The inner dialogue between soul and spirit.

In search of our resemblance to God. 

Do you talk to yourself, i.e. is there a silent but constant conversation going on inside you? If so, you don't need to worry. It is a natural part of our psyche, but you can improve its effectiveness by better understanding its nature and function in your life; you can understand where this inner dialog can lead you if you use its potential for your spiritual progress. A dialog with yourself is a sign that you are in touch with your inner wisdom. 

According to some studies, only a third of people seem to consciously and regularly engage in inner dialog. Of the remainder, many cannot say and 15% say they have no inner dialog at all. This has consequences. When we have no or weak inner dialog, we are vulnerable to manipulation by others, especially the propaganda of the world's elites. Recently, during the pandemic (2020) orchestrated by these elites, we have seen how 80% of people have been completely manipulated by the fear fueled by deliberate threatening messages, which some governments have already admitted to be a large-scale psycho-operation, an experiment in psychic power. It will take years for the whole truth to come out, but it will come, and then many will be ashamed and angry that they allowed themselves to be manipulated and complicit, pointing fingers and cursing friends and family. Fortunately, we can learn from our mistakes. We need to activate and trust our inner dialog and we need to learn to use it efficiently and holistically, i.e. for the benefit of our material and spiritual life. 

Normally, this dialog is conducted as if we were talking to another person, that is, I talk to myself as if I were talking to you, but silently, inwardly, reviewing the words spoken or the deeds committed, the decisions made or to be made. The inner dialogue is a debate that allows or should allow us to adjust our behavior and discover our motives, improve them and pursue nobler intentions, if we are able to be honest. The truth is that there is always a winner and a loser in this dialog, in us, who are only one person. It is as if we are internally divided. There is an explanation for this, which we will try to explain in this very important meditation. The clinical bipolarity of the personality has to do with this subject, but it is not the subject of our consideration, so it will only remain in this note so that the reader can keep it in mind and draw some conclusions later. 

We will reflect on the spiritual nature of inner dialog, who is involved in it and what its goals are. 

The most important inner dialog in our lives is moral or is about love, the kind of love we want to experience. In reality, all inner dialog is moral, but here we want to make it more conscious by identifying the active parties in this debate in order to transform it into a much more useful dynamic for the self. 

But first we have to take an important step.

Facing the silence. 

In order for the inner dialog between my soul and my consciousness to begin, I must first silence the external voices to which I have been attuned up to now. We are multi-band receivers for all kinds of impressions that can direct us like puppets. All the noise the world emits is a tragic chain event that triggers wars and claims countless lives. We must break this chain of horror, starting with ourselves. There will be no solution as long as we manipulate each other, for whatever reason. Breaking my chains with the world that has kept my attention and shackled me with its stream of lies is perhaps the most important thing I can do in my life. I need to change frequencies, tune into the truth, the truth that lies hidden in my soul. It is an exercise in taking responsibility for my actions. 

The dialog with my spirit is like a light breaking through the fog, an awakening after a long night of confused dreams, triggered by the voices that wanted to seduce, even enslave me. To trust our inner dialog, we must have the courage to face a brief silence and expel all unwanted influences from our minds and hearts. The outside world is like a drug that tells you that you need it to live; that you must be obedient if you want to live safely. 

Turning away from the world and turning to the source of inner wisdom means a 180-degree turn. From now on, I learn with this filter of wisdom, subjecting everything external to my calm judgment, even if I find it difficult at first to distinguish the true from the false. Once I have taken this step, I am ready to get to know myself better through inner dialog. 

Who?

Who is in dialog with whom in me when I am only one person? In reality, like so much in this world, from God to the grain of wheat, I am actually three in one, three mutually supporting layers or beings, and that is how it must be if there is to be progress. The ego consciousness must be able to confront itself, and God, the original creative force, has designed our nature in such a way that this necessary confrontation takes place so that each individual can exercise the development of his freedom on earth, i.e. where his free will leads him, to happiness or unhappiness. 

Our dialog is therefore a conversation between our conscience and our self, which thinks, desires and feels pleasure and pain. Through this dialog, the self must keep itself on a path that gradually reconciles it with its conscience and wisdom. An interruption of this dialog means that the self has stopped listening to its conscience and has turned its attention to external voices. The result is a weakening of its will and a self-deception that serves as a shield for the "I" to continue to ignore its conscience and thus abuse its freedom. 

We speak of our self and our conscience, but let us call every being in ourselves by its true name. 

Soul and spirit. 

