Theory: The Evolution of the Human Soul

I have a theory. It is based on the evolution of the soul.
Picture in your mind a candy store. Every possible sweet in jars, on trays and in bags. See sweets that you know and love, see the ones you know you don't like, and the ones that you want to try but haven't. Then I want you to see some that are almost unknown. Different on color, shape, design, and don't have a name. All these tasty temptations are in a room as long as you can see, wider than you can imagine and as tall as you can make it, and each isle of sweets is well above your reach to get to the ones on the top.
Now that I have set this image in your mind, I want you to place four people in the store. One is a child, one as a youth in his prime, one is an adult in their 40's and one is an elderly person in their 80's. Imagine how they would react to being in the shop. Clearly the child is going to go galavanting off, wishing to try everything at once, yet not sure what to take first. The youth would probably stick to things they like, while maybe taking a few new things that are closely related. The adult would be a bit more open on the range of choice, taking both things they know they like while trying something new, and the elderly person, with the most experience, knows what they like and what they don't.
Clearly, not everything can be taken at once, as much as the child could wish it. Each person is allowed to take a certain amount. The child can't take too many because if they do, they will make themselves sick. The youth needs to be careful how much they take for they still need to establish good paterns in life. The adult would probably ration while the elder would take a lot of one thing that they like to stock up on, and an een amount of something newer.
These four people in your mind, sweets in hand and paid for, will walk out of the candy store and incarnate into their next lives, each a newborn baby and the sweets they have choosen are the challenges they have choosen to take with them. Effectively, the souls has gone shopping for their experiences. When they leave the next mortal coil, reguardless of its length, they will return to the store, a little wiser for their likes and dislikes, with the possible exception of the elder, who might have tried everything in the store. What happens to them I will get to a bit later.
This demonstration I have put to you is my theory of soul evolution for us as humans, and all other souls who move through a reincarnation cycle, whether they share it with us or not. For humans at least, we have a lot to experience, and some of these things are already beyond our perception, which is represented by the sweets we cannot identify by name or shape or color. There are challenges that have been apart of our existence for a long time, and you might represent these with sweets such as turkish delight or bullseyes. There are modern, here-and-now challenges, and they would be more represented by a bag of starburst jellybeans. Either way, as we select the sweets we take with us, we elect our life challenges, but there is more to it than that. Because there is more to us than simply being born, being challenged and going back to be incarnated again, we must also choose specifically a few other things to come with us. This candy store of souls also holds for us the things we will be interested in, our likes and dislikes, our sexuality, our disorders and our quirks.


Activity
I want you to take a pen and pad and write down four groups of three different types of sweets. Either by company name and the type of sweet (eg: Starburst chews), the name of the sweet itself (eg: musk sticks) or a flaovor of sweet (strawberry, peppermint).. Leave a space next to each item to write more information.
Sweets can be from lollies, to ice-creams to puddings to anything you consider sweet.
*One list of three should be sweets that you love, that you could have right now if you could.
1. Turkish Delight
2. Chilli Chocolate
3. Jelly Belly Jelly Beans
*One list should be three flavors you like in sweets, be it a flavor of chocolate, jelly bean of just a sweet flavor you like.
1. Musk
2. Roasted Marshmellow
3. Cookies and Cream
*One list should be sweets that you don't mind, but do not necessarily buy for yourself.
1. Dark Chocolate
2. Butterscotch
3. Fruitcake
*The final list should be three sweets you do not like.
1. Tiramisu
2. Rice Pudding
3. Black Licorice
From this list, we are going to turn your favorite sweets and flavors into who you are.
*Your favorite sweets are going to be your good qualities.
1. Turkish Delight / Polite
2. Chilli Chocolate / Pazzaz
3. Jelly Belly Jelly Beans / Diversity
*Your favorite flavors are things you enjoy, such as hobbies, interests, occupation. But make sure it is something specific to you.
1. Musk / Spiritual Guiding
2. Roasted Marshmellow / Entertaining Friends
3. Cookies and Cream / Both good and bad humour
*Your next list are things that you have had to accept about yourself.
1. Dark Chocolate / Procrastinator
2. Butterscotch / mental disability
3. Fruitcake / Body image
*The last three are things that we have to or have had to overcome in our lives. looking at them gives us lots to think about, becuase they clearly changed our lives. These things can be both positive or negative, but the point is that they were a challenge, not a breese.
1. Tiramisu / Damage from all my surgerys
2. Rice Pudding / Being ostroscised
3. Black Licorice / Social Awkwardness


