqila, by Sarina Stone and R. Mordant Mahon. See www.taoofintimacy.com
“Quantum energy can exist in two very different forms: as visible particles, or invisible waves. A quantum particle can be in one place only, two places at once, or even many places simultaneously.” (Source: See Footnote.)
What are you made of?
You are made of energy in the form of waves and particles!
That means you can be visible and invisible, both at the same time.
That means you can even be in one or more locations at the same time!
Aren’t you AMAZING??!!
Quote Source: The Spontaneous Healing of Belief (page 11) by Greg Braden
Let’s process this amazement a bit! Here’s how we can start:
Today I had one of those flash-back experiences that put me into a tailspin of nostalgia. I believe you will relate.
For no particular reason that I can think of, I was suddenly transported back in time, and I saw myself in my beautiful strapless, white prom dress, complete with bustle and hoop, excitedly hurrying down the sidewalk in the old neighborhood to my best friend’s house for “coketails”.
I was looking forward to seeing my high-school sweetheart in his Navy uniform. He was on his way home on leave in exactly one hour, just in time for this most important life event! At 17, what could possibly be better for me?
I can still the feel warmth of the setting sun on my face. I can still feel the delight I felt that everything was going just absolutely SPLENDIDLY. It was a moment of bliss – pure bliss.
It seemed to have happened five minutes ago instead of decades ago.
When I came back to the present and thought of how much time had elapsed since that evening, I got a feeling of utter panic and a sense of profound LOSS. The whole reverie triggered a bizarre sort of brain hiccup, and I felt slightly dizzy. I felt like I was free falling. I felt lost in space, suspended in time.
After I recovered my equilibrium, I began to wonder, and not for the first time either, about the nature of time itself and what might be the truth about it.
It is said by some that everything takes place all at once: the past, the present, and the future. How confounding that idea is to we who are so linearly fixated, so left-brained and logic- oriented. How could it possibly be that way?
Yet, if we were to take up a perch way out in outer space and view our little lives from that perspective, we might see that everything IS taking place in an instant and all at the same time. It is only when we are "stuck" on the ground, captives of gravity, that we feel like time is moving at a snail's pace.
Another rather strange idea out there is that we have multiple parallel lives going on at the same time. How can this be? Let’s follow this thread, suspend judgment, and see where we can go with it.
Let's say that we DO have lives in other dimensions going on RIGHT N0W, and then let’s say that we have past, present, and future lives going on as well, RIGHT NOW.
All of these lives can create what I think of as "bleed through", much like my nostalgic recall of prom night, so that we can suddenly become gripped by an inexplicable emotion or thought because it is actually happening somewhere else! RIGHT NOW!
No wonder we are a brew of roiling emotion! Some are more aware of this roiling emotion than others, and they are called empaths. Some try to ignore or hide from this roiling emotion, and they are called insensitives. Regardless, the brew remains.
Many folks also assert that we came here from other dimensions where we could create outcomes in the blink of a thought, and that is why the lesson of PATIENCE is such a universal given on this beautiful planet of ours. We inherently know how to create instantly, but HERE, it doesn't work that way!
Time and time again, we are hurled to the ground in our attempts to create an instant anything! As a friend of mine says about life on planet earth, "You don't get it all, and you don't get it all at once!"
Here is another astounding idea from quantum physics. This one has been proven over and over again, too. It goes like this: anything that was once connected always behaves if it were still connected. It is the waves and particles again, the stuff we are all made of. In that sense, we are all one, all connected, because we are all made of the same stuff.
That same-stuff fact accounts for two different corollaries:
1. Racial memory: we already “remember and know everything” on a subconscious level and
2. The 100th monkey phenomenon: monkeys are washing their potatoes on one island. On another island, the monkeys are not washing their potatoes. Through a form of mental telepathy, when the 100th monkey gets the message to wash his potato too, he does. Soon, all the other monkeys on his island start doing it as well. Now we have two islands of monkeys washing their potatoes without any face-to-face communication having taken place.
Let us have a closer look at this connectedness fact. There are mind-bending experiments to prove it. The simplest one is the DNA samples in a jar.
Human test subjects were swabbed for DNA. Then, the DNA was put into solution in a jar and moved to a different room. The subjects were submitted to both positive and negative experiences. The DNA was observed for responses.
The DNA exhibited organized, graceful movement when the subjects were given positive stimuli and jagged, random, disorganized movement when the subjects were exposed to negative stimuli. These were replicated experiments, meaning the same results happened over and over again.
Perhaps more popularly known is the work done by Dr. Matsumoto. He did a similar kind of experiment with frozen water crystals. In fact, he created a wonderful collection of crystals that were photographed as perfectly gorgeous when subjected to happy words on pieces of PAPER and ugly and distorted when subjected to negative words!
