I’ve been writing this blog on and off for over a year now.  I think it may finally be time to explain the title.  Which may then help explain me, to you.

What does it mean to follow the voice of your soul?
What does it mean to have intuition?
What does it mean to allow God into your life?

 
Three ways of asking the same thing.  There are even more ways to ask that question.  In fact there is really no need for me to spend a lot of time on it because it is a question ingrained into our very being the moment we are born.  We want to know, almost immediately after we have observed the world around us, how should I act now?  What do I do?

Mostly, at the beginning, we react.  We learn to do what we think we need to do in order to get the reaction from others that we think we need in order to function and survive in the society which we emerge.  Phew!  It is a long and drawn out process of course.  One that takes some people 10 to 20 years to figure out, some 20 to 30 years, some 30 to 40 years, and for some – it takes their whole life.  They do not learn the answer until the final moment in their final breath.

Now let it be said that there is no one set-in-stone answer to the question.  The answer comes in the way of a combination of answers that are used to form the way we think and behave.  For many people, the answer to that question comes directly from what they learn from other people in the society:  The parents, the family, the community, the school, the friends, the workplace, and so on.  Sources are provided and maintained that can be used to guide the response to the question.  Most often these sources are formed out of the societal institutions of religion and government.

There is one source of information human beings have always had to answer the question:  That voice inside of them.  For the sake of brevity, I will simply state that there are two voices we hear inside of ourselves.  One is the voice of our mind, that which comes from the physical brain in our bodily form.  Over the past couple hundred years this voice has been known as the Ego.  It comes from our intellect.  It forms as the connection between our physical body and the physical plane of existence we live within.

The origin of the second voice we hear inside of ourselves is harder to pin down.  Some say it comes from the heart.  Some say it comes from our soul.  Some call the source of the voice their Higher Self.  Some use the words Inner Self.  Some call it the Divine.  Some call it God.  Regardless of what this voice is named, we can agree that the voice is not ours.  Well, it does seem like it could be ours (which in fact I believe it is) yet it also seems to be coming from somewhere other than our intellect and our brain.

To me, this is the voice of God.  Personally, I call this voice my higher self (or sometimes the voice of my soul) as I believe we are constructed not of physical matter, but of spiritual matter.  I believe we are multi-dimensional beings in what we have decided to call “time and space.”  This version of me, Vincent James Green the third, is one of those dimensional beings that make up the whole of me.  I don’t specifically know the other dimensional beings that make me whole because then the construct that enables me to be Vincent James Green the third will have been broken and well, then basically I will be dead to you; but not dead to the real me, and not dead to the real you.

All human beings have these two voices, these two sources of information that helps them decide what to do in the next moment, and the moment after, and the moment after that.

Unfortunately as our species has “evolved” intellectually, we have learned to rely on the one voice more than the other.  In fact the voice of our higher selves has been slowly degraded over the past couple thousand years.  This voice, this intuition, this gut feeling, this psychic connection has been labeled as not-real, not-scientific, not-accurate, not worthy of consideration because it is simply coincidence, happenstance, luck, chance, or it is just plain ooga-booga!

But it was not always like that, in fact the indigenous peoples of this planet, you know – the ones our species has been culling, have always had a very keen sense of the importance of their inner voice.  In fact I believe they have allowed their inner voice to be the leader and the guide of their intellectual voice.  They have allowed their inner voice more weight when a decision is to be made as to what to do next.

Fortunately, there seems to be a slowly-gathering movement among our “civilized” societies toward becoming more aware of this inner voice.  The movement probably gained significant momentum in the 1970’s.  I doubt it ever really went away.  People did not ever forget the voice of their soul.  They just ignored it and allowed it to take a back seat to the progress of our societal renaissance and industrial revolution.

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My life has been one of knowing, forgetting, and then remembering.  Just like yours, and every other person to visit this dimensional plane we call Life on Earth.  Beginning in 1994 with the sudden death of one of my brothers, Tim, I began the process of remembering.

During this process I have been reminded of how many times during the “forgetting stage” I actually listened to the voice of my soul.  Each time, I never attributed my actions, my doing, to the correct voice.  Truth-be-told I never really attributed it to anything.  It was more a matter of life just rolling past me, taking me along for the ride.  I never dreamed I actually had a hand in creating everything around me; everything that happened to me; everything I did.

What do I do?

There is that question again, confronting us each and every moment of our lives.  Which voice do you listen to?  Do you even acknowledge the different voices?  Many people do not.  They choose to ignore the voice of their soul.  When they encounter those that do listen to the voice of their soul, those that do follow their intuition, and those that do actually allow God into the mechanics of their life they often view them with a good measure of doubt.

“Geez, that girl is pretty weird, isn’t she?”
“Odd fellow that man is, wouldn’t you say?”
“Some people sure march to a different drummer, don’t they?”

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So there you have it.
“Don’t mind me: Just listening to the voices.”

Take care and seek peace my friends,
Vince

UP NEXT:  Specific examples of how I’ve listened to the voice of my soul and allowed the Divine to work through me (what it means, how it manifests itself and how it usually hurts first!).
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