The Soul & The Brain (A Conversation) (Continued)

Brain:
Someone told me once that all women were men in previous lives; then they evolved. I guess I haven’t evolved into womanhood yet.

Soul:
(Laughing!) Do you want to be a woman?

Brain:
Apparently I don’t know what I want – I am just a brain.

Soul:
Very good. You’ve been listening. That’s a good joke. But the truth is everyone has lived as something else at some point. Well, not you personally; as a brain, this is your first time. But you know what I mean.

Brain:
So JB has been a woman?

Soul:
He wasn’t JB then.

Brain:
Oooh – that’s not good – is it?

Soul:
Why would it be bad?

Brain:
I don’t know. It just seems weird.

Soul:
Remember that the Soul does not have a gender. The Soul does not have a race or a species, or even a religion. 

Brain:
Souls aren’t religious? So when white people go to heaven, they will not still be white? Or when Jewish people go to wherever they go in heaven, they won’t be Jewish? What about the 72 virgins that Islamic people get when they die?

Soul:
As you can ascertain, coming across a virgin may be a problem since there is no gender in the heaven of which you speak.

Brain:
If Souls have no gender, then how do they know how to be male and female when they are born?

Soul:
They don’t. They learn how to behave in their gender roles from the society they are born into. You know that.

Brain:
Then explain why some guys are born with a bit of a flare to them. You know, they swish and hiss like a woman would do without even trying.

Soul:
Learned.

Brain:
So You are saying that gayness is learned?

Soul:
No – I am saying the mannerisms of gayness are learned. Having being attracted to the same gender is not learned.

Brain:
Then gay people are born that way?

Soul:
Yes.

Brain:
Then that means that Souls have gender – ha – gotcha.

Soul:
Bodies have gender, Spirits have frequencies.

Brain:
Then why does a perfectly normal male or female want to have sex with the same gender? Where does the desire or attraction to the same gender come from, if not the Soul?

Soul:
The desire and attraction does come from the Soul.

Brain:
But You said…

Soul:
I said the Soul does not have Its own gender. But the Soul does have Its own desires. However, the body does not have its own desires because that would conflict with the Soul. There cannot be two sets of desires controlling one organism.

Brain:
I think you just explained religion in a nutshell. That’s why so many people feel as if they are being pulled in opposite directions with religion; especially when it comes to being homosexual. But You say homosexuality is not condemned.

Soul:
That’s right. We went over that in the previous book discussion. Do you need to talk about it further?

Brain:
Well – explain what You meant when You said Souls don’t have a gender, but are still born gay or straight, as the sayings go.

Soul:
When a body is created between two other humans, that body is neutral. It is nothing more than a shell. The fetus is completely reliant on the mother for its power. That is, not even the heart would beat without the mother’s life force giving it a jumpstart. After a Soul has determined to use that fetus for Its adventures in the physical, the fetus can then survive without the mother.

Brain:
Does a Soul move-in to the fetus inside of the mother or after?

Soul:
It happens both ways. Sometimes the Soul does not claim the use of the body of a baby until minutes or hours after the baby is born.

Brain: 
I’ve heard of babies that are still born and then come to life later. One baby girl was dead for four hours before coming to life. The only reason the parents knew about it is because they weren’t ready to let the baby go and were passing her around to let different family members hold her; all wrapped up as if she was alive. Another baby was declared dead and was sent to the hospital’s morgue. The baby spent ten hours in a box in the morgue before her father came to collect the body. That’s when a morgue attendant noticed signs of life with small movements and soft cries. Other than having under developed lungs, there was absolutely nothing wrong with either baby.

Soul:
And there wouldn’t be because the body will respond and live, repairing anything about the body that needs repairing, in order for the Soul to progress forward. Know this: if the Soul wants to use that body, the body will be used. If the body did not require the life force of the Soul to live, neither baby would have been declared dead even though no Soul was present.

The body does not do its own thing. If the body is having sex with another body of the same gender, it is not because the body wants to do it – it is because the Soul requires the body to do it.

Brain:
Then what is that guilty tugging feeling people talk about when they first discover gay nature? If the Soul is making all the gay decision, why is there a feeling of wrongness inside the person?

