What is the soul and how may I approach it?

[Sacred Fool]

  
As a way to balance all the talk of digging deeply to find the soul, I want to slip this quote in here to acknowledge the importance of the personality--the deeper personality, I suppose.  It's a line of text from Latwii which is just tossed out in some other context.  It seems quite striking to me, though, in terms of how we might view the relationship of our spiritual work and our personality.

The disciplines of personality are such that your only permanent exit from this illusion into the next is that of personality.

I dunno, it just seems to make the humble personality seem kind of important somehow.


As bonus material, here's another passage from that same session.

Questioner: Hatonn [says] there are other beings. Are there other beings with you?

This is correct. We are many. We have a civilization, and this civilization has sent a large group of us to you.

Questioner: Do you travel in space ships?

We do not travel in the same type of space ship as the one known as Hatonn. We are closely akin to light itself, and thus travel in what you would simply call light. There is a difficult concept to convey, but our personalities are complete, and the basic difference between ourselves and Hatonn is that our sense of humor has gotten outrageous, so we have trouble sometimes talking to those among your peoples, for they feel that our humor is misplaced in dealing with such serious questions as love, truth, and beauty. However, to us the joy of life is so great that we find all this seriousness very humorous.

  
  
This seems very naughty to moi, but my guess is that a certain amphibian would very much approve of it.