Soul’s Evolution by Angie Skelhorn

Samhain is the time for communication with our spiritual family, the time to embrace survival after death.  The immortal soul experiences a series of stages of development both in the physical and spiritual world before the soul is perfected in harmonious balance.

There is a period of necessary rest and recuperation for the soul that moves toward reincarnation.  The soul is again and again in a series of incarnation on earth to learn lessons while facing the consequences of personal actions.  Some souls stay in spirit form to help and support the incarnation in physical form on earth.

The nature of the lesson to be learned or the Karma conditions that need to be worked out is deciding a soul's evolution.  The cycle of reincarnation-birth, death, and re-birth, derives from the idea that life is cyclical and moves from the beginning through growth to a peak, then begins to decay, disintegrate, and return back to the beginning to endlessly repeat the cycle.

The theory is grounded in the patterns of nature; a continuous phenomenon of receiving becoming, ceasing, and re-becoming.  The seasons are not separate, they merge.  In spring life is viewed with freshness of youthful innocence.  Summer life is experienced.  In the fall there is maturity and an appreciation for all that was, is and will be.  Winter signifies old age, death, and a period of rest and recuperation.

Every effect in the world has its cause but this chain must lead back to a primary cause of the whole existing universe which must have itself been both cause and effect. All that is in the world is relative and operates on a great plan toward set ends created by a master planner.

Human beings are connected to the universe and earth which all life is part of in all of its manifestations.  The whole of mankind is on a quest destined to return to a state of unity with infinite God Consciousness, our Creator.

Spirits can make contact with the living even though a soul's afterlife is totally different from earthly life.  The everlasting soul will survive.  Souls come from one lifetime to another.  Our ancestors were born, lived their lives with free will, died, then joined with the God Consciousness and would be born again into the cycle.  Spirits will enter dreams, visions and rituals to open the mind the way to accomplish personal goals.  Spirits give the eyes to see so your heart will know how to manifest potential in the physical world.

Samhain is the time to honor and communicate those who have passed before us.  Ask Spirit for support and guidance to put you where you need to be prepared for opportunities to become a better you.  Seek strength and inspiration to know self, freed from so-called imperfections. 

By candle's glow and smoking incense, my words to call my Spirit Guide are as follows:

1. “Spirit Guide, please come, your presence is welcome, your wisdom is needed, come hither, those who surround, support my quest.”

2. “Spirit Guide, reveal to me that which will be done, one...two...three...,” then snap fingers. “Spirit watch over.  Go in peace.”

Author's Bio: Angie Skelhorn is the fifth child born into a farming family south of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. Her writing has appeared in The Simple Witch, and Circle Magazine.  She is hard at work on her novel, "On the Edge."