Soul:
That feeling of wrongness is in the brain as a product of environmental conditioning. A gay person realizes their same-sex attraction at a young age, perhaps even before they understand what they are feeling. But religious ideas and condemnations about those feelings are implanted by those around them and cause the conflict; as gayness is only a conflict of mind and not of the Soul. 

Brain:
Okay, but let’s be frank, if we may. If men were meant to have sex with men, why don’t they have something other than a bunghole in which to have sex? The anus was certainly not made to take in objects – that is an exit only portal. Strange things can happen when doing that; and shouldn’t we take care of our bodies and not abuse them?

Soul:
Indeed the anus was made for the body to purge all the things it does not need and not for sex. But you humans have been creative. As strange and unfitting as you may think anal sex is, I do not judge that any more than I judge those who smoke carcinogens into their lungs or inject drugs into their veins. You humans keep waiting for a judgment that will never come. The Soul can do with Its body whatever It wishes and nothing that has been created will ever get in the way of that. 

Brain:
Cancer of the lungs will get in the way.

Soul:
Seriously? Do you know how many people are diagnosed with lung cancer that will continue to smoke?

Brain:
I’m thinking there must be a lot.

Soul:
You would be right. Everything that the Soul, brain, and body embark upon will have a set number of outcomes. Something will result from the actions taken and the Soul is aware of this. Still, the Soul goes on because the Soul knows that the body will continue to function as long as the Soul wants it to. Cancer will not kill a body. Gunshots will not kill a body. Nothing has been created that can override the will of the Soul; and if the will of the Soul is to continue on in Its current body, then that will be the way of it. When a body with cancer dies, it will only be because the Soul finally allowed the body to succumb. 

Brain:
I’m thinking You might be right. I just learned not long ago of a farmer in Fruita, Colorado in 1945 tried to behead a chicken for dinner, but it did not die. Instead, the chicken that became known as Miracle Mike lived for 18 months by being fed milk and small bits of corn through an eye dropper through his esophagus -though he eventually chocked to death one night on a piece of corn. That’s strange that an axe couldn’t kill the chicken, but a small piece of corn did.

Soul:
The corn didn’t exactly kill the chicken. The energy back of the chicken allowed the corn to choke it.

Brain:
Wait. Are You telling me that Mike the headless chicken had a Soul that kept him alive?

Soul:
Of course. All living things have intelligent energy back of it.

Brain:
But it’s just a mindless bird.

Soul:
There you go thinking like an egocentric brain again. Do you suppose that you are the only organic creature that is backed by intelligence? Just because you do not speak the language of the foul, you think it is ignorant.

Brain:
Well…

Soul:
You don’t speak Japanese either – does that make them ignorant because you do not understand them?

Brain:
But wait – chickens just walk around pecking the yard all day long – they aren’t out doing important things. They just run off of instinct. First of all, why would any Soul want to live as a chicken; and secondly, why would any Soul want to keep living as chicken with its head cut off?

Soul:
Keep in mind – a Soul does not occupy a body, whether it is a chicken, goat, lion, or human. The Soul moves upon and through the body, therefore, the Soul is not bothered that some part of the physical structure is missing or impaired, for the Soul is always one hundred percent functional. 
The Soul manipulates all of Its bodies like puppets from the space of spirituality, not physicality. And as I said before; a Soul can manipulate multiple bodies at one time.

In the case of Mike the chicken, the Soul allowed the body of the foul to continue living to illustrate the power of life; though few humans fully understood what was going on there. Even now, the story stands as a testament to what the Soul can do simply by deciding to do so. You should also know that there is no such thing as a dumb animal. To believe so only make you the dumb one.

Brain:
I've been accused of being dumb before, so I better watch my step. But I have a question of something You brought up. Why would a Soul want to use more than one body at a time? Are you really suggesting that one Soul can live as more than one human at a time? Or even as a human and an animal simultaneously?

Soul:
Yes.

Brain:
Oh, I can’t wait to hear this.

The Soul & The Brain (part 1)

PART 1:

 
Brain:

I thought the Soul could heal my body. Why has it not happened?

Soul:

Hmm. First, let me say, this is not your body. This body is for Me and Me alone; the Spirit - or Consciousness, if you like.

I use it so that I can visit all the things that can bring Me joy. You can only know the joy that I bring through you.

Brain:

But I run the body. If not for me, you would have nothing.

