This story uses parable to explain the soul as a creator beyond human concepts like pain, time, or emotion. Just as a child builds sandcastles unaware of how the grains affect its skin, the soul creates experiences without perceiving the physical or emotional consequences we feel. The soul is eternal, creative, and inseparable once linked to the body, but its awareness exists outside time and sensory understanding. What we interpret as joy or suffering are merely perspectives within the soul’s broader, purpose-driven creation.
Your soul is a thing that will be most difficult for you to have an intellectual, 3-dimensional conscious understanding of. So we will present this in parables that are likened unto what the soul is, for this will make it the easiest to understand.
We will start with a small story. A child sits next to the beach and plays in the sand, building itself castles and roads. Building for itself small ponds for imagined fishes to swim within. Building what is storybook modes to its mind. All of these things it builds, holding an understanding of what it does. Its understanding of what it does appears to be the growing of a castle. The building, it is moving grains of sand together, and those grains of sand building upward build a castle to its eyes. But also what it is doing is causing by the movement of the sand across its hand, a roughening of the skin, a hurtfulness sometimes, and sometimes a tactile pleasure, but movement… you are the skin for your soul!
What you feel in pain is very often that which is the result of your soul’s creation. You do not have to feel it as pain; it is only the direction that you are looking. What you feel as pleasure, what you see as success, what you hold in conscious mind is the direction in which you are looking. Your soul is still creating the castle. Your soul is still creating the mountain. Your soul does not recognize your small pains as anything more difficult than perhaps a roughening of its fingertips. No more than you would recognize the roughening of your fingertips as you play in the sand. So you may look at this thing in this way: your soul does not truly have an understanding that you are in pain.
That is the first thing to know of your soul. If it knew that you were in pain, it would simply create again in a different direction. It would create in a direction that you could look if you were clear that you did not want the pain. If you were clear in your 3-dimensional part, your conscious mind, your actions, if they were clear, your soul would know in which direction to start creating so that it was not painful. So to the question “How can I trust anything, if I can not trust my soul to make things happy for me?” Your soul does not know happy, it also does not know sad, it also does not know death, and it does not know time. And it does not know many of the things that you perceive as consciousness because it does not enter into the realm of that thing’s existence.
Your physical body, your platform of being the observer in this time, that linkage is temporary, and the soul knows this. Each of you has lived many thousands of lifetimes before. Each of you has inhabited the Earth and other planets. It is no special moment that you live. It becomes a special moment because you have pains and joys. It becomes a special moment because you are encapsulated in a time, but your soul does not know those things. The soul only knows creations. You know observances. Your soul, once it is linked into your physical body, is inseparable from you.
You cease to exist upon your death. Your soul continues. What is part of you is those creations that you observe and those continue, but not in the necessary place that you would think they do. They do not continue in the remembrance of a physical thing. They do not continue as the tactile feel that you are sitting now in your chair. They do not continue as that of a favored lover. They continue as swirling masses of energy, to be remembered and perceived by the Isness. So, nature of the soul is a very complex and hard thing for you to understand. For you to understand it, you must separate yourself from it long enough to see it.
That happens sometimes. Sometimes you perceive it as flash of white light, sometimes you perceive it as a swirling comfortableness in your dream state, sometimes you perceive it as a pulsation of the physical body and the opening of your mind into something that you cannot truly understand, and sometimes you perceive it as abject terror. You know this thing? When you awaken, when you lie upon the edge of sleep and find yourself to be terrified. Not knowing why. It is your soul allowing itself for that of the moment to be free. Your physical body, not having the soul connected strongly to it at that moment, perceives there is no need for it. Something is missing, its life force is drained. Your soul is your life force.