These 12 things are things you brought with you from the candy store. Clearly you took a whole lot more than that, right down to the number of strawberry jelly beans. However, this example you have worked demonstrates in a small detail that we have taken a lot of things with us to make us who we are.
The four people running around the store, as mentioned earlier, are souls, each at a different level of age and maturity. Just like physical beings, just over a longer period of time, our souls age and grow wiser. Clearly, our age and experience makes us choose more wisely about what we like, what we don't like and what we should try next in the world. Presenting this as the biggest candy store in the collective imagination is a simple way to present it.
The Child New to the ideas of living and learning, a child wants to try everything without a lot of thoughts to the consciquences. The child is limited on how much they can take form the store because, being so young, they cannot handle all the responsability at once. A young soul has a lot of choice because they haven't tried very many things (if any). they may choose one or two things to take with them from past lives and this may reflect in either interests, goals, beliefs or lifestyles. A few of the things that they will choose, because of their limit in height, will be life challenges which will be represented by things they will either not get from the store on their next visit or willget again to get a taste for. Ultimutely, they take a balanced amount of everything.
These souls are identifyable because they have an easier run in life. They don't face up to a lot from start to finish. Their challenges are very mundane in their creation and finding a conclussion to. This does not suggest they won't have a hard time dealing with it, because they will need to gain the experience of this aspect of living. But in comparrison to the other three souls, their lives are somewhat easier and more carefree.
The Youth Having experienced a few things, the youth as an idea of what they like and what is and isn't good. They can be a bit more choosy on what they take for themselves, but are still unwise as to what works as a combination and what doesn't. In comparrison, it is like serving musk sticks with your tiramisu, it doesn't really work at all. The youth also has more access to some of the sweets on the shelves that were previously beyond their reach because they have experienced enough to be able to take the sweets and learn their tastes in life.
These souls are identified from their level of experience and gain in life. Probably the more successful ranks of the soul when looked at in their lives. They can achieve quite well and deal with their issues, have a well rounded personality, but perhaps fall apart at the seems a little quicker than others. They have built something, but if it is taken form them, it might have them crumple into a being beyond not being able to do much with themselves. So while success is eisier, it is precious and requires a lot of maintaining.
The Adult: Knowledged and wise to the effects of a lot of the sweets in the store, they can choose very carefully as to what they want to do in their next round. they will take the things they like having in life while challenging themselves to newer and tougher things on higher shelves still. These souls may also try some foreign sweets, which incarnate them outside of earth. We cannot learn everything here, and so incarnate in places where they can learn these things.
You can pick these souls from their level of depth and understanding. While they haven't totally grasped the difference between being mortal and being beyond this world, they do seem to understand a lot, either form their own life experience this time or a deeper knowledge. Their lives are with difficulties that a lot of epople cannot comprehend how to deal with, and it is up to the soul to work out how to deal with what they have choosen. However, being able to deal with it makes the soul older and wiser still. Not being able to deal with it means they will prbably buy more from the store until they can swallow and digest it.
Elderly souls: These people have an experience, colectively, that goes beyond the minds and comprehensions of being human. They know a lot about living and coping. They have very few things left to try in the candy store, have found the right combination of sweets that they like and work woell together. Their last visits are the toughest tests of the soul and the mortal mind, and these souls have ladders to reach the sweets on the top shelves.
These souls are simply different form others. they are the toughest, the most knowing and the ones most likely to want to help. Many examples of these are in Doreen Virtues "Realms of the Earth Angels", but even if they are not an earth angel, they are well experienced. While dealing with thier own lives, they can help others with theirs, because they know about their troubles and can answer the call.
Beyond the Store: When we have, finally, tasted every last sweet in the candy store and finished eating them, whcih takes many centuries of our time, we discover that we have the knowledge of life. It doesn't make us perfect, but it is the point in which our souls evolve into the next stage of experience. These experiences are as helpers back to the physical worlds but in spiritual forms. Guides, protectors, warriors and so forth.
In conclussion, the Candy Store is where we choose our experiences. We have our tastes, our prefered combinations of foods and where we are all encouraged to try new things. Every aspect of mortal lving can be made here, and we will need to experience them all in one way or another. As examples...
Fairyfloss: Being homosexual
Black jelly beans: having dark skin
Spearmint: being a warrior
strawberry/blueberry: being fe/male
apple cobbler: living in the country
lemon drops: having mental disability
In these examples, and many many more, we will discover that we have a lot to learn. The things we choose to experience in our lives are for sale at the Candy Store at the beginning of incarnation. The things we don't like we must learn to cope with, and the things we love we have done before, are a part of who we are as continuous incarnations or something we have come to like this time around.
I have a theory. It is about soul evolution as humans.