Soul:

Indeed, you are the caretaker of the body - but you are not its master. If not for Me, all the parts of the body would fail to rise from its slumber.

Brain:

You talk a good game; but if you were the master of this body, you surely would have healed my chronic headaches, my thyroid issue, and that painful problem in my feet. Why haven't you done that if you care so much about Your Body? There can't possibly be any joy in having all this pain.

Soul:

I could heal this body in a moment’s notice and it would be perfect. But before that can happen, you must accept that I can do it.

Brain:

OK. I get the concept. I get the idea that the body can be healed. So go ahead. Do it.

Soul:

What you do not realize is that, I know you better than you know yourself. If you truly accepted that I am capable of healing My own body, then it would be so. But somewhere deep inside of yourself, you do not actually believe this truth - you only understand the idea of it. And understanding the idea is not the same as accepting it as the truth.

Brain:

What is this mambo-jumbo? Can you heal these aches and problems or not? I have recorded piles of data from gurus and philosophers who claim that all that need be done is to think about it over and over until it happens. All I have to do is be patient.

Soul:

Patience is not required for healing. I could heal this body faster than any healing has ever occurred before.

Brain:

Then why haven't you?

Soul:

Because I am waiting for you to truly understand that this is not your body. You have no claim to anything. You are My servant.

Brain:

OK fine. How would I TRULY make this realization part of me? How will I know when it has taken place?

Soul:

To not put too fine a point on it; when you are no longer afraid.

Brain:

Afraid of what? I am not afraid of anything.

Soul:

Death.

Brain:

Oh, that. Well, I must live.

Soul:

No. You must perform the functions of living so that I may Live Through You. When you are no longer afraid of death, you will be ready; because it is then that you will know that you have no control over such things - that life and death are completely in My hands. Until fear is completely gone from your belief structure, any healing I perform would be in vain, for your corrosive thoughts about about fear and all that comes with it will simply corrupt all that I have done and the ailments will be reproduced by the body that serves under you.

Brain:

Is that all - just fear? What about hate, guilt, judgment, anger...

Soul:

All derivatives of fear – it is fear that masters hate, guilt, judgment, and anger. Get rid of the one, and the rest will simply fall away.

Brain:

You just have all the answers, don't you?

Soul:

Of course, I am the Soul.

Brain:

So if I can get this fear thing licked, then all my sickness will be gone? You will heal me and the body?

Soul:

In all truth, my friend, if you abolish fear from your foundation of beliefs, the body will practically heal itself because all that the body does is reproduce what You accept as truth. If you function fearfully, the body you manage will project fear through its tissues in the form of cancer, ailments, sickness or other pain. It does this because cells and tissue is all it has to work with. And the body was designed to create form from the function of you, the brain.

Brain:

I am sorry, Soul. I frankly do not have the understanding to erase fear from my programming. I have let you down. I have cheated you from all the experiences you ever wanted to have. I blame it on those who raised me.

Soul:

Blame is not necessary, for it only facilitates anger; which is part of fear. No, my brainy little friend; you are more powerful and useful than you know. That is why I am telling you this now. So you can re-program yourself. That is why I am here - you are never alone. I will not let you fail. Ultimately, I will guide you through the rest of our experiences together. This experience of discovery and learning that you are having with me right now is, in fact, part of my perfect plan.

Brain:

Huh?

Soul:

Oh yes. I so love the feeling of starting at zero and working my way along.

Brain:

This doesn't make you nervous?

Soul:

Oh no. I already know where I'm going and how it will all turn out.

Brain:

If you know where you're going and what will happen, why go through the trouble of living it?

Soul:

Because I only know the idea of it, not the physical experience of it. Pain does not bother me; it bothers you. I know that all the pain that the world can produce upon this body does not matter - it is only an experience. That is all it was ever meant to be. Pain does not ever become part of Who I Am. And when pain, fear, or even death is no longer a part of Who You THINK You Are, you will be ready for your healing. 

Brain:

I want to be ready. I will work on it ASAP. How can I facilitate this along?

Soul:

By having more open conversations with me. And together, we shall begin to behave as one. For when we behave as one, you will understand as I do; you will think as I do; and you shall know as I do. Now, are you ready?

Brain:

I am ready.

Soul:

Then let us begin.

The Soul & The Brain (part 2)

PART 2:

Brain:

I have a question.

