The University of the Soul

Don’t you just love how life is all about learning! You just “get” one thing and another question is posed. Yes, we’re all Uni students attending the Universe-ity of The Soul.

This idea came to me one day when I was contemplating, once again…….

What happened?

We are all “one”.

We are all here on this earth created by the same source.

Therefore we are a part of this source, an extension of this source.

OK – I get that.

So, what happened?

If we all originated from this source, which is pure love, how did we become “tainted”?

What happened that we now experience the emotions of hate, anger, jealousy etc?

If all that existed was pure love, how were these experiences birthed?

So, there’s the theory of Adam and Eve, who were given freewill to make their own choices and ultimately chose against the grain of pure love.

My question is – If they were created from pure love, therefore were pure love, and were only ever surrounded by pure love, then the idea wouldn’t have even entered their head to choose anything other than that which related to pure love. There wouldn’t even have been the option to choose anything other than pure love?

Would there not?

But then, Adam and Eve were human. Created from Spirit, but human all the same. A combination of ego and spirit, conscious, subconscious and superconscious. In order for humans to know that we are experiencing pure love, or anything other state derived from it, we need to have something to gauge it against. How can we know love when we have never experienced it’s opposite, hate?

And then I looked at the word “Universe”, that which we are all a part of, and made the connection to University.

It was all starting to make sense to me now.

The University is The Universe – The place where we are to study, learn and achieve. Where we learn from our teachers, with and from those around us. Where we form relationships and grow.

The Students of this University are Spiritual Beings having a Human Experience. The Human Experience being what they are at University to learn.

There are many different Courses on offer in this University, presented to us in the form of challenges and experiences. Some we will breeze through and others we may possibly fail at first but with support and encouragement from our teachers and an openness to learn, we can keep retaking these courses until we pass and then move on to the next course.

On completion and passing of all courses offered at the “University of the Soul” you will have reached graduation. In other words enlightenment!

So there you go! Looking at life this way certainly makes me feel more comfortable in accepting the challenges I face in life. In fact it adds a kind of excitement in anticipation of what may be in store for me and I can look upon these experiences with gratitude instead of dread. The level of happiness you experience is based around the way you look at things and we all have the power and ability to change the way we look at things, so why not change to our advantage.

I have no doubt that the analogy I have expressed here will open up much for discussion and debate. I welcome it! I encourage you to post your own comments and opinions. After all, we’re all here to share, learn and grow.