Theory: The Perception of Others

I have a theory. It is about the human perception of itself and the understanding of the unknown human need.

Activity
Picture in your mind the last time you walked through your local shopping centre on a busy day. Think of every person you passed. I do not expect you to pick out specific details, but just remember something about each person. Consider how many people you walk past in a moment, a minute, five minutes, one hour and so on. For each person, I want you to give them a color; Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple or Pink. Once you have done that, read the list below and it will tell you what you have walked past.
Red: This person has body weight issues.
Orange: This person has a mental illness
Yellow: This person was born overseas.
Green: This person struggles with an addiction
Blue: This person has a physical disability (obvious or not, tempory or permanent)
Purple: This person has a very stereotypical attitude towards a minority.
Pink: This person is gay/lesbian/transgender
Consider this for a moment. You have labelled a lot of people around you, probably falsely, with something that you can't really tell. These things, more commonly invisible than obvious, But what this theory is about is the perception of the human world in one mind and in many minds.


Consider this little activity the next time you are out down the street. All these people, somewhat normal in their everyday appearance, have a hidden something. It is not your place to know what it is, but consider that very few people you walk past will not be suffering one of these things. In fact it is a near guarantee you won't meet someone who hasn't been through or is going through one of these things, if not more.
What the human perception is generally wired to do is not to contemplate what is not obvious. And when it is obvious, our minds instantly jump in one of a few directions.
Pity: Feeling sorry for the person
Anger: That they make their problems others problems
Happiness: That the person is (hopefully) brave enough to face life, regardless. Or being happy that we are not that way.
Uncertainty: human fear of the unknown.
In everything that makes us human, we need to accept that there is something wrong with all of us, and that we are not perfect. My theory, however, does not place itself on the obvious.
My theory is that the human mind cannot accept what it does not understand from experience. We cannot understand issues of sexuality if we have not been through it or had someone close to us go through it. We cannot accept mental or physical disability if we do not have it or care for someone who does. We cannot understand different culture without having lived it. We cannot understand addiction if we haven't dealt with it, or seen someone dealing with it. There is no general acceptance for these things beyond perception and listening. And while I do not expect everyone to go through these things in their lifetime (at least not all of them) I do expect that the human mind will perceive that there is something to be said for these different groups.
When we see someone who has a real problem with their weight, what is the first thing we think of? Clearly, our own position in comparison. But when we pass that, we tend to think negatively on the person for their life choices. Instead of that, my theory is that the human mind can take a different approach. That in viewing this person, there can be seen a reason for their position. Do you know why the person is the size they are? Do they have a hidden issue that forces them to be the way they are?
Lets look at a different group, like someone born overseas. Yes, this can be obvious by different skin color, different customs in general living and so forth. But for some it isn't so obvious. While it might be easy to pick someone who is Asian or African-American by sight, could you pick an American or a European by sight? The answer is probably not. And even in this, you discover that there are some things hidden from view.
Even sexuality, a topic of major debate, is something that is hidden. I do not expect that many people walk around with their sexuality on their sleeves, and that even the most obvious might not be and the least obvious could be. It is all down to the unseen part of the mind. But when we are presented with someone who is same-sex attracted, what is our first thoughts? For some, it is self preservation of their ego. For some it is the wondering thought of what goes through that persons mind. Having seen and heard it often enough myself, it makes things interesting in conversation, or very negative. There is always, in one way or another, small underlying hints that the person is not comfortable or are trying to remind you constantly of their own sexuality. However, what they haven't seen is the other side of the sexuality. The boiling down is that sexuality only rules so uch of a persons life, despite what some people present in their own theories. The other side of sexuality is mortality, and that even these people, as different as they are in their private lives, are actually about as similar as you and I and Uncle Bob.
Lets talk about mental disability. What comes to your mind when I say that or as you read it? The first thing that probably rocks up is someone who has Down Syndrome. Once again, the human mind only chooses the obvious. What about people with Autism? What about Bipolar Disorder or Aspurgas? These are things you cannot see but still exist. You will walk past a lot of people with a mental disability in a single day, from depression to anxiety to paranoia. You will never know it is there, but it is. And for those who are mysophobic, these things are not catching, they are simply a condition of the human mind that affects everyday living in the persons head, much like mysophobia. What do you think of these people? It is surprising some of the things people will say without a lot of consideration. But try it this way, if a person has a mental disability, whatever the level, it is a sign that they might have a hyper-intelligence or a wild personality. Or it is something that is helpless except through correct medication to keep it at bay. In any event, these people are still human.
My theory within getting you to view these perceptions at a different angle is to understand the two viewpoints we take. One is simple judgment and the other is an attempt to understand.


