"Vocatus atque non vocatus, deus aderit"
Called or not called, GOD will be present
Inscription on Gravestone of Professor Dr Carl G Jung, Kusnacht Switzerland

The Soul and Belief in GOD

Believing or not believing in GOD - Thankfully in our generation more than in any other generation we have the freewill choice as to believe or not believe; in the past generations religious leaders brainwashed the population, and in many cases punished violently the non-believers. Hence these irresponsible leaders caused a backlash of rebellion against traditional man-made religious laws and the man-made "religions". It is inconceivable to understand that anyone can force someone to believe in GOD.

This freewill choice enables a person to think for themselves and use the power within ones own mind, thoughts and soul to come to the same conclusions as many other spiritually enlightened souls. The journey and pathway to "finding GOD" and "finding ourselves spiritually" in that we all contain a powerful spiritual soul within our physical existence is as amazing as the number of souls that live on this planet.

Belief in רבונו של עולם an Eternal Divine Spiritual Creator of the universe and belief in a SPIRIT world is an inner personal experience. Each and every individual has their own unique feelings, experiences and beliefs.

There are 3 basic guidelines, given by the good spiritual leaders to help each individual explore their own beliefs by themselves:-

#1. Awakening your spirit within you - by looking at the Stars in the sky at night and looking at the beauty of nature, the trees, plants and flowers.

#2. Awakening ones belief in a soul and spiritual world. This occurs when someone you love dies and passes over to spirit world. Every single person in the world knows and loves someone, at some stage of their life who dies. This connection and continual process of life connects all the generations and spirit souls.

#3 Awakening the depths of love everyone has hidden and suppressed well springs of LOVE and creative loving energy deep inside. The opening up of true unconditional wellsprings of LOVE within ones soul, connects each person directly with the creative energy of this world - GOD. Feeling and expressing LOVE, connects one with life energy of GOD. Where there is love there is GOD, and where GOD is there is life, vitality, happiness, faith, hope and peace.

1. Awakening Your Spirit

שאוּ מרוֹם עיניכם וּראוּ מי ברא את אלה

Lift Up Your Eyes Towards the Heavens,

and Look "Who Created These Stars" ?

Throughout the bible - "Torah", it is suggested for everyone to look at the Moon and the Stars in the heavens above at nighttime . There is something extraordinary about looking at the beautiful sky on a clear night - especially the beautiful moon.

You will feel some spiritual energy when you look at the stars and the moon in the sky. Your soul will be awakened. Just try it and see, it is truly awe inspiring and amazing, no-one can tell you how or what you will feel, as each person is as unique as a star in the heavens above, but it is guaranteed that you will start to feel something special and unique . For thousands of years, millions of people have looked at the stars at night, and have always felt an inexplicable spiritual feeling .

From the first time noted in the Torah, of Abraham until the last generation of Rabbis, like Rabbi Avigdor Miller of Ocean Parkway, New York, have always emphasized the importance of looking at the stars at night .

Looking at websites like the NASA website, taking a tour of our solar system on their website, may also give you a similar feeling. But there is nothing that compares to looking at the stars in the sky at night with your own eyes.

As your eyes are the physical windows of your soul, by looking and connecting the energy that is emitted from the moon and stars, a spiritual energy of wisdom and understanding arrives in your soul .

Image reproduced by Courtesy of NASA

Similarly looking at photos of planet earth from one of the many satellites is as awe inspiring . This photo is of Europe at sunset - its amazing to think that you are looking at an area with over 1000 million people, and with so much activity, as the sun is setting for another day.

As your eyes are the physical windows of your soul, by looking and connecting with the energy that is emitted from the moon and stars in the sky at night, a spiritual energy of wisdom and understanding arrives in your soul .

2. Awakening a Belief in a Soul & Spiritual World

אלהי נשמה שנתת בי טהוֹרה היא אתה בראתה

Our soul - the Neshoma ( נשמה ), what is it ? where is it ? how can we quantify it ? all of these questions, only YOU can answer yourself. The soul, just like belief in GOD, is a feeling and awareness that each individual develops for themselves at a destined and specific time.

