Michael & Rickie Beckwith about Soul

the theme of the magazine this is going to be four is about reincarnation and the nature of this the soul okay but we wanted to go into this question for many different angles so what I want to speak to what I want to speak to you guys about today is what does it mean to have a solo okay but before we get to that me before we before we get to that I would like you both to or you know or or one of you two to first to describe what the what you believe or understand or imagined the soul to be and then we can talk about what it means to have okay the first question is what is the soul I'll hit it from a couple of angles I think when I think about the individual soul well first of all there's this I don't know so many different levels I think about the individual soul I think about Who I am as an individualized expression of the universal presence and individualized aspect of everything that there is and it has and it's in it's constantly unfolding to reveal more of the infinite and so it's it's it's forever forever expressing forever unfolding forever emerging forever evolving and yet and that's a that's a forever trip it never ends some would say that the soul is you know the collective memory of all the all the experience I've ever had as well past lives that mean more like a kind of a Jungian earns another right right versus the first one you were saying was that you said the soul is the individualized expression of the absolute or God yes so more like kind of what Hoffman would be to Brahman right okay yeah and then on another scale it's all the memories all experiences forged you know that you carry with you mm-hmm and to the individual collective memory right and it also has the capacity to tap into the human memory all experiences that have ever happened as well the whole field the collective experience absolutely okay so so I imagine that we're always just seeking to be more in tune with the the the divine presence in dissolving the connection with memories that would inhibit the flow of the harmony the peace the love and all of the divine attributes in this particular journey or quest it continues forever so some once again so we were describing soul as the as the individual connection to experience of manifestation of the absolute I would say the the the souls individual expression yeah this all would be the individual expression of the absolute would be solid and it's also the theory of memory the collection of individual collective memory right okay good so then what what does it mean to have soul has so you want to go you owe me thank you okay you can you can keep going because you know it because you because you use your so you know speak about it all the time and I think that to have so yeah one must somewhere be connected to that soul that he just spoke about it's like the people that I know who have so it's like when somebody has soul it's like they have a certain way of expressing that you know that what they're saying is real that they are able they have the facility the ability to touch you you know it's almost like they're not trying to transmit anything transmission is taking place when I think about soul and the people who have so soulful people mm-hmm you know its way the way I would put it sure you know because a soulful person may not necessarily be the one that dance as well you know but they may just really have a great appreciation for those who can do it they'll support it you know what I mean they'll love it soulful people love they're able to love so you know I think when a person has soul they love they have something they have some connection to the greater love like John Coltrane he was soul