Activity
From here, scroll back up to the color list and choose the colors that represent you. Yes, plural. So you don't feel left out, I will do it myself.
Red (Body weight issues), Orange (mental disability), Green (Struggles with addiction), Blue (physical disability), Pink (same-sex attracted). Yes, I openly admit all these things. I have a mental disability, body weight issues, have an addiction problem, have a physical disability and identify as same-sex attracted. How many colors have you picked up? Are you being honest with yourself? For the colors you have chosen, you can safely say, on some level, that you understand these viewpoints, because you have been there and lived it. the other colors you can understand TO A POINT but not in their full context.




My next point is for you to take a look at someone else in your mind who also fits into one of these categories that you have picked out for yourself. How do you react towards them? How do you percieve them as humans or individuals? What is your general responce towards theese people? Would you stop and help them if you knew? I hope the answer is yes.
The theory is that people fear what they do not understand, and are quick to judge because they do not understand. Understanding that fear comes from not having lived through it themselves. The result is a closed-minded world. My theory is that humans can percieve more and judge less if they experience more in their lives. I do understand that no one person is going to experience all of these things at once, and how could they? On some levels, it is possible, but it is not an easy life. However, the human body can endure quite a bit. The theory is that if each person in this world faced at least four of these issues, both in a positive and negative way, then they would be a lot less judging and more open to the potentials of blockades. They might see the potential in others, and this is what I hope that, one day, we will see.
I have a theory. it is based on human perception of itself and the basic human needs in others. I hope you have enjoyed reading it.


I would like to thank Rose Wake and my Cert IV class of 2010 for helping me explore this theory, discussing it in class and being understanding to the many things that have been my challenges. All the best for the future guys.

Welcome to the Book of Theory

Welcome to my Book of Theory. It is in this place that I have written out my theorys of life from a spiritual, human or social point of view. What I hope is that people can percieve a new perspective on life and a more open mind and heart towards their lives. While the theories I present may not be fully thought through or perfectly describbed, I am going to continuously review the theories and retype them so that they may make more sense.


To expose this blog a bit further, I have found a few places on the internet (mostly facebook) and hope that the blog attracts people who are interested in reading my theories, adding their own thoghts and presenting their opwn theories with me. Any theories that I publish here, with what I hope is the approach they want, I will credit them at the beginning and end of the theory.
The first few theorys I'm posting have been posted previously in my other blog, but I want to seperate what is basically my journal from my theorys on life and our existance. While posts here will not be as frequent, but they will be in depth.
What I really want is for people to comment and let me know what they think. Anyone can post, however I do want to know who says what. And I do hope that people will subscribe to this blog.
I hope to hear from everybody soon. All the best,
Shikishinobi
Perry B.