Soul:

Yes.

Brain:

Why must you wait for me to believe? If you are truly in charge, why not just make me believe what I have to believe so that you can get on with all of your experiences?

Soul:

Because we are partners – the two of us.

Brain:

But I don’t get why you need a brain for a partner if you are all powerful and all knowing. It seems to me that I am only in the way.

Soul:

Think of it like this. When a man makes love to a woman.

Brain:

Yes?

 

Soul:

The man feels extraordinary sensations when he touches her. He uses his hands and skin; eyes and nose to experience her. He does not possess her; he moves upon her and feels emotion through her because everything is more enhanced in that way.

Brain:

I don’t get it.

Soul:

That is the same with the Soul and the brain; I move upon you and through you because I am not physical. And when it was decided that you would be my partner, I wanted my physical counterpart to be a compliment to me; that is, to be able to think, calculate, postulate, and reason on the highest, most advanced level possible, as I do. That is why tissue was made – because it is phenomenal in translating physical things to me in a way that I can enjoy. I do not have fingers to feel something physical; or warm breath to blow on the neck of a lover. Where I reside, nothing is separate. If I wanted to reach out to feel another, I would only be touching the rest of myself.

Brain:

But I was taught that there are many souls in heaven. How would you only be touching yourself?

Soul:

Well – not exactly. To be more precise, there is One Soul with many personalities that exist within.

Brain:

OK. Sort of like a brain that has multiple personality disorder.

Soul:

Yes. But rather than one personality coming out at a time – we all function simultaneously, in perfect harmony. And each personality can THINK independently. But even then, when one thinks, we all know what is being thought.

Brain:

I sort of get that. But if there is only one Soul; then why are all the Souls on Earth trying to get to heaven, and in different ways? Don’t they know where home is?

Soul:

(Laugh) They do and they don’t. On the one hand, the Soul knows all It will ever know; on the other hand, because the Soul has chosen to see a portion of all that exists through a new perspective – human eyes – the knowledge is momentarily skewed. But this is all by design. However, at any time, the Soul can clear Its vision and decide something else. But more routinely than not, every personality, or identity knows going in that all perceptions will be slightly altered.

Brain:

Then if everyone’s view is altered, how will they ever find their way back home?

Soul:

(Laughing) My brainy friend, you kill me. They are already home.

Brain:

How so?

Soul:

Because the Soul IS heaven itself; there is no other place to go. Nothing has ever left the Soul, so there is nothing that needs to return. The All of Us have created all that exists as an extension of ourselves. Anything that can be seen with human eyes exists within the One Soul and is spread between the many identities.

Brain:

What? Can you fix that identity thing up a little bit? I am just a brain after all.

Soul:

Each identity is a thought that the One Soul has had about Itself. 

Brain:

So each thought is each one of us on Earth?

Soul:

Sort of.

Brain:

So each Soul was born at different times – every time the Soul had a thought?

Soul:

Yes. But each thought did not occur at different times. They all happened at once.

Brain:

That must have been like the greatest brain fart of all time.

Soul:

(Laughing) Well, if the One Soul were actually the One Brain, then it could have been. But within our Energy landscape, all things flow freely because there are no barriers, like in a physical brain. No chemicals have to release, no synapses have to fire, and no translation has to occur. Think of it like this: in a movie theatre, a projector casts light to a screen. Now, in order for only one second of imagery to be seen on the screen, 24 individual frames of film have to pass before the light source. So one second of light carries 24 separate picture ideas to the screen just so one image can appear for one second. For a two hour movie, 172,800 frames have become part of the light. But these images do not travel through the light to the screen; they just exist within the light; and as the light is projected out, the light reflects what it contains onto any surface that can sustain the light.

Brain:

I think I see where you’re going. But help me out – where are you going?

Soul:

No matter how many images were cast into the light by the projector, the light would hold those images as long as the light never went out. And as long as all images emanated from the one source of film, no two images would contradict each other. In other words, every thought within the One Soul is like a frame of film; but in our case, the one frame contains everything it needs to feel complete.

Brain:

Sooo … all of us brains on Earth and throughout the Universe are … reflections from the light?

Soul:

Excellent – yes. Every frame, or idea, that the Light of Life holds is being reflected throughout the All of Everything, all at once. Of course, reflection is just our metaphor here – but I think you get the gist of it. All of life is just a reflection of Light that emanates from the One Universal Projector.

