Part I in a series by Peter Watson Jenkins

We’re all rather used to facing crises in our lives. You name it — credit card debt, tangled relationships, ill health, and pain — “been there, done that” you say. But who exactly has been there and done what? Viewed spiritually, was it our human ego or our so-called “higher self” (a synonym for our soul) who was managing the crisis?

As we muddle on with these pressing problems, our ego is always involved in the fight, or so it seems. When things get really bad and bankruptcy, divorce, or hospital looms over us, we resort to agonized prayers for someone or something other than our human ego to help us. Should we?

In this first look at soul crisis management, I want to sort out some ideas. First, let’s take a good hard look at this “thing” we call our soul. There are some points worth explaining for beginners. I have been incredibly fortunate in being able to talk regularly with the Masters of the Spirit World (through the channel Toni Winninger) for the past five years or so, and have some understanding of their principles. To make doubly sure, I’ve checked this article out with them. (Just feel the vibrations!)

The divine, being pure energy, cannot truly be separated from anything that exists because the whole universe is energy.

To understand the soul we must first understand the divine. The nature of the Creator (a term the Masters sometimes use) or Source (a term the Masters seem to prefer) is completely different from our traditional idea of God as an exalted being who is wholly “other” from us, who judges us for the type of life we have led, and who rewards or punishes us in some way or another. That idea is definitely out. Source is much bigger, much more personal, and much more scientific!

Source is pure energy. According to Albert Einstein, whose soul I interviewed for Talking with Leaders of the Past, all energy is divinity. He told me “all souls emanated from the Creator… so within every particle of energy there is a reflection of divinity.” The old philosophical idea of the existence of the two worlds of the physical and the spiritual no longer holds good. As Einstein proved a hundred years ago, everything physical is basically energy, and as he says now, the spiritual Source is also energy. The divine, being pure energy, cannot truly be separated from anything that exists because the whole universe is energy.

Is there any sense in which Source is different from everything else? People say, “It was easy once to think of God the Creator making the universe, world, nature, human beings—the lot. Now you tell us that God is everything.” Changing our perception is very difficult but not impossible. We say that a chemical dye is red, blue, or yellow but that is only one aspect of it. Another aspect is if it is wet or dry. Physical matter is energy and one aspect of that energy is divinity. That is the eternal aspect. The Source is within everything, including both the writer and the readers of this article. The eternal aspect of energy is within our thoughts as well as our body.

If the Source is the energy of our human body and mind, what is the difference between our human ego and our soul? The answer is one of degree, the purity of the vibration of the energy. Here the idea of radio frequencies can be helpful. Energy comes in waves. The slower, heavier waves of Earth and all human, animal, and plant life are termed the “third dimension.” The wave bands are not discrete; it is sometimes possible for someone like my channel, Toni, to access the higher frequencies of the fifth dimension where spirit communication takes place.

Now we come to the root answer of our quest. To fulfill its desires, Source has chosen to break off from itself fragments (in their billions) that we call souls. Each one of us is a soul. Souls are pure and eternal energy, being energetically connected to Source, but they are also separate individual entities, having freedom of choice, personality, and creative powers. The natural state of a soul is a small, independent, cloud-like energetic mass. Modern digital photography sometimes catches sight of little round discs in the atmosphere. These orbs are energetic disturbances in the surrounding air caused by souls visiting the Earth.