To call the two interlocutors by their true names, which allow us to better define who we are, we must call them spirit and soul. 

1. Self = soul. 
2. Conscience = spirit. 

The conscience is our spirit, where our wisdom lies, and the thinking and willing self is the soul. The soul is the one that has the freedom to decide whether it wants to continue the inner dialog with its spirit. We have said that our inner dialog is a conversation with our essential wisdom if we use it correctly. The spirit is a wise counselor whose door is always open to the soul - the ego - when it wants to ask for advice. This is done through prayer or meditation and can be practiced in any place and at any time of day, as a conversation in the heart. It is about knowing how we can shield ourselves from external stimuli and the noise of the world and connect with our inner wisdom center. Those who do not keep this relationship alive within themselves are lost, even if they seem to know what they want on the outside. However, they will not make any progress on the path to themselves, indeed, they will become increasingly distant from their essence, no matter how much they try to hide it with outward appearances. As we know, appearances can be deceptive. 

To better understand the mechanism of this inner dialogue between soul and spirit; to realize that it is necessary so that the soul does not fatally stumble in life, we must understand what we are and what we are made of, how we are constructed. The self is an entity made up of three bodies: the physical, which has its own life support mechanisms on the material plane; then the etheric or soul, which forms a body similar to the physical, human one, but is made of substantial matter imperceptible to the eye or other senses. The third self is the spiritual or spirit, which is intangible and of direct divine origin, a pure creative thought from God. We are a thought of divine love. 

The human form is the highest form in the universe and is the direct expression of the divine spirit that manifests itself in the soul and the material body on this physical plane. 

1. The body, material and temporary in its form.
2. The soul, immortal substantial body.
3. The spirit, immaterial, center of the self. 

What we call our own Trinity is not an accidental but a causal fact, the cause being the spirit as the pure life force. We will come back to the life force in a moment in this meditation. 

God creates all beings through His love, which He generates as thoughts or ideas - spirits - which the divine creative original spirit then releases as individual and free beings. These beings are pure spirits, because God is pure spirit. A pure spirit, immaterial and made of light, can only act and be on the spiritual level. But on the physical plane, which has arisen through a rift in the divine order between God and his created and free spirits, and in the spheres we call the beyond, which are not made of pure light, but very refined matter, there the spirit must express itself in a shell called the soul, and on this material plane on which we live, the body. Thus the formerly pure spirits enter a life of constant progress or ascent. In this life of progress, which is a return to the purest spirituality, the spirit must educate its soul, which is an expression of its original life force or essence. This education is primarily internal, that is, it takes place within the self, which is divided between spirit, soul and body on the physical plane. and this education for the development and recovery of the divinity of the soul, a dialog is necessary. 

The higher goal of our inner dialog is spiritual, it is about purification, about a progressive and voluntary transformation of the soul towards higher levels of spiritual purity. 

It becomes interesting when we move to the level of matter, especially on earth. Earth can be described as the ultimate battleground in this battle for the education of the soul, which is free to decide what it wants to do, whether it wants to discover its spiritual essence or immerse itself in matter, which can be compared spiritually to suicide. 

It follows that our existence here only makes sense in a larger spiritual evolutionary context. 

The third self, the physical body, comes into play. The body is really a temporary probationary shell for the soul incarnating on earth to strengthen its love for truth, which is the spirit, through what we call the seductions or temptations of matter. Now the soul needs help, a subtle help that is not imposed, preserving its free will, but is an open door for support through the teachings of Christ or the Word of God, but within us. And it is precisely in this strengthening that the inner dialog between soul and spirit lies. Knowing our holistic nature better helps a lot to improve this dialog and not to see it as something unimportant or even annoying. 

If we have already said it, let us repeat it: the Spirit limits himself to an absolutely discreet action in this dialog, except in cases where the soul is in real danger and God sometimes gives strong signs. But the salvation of the soul depends on its free will to be saved through the Word of God in the inner dialog. 

Being well aware of their density in my role as the author of these words expressing ideas about who we are and why we are here, I allow myself to be redundant in my reflections, preferring to err on the side of excess rather than giving a lack of information. The uninitiated reader must take the time, which can take years, to make the content his own, in the sense of internalizing it in a way that leaves no doubt as to its meaning and importance. He achieves this by cultivating his inner dialog, i.e. by meditating. 

The human being. 

