Just Live...

Brain:
And here I was thinking I was part of something significant.

Soul:
Everything about the Soul, the brain, and the body is significant in terms of experience; it is just that no one particular thing you do is more significant over another since the Soul wants you to do it all.

Brain:
You keep saying that there is nothing important in what we are all fighting everyday to achieve. It makes everything seem so pointless. Humans go to work all day to make a little money to support families, pay bills, have a little fun and try not to go crazy in the process. I hear You, I hear You, I really do – but why don’t we all just kill ourselves now if we are on this merry-go-round for eternity with nothing much to do except to check things out and then die? I’m just saying what people are surely thinking.

Soul:
The thing to check out while you are here is your humanness. Even with Me telling you how the relationship of the Soul and the body work, the main purpose for you is to live your humanity to the fullest; and that includes doing all the things that you can possibly see yourself doing. The thing to remember is that there is no right or wrong way to live your humanness, just as long as you are living it. The only heinous thing that you could ever really do is to not be the full magnificence of what life really is while occupying this space and this time as part of the physical world.

Compliment To The Soul

United As One

"The Soul & The Brain" (A Conversation) (excerpt from Part 11)

Brain:
If we can do things like, move mountains, why isn’t anyone moving mountains? I mean, literally.
   
Soul:
In the scheme of all that is possible, yes, mountains can be moved. And if Earth and humanity are to be one of the dominions where such things can take place, I suggest everyone as a whole begin moving in that direction as soon as possible.

Brain:
Wow. 

Soul:
When you ask as to why the mountain has not moved, therein lies your answer.

Brain:
I’m still not sure I’m clear on that. Is it because humanity doesn't think collectively that we cannot tell a mountain to move and have it move? I've understood that anyone with only the faith of a mustard seed could do it. I've seen nothing that suggests we all have to stand before the mountain and command it.

Soul:
You are coming at the idea of it incorrectly. The stillness of the landscape is not because there are too few people standing upon it yelling for it to obey; the Earth does not bend to your desires because the people of Earth do not really understand Who They Are, and therefore cannot live who they are. People have recently come to understand that they are something more than they have always been told, but that is the extent of it. They understand the idea of being more, but not the actuality of being more.

Brain:
What does that mean?

Soul:
It means that if just one person wants the mountain to move, they have to begin with the realization that they Are The Mountain. When this is realized, whatever that person commands of themself, will also include the mountain; so if they move, the mountain shall move with them.
Instead, the people of Earth have concluded that they are separate from everything. They cannot fathom that they are the same as the tree, the wind, the rain, the lake, the animals, or even the mountains.

Brain:
Okay. But I don’t get the reference to the mustard seed and faith.

Soul:
The mustard seed is a metaphor to explain, in simplest terms, just how easy it would be to move something as monumental as a mountain, if you but realized your universal embodiment to all that exists.

"The Soul & The Brain (Volume Two)" excerpt:

Brain:
You know, I was just thinking – I mean, naturally I was thinking – I’m a brain. But I was thinking of our entire conversation and how You are always talking as if You are not connected to me; like I am my own being.

Soul:
We have to do it that way for the sake of a conversation that involves words and writing. One of the main points of this is to illustrate the differences between a physical brain and the Soul. Having differences does not mean we are disconnected, however. It simply shows that the body is a tool that plays a role for the Soul. Another important point of our dialogue is to help transition Soulful Identities that are deeply seated into their physical act to a more aware state.

Brain:
You have often said that I do not do what I want; that I only can do what the Soul wants. But I surely feel at times that I am wishful for things. Sometimes this body and brain become so tired with the physical that I really wish that I just wouldn't function any longer.

Soul:
You mean suicide.

Brain:
Yeah. Sometimes I feel tired beyond words at having to contemplate and figure things out that the only thing that seems to make sense in order to have rest is to stop being whatever it is that I am – a brain, a human, a servant. And since the Soul can’t possibly become tired, being pure Energy and all, then the idea of suicide must come from the brain.

Soul:
You are right to postulate that the Soul cannot tire. And you are right to reason that it is the brain that rationalizes giving up when the circumstances of life have been battle-some. But those thoughts of surrender happen because the brain has been taught that surrender is a possibility.

Brain:
Suicide is a learned behavior?

Soul:
Yes. Have you ever heard of a five-year-old committing suicide? 

Brain:
No – at least not with the intention of doing so. Maybe they shot themselves because they were playing with a gun or something that shouldn’t have been left out.

Soul:
Age ranges on suicides vary, but you can agree that suicide is only considered by some after certain comprehensions about life have been reached. That means they learned death from television, movies, the internet, or from someone that has already done it. The brain will log this information for a possible later date, but it is the Soul that allows or disallows the process of self-termination to take place. Many brains contemplate suicide, but not all engage in it because of the Soul’s ability to shift that brain’s life course.

Brain:
The Catholics claim that suicides go to hell; but of course that can’t be right since You say there is no hell. So where do suicides go? Do they bounce around in the spiritual realm not knowing where to go?

Soul:
They do as they would do even if they had died of old age after living an exemplary life, since in both cases it is the Soul that has made the decision to leave.

Brain:
So nothing is different? It is just business as usual at the pearly gates?

Soul:
If there were pearly gates, sure.

Brain:
The bible’s pages contain the stories of seven men that committed suicide. It reads as though six of them, being ungodly men, deserved it because they were in disgrace and desperate. The seventh, Samson, sacrificed his life as a martyr, killing thousands of enemy Philistines, so he is regarded as a hero.

