Questions and answers on life

Here are Sharon's questions as mentioned, with my answers. As I personally know the huge gaps in the areas I'd like to know, I am using both intuition or saying where I have no idea. But in the very process of answering questions, there is also a mechanism where even though it can't be proved (yet?) answers come and are added though where they come from is not from either my own knowledge or experience.

What is your view on the soul? I know from when we talked
and from you blog your view of organized religion, which I agree with
completely. So does the soul exist? And if so does illness, physical, mental or
emotionally have an effect on the soul?

The soul, never really considered it. We all share an awareness behind everything else, but like spirits I see no evidence for any more than that. We can sometimes project that awareness outside the body, so that's the nearest I can come across. But effects are on our memory and awareness, I don't think adding a soul dimension is necessary to see the effects so far.
But there are higher levels of our own known energy, the kundalini, which have definite physical effects when stirred by meditation, and are supposed to raise higher powers but no experience of that yet.

How did we get here? Evolution? God?(Not likely) or some
other force? How and why were we created? Obviously whoever created humans
must have had a sense of humor. Just look at how our bodies are put
together.

I will work on that. It doesn't really concern me, as death. We are here and can only experience here, so what came before or comes after is not going to help us here. But I like the way bodies are put together outside, they could just be a bit stronger when challenged in various ways, as our minds as well.

What purpose is there in suffering? Is it to teach a lesson?

Suffering- maybe this is a crossed wire in our design as I see no purpose for it at all (just like religion). Why on earth go to a school where the best way to learn was through punishment? Who on earth/beyond would bother to design a system like that without being a sadist? And for religion, if we have a creator, why worship them, and follow diverse rules changed by humans continually since the beginning of time.

*I know this is something you have blogged about but it is something that
really bothers me.* Shamanism. This is something that I have never really
studied and would like to hear more about.

Shamanism is a way of entering the collective mind, and using a journey as a way to deal with a specific question given by you or the patient/subject. There are many variations within the practice, but relies on 'entities' you meet there which may just as well be areas of our own minds. Some use drugs but I wouldn't ever try that again... (long story, single conclusion). It's more clairvoyance to me than a particular system, but I don't stick to one (the western way probably) but add new ones where useful.


Are some people meant to spend their lives alone? What
would be the purpose in it?

Are we destined to live alone? No- that's an assumption of fate, which in turn implies a decision from outside. Pure chance seems the reason in most cases, plus our own personalities. I turned down as many offers for marriage as I made. If one person on that list felt the opposite way I wouldn't be alone.In your case, you tell me you are shy and have built up walls. That would almost inevitably make you alone as you engineered it! No judging, just cause/effects.

Adversity is supposed to make us stronger. Stronger for
what and for that matter why do some have to suffer so much while others
breeze through life?

Adversity is an excuse people use to justify it. We'd all prefer not to. The actual relevance is where you take and pass a test, and need to know it wasn't easy or anyone could pass it. That's the closest I can get to adversity helping, but not the way other people mean it.

Do you think that we programmed from birth as to what and who we become? Or do we have some input into it?

Our personality seems wired from conception, there are twin studies that support that. But what happens is on a yes/no result of one question alone. Is there a higher power at work? If not, it's random, if so, they intervene when required, so we have chances to fulfil our purposes. But we'd only be machines if we had no influence on it.


Is it ever really possible to put the past behind you and leave it there?

Depends if you made a mistake and believed you were wrong when you were right, or blamed the wrong people for something. Finding things weren't caused as you thought will put it behind you, as will new information in the present. But of course the memories will remain one way or another.

We are all a part of the collective mind. So everyone should be equally able to tap into it. But the majority of people do not even seem to be aware that it exists. Why do you think that is?

That's a simpler one, we are not brought up knowing about it. As few look and even fewer find, it works in a way it doesn't impose itself upon us. Rather we get data and assume we worked it out ourself. It's only when we get information impossible to get normally we realise we're hooked into the total

Does everyone have a spirit guide? How do you find yours?

Totally skeptical on spirits, if they exist at all they have very little input in our world, probably as they aren't allowed to usually. Like aliens they choose not to interact openly, if they exist that is.