The Last Frontier: The Soul within

There is a last frontier, an ultimate dimension, which remains for Humanity to explore: the Soul within. It cannot be studied or quantified by technological means, nor weighted or examined by any material instrument, yet it is ever present in Human life and activities, but given much less attention than it deserves. It is such a deep and vast dimension to explore, that we too often forget to look within and search outside. Is it so hard to admit that we didn’t create ourselves nor this Soul which makes us alive? The Human Soul is beyond the man made world and the artificial control grid of social institutions. Each one has an individual Soul, but here is a greater Soul of the Human species connecting us, which we can reach and communicate with.

The only giant leap that could be made by Humanity is the discovery, exploration and study of the Soul. The further we have gone in our discovery of the outside world, the further away we went from the Soul within. The more we have learned about the universe we live in, the less we have been able to live in harmony with it. As our modern scientific knowledge developped, our ancient wisdom has been lost, with our skills and ability to live in balance with the Earth.

Historically, as cultures have met, clashes happened, most often leading to conflicts, wars, domination and colonization of the smaller, less technologically developped nations, rather than learning from each other’s experience and knowledge. Although our theoritical science has largely increased and in spite of all the technological ‘progress’, in practice our collective behaviors in general have not so much evolved, taking us to a modern era ravaged by wars, plagued by injustice and destruction, on the brinks of ecological collapse.

Perhaps it is the inevitable fate of the overgrowth and domination of our species over others and, as the Ancient ones say, it has been a cycle of repeated expansions and destructions that has made our destiny. Our collective psyche is used to expect, consciously or not, the end time cataclysm that brings the downfall of Human civilization, as seen either in the universal myth of the flood or the story of Atlantis, or in legends and prophecies from all cultures around the world. Some see global depopulation as the only way to restore balance; but without changing our ways, it doesn’t matter what number we are if our lifestyle is unsustainable. The change needed concerns our uses of technologies, on the basis of fundamental universal values.

But the Human experiment is a long term learning process and it doesn’t have to end in complete catastrophe and failure, or in a massive hecatomb that would leave this world for a small elite, as if Humans were an unnatural implanted species, unable to adapt to earhtly environment. In this evident and generally felt global crisis, what matters the most from now on for our continuous evolution is not what we have, but how we behave: not what we are, but how we act; not what we know, but how we evolve; not what we do, but how we do it. The vast unexplored domain of the living Soul within us holds the solutions to our problems and the keys to our future existence and evolution.

Our Soul is not only what distinguishes us and defines who we are, but it is also what makes us relate to others and feel empathy. Our Soul is not self-sufficient; it is what makes us want to reach out to other living beings, whether family, community, friends, pets or plants in the garden, to express our feelings. The Soul is neither good nor bad, but it naturally can feel and understand both principles through empathy, and the effects of beneficial or detrimental acts. It knows the value of peaceful and loving relationships and is naturally enclined to seek and develop such connections with other souls.

As it grows, matures and broadens its understanding of life, our Soul becomes caring and compassionate for all living beings. An awakening of the Human Soul leads to the development of practical solutions for the best interest of all forms of life and the realization of the futility of profit and fame, and of the absurdity of power over, knowing that all things are connected and the hurt of one is the hurt of all…