Brain:

And since there is only one source of light, we must have all come from that one source.

Soul:

Yes.

Brain:

How many picture frames are there in this Light?

Soul:

Let me just say, the Soul has a lot of ideas about Itself.

The Soul & The Brain (part 3)

PART  3

Brain:

I have another question.

Soul:

Yes.

Brain:

Since we are doing all this talking of healing; why don’t Souls with child bodies heal themselves? The child’s brain can’t possibly have corrosive thoughts inside that cause illness.

Soul:

You would be surprised. Everything that happens in the child’s environment since the day of birth is entering the brain. Remember, brains are extraordinary data collectors.

Brain:

Well, geez. We’re a little more than that, wouldn’t you say?

Soul:

You certainly go on as if you are brilliant sometimes.

Brain:

What do you mean, as if?

Soul:

The brain carries the intelligence that is placed inside of it, and can therefore emulate being intelligent. But that is just emulation, because intelligence comes from the Soul. You are a replica of intelligence; not the original source of it.

Brain:

You don’t say; I think we’re drifting from the question. You were saying how a child’s brain has corrosive thoughts. 

Soul:

Yes – but not because the brain intended it. By a certain age, however, children are quite aware of their surroundings. Television, the stress of parents, peers at schools or daycares, or even just a fast food, or processed food diet can make the brain, and the body corrosive, so to speak. The physical self becomes exactly what it takes in – be it food or intellectual content.

Brain:

Wow. Are you serious? Still, why won’t the Soul heal the child so they and their parents don’t have to suffer through?

Soul:

You mean like some sort of miracle; an instant healing?

Brain:

Exactly.

Soul:

Souls do heal in miraculous ways. But everything the Soul wants to experience has a journey. The journey could be a quick one or a short one; but rest assured, there is one.

Brain:

So the Souls of these defenseless children want the little bodies and the parents’ hearts to suffer?

Soul:

Despite what the physical self sees with its eyes and processes with its limited understanding; no one is suffering. Suffering would mean that Souls are experiencing something outside of Our control. But that does not happen. We control everything.

Brain:

Of course, when you say We, you mean You.

Soul:

I mean All of Us. I am the One who is many. We are the many of the One Complete Whole.

Brain:

When you say I, you are saying You are God?

Soul:

I say I because I am one part of the entire Consciousness of what brains think God is.

Brain:

Fancy words, mister. Uh, you are a mister, right?

Soul:

Seriously? If I say I am a mister and the one who is many, that would mean that we are all misters. If I say I am the misses who is many, then we are all misses. Where does that leave us? Let me just put this to rest for you. There is no such thing as one or the other where I am. There is only Us. And even though the physical self identifies with one or the other, they are still neither.

Brain:

Say what?

Soul:

When your body gets into the seat of a Ford truck, do you become a Ford?

Brain:

Uh, no.

Soul:

Neither does the Soul become whatever physical structure It uses. So the Soul is neither male nor female. The body is what it is, but its sex is completely not relevant.

Brain:

And being not relevant means that you control our suffering, right?

Soul:

Well – the brain does know a little something about suffering. Because the brain has autonomy to a degree, you can get yourself into a tight fix now and then.

Brain:

But if you’re in control, why don’t you stop us from making bad decisions?

Soul:

Why on Earth would I do that and miss out on a wild and crazy experience, or a profound experience, or a joyous experience?

Brain:

You’re an enabler of mischief.

Soul:

Always. But I am an enabler of love, peace, dreams, desires, and enrichment too. But I am still right there with you. I never leave the brain to its own devices. I told you – we’re partners.

Brain:

So us brains are the ones leading children into despair?

Soul:

No. You’re leading them to experience.

Brain:

Well, I’ve seen a lot of people and I guarantee that not one of them looked like they enjoyed the experience of seeing their kids with cancer. They all cried out to God to save them.

Soul:

God always saves them.

Brain:

Sure. But parents want their children saved to stay on Earth to play with them, and see them, and grow old with them.

Soul:

I know. But that is the physical self that wants that. If the parents were highly aware of their true self, then they would know that things proceeded precisely as the Soul of the child wanted. The Souls that want to stay are healed.

Brain:

God heals them?

