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Originally Posted by Lisa777  Bill said: "But I also believe that the Soul might have some influence over the unconscious/subconscious"
So with this statement are you saying there IS another influence? Could you define what you mean by "soul"? |
The soul, as I see it, is the non-physical entity of which the physical self is a much smaller, much more limited extension. Put another way, the soul is a fragment of God whose purpose it is to experience existence from a unique perspective. (God, being the all that is, cannot, per se, experience anything, given that God is already
everything. But God "fragments" Her/Him/Itself into smaller "souls" for the purpose of experiencing, of viewing events from a limited perspective.) The soul determines the physical experiences it is interested in having, and creates extensions of itself (physical incarnations) in order to fulfill those intentions. Since the soul is outside of time, it can have various physical extensions occuring at several points in time simultaneously. It has been suggested that this simultaneity can explain the appearance of reincarnation...but I won't go there right now.
I am on the fence when it comes to determining just how much the soul influences its physical extension. I am inclined to agree with some of the earlier posts on this thread who propose that the soul might have an initial agenda of sorts, but its physical extension can overrule that agenda if it so desires. (I used to practice astrology, and there was an old adage I learned early on:
the stars incline, they do not command). However, if the physical extension doesn't put any conscious thought into what it wants to experience, or any conscious effort in that direction, then the "default" experiences, as preconceived by the soul, are what will be experienced. The soul would exert its influence, I believe, by communicating with the unconscious/subconscious mind.
Of course, I don't claim any originality along these lines...much of what I believe comes from a mix of
The Seth Material and
Conversations with God.
I, too, do not believe that an entity can visit its influence on another entity without that entity's explicit invitation (whether conscious or unconscious). Meaning that there are no victims on this plane (or any plane, for that matter). I still maintain that the girl we've been talking about was not a victim; her attacker was invited, and for reasons that were both good and divine, whether we as onlookers can know (or understand) those reasons or not.