The Difference between Spirit, Soul and Ego

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Published on 03 October, 2013, Hits: 7148

Greetings once again, dear Creators. We are the Founders, working in tandem with this channel's own Higher Self. Let us go a bit deeper into the nature of the Self, and particularly, the three major aspects.

“Soul” and “Spirit” are not the same. Soul refers to the individualized spark of Creation, or essence of Self, residing within each one of you. It is a unique, tiny facet of God, and yet from a physical perspective, each individual soul is vaster than the entire universe.

Technically, the soul refers to level seven of our 12-dimensional Self. The levels below the soul are individualized, specific aspects of Self, while the levels above the soul are commonly called the collective levels, or group soul complexes. We will be going into detail on the nature of these levels a bit later.

You could say that Spirit is the essence, or basic energy permeating all of life. It may be helpful to think of Spirit as the intelligent consciousness of all things, but it is more than that. It is energy, matter and consciousness and it is beyond them as well. It is the movement of God, or the outpouring of God consciousness into all things. It is what gives everything life.

The soul is both perfect and imperfect. It enters into various embodiments and levels of experience in order to grow in understanding and awareness. While it does not know everything the way Spirit does, it knows enough not to judge what is experienced. Judgment belongs to the realm of ego. Souls want to experience everything without bias or preference, while the ego judges things as good or bad, right or wrong, better or worse.

For example, in one lifetime, the soul may desire to know what it is like to oppress others, and so he or she might incarnate into a royal family that has total disregard for the common people. In another lifetime, the soul may desire to experience the opposite polarity and so incarnates into a family of poverty, struggle and suffering, being oppressed at the hands of the royal family. This is not a punishment for the “sins” of oppressing others in a previous lifetime, but merely a desire on the part of the soul for a balanced and full perspective.

The soul does not differentiate between right and wrong behavior. However, as souls grow and evolve, they naturally seek out those life experiences that foster love, compassion and service to others, since these values vibrate at a higher level than fear, judgment and guilt. An overly simplistic way of telling how evolved a soul has become, is to observe what percentage of his or her life involves expressions of love and compassion, versus fear and guilt.

The egos of humanity can distort virtually any idea, including this one, thereby constructing an image of God as angry and vengeful, demanding obedience and meting out punishment to the so-called “wicked.” The soul, however, is content to simply observe the contrast between opposing ideas.

All “evil” on planet Earth involves identification with the lower self, or ego. The ego is the part of the soul that believes in separation from God. It naturally identifies with those aspects of self that seem to be separate; i.e., the physical, emotional and mental levels of being. It fails to see that there are many levels that are energetically shared. So while the ego believes each one of you is a separate, isolated physical person, Spirit knows that all humans are One Being expressing as billions of individual life organisms.

Because your souls are multidimensional, there are lots of intricacies and complex configurations possible between individuals and groups. These arrangements are not confined to the physical Earth. While there are small community groups, large governmental organizations, and everything in-between on Earth, there are similar groups existing in the higher realms. Souls at different levels of vibration can interact with each other in a variety of ways. Later on, we will take a look at souls who share human bodies with each other, or who transfer and swap out various levels of each other’s being.

Human language does not have adequate terminology to describe all of these interactions, but we will give this our best shot in the following chapters. For greater understanding, please consult the glossary and index. Hopefully, by describing these interdimensional relationships, we can dispel much of the confusion surrounding topics such as “walk-ins” and “partial soul transfers.”

Psychotherapists will find a lot of useful information in the material that follows. A significant percentage of patients in therapy are suffering from various levels of soul fragmentation, a concept we will explore in depth in Chapter 3. In some cases, there is nothing actually “wrong” with these patients. They have agreed, or have contracts on a soul level, to undergo certain experiences involving partial or total soul transfer (topics discussed at length in the following pages). It is our goal to help the therapist discern the difference between gross emotional imbalances and voluntary soul agreements that might seem to manifest as multiple personality or dissociative disorders.

Excerpt from the book "Soul Integration" by Sal Rachele