THE MOMENT of DEATH

"The Key" and the moment one really becomes aware, starting to understand the existence of a soul, is when someone you love and someone who loves you, dies.

Have you ever been with someone at the moment they die ?

At the moment of death, the person usually gives a few deep gasps of breath and their eyes open wide, like they suddenly have come alive with new vitality, they see something with their eyes opened wide, and then they die. From everyone whom has been with someone at the moment of death, they will tell you the experience is the same. This is "the moment of death experience".

Looking at the body after death, and knowing the person when they where alive, is one of "life's experiences", it makes everyone think and feel that the body is not just a physical body, but a home to something more - like a soul. Then it arrives - at that moment - an intrinsic belief in some type of life-after-death spirit world.

During a normal persons life, one will have this opportunity of spiritual awakening several times. We all have and know someone older than us whom we love - who dies. Many people will tell many stories of how they came to be with their loved one at the hospital just moments before they die. This is no coincidence, it is spiritual destiny for your soul.

This is the connection of continuity of life. They have passed to spirit world and with the bond of love, one is connected eternally, the stronger the love the more spiritual experience. For those people whom have felt a panic feeling after someone they love has died, then please see the page on spiritual rescue work, to comprehend those feelings.

The Spirit World is all Around

Hence clairvoyants, astrologers, palmists and mediums have always been popular, as they help us to try to understand ourselves and re-affirm our belief that there is life-after-death.

As for the Jewish belief, may we suggest you read the article on re-incarnation of souls, taken from the Book of reincarnation by Rabbi Chaim Vital, one will learn to understand that a persons soul contains many levels, some of which exist in the physical body, some hover around the person's body in one's AURA, and some vibrate on a higher frequency in SPIRIT world.

The Spirit world is simply a world of spirit souls that surrounds us in harmony with this physical world, but on a different vibration. In a similar way that we know the atmosphere around us is full of electromagnetic frequencies of airwaves, anything from television airwaves and radio waves to mobile phones all those signals are transmitted in the air around us on different frequencies.

Similarly spirit souls and Divine energy is all around us vibrating of higher energies and frequencies. Spiritually sensitive people will in fact see the pure spiritual souls and energy with their 3rd eye in the form of colours, usually purple, pink, green or as a wholesome golden colour.

Which brings us to our next page SPIRIT & GUIDANCE communicating and interacting with spiritual energy and our guardian angels that are close to us and surrounding us .

Only When a Person has Found the

Inner Spiritual Feeling & Belief in Spirit World

It is only when a person really and truly believes in an Eternal Divine Spiritual World and simply "knows" of the existence of a spiritual soul from within ones mind, thoughts and soul that one can start the journey to understand "Reincarnation"- the journey of ones soul, from where one has come and to where one is going.

The Awakened Soul

אלהי נשמה שנתת בי טהוֹרה היא אתה בראתה

The first questions one will be puzzled by when trying to understand the concepts and existence of soul (commonly referred to in Jewish teachings as a Neshoma נשמה), is what is a soul ? Where is it ? How can we quantify it ? All of these questions puzzle everyone. The soul, just like belief in GOD, is a feeling and awareness that each individual develops for themselves at a destined and specific time.

Reb Chaim Vital in the Book of Reincarnations explains that our physical and spiritual aspects coexists together. It is clear to everyone exactly where our physical body is located, however our soul can exist in and out of our physical body; it's energy ascends and transcends into our physical presence but can also be in two or many places at the same time, depending one where our thoughts are focused.

Or rephrased more accurately the "Nefesh Soul" aspect of our soul can be in our physical body whilst the "Yechidah - Oneness" aspect is together at One with GOD and spirit world, meanwhile all the other aspects in between can be almost anywhere else; the most centered of spiritually enlightened people have all the aspects in control in the place where they want them, whether it be in this physical existence or in the spiritual realms.

