Soul Substance

What it is

Soul substance is the living spiritual material from which our inner life is formed. Every thought, feeling, belief, intention and attitude leaves an impression upon this subtle substance.

Why it matters

Soul substance is always being impressed, whether consciously or unconsciously. Meditation gives us a way to participate in that process deliberately, replacing error with truth and allowing new creation to unfold.

From Bones

~1~

Our beings are steeped in a potent and highly creative substance, called our soul substance. We live in it, move in it, and our being is it. Everything we consciously send forth into this soul substance must turn into form.

As such, meditating is creating. (Chapter 18)

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We want to use our meditation for the purpose of emptying out our destructive attitudes and wrong conclusions about life. We need to become aware of all our inner errors.

Make no mistake, wherever we are not in harmony, we are in error.

Then we want to use meditation to gently and gradually impress our soul substance with truthful beliefs. (Chapter 18)

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When we’re living in truth, with no errors in our understanding, our soul substance will be malleable and easy to impress. So then creation can flow forth like a fountain.

Our attitudes will be positive. And our grasp of the limitless nature of the universe will align with the divine laws of truth and love.

Therefore, we won’t have any reason to be defending ourselves. In such a defenseless state, our soul substance is resilient and receptive, loose and free.

Conversely, when we’re holding onto distorted concepts that foster negative feelings and destructive attitudes, we are breaking divine laws. This makes us feel fearful and guilty. And that makes us feel we must defend ourselves.

It’s our defenses that make the surface of our soul substance brittle and hard, which makes it much tougher to imprint. Then our wants and desires can’t make an impression. (Chapter 18)

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Stagnant soul substance results from not feeling our feelings. And this is tied to not understanding their true origin or significance, causing them to build up and clog the flow of our life force. (Chapter 2)

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