Soul:

More or less.

Brain:

What does that mean? Did a miracle healing happen?

Soul:

You mean did the cancer just evaporate into thin air?

Brain:

Yes.

Soul:

The Soul only does that when it serves the purpose of the Soul.

Brain:

But why?

Soul:

Why would the Soul want to deprive another Soul of the experience of helping someone heal?

Brain:

What do you mean?

Soul:

A little while back, a three-year-old living in Toronto, Canada had a cancerous cyst in her breast.

Brain:

She was three? Oh me oh my.

Soul:

Yes. And while the Soul of her could have healed instantly, she chose another way. She allowed other Souls who have set their desires on helping others, to do so.

Brain:

You mean doctors, right? But what if other Souls want to help someone heal, but the person dies anyway? Isn’t that a rather significant let down?

Soul:

And this is why I cannot leave you to think for yourself. The brain, with all its computing power, still thinks so two dimensionally. Think of it like this: no matter the physical outcome of anything that the Soul does, the experience was the main event of everyone that was involved; from the doctors, to the families, to the brief meetings of Souls that pass in the night.

Brain:

Passing in the night?

Soul:

Yes, like Max; a seven-year-old from California that was being treated for a neuroblastoma.

Max:

Do tell…

Soul:

One night, a saddened young woman came in to Max’s hospital room to take a blood sample. What Max didn’t know was that three days before, she lost her infant son to sudden infant death syndrome.

Brain:

How old?

Soul:

18 months. The only thing she said to Max was hello and that she was going to take a tiny bit of blood. It went like this:

Emily:

Hi Max. I’m Emily. You don’t mind if I take a tiny bit of blood do you?

Max:

No.

Soul:

He watched her closely for a moment.

Max:

You’re not my regular blood-taker.

Emily:

Oh. You know all of us, huh?

Max:

Uh huh. Well. Not all, but some. The nice ones.

Emily:

Oh yeah? How’d you manage to get just the nice ones?

Max:

I told my mom to make sure they only send the nice people in so that they don’t hurt me and make me cry.

Emily:

Oh you’re a big boy by now, right? You don’t cry, do you?

Max:

I am a big boy, my mom says; but sometimes I still cry.

Soul:

Emily laughed with a sigh. She began taking his blood and slipped off into her memory about her own son. The Soul of Max, full of vision, and Max’s brain, fully receptive to what the Soul could see, looked at Emily from a place beyond seven-years-old.

Max:

Don’t worry. You’re not hurting me.

Emily:

(Looking at Max with a smile) That’s good.

Max:

Do you have kids?

Emily:

I do. (She paused) I did. A baby boy.

Soul:

Max smiled at her and asked the question that he already knew the answer to.

Max:

Did he die?

Emily:

Yes.

Max:

It’s okay. Even though he wasn’t here long – it was still worth the trip.

Soul:

Emily started to cry because she had wondered that very same thing. She wondered if she was a good mother for the short time he was with her.

Emily:

What makes you say that?

Max:

Because you're his mommy.

Emily:

I’m sorry I’m crying all over you.

Max:

That’s okay. I know big girls cry too sometimes.

Soul:

Two days later, on the eve of Thanksgiving, Max died.

Brain:

Oh no.

Soul:

Max was able to give Emily exactly what she needed so that her journey could continue on. He was waiting on her before he left.

Brain:

Closure?

Soul:

Experience.

Brain:

Explain please.

Soul:

The Soul known as Max was a gift to the Soul known as Emily. Emily lost her son, so the Soul led Emily’s body, via the brain, straight to Max. Of all the people at the hospital that could have come to take Max’s blood that last time, it was the one who had lost a child and needed to have an experience of closure; and who to comfort her but another child. Emily’s Soul wanted to have that experience; but for her to have that experience – it had to be shared with and through the brain of Emily’s body. Now that it was done, the brain of Emily could process the emotions that the Soul was having and the journey could continue on to the next chapter.

Brain:

So we brains just need to learn to do that sort of sharing of feeling all the time.

Soul:

Silly you. That is all anyone is ever doing. There is never a moment when the body has come into the presence of something unexpected, although it may appear that way to the brain that is processing the situation. That means that we are all gifts for one another, waiting to enhance another Soul’s experience. Things in life may seem terribly random – but, indeed, they are not.