Soul Meetings Are Happening All the Time

We advance toward each other on the physical plane. Hovering over the scene are souls, our intermediate high bodies which receive from above and transmit below.

Soul meetings are happening all the time: in friendships, in mother love and in psychotherapy during those moments of sublime understanding. They happen before death and in the plane and time before rebirth.

During our life, when we approach someone with whom we feel a mysterious friendship, there is a meeting of hearts, a kinship and a mingling of natures. In flow fashion, there is an exchange of essential substance, an interflow which enriches with mutual increase and without cost. An understanding love grows and glows within each and emanates from the union. This is the love of lovers, twin soul love -- and the exchange lights the way for a continuing rise of the partners. This brings a power and consciousness to others. Like moths to a flame, they will surely gather around.

But: there is the physical vehicle.

A high flow from Spirit enters the "soul" and is transmitted to the vessel called "body and personality." Now, it meets new experiences and must contend with limitation. The shape of love becomes changed, at times "bent." Partners in love or partners in friendship will inevitably endure frictions due to differences of style, differences of need, differences of understanding. Yet, if their nature is advanced, the spirit-infused soul will guide, lead and move character toward empathy. They will move upward in love, and mutual understanding will reign.

There are many distortions of God-inspired love on the scene, misrepresentation when evil wraps itself in righteousness. Let us remember the Inquisition, the Russian pogroms, the Holocaust, Somalia, Bosnia, the Middle East and on and on and on.

Furthermore, the human vessel and its temperament may become constricted and constricting. In similar fashion, society itself may fixate to materialism and shrink the human part of the human being, closing the door to soul meetings. Sadly, this has happened, and is happening, more and more in American Medicine. All this has brought a neglect of human exchange, soul exchange. Corporations create enlarging pyramids of coalescence, meanwhile discharging their leftovers, called unnecessary employees, all in the name of efficiency and the god called The Bottom Line.

Where are the soul-to-soul meetings that used to be when we would greet a human being on the phone after dialing "O" for operator? Where is the idealism that used to drive physicians into Medicine? Where is the "good old family doc" who could heal by the mere presence of his Presence?

Yet there is another side, an ever-emerging and ever-increasing interest in spirituality. People have a growing desire to learn about the higher mind and the path to true soul meetings. And here we have so many victories in the battle with alcohol and addiction, so many wonders of the self-help groups, and the Whole Life Expos which grow in number and influence. Even the book publication world has moved toward that hot topic called spirituality.

And what is the accompaniment of all this? It is soul meetings in group-soul style when souls interfuse; when souls long for each other and meet and greet and coalesce and exchange. All of this is reflected in the human experience of ever-increasing group love expressed as people helping people, people longing for union, people serving each other and the larger and larger community.

Herein lies the hope for the world. And hovering overhead are the soul meetings which are present all the time.

Maurie D. Pressman, M.D. is Emeritus Chairman of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Temple University Health Sciences Center. He is Medical Director at the Center for Psychiatric Wellness, clinics that operate in Philadelphia and Haddonfield, N.J. These clinics bridge traditional and spiritual psychotherapy. Dr. Pressman can be reached at 200 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106; telephone 215-922-0204.