To summarize, quantum physics has given us some truths we can take some comfort in. Those truths are these:
1. We are capable of being in different dimensions at the same time,
2. We are capable of being visible and invisible at the same time,
3. We are NOT confined to this gravity-ruled planet; we are, in fact, FREE, and yet, paradoxically,
4. We are all connected because we are all made of the same stuff!
Think of the possibilities!
Think of how archaic airplane flight becomes when you consider the probability of INSTANT, EVEN SIMULTANEOUS TRAVELS! No wonder I refuse to fly the friendly skies of the airline industry! To me, it's as primitive as the covered wagon! Maybe even worse. At least with a covered wagon, you could stop and get out at will.
Who knows? You might be in the land of Argonia negotiating an interstellar agreement to share interplanetary resources RIGHT NOW!
You might be having THREE major love affairs, or even a hundred, all at the same time RIGHT NOW!
You might be soaring the skies over the Pacific ocean in one of your lives and dining on Sushi in Shanghai in another RIGHT NOW!
The possibilities are endless! Think of the connections, the relationships, the SEX!
Now consider this: when you are momentarily back in the body and your conscious mind is operating, you could even have magnificent recollections of everything you have been up to in all those dimensions on any particular day!
Could that be what your “imagination” really is: A series of recollections? Could it be that your dreams really are actual experiences in different dimensions?
That brings me to my centerpiece idea: The main reason why we feel attraction toward one person and revulsion toward another is that we are all interconnected through all of our various personas and existences and our very DNA. If we have mixed feelings about another, it could be because we have mixed roles going on in our various locations, or a racial memory about that person!
I haven’t even mentioned yet the complexities of the past-life connections we all have, and the unfinished business from those connections. It seems we bring in with us a host of unfinished karmic relationships that cause us to have strange and often compulsive attractions for certain people, or certain TYPES of people with certain TYPES of relational dynamics.
For instance, you simply cannot get Donald or Linda out of your psyche no matter how hard you try, and even though the relationship isn’t working, or is painful, or is part of a repeating pattern of frustration, you go back and back and back to it.
If you are sick and tired of all of that, consider past-life regression, and consider contacting ME to help you with it. I specialize in past-life regression, and I have never once in my entire career had anyone find it any less than miraculous in resolving relationship and life issues! That’s quite a statement, isn’t it? I have seen peculiar physical and emotional disturbances just up and disappear once the reason for them was uncovered, and I have seen destructive relationship patterns undergo dramatic improvement for the same reason.
Understanding the root cause of something is often the catalyst to new behavior and the healing of old behavior. If you have troublesome relationships going on that seem to have formed a pattern, do consider unraveling your past-life connections and give me a call. I have even done these right over the telephone for people in all parts of the world.
Now, here’s a final zinger of a thought for you to chew on: we leave PIECES of ourselves all over the place, too, and we can go around feeling less than whole until we invite these pieces back to us! A part of you may be in a past life, or another planet, in your back yard in your current lifetime, with your father or your mother or your brother, or who knows what (or where or when, as the old song goes).
If you would like some help in getting yourself back together, give me a call. I do a form of what is called “soul retrieval”, and it is a very powerful process to experience, for sure a life-changing experience. You will literally be changed at a very deep level, but always for the better. There are no negatives to soul retrieval.
Do I hear you saying, “Isn’t life complicated enough without all this interconnectedness going on???”
The answer to that, I believe, is simply this: life is a rich tapestry that you are creating minute by minute, dimension by dimension, a matrix of existences so to speak. Do you want your tapestry to have depth and vibrancy, or do you want it to be flat and pallid? If you’re after the richness, then every single experience is worthwhile in some way because you are creating your own depth as a soul.
So, here’s to the richness of life in all of its complexities and incomprehensibilities. Live it passionately, embrace it fully, and weave a tapestry of your own unique design. Your soul will be deep, and it will be priceless!
“Each of us is composed of all the sums he has not counted. Subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete the love that ended yesterday in Texas.”
Thomas Wolfe, The Dead Zone
Recommended Reading. All Available at amazon.com
Entangled Minds, Dean Radin
The Spontaneous Healing of Belief, Greg Braden
(Any and all books by Radin and Braden will be well worth your time and money.)
True Ghosts by Reverend Sheila Van Houten, Dd, PhD. 22 True stories that illustrate the principles of quantum physics. Contact Sheila directly for a special price: 612-866-1269 or achieve11@mac.com. True Ghosts retails for $31.95 but you can get it directly from Sheila for $22 plus shipping and handling.
Note: Past-Life Regressions and Soul Retrievals are about hour-long sessions and cost $150 each. This price has been steady ever since 1999, by the way. They can be done long distance as well as in person. Just call Sheila at 612-866-1269 or email her at achieve11@mac.com to make arrangements.
