While here on Earth, our soul lives in the physical body because it is the only way to experience physical life and learn the lessons only living on Earth, in the physical plane can teach us.

You see, our souls are here to learn how to perfect themselves in order to one day be reunited with God or Universal Intelligence, whatever word or words you choose to use, they are all the same.

Life is like a schoolroom where we go to learn lessons. Each one of us is in a different grade. Something that makes sense to someone who is in the 10th grade will not make sense to someone in the 1st grade. That is why there are so many religions. There is truth in all religions, but the whole truth is never found in only one religion. We cannot understand the whole truth, so we just learn what little we can and grow at our own speed in our own time.

When we move into the spirit world (when we die), our soul lives on in a spiritual body because a physical body is only needed in a physical world. A spirit body is needed in a spiritual world.

We can, however visit the spirit world without our physical body dying. This happens during sleep and deep meditation. This also happens during an out of body experience or remote viewing. Sometimes our dreams are records of our spiritual visits to other worlds and planes of existence. You can recognize these types of dreams by how real they feel. They will be more vivid and make more sense than most of our symbolic dreams.

Our souls can travel while out of the body without the physical body dying because of a connection to the body. Our souls are connected to our physical bodies with a silver cord. At the time of our deaths, this cord is severed and the soul cannot reenter the physical body. But as long as this cord is connected, we are free to travel anywhere and anytime!

So you see, we are not physical beings with a spirit, we are spiritual beings within a physical body!

The only way to experience the physical is to be born into it--born into a physical body. To return home where we all originated from we must leave the physical body here and return to a spirit body, to travel and learn in the spirit world. We do not just lay around in the spirit world, but continue to work on perfecting our souls.

Our three minds are; the Conscious Mind; Subconscious Mind; and the Superconscious Mind.

We are all familiar with our Conscious Mind. It is the part of us which deals with the everyday existence of living on this planet on this physical plane. This is the part of ourselves with which we are most in touch. This is the part of us we think and reason with. When you go to work everyday, you are using your conscious mind.

Subconscious Mind--This part of us is a little more difficult to understand. The psychiatrists and psychologists have been trying to understand this part of ourselves for centuries.

Part of your subconscious mind takes care of the running of your body's functions such as breathing, digestion, and keeps the blood flowing. We don't need to concentrate on these activities to keep them working, they are contained in our subconscious mind.

The other part of our subconscious mind deals with a deeper level of our being. This is where our feelings and reasons for doing things are--the ones which we didn't know we had in the first place. For instance: you fear the water and don't know why. You don't remember anything in your past which would cause you to fear water, you just do. This is your subconscious mind at work. This memory is buried so deep that it cannot reach your conscious mind. Until you delve deeper into your subconscious mind and find out the reason you are afraid of water, you will not be able to release this fear and get on with your life.

This memory could be one from when you were a baby and fell into some water and almost drowned. Or this memory could be buried much farther back, in a past life in which you drowned.

Our subconscious mind shows up in our dreams. Most of the time, our dreams are our subconscious mind trying to tell us something we really need to hear. This is especially true of our nightmares. When we wake up and remember our dreams, this is our conscious mind taking over.

Superconscious Mind--This is the most mysterious part of our mind. This is the part of ourselves which is the closest to God. Most people don't even realize they have a Superconscious mind, but it is working all the time to try and get through to us. Most of us are rarely in touch with this part of ourselves, and that's a real shame, because this is the part of us which has all the answers!

Psychics and metaphysical healers are in touch with their Superconscious mind. This is like a direct link to all knowledge and wisdom. This is why they seem to know more than the ordinary person does. They have tapped into this knowledge which is available to us all, and accessible if only we are willing to work at getting it to come through to our conscious mind for us!

Naturally, we are not equipped to deal with all knowledge and wisdom, so we just receive a small portion of it, which is much more than anyone can realize!

If you want to get in touch with your Superconscious mind, you must learn to put aside the daily world you are used to and listen to your Higher Self. You do this through meditation or just taking time to be still and quiet. Another way is to think about things that you don't normally think about--like how the universe came into being, or past lives or ghosts or any number of out of the ordinary subjects you don't usually think about. This will begin to open your consciousness to new and more information. It will begin to expand and enlighten your mind. Reading books about any metaphysical or paranormal subject will help to achieve this as well.

Set aside a quiet time every day where you will not be disturbed and shut out all thoughts of every day living. This will take time, but with practice you can learn to get in touch with your higher self or Superconscious mind and then you will have access to the knowledge and wisdom you need.

This is not an easy thing to do, so don't be discouraged if at first you don't succeed. It is hard for someone to just sit and think about nothing. We have been so programmed throughout our lives to think we must always be doing something or else we are wasting time. This is not true. As long as you are living, you are not wasting time. You are learning something everyday whether you realize it or not. Just be persistent and continue to quiet your thoughts. Think on the problem you need help with, then let it go and trust that you will receive an answer.

If you do this each day, your mind will begin to expand and you will begin to see and know things that can help you in your everyday life.

Good luck!