Reclaiming Your Soul
It’s a new year, it’s a new day, it’s a new world, it’s a new you Sweet Friend.
The old world and the old you really needed to die because they had started to lose their Soul. Yet how can you reclaim something you can’t even define? Something you’re not even sure you believe in? Lucky for you Soul isn’t a belief, but simply a way of life.
This is because Soul is not conceptual but experiential; your ancestors didn’t believe in Soul, they felt and bled and danced and ate and bathed in it. A strong focus on Soulfulness is what unites every culture that ever was, throughout the entire history of humanity and beyond… except ours.
Soulfulness is actually the primordial stance of sentience you see - not ‘spirituality’, not ‘religion’ not ‘superstition’ and certainly not ‘rationality’ - but soulfulness.
Soul is in fact the true state of nature. This is the state we once inhabited before the emergence of the city-state. Soul is the music of the Cosmos, the math of Nature, the physics of life itself.
Soul is the religion of Cicada, Mangrove Root, and Wind-Racing-Across-Water; Soul is in Grandmother Limestone’s tears, in the halo of the Moon, in the Silence of the Grave.
All you have to do is come into a relationship with the soulfulness that already surrounds you, Sweet Friend.
For soul IS relationship.
The world is full of Persons say the Ojibway, only some of which are human. Soul is All-My-Relations: the Flying Fox Tribes, the dancing Aurora Borealis People, Grandfather Time and even the holy Hill-tribes of Haemoglobin. Soul brings us back into a relationship with All-That-Is.
By plunging us back into right-relationship with a purposeful and sentient world, Soul is the primary medicine for the insanity of modernity.
Soul is also respect: respect for the suchness of life, both your own and All-Your-Relations. Soul causes your blood to blush with respect, Soul steeps your gentle bones in respect, Soul respects Respect, because all Respect is Self-respect, and Self-respect is Soul respect.
Gone is the distinction between ‘in-here’ and ‘out-there’; gone is the jail cell of ‘self’; gone is any possibility of ‘other’... for Soul is All-That-Is-The-Case.
From the perspective of Soul, ‘Being’ is the seamless tapestry of reality – not atoms or space or force – Being. Soul denies Being to nothing. Life experienced like this causes distinctions between Nymphs, Dryads & Daemon on the one hand and DMT, Endorphins and Dopamine on the other hand to cease making sense. All are sacred, all are experiential.
Soul grants all phenomena ontological status as ‘Real’ – touched phenomena, dreamt phenomena, sung phenomena, psychic phenomena, visioned phenomena…all real, all revealed, all respected, all revered.
Soul is not a substance you see, but a perspective, not metaphor but meaning, not language but life.
Soul is the totality of life, embracing all the experiences that science and religion both insist are not real. Soul soars across the ideological trench lines between ‘imagined’ phenomena and ‘perceived’ phenomena. Soul is like a child in a playground, and the playground is not 'reality' but 'life' in all its imaginative richness.
To deny Soul to the world around us is thus the heights of dehumanisation, it dehumanises us yes, but in de-animating the World we also dehumanise the More-Than-Human Kosmos itself….rendering it a soulless Wasteland for ourselves.
To reclaim your Soul you have to reclaim Soul itself for the entire world: the Soul of rain-song, the Soul of midnight melancholy, the Soul of Earthworm and Dawn and Chocolate Cake and Broken Promise.
The Cosmos of Soul is an oasis for your parched and arid mind sweet friend, if only you would let it be.
For truly, there is Soul in all things... including you.
With Soul,
Jimi
