There’s lots of talk debate if everyone has a soul or not. The biggest argument I hear that not everyone is born with a soul is all the horrible things some people do in this world and that no one with a soul could ever do those things. I have several counter arguments to this claim. So this week in Deeper Thoughts I decided to put out my take on this subject.
We are all a part of Source, God, the Prime Creator, whatever you want to call it. That being existed in itself until one day it posed the question “What am I?” It was then Source fragmented into this dimension we reside in and the other dimensions below and above it. We have split off from Source to come down here to gather experiences and when we die we return to Source to integrate those experiences in order to answer that question. We come here for experience and expansion.
Now put a pin in that because we’re going to circle back. Now keep in mind here in the third dimension material plane we have to understand the law of duality. There is no one side to things. Each coin has two sides. There’s love and hate, courage and fear, big and small, light and dark, and there’s good and evil. You can’t have one without the other.
So to circle back we choose to incarnate into certain lives with certain experiences for universal expansion. This includes the experiences of creating what we collectively deem as terrible events.
Now to play devil’s advocate. There’s also a matter of perspective when it comes to what is evil/good. Did Stalin think he was doing something evil when he was killing his fellow countrymen? Both sides in a war don’t think they’re on the side of evil. Even serial killers often think they’re justified in their actions.
That last point leads into this next part. What causes the average person to break and commit most of the evil acts we hear about? Trauma. Trauma can break any man or woman, depending on the severity. Many times unhealed childhood traumas compound on one another can break a person over time. Untreated mental illness can take hold. When a child is raised in an environment where violence is the norm, that child doesn’t think anything of it. A child that grows up in a war torn country can grow up to happily create terror and havoc on those forces they deem the enemy. Look at victims of Stockholm syndrome. A normal person held hostage can, overtime, be mentally broken down and willingly do horrendous things for the person holding them captive. Good people can be brainwashed.
We all have a dark side within us. Most of us don’t act on it. For those of you who claim not everyone has a soul, but you’re certain that you do, ponder this. How many times have you gotten so angry at a person you said “I just wanna kill them sometimes?” How many times have you gotten so mad at a person you got into a fight with them and beat them up over something after you calmed down wasn’t really worth that violence? Even if you just say “I could kill them,” and never act on it, that’s a flash of that dark side within. We are all capable of being pushed over that edge. Most of us will hopefully never be pushed that far. How many of you would hunt down and kill someone that killed your family? While many would deem that justifiable and most would understand, what if the person you killed turned out not to be the one who committed the murder? You killed an innocent person then so does that mean you don’t have a soul?
It’s not that the soul is non-existent or corrupt, but rather the human mind becomes corrupt and twisted. Thinking a person has no soul dehumanizes that person. This in turn makes it easier to hate them or place blame. The soulless person debate is just another tool to place more division between people, to polarize us. The soul that resides in your body does not have the same perspective it did while it was connected to Source.
We all have a soul, but the mind can be broken and corrupted. We choose to come down here for experience and expansion, and sometimes that includes being on the evil side of things. Remember that good and evil are two sides of the same coin in this world of duality. I’m not saying that I approve of the heinous acts that occur in the world. We all have souls, but we all have the potential for evil.
Even if this article didn’t change your mind, I hope it opened you to a different perspective. Not everything in this world is simply black and white. I hope you enjoyed reading and once again, have an enlightening day.
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