There are those who believe that the body is that which holds you, which houses the essence of you. That is the thought—that the body houses the Life Essence that is called the soul. 

That is not correct. It is the soul that houses the Body. 

 

Your soul does not live within your body. It is the other way around. Your body lives within the force field that you call your soul. It is housed within the energy configuration, within the localized expression of Universal Spirit, that is the Essence of Who You Are.

 

This force field, this radiating, pulsating energy package that surrounds your body, is sometimes thought of by you as the aura. It is more than that, much more than what you imagine the aura to be, but that is nevertheless good imagery for your earliest venture into understanding, because it presents you with a picture that you can hold in your mind. 

 

The part of you that some of you think of as your soul is the energy of Life Itself, localized and concentrated at a particular point on what you would call the Space-Time Continuum. This Life Energy vibrates and shimmers and pulsates and glows around every physical object in the Universe. Depending upon the frequency of its vibration, this energy may sometimes be seen. It can also produce other effects, such as heat. 

 

Some people call this glow the Light, the Eternal Flame, the Source, the Soul, or by other names that suit their particular poetry. It is, in fact, the Prime Essence, the Base Substance, the Core Material of all things. This Light is Who You Are. 

 

In your misunderstanding, you have thought that this Light radiates from all physical objects. In fact, the process is exactly the reverse.

 

This Light radiates into all physical objects, and thus creates them. 

 

The energy field that you call this Light, or the soul, envelopes the physical object it has created and extends outward from that object into eternity. That is, the energy never ends. There is No Place where your energy field stops and another energy field begins. This means that there is no place where your soul ends and another’s begins. 

 

It is like the air in your house. In your home, there are separate rooms, yet there is only “one air.” The air in one room is not separate from the air in another—which you discover quickly when you are in your living room and you smell that bread baking in the kitchen. There is no place where the “living room air” ends and the “kitchen air” begins. 

 

What is true is that the farther you move away from your kitchen, the less you can sense the portion of All The Air Everywhere that is there in the kitchen. 

 

Yet your dog can smell that bread from outside the house. That is because the air that surrounds the house, that envelops the house, is not in any way separate from the air within it. 

 

This is my analogy, to help you understand. And have I not said, in my Kingdom there are many mansions? 

 

The force field that is your soul becomes thin and expanded the farther it extends from its localized source, but it never disappears completely, nor ceases to be. Instead, it mixes and merges with other force fields, forming other localized concentrations and creating a complex, interweaving pattern extending infinitely. 

 

We are talking here about a force field without borders. We are describing a soul that never ends. 

 

This is, in fact, what you are. 

 

You are an energy that never ends, in time or space.