I have a slight, four inch long indentation in my skull, just at the hairline above my left eye. It isn’t visible, but you can feel where is seems like the edge of a 2×4 whacked me sometime in the past.

Though I spent far more time in the emergency room than most children, not once was it for a head injury.

Today, I was reading about a study on reincarnation and how often blemishes or birthmarks coincide with people’s past life memories of injuries.

I found that interesting because one of my first past life memories (recalled as I was testing out this mediation (quarter of the way down the page)) was as a Norwegian 15th century ship builder, and being killed when a timber on the bow sprung loose and crushed my skull. The beam smashed me in the head in the identical place as my (current) head dent.

I never made that connection before.

Food for thought.

When living as a Soul—in order to keep from taking the ups and downs of Mortal life so seriously—you need only keep one thing in mind:

Soon, I’ll have forgotten all of this.

“Forgetting it all” may at first seem depressing, but if you truly live it, you will feel a profound relaxing—a mysterious opening—and a newfound appreciation of the Present Moment.

You treat the Big Bang theory as a fact.

But it is only a theory.

Do you know where the Universe came from?

No.

Do you know what happens after you die?

No.

Just as the Big Bang is a theory, what you believe happens to you after you die is a theory.

Do you want to live happy and carefree and free of fear?

Then pick a theory that supports the way you’d like to live.

Just like the Big Bang, treat your “after death” theory as a fact.

If you choose to live as a Soul (and there is ample evidence that the Soul is real)—if you treat the Soul as a fact—you will live happy and carefree and free of fear.

Why would you live any other way?

Really. Why would you want to live any other way?

Can you think of a better way of living?

Drop your dead-end Mortal theory. Treat the Soul as a fact.

Live as a Soul and be free.

Yesterday, I found out that my mother’s chemotherapy may take up to seven more months—seven freakin months. Maybe less, maybe more—the doctors don’t even know.

They are using a targeted, pill-form of chemo—milder side effects, but apparently a much longer treatment program. It’s not that anything new was discovered, it’s just that in all the visits and info and confusion, they never mentioned this.

The news dashed all hopes I had of hitting the road anytime soon.

So how does a Mystic handle deep disappointment? My answer below the break.

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One of the tasks I’ve assigned some of the students is to ask themselves during their day-to-day life, “Would this be important to me in 5000 years?”

If you are truly living as an eternal Soul, what is so important to you now that would still be important to you in 5000 years?

I asked myself that very question just this morning.

More below the break.
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Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. – Steve Jobs

… these things just fall away in the face of death (the Soul), leaving only what is truly important. Ironically, this is an excellent argument for living as a Soul. Why not live authentically? Why not live true to your being?

(From a work in progress)

The mystic understands her own version of karma. She knows any feelings of guilt will act as a barrier between her and her Beloved. She knows that any harm she does others, will come back onto her—in this life or some other.

While in the mysterious realm between lives, the mystic/Soul consciously chooses a life “weighted” with the same pain she has caused others. She voluntarily opts for this pain in an effort to deeply learn the lesson of her selfishness: That her selfish actions keep her separate from the Divine.

The Mystic’s Golden Rule is this:

As you do unto others it will be done unto you.