What is is...

[path_of_one]

Originally Posted by China Cat Sunflower

How does soul retain its individuation in a sphere where individuation doesn't exist? How is the past preserved outside of time? If the soul returns to unity following death how is the duality of its individuation preserved so that one can refer to such a "thing" as a past life? These are the questions in my mind.

Chris

It is very difficult to explain what my experience was that formed my beliefs in this matter, but I'll leave it with a general description for now...

Individuation doesn't exist, perhaps, but is not entirely erased either. Think of that state of unity as a Song, as Music. It is One Song, but it is composed of countless sounds. One isn't preserved as much as transformed, but one still experiences, simultaneously, the remnant of selfhood (as one's own vibration or sound) and the unity (as merely a sound in the Song). One is oneself and not oneself.

When one returns to incarnation, one might remember the time of unity and know that who one is now is not "really" who one is, nor can you return to it while stuck in time/place as a body. Additionally, one might remember bits and pieces of experiences that are interpreted as past memories, because in the linear existence of this world, it is the most logical way to interpret them. In fact, it may be that the state of unity and all incarnations are continuously happening, but the you that is in a human brain cannot really comprehend that on an experiential level.

So you have individuation and unity at the same time, really. Or a mutual recognition of each other in either state, so long as (for whatever reason) you weren't born in this one incarnation bereft of such awareness.