This will be a website that is determined to bring some wisdom and love to humanity
Written by Lance Volk, a former Quora Contributor who has been banned and had 5200 answers deleted, it should be warned that they practice spiritual suppression
Do I have a Soul?
This is a quest that we will have to make on our own, to prove that you have a soul is a purely subjective project that has several ways of being accomplished,
on other pages of some of my sites I have revealed how I personally have come in contact with my soul and was aware of its presence for months at a time, this was mostly due to what I had read and what I have learned over many years,
my path was best suited to me as I have always had a spiritual view of life, but was more of an observer than a participant and my route to self-realization was a rather lengthy trip with many detours,
I will attempt to make this much quicker for all of you especially if you are new to this, eventually, there will be a page with links to literature and information that can help the processes,
45 years of seeking, covering many topics are not necessary, but if you wish to reach any state of self-realization a certain train of thought will be needed to allow your mind to become used to a new or different reality.
Becoming familiar with different philosophies and religions is a basic start and also becoming familiar with your inner self is also necessary, so some studies in metaphysics and meditation are important,
you will need to have the ability to relax completely to be successful in many of these ways, there is a simple starting point to a quick meditation by following Prana Breathing and visualization of relaxation techniques which is just another form of meditation that has an explicit goal to realize your soul,
I am not one to recommend doing any sort of drugs, but marijuana, when smoked in a very small amount, has been successful in bringing people to a relaxed state where you would be able to "let go",
I would only recommend this if you have an extremely hard time relaxing, I will not touch on the other drugs that may be used as they are more extreme and really not necessary,
also the use of marijuana should be very rare and not be made into a regular occurrence as it will eventually give more power to your false personality and will dull your mind, besides being illegal in many states, a one time use will stay in your body for a few weeks and will continue to affect you subtly,
for the most part in my experience, a few ancient scriptures and a few enlightening websites completed the bridge for my transition, reading the Upanishads and visiting the "Michael Teachings" website were the last two things that I did before my realization,
it should be understood that I had read hundreds of things over the decades and I already had a belief system in place where these two items just completed what was necessary for me to know to allow the realization to happen,
It may not be the same for everyone and I am positive it is different for everyone, relaxation can be practiced by many forms of meditation, the ability to concentrate is also a plus where yoga is a lot of help,
the other methods are usually not planned as like a near-death experience or extreme trauma, also as for relaxation, quitting coffee, extreme amounts of food and sugar and drinking of alcohol will help in the process as all of these things are of material nature and have false personality backing them,
If realizing that you have a soul was easy, there would be no more war on our planet and also no hunger, this will be a great effort and may not happen for years if ever, but in contrast there have been people that haven't even been trying and have the realization hit them seemingly out of the blue,
and believe me when I say when it happens to you, you will most definitely know it, there will be an extreme clarity and a feeling of not experiencing any of your senses, but knowing all, it may be for only a few seconds or it can be for months or longer,
but at that moment in time, you will have a new priority in life that you will want to pursue. It has also been wondered about if animals and plants have souls, I do not wish to confuse matters by bringing in new players but a brief comment on this I believed is required,
from my studies, I have found that everything has a soul, from a grain of sand to a tomato plant to your house dog or the bird you hear singing each morning, the greatest difference between them and us is karma,
all mineral, plant and animal life runs on instinct and only follows the laws of cause and effect, they are not sentient and do not have much in the way of intellect, they are not plotting and scheming creatures with agendas,
yet they do have basic fundamental soul fragments that experience life in basic survival and observing compacity, a tree may sense something growing under it and feel it as a threat and drop a branch on it or cover it with leaves purely out of instinctive response,
just as animals will protect territories as a matter of survival, being a rock must be as fundamental as you can get, but you need to start somewhere, all of these are good reasons to respect all forms of life and our planet as a whole.
Maybe there should be a good definition of what a soul really is if you are so interested in if you have one, some people see a soul as something impersonal,
What is the holy trinity?
just energy that is unexplainable and others think that it is a fragment of God that is on a journey to discover different things, and still, again there is a reasoning that God is supposed to know all that there is to know,
and what would God need from your fragment's experiences, it kind of reminds me of playing a video game all the way through without saving, at first it would be very difficult because it is new and foreign to you,
but after many tries you start to get the idea of what is required of you to make it through successfully, I have also read descriptions that individualize the soul and set it out on its journey to learn as much as possible wherever is possible throughout eternity,
in a sort of training as a God, something like this would have to take many eons because you would have to experience everything, either way, I see my physical body as a temporary abode that is replaced many times during the journey.
What is the meaning of Karma?
A simple definition of Karma is to "sow what you reap" if you are a user, a user of people where the outcome of your use is detrimental to the people or even of nature, an imbalance will occur in the cosmic scheme of your life that will have to come back into balance sooner or later,
and usually, this will come in the form of payback in order for you to learn from mistakes made earlier in your life or in previous lives lived, it does not have to be all bad when you do generous selfless acts, this will give you bonus points of sorts towards future lives lived,
for a simple example, a life lived out of greed and self-indulgence may have to be offset by some poverty and wanting of basic needs to survive, it is not a punishment rather it is an example of the other end of the scale for you to learn specific virtues and lessons,
there are no coincidences, only lessons to be learned, sometimes it has been planned for you to experience less than pleasant things in order for your soul to learn a particular lesson,
there is a good chance that if you have been guided to read this in your seeking, you have probably lived many lives already and have already accumulated some karma to be equaled out in either this life or some future lives to come which is the main purpose of reincarnation,
exploring these previous lives and learning what is expected of you to balance the scales may not be very easy, but there are some things that can be done to help this along, meditation is probably one of the easiest things to start with,
try exploring your previous lives by imagining who you might have been and where you might have lived, some people have more success at this than others, just keep in mind that there are more than actions that carry karmic repercussions,
beliefs and attitudes towards others can also come back to teach you a thing or two, prejudices and preconceived ideas about people will continue to haunt you from life to life, keeping a live and let live attitude will be helpful,
compassion and tolerance will loosen that grip you have on future lives, your karma should be directed towards positive outlooks and actions in order to help you complete your reincarnational process.
Karma is not the only factor that will determine if you will be coming back to this planet for another life,
there are also lessons to be learned that will determine if you have evolved sufficiently in order to progress to another plane of existence or just to the next grand cycle of learning and experiencing,
Reincarnation Time Between Lives
it has been said that when a total realization of why you are here is realized, karma shall be dissolved and will no longer be necessary,
this does not preclude the possibility of attaining more karma if you think that you can circumvent cosmic law,
after all, an enlightened person would no longer do the things that would be necessary to acquire a karmic imbalance,
there still maybe things unknown to the common man that need to be learned and actions unknown to some of the most enlightened that can cause some sort of karmic repercussions,
there is a quick, simple cheat sheet that you can go by that will lesson the karmic woes that may face you, the 10 commandments and the 7 virtues are things to stick close to in order to avoid problems in your life,
steering clear of the 7 deadly sins will also help, still, this may not be enough if you have acquired a karmic debt from previous lives,
so more than likely there will be ordeals that will test you for these debts, how you handle your life problems are a big part of paying off karmic debts and will be a contributing factor towards your return or progression.