Every Living and Non Living Entity in this Universe has a Soul

Every living and non living entity in this Universe has a soul, NOTHING physical can exist without a spiritual soul energizing and connecting it with the Eternal Divine Spiritual realms. This includes absolutely EVERYTHING; mountains, clouds, rocks, trees, flowers even a blade of grass, and the minutest of ants etc.,

This is one of the spiritual reasons that the Torah - Bible forbids destroying fruit trees, as indeed the person who cuts down a fruit tree is murdering a spirit soul, that was designated by GOD to provide its fruits to mankind. The levels of spiritual soul existence will vary in each group as explained in the Book of Reincarnation Sefer Gilgulim, in the section 5 levels of existence.

3. Awakening The Depths of Love

From conception, birth and early childhood, all existence is based on constant LOVE and life energy of love. Depending on the concentration of creative LOVE energy, will give the physical and spiritual soul the energy and strength to grow. As a person matures, the natural transition of any normal person is to reverse the role of receiving love into one of giving love and creating a loving energy.

Sadly some people never "mature", and expect to keep on receiving and stealing energy from others instead of giving and creating love/life energy.

The awakening of ones soul begins when one learns to truly love. Everyone has within ones soul an infinite wellspring of love. The opening up of true unconditional wellsprings of love within ones soul connects each person directly to the purest of creative energy of this world, a strong connection that makes one fall in love with life and fall in love with love energy with spiritual love and appreciation for GOD.

Feeling and expressing love, connects one with life energy of GOD. Where there is love there is GOD, and where GOD is there is life, vitality, happiness, faith, hope and peace.

From conception, birth and early childhood, all existence is based on love and the creative life energy of love. This concentration of love, gives the physical and spiritual soul the energy and strength to grow. As a person matures, the natural transition of any normal person is to reverse the role of receiving love into one of giving and creating love energy with ones parents, siblings, friends and family, with genuinely nice people one meets every single day and ofcourse the greatest love of all is with ones true soulmate.

The moment one begins to generate an energy of love is the moment ones soul is awakened. Only an awakened soul can truly love. The wellsprings of love are deep within everyone's soul, once a person has matured and learnt how to love one has then truly mastered the key of life and unlocked a door forever.

When we live with unconditional love, we are filled with life energy and vitality, this feeling of aliveness is like a flowing river of continuous loving Godly life energy. In the same way we were conceived with the LOVE energy of our parents, then throughout all our lives, our vitality and energy is only maintained through the creative LOVE energy we generate each and every day. Without thoughts of love in our lives we are sleeping, only thoughts of love have the power to awaken our soul.

Giving and Creating LOVE Energy

This transition and transformation of ones personality and of ones thoughts, comes with age and maturity. When one matures, one recognizes that LOVE energy is not something that is in short supply, but indeed is an energy that can be created abundantly.

Ones loving thoughts create a strength and energy for ones soul. The more loving thoughts one has, the more life energy and vitality is created. People who are sad, depressed, jealous and hateful are simply blocking their own potential, by suppressing their true potential of loving creative energy.

The wellsprings of love are deep within everyone's soul, once a person has matured and learnt how to give love and create a loving energy, one has then truly mastered the key of life and unlocked a door forever (unless one foolishly closes this loving energy by becoming sad and depressed). Throughout life, there is a natural urge to build on this loving creative energy, becoming even more kind, generous and loving, with a selfless desire to marry and have children, and helping as many people as one can in all kinds of situations.

LIFE of LOVE

The aim of this God-given gift called LIFE, is to use and develop our individual and collective spiritual energy towards a true spiritual selfless service and unity with GOD, then there will be only peace LOVE and harmony on earth. No-one will ever want, and all our needs will be provided for, by nature and earth. Greed, hatred and jealousy are destructive forces that corrupt our souls and cause death.