Soul:
I tell you this: there is no man, woman, child, or being of any kind that is ungodly. Even though someone may feel ungodly, desperate, or disgraced; they are not so in My eyes. Whether someone dies by plane crash, car crash, heart attack, the hands of another or even suicide; it is not a matter that I concern Myself with in the ultimate scheme of things; for all the ways of death that humanity can conceive has already been approved by the caretakers of those actions. All things are right in the view of the Soul.

Brain:
The bible doesn’t say anything specific about suicide, punishment, or forgiveness of it.

Soul:
Because it cannot since there is no need for punishment or forgiveness.

Brain:
Then where do churches get the notion of eternal damnation from for suicides?

Soul:
Their own imaginations.

Brain:
People might say that they are not making up rules on suicide because if they did You would get angry and smite them.

Soul:
(Laughing) I do not care what religions teach their flock, for it does not injure Me. Feel free to say anything you wish about Me. Feel free to conjure up stories of an afterlife when you still don’t know what this life is all about. Feel free to put words into My metaphorical mouth so that you can continue to control the masses through fear and fables so that you may exert power over them.

Brain:
Are You angry right now?

Soul:
No. I am showing you how little all of those things mean. You can do all those things and more in My name and I will not be bothered one little bit. Nor will I conform to fit your images of Me. But nevertheless, when the brain has ceased and the Spirit regains Its memory, It will still be delighted beyond words, even though what you have taught your masses does not match the truth.

The Soul & The Brain (excerpt from Volume Two)

Brain:
I do have another question.

Soul:
I thought you might.

Brain:
Every time I hear of someone dying, I always wonder what they see when they die. You know – the very first thing. I wonder what people like Hitler, child abusers, fiercely religious, or other people that we have all labeled as crazy or extreme see right when they die.

Soul:
Why do you wonder this?

Brain:
I don’t really know. I think I would just like to be there as they remember or realize the truth of all things. After being submersed in a lifetime of human beliefs, surely the first sights after leaving the body would seem phenomenal. I would like to be a fly on the proverbial wall for certain individuals as they cross-over. Maybe it’s so that I can say to them, “You see, you wasted your whole life on that messed up way of living.”

Soul:
Messed up?

Brain:
I know, I know. You say nothing is messed up because the Soul intends all that happens. But c’mon – the Soul has surely intended for some pretty messed up things to happen.

Soul:
The Soul does not intend every single thing. The Soul intends some things, and then allows other things that may not have been on the immediate agenda. And yes, if the Soul wishes, It can see what is coming whether directly intended or not; and yes, the Soul is all right with everything that comes. The Soul will never say, “I wish I had never experienced that.”

Brain:
I often wonder about people like Jim Jones; the religious leader that poisoned the kool-aid and killed nine hundred and nine of his followers in Guyana in 1978. I would like to have seen his expression, so to speak, as he saw that he killed all those people for nothing.

Soul:
Why do think they died for nothing?

Brain:
Because they were brainwashed – deceived – misled. They didn’t know what they were doing when they drank the poison.

Soul:
Hmm – on one level, sure, that is true. On another level it is not. They had a purpose in revealing something to future followers of religious leaders.

Brain:
Like what? What being stupid looks like?

Soul:
Think of it like this: if Jim Jones had only been able to kill three or four with his poison punch, would that have made as big of an impact on society? If he had killed a hundred, what then? People would have seen it as a tragedy and then moved on. But more than nine hundred died and that really left its mark in the history books for all to see. A marked example of what can happen when a person gives all of their power and thinking ability away to someone else.

Brain:
But why nine hundred? The same example could have still been made with even one person being killed.

Soul:
Honestly, would we be talking about it now, in the year 2014, something that happened in Guyana in 1978, if one person had been killed? Even if five had been killed?

Brain:
Probably not.

Soul:
Right – because to make more of a lasting impact for all future people to see, a grander statement had to be made.

Brain:
So the Soul is into making statements?

Soul:
The Soul is into giving tools to others to help them on their journey. Everything that happens in life serves something or someone. As you are a servant to someone else, someone out there among the population is a servant to you. Even I am a servant to the needs of humanity. In fact, everyone is a servant many times over to the act of humanity. Therefore, from now until the end of life, anyone that is thinking of giving away their power and thinking ability to a religious leader, or anyone, can see what the result will be.

Brain:
But people still do it even though Jim Jones, and others, has killed many in the name of God.

Soul:
Yes – but the examples are still there. Followers cannot claim that they were unaware of what complete surrender will do.

Brain:
You said, “Will do.” Does that mean a person cannot give up their power or thinking ability without disaster occurring?

Soul:
Disaster will always occur when a person allows another to think and act in their place.

Brain:
But people surrender themselves to God all the time. As a matter of fact, they say You command it.

Soul:
I would never command such a thing. Why would I? I do not need humanity to surrender the free will I have given them back to Myself. That would defeat the entire purpose of the creation.

Brain:
Yeah but, who will the people follow? Won’t they be lost without God or a servant of God leading them?

Soul:
Being lost does not come from following. Lost comes from looking for something that does not need to be found; and they are all looking for Me – the most un-lost being in the Universe. I am the pair of glasses that are on your head when you cannot find them. I am that pencil in your hand when you are looking for something to write with. I am your keys that you sat on the mantle five seconds ago and have since forgotten where you put them. I am that close and closer to you at all times. I am right before you, behind you, and inside of you. Stop searching for Me, for it is in the searching that you are lost.

JB Lewis, The Soul & The Brain: Volume Two (Coming Soon)

The Soul: Consider This...

Life Is Pretty Simple

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.