Creating Soul

All creativity is based on quantum leaps and uncertainty. At particular moments in time, truly novel ideas emanate from the collective bed of information. These ideas did not originate in the fortunate individual, but in the collective consciousness.

This is why significant scientific discoveries are often made by two or more different people at the same time. The ideas are already circulating in the collective unconscious, and prepared minds are ready to translate that information.

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present. At any given moment, the innovation or creative idea doesn’t exist, and in the next moment, it is part of our conscious world.

In between, where was it? It came from the virtual domain, at the level of the universal spirit, where everything is potential. Sometimes this potential creates something novel, but in this realm all possibilities already exist.

So, if our bodies are recycled earth, our emotions are recycled energy, and our thoughts are recycled information, what is it that makes you an individual? How about your personality?

Well, the personality doesn’t originate with us, either. Personality gets created through selective identification with situations and through relationships. What we call personality is built on a foundation of relationships and situations.

According to many of the great spiritual traditions, one of the great truths is that “I am the other.” Without the other, we would not exist. Your soul is the reflection of all souls.

Adapted from The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire, by Deepak Chopra (Three Rivers Press).

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Danuta W.

1:47AM PDT on Apr 21, 2012

very interesting, thanks for sharing this

send a green star

Cynthia J.

6:37AM PDT on Oct 30, 2011

We are all part of the whole so randomness is easier to explaiin.

Jane H.

8:39AM PDT on Aug 5, 2011

cool

heather g.

12:35AM PDT on Jul 11, 2011

I enjoyed that excerpt confirming what I have witnessed so many times in my life eg It is so often that two or more scientists from different parts of the world reach the same conclusion and publish similar scientific findings. Yes, and despite all the awards for creative solutions and discoveries, you explain "These ideas did not originate in the fortunate individual, but in the collective consciousness."
On many occasions I've looked at notes I made in years past and have been so surprised by the fact that I was so inspired at that time - But to confirm and clarify, I was inspired by the collective consciousness !

Geetha S.

9:32PM PDT on Jul 8, 2011

Interesting. Thanks for posting.

Kerry S.

10:09PM PDT on Jun 19, 2011

cool, thanks

Ralph F.

6:45AM PDT on Jun 17, 2011

Cool explanation, methinks.

Joanne P.

9:30AM PDT on Jun 11, 2011

Thank you for this beautifully positive article, Deepak. I like to think of the soul as small element in a giant kaleidoscope. It is a microscopic part of a macroscopic Universe. One cannot exist without the other, and vice versa.

Patricia G.

12:58PM PDT on Jun 9, 2011

Very very beautiful.

Wioletta S.

11:52PM PDT on Jun 5, 2011

;-) thanks