The World Soul

The world soul (Latin: Anima Mundi) is, according to several systems of thought, an intrinsic connection between all living things on the planet, which relates to our world in much the same way as how the soul is connected to the human body.  (Wikipedia. Google, Anima Mundi for more). This idea is part of ALL pagan spiritual traditions on the planet and Eastern spirituality. Thousands of years ago, people worshipped nature by calling it a feminine goddess energy. Human beings lived with a sacred reverence for life.

The world soul was the ancients way of talking about the electromagnetism of the planet. This concept is shared across the world from native cultures  to Indian/vedantic cultures. It is a shared knowing.

This concept of nature having power, or that it is sacred, and our lives are about service to nature, died out after the entrenchment of Abrahamic religions. It is a moral hypocrisy that human beings are more important, and nature less important. How can it be?

To think that we are here for the purposes of human aggrandizement is a grave error in conceptualizing the purpose of our existence.

Unlike what Donald Trump would have you think, we aren’t here to make money.

Abrahamic religions don’t openly express reverence of nature and think of nature as subservient to human needs. The concept of a remote external masculine entity as God who approves and disapproves, rather than an experience of Oneness as God, is perhaps why human consciousness slowly disconnected from nature and started to take it for granted.

Having said that, there are Catholic, Jewish and Muslim practices that work with electromagnetism, but that is not their focus and over time the whole idea of Gaia or world soul was subsumed under the concept of God. I won’t say it died, but became over ridden.  Nature became pagan…and not part of religion, per se.

But, why is it important now?

Other than the realization that climate change is happening because of man made pollution and we should either conserve, ignore or change our technology, there is a key reason as to why nature is so important right now.

That reason is electromagnetism.

Science shows us that our heartbeat resonates with the magnetism of the planet. For the last while, the Earth has been losing its magnetism.

Electromagnetism is  the bio-electricity that connects the Earth to the human heart. The human heart  works because of electricity. The source of its electric charge is the connection with the planet. The heart is the first thing to form in the womb, and beats in time with the mother’s heart beat…which beats in time to her mother’s heartbeat, but the thing that is making all the hearts beat as one is the Earth. The Earth is a giant womb, a mother, who teaches all the women on the planet to be mothers, simply by synching her energy with our energy through the heart.

The feelings of stability, security, love and compassion come from the planet, and are expressed through the nurturing given by the mother.

As the planet is losing its magnetism,  the human heart is feeling the changes. All spiritual practices from sufism to yoga to organized religion is the way we are trying to keep ourselves sane, as we watch the destruction of our food source. It causes great grief and at a soul level, people realize that we have to acknowledge our existence and relationship with something sacred.

People think they are helpless, but they are not. People think they can’t do anything, but they can. The only issue is not being able to connect the dots, because it is such a big planet with so many diverse belief systems.

Because the planet is dying, there is an incredible emptiness in the heart that can be filled only with spiritual practices, because these practices reset the rhythm of the heart, and bring it into resonance.

It comes in stages, someone said to me. First, the realization that we really need a sense of faith in something other than the dollar, then the searching, then something shifts, and as the pain body heals, the truth dawns. Money is a fiction, a badly written one that needs a correction.

From the arena of politics to the arena of health, the old way isn’t working.
For far too long, the political policy has been to run the economy through the power of oil and petrochemicals–the story goes, make more plastic stuff and ensure you have total control on the oil. Forget the planet, that’s a problem we can’t solve.

This is how the world has been run for far too long. It is time for a change. It is time to remember nature. Whether we do that through this myth or that myth, or this way or that way, the point is to realize that we are all part of the spirit of nature, the collective intelligence that is behind all the food and abundance that we see. Instead of dividing the human experience into this religion or that way of life, we have to expand our consciousness and see the universal in our ways.

If you think you need resources to be able to re-write the fiction of money, or that you need the same awful money that is creating havoc on the planet, you are wrong. You don’t need money, money needs you! Money works because you accept it. When people come together, and share resources, they create alternatives to the monetary fiction.
The definition of wealth itself–the GDP needs to change. It isn’t about making more money, but about having safety, security, community and health, which can come from a clear understanding that the planet and human beings are one.

Don’t make your soul expression, conditional to having more money. You have enough, Gaia says, haven’t you taken it all? isn’t it enough to realize who you are?