When we live with unconditional love, we are filled with life energy and vitality, this feeling of aliveness is like a flowing river of continuous loving Godly life energy. In the same way we were conceived with the LOVE energy of our parents, throughout all our lives, our vitality and energy is ONLY generated and motivated through the creative LOVE energy we generate, through love of life, love of our soulmates, parents, children, friends, and the love of our purposeful life in selflessly helping other people. Without LOVE in our lives we are DEAD .

LIFE versus DEATH ; LOVE versus HATE ; וּבחרת בחיים

There are many reincarnated souls of "complaining" people who have had experiences in life, but instead of learning and changing their attitude, they chose to COMPLAIN, blaming others, with hateful and bitterly negative thoughts. They poison and fill themselves with jealousy and hatred, instead of using nice loving constructive words. They are the type of people who criticize and destroy others with their gossip and slander. Hence, they cause their own death and create even more problems, as they are suppressing their love energy and blocking their own life vitality, such people get further "side-tracked" because of their bad attitude and complaining.

If only - they would change their attitude, stop complaining and start THANKING GOD for the gift of life and all the wonderful experiences available to each and everyone of us, like watching a beautiful sunrise or sunset, looking at the beauty of the stars and moon at night, or seeing the natural beauty in green trees, plants, flowers, fruit and vegetables.

ספר חוֹבת הלבבוֹת שער בחינה

Wake-Up !

In the book Chovos halevovos Shaar Bechina - ספר חוֹבת הלבבוֹת שער בחינה, known in English as the book "Duties of the Heart" by Rabeinu Yosef Ibn Paquida, teaches that to awaken oneself spiritually especially if one feels tired, lethargic and sleepy during the day, one should immediately focus ones thoughts on love. The greatest and purest love is the love of GOD and love of life.

Thank GOD with love for this opportunity to experience this amazing journey of life on planet earth, with especial thanks for the radiant variety of beautiful colours of the fruits, plants, flowers and trees. For the beauty of the sea, the clouds and rain, sunshine, the stars and the moon in the sky at night, all thoughts of the beauty of nature will generate a real love of life energy within ones soul, and ones soul will truly awaken each and every moment of every day with the energy of love.

At that moment in your life when you feel love in your heart, softening you to become full of love and compassion is the feeling of true spiritual awakening of ones soul.

Once a person has awakened spiritually with love, ones life will never be the same and transformation has just begun. Suddenly ones aims and ambitions change. Life has new meaning with a sense of purpose, enabling a person to explore the meaning of ones life.

Love of GOD and Love of all Creations of GOD

אהבת השם יתברך ואהבת הבריוֹת

Living a life of LOVE - is a continuous life of vitality, that will always radiate a sense of happiness. Using the power of speech to compliment others constructively, finding ways to be helpful and loving to others. Then one will continue to love and be loved, enjoying life with LOVE , happiness and vitality even until the day of transition out of the physical body to spirit world.

In radiating LOVE, that is the true LOVE OF GOD and SPIRIT world, and LOVE of mankind, this, in turn creates you as a medium of the spiritual energy of GOD, which will raise ones soul level to CHAYA and then hopefully elevating to a Oneness with GOD - Yechida.

This sense of strength of pure spiritual LOVE, one will feel alive and be able to send LOVE and healing energy help to those who may need it in this world. The cycle of life and love always continues and never dies, being part of the creative life cycle means life energy will always continue to flow to you and through you for the benefit of others.

Where there is LOVE, there is GOD.

And Where there is GOD there is

Life, Hope, Faith and True Happiness.

We all arrived on this planet through sexual love of our parents, everything that is grown and produced in this world is done through LOVE. Love is the creative energy of planet earth. So make the decision to choose a life of LOVE and kindness, and you will always feel the LOVE of GOD, which will attract LOVE and happiness into your life.

At that moment in your life when you feel the LOVE of GOD work on your heart, softening you to become full of LOVE and compassion then nothing else matters, and all your problems dissipate . Feeling the energy of true LOVE is truly a gift from GOD.

Your life will never be the same and transformation has just begun . Suddenly your aims and ambitions change. Life has new meaning with a sense of purpose and a true love of life fills your heart with inner faith, hope and peace.