Let us now take a closer look at the threefold nature within us in order to recognize its universal basis. Our threefold nature is based on the vital principle that all living beings, living and non-living, have:

1. Outer shape.
2. Content.
3. Power/Energy. 

The causal relationship between these three properties of all being is shown in the following table, in which the spirit causes the content and the outer form, both as sheaths of power or also as interfaces of its effect. Let us remember that the spirit, in order to express itself on the lower levels of reality, needs a sheath, both an ethereal one, the soul, and a material one, the body, if it is to work in this world.  

The power that is spiritual or the spirit in all things, including stones and suns, determines both the content of the being and its form, which in turn characterizes its function and degree of freedom. Every being, in its form and content, has its spirit or degree of intelligence, or is the visible expression of that intelligence, its equivalent, so to speak, in the material plane. It is therefore possible to recognize the spirit of a being in its form and through its action (effect), i.e. its essence, through correspondences. 

In connection with what has just been said, let us now think for a moment about our dialog between soul and spirit. The content - the soul - speaks with its power or cause, the spirit or the essential self.

The inner dialog thus becomes a conversation about the truth and life itself within us!

If we take this consideration one step further, then we come to the inevitable conclusion that our inner dialog is with God as the primordial spirit itself. For this reason, we have already indicated that our inner dialog is a religious one, because it connects us with God as our origin. 

The spirit of a rose cannot produce the form of a sun or a planet, but only that of a rose. A spirit can be compared to a certain kind of intelligence. Intelligence and spirit are the same thing. Suns, on the other hand, have not just one spirit, but many millions that are capable of producing light and heat. If this sounds strange, a study of quantum physics might convince the materialistic mind of our time. It is also useful to study indigenous cultures around the world. They all assume that spirits are the true living beings in everything you see. 

In our case, we call the form human and it is the result of a spirit that God has planted in our center so that the human form is the image of God. This is an act of the highest divine love for us. The soul is the self, the personality that must be made worthy of this human form in its spiritual or divine meaning, that is, its highest possible strength and beauty in every stage of evolution, what we call giving the best of ourselves. The form must express the full power of the spirit in its most beautiful outer manifestation. This can only happen gradually. Why does it not do this directly? Because the soul is given its own freedom, i.e. its own free will. With this freedom it must return from its original fall to God, turn to Him, turn to itself in the spirit that is waiting for it in us. The inner spirit and God are one and the same, as is the dialog between the soul and its higher self, although God has created us as completely free beings, so that His light in us is a light that we must make our own in the image and likeness of the Creator. 

So our goal is to become free gods. Consciously or unconsciously, we are in conversation with ourselves about this high destiny of ours. 

Do you want to accept being a god, or do you want to give your life to the world, where everything is a fleeting appearance?

For the material form, the body, is only the husk of a seed from which the ideal or God-dreamed-of substantial form, the perfect human being, must be born, which each of us can one day become. Beauty is directly related to the degree to which the soul is able to unite with the power of the divine spirit that it carries within itself. And this has no limit and no end, it is an infinite process that approaches divine perfection. But each stage of development has its goal or fulfillment of what the soul can learn and express. To realize its full potential, the soul must enter into a dialogue with the spirit. This dialogue also involves the soul recognizing its spiritual origin. The dialog between soul and spirit is therefore, as I said, a religious dialog. In this religious dialog there is a series of revelations for the soul, the encounter with the truth that is God. And it is these revelations that bring the soul closer to its spirit. The soul begins to feel a deep gratitude towards God because He has given it life and freedom. Without this recognition of our origin in God, the soul cannot have a fruitful inner dialog. It would fall into oblivion of its essence and seek its identity in matter, in the external, without any success and with always tragic consequences for the life of the soul. Therefore, we must also understand the role of the body in this dialog, because the soul is incarnated here on earth, which reinforces its need to know what life is and what the "I" is. 

The role of each of the 3 beings in the internal dialog. 

Although it is a dialogue between the immortal soul or self and its higher spirit or consciousness, which is equally eternal and directly of divine origin, and only it enables us humans to evolve beyond the material plane or physical form, the material or physical body plays an indispensable role in this dialogue, for since the soul is enclosed within it during this existence, the body brings it into contact with the material plane, the earthly existence, in order to fulfill the purpose of its incarnation. This contact with the outer world is the basis for the soul's attempt to exercise its freedom in love, to love as it pleases and to feel the consequences. This life is a game of love. 

Through the soul's dialogue with its spirit, the material plane, including the physical body, must be recognized and experienced not as life itself, but as a state of judgment or trial of the soul, due to the impending death of the body. It is a terrible judgment hanging over the life of the soul as it approaches the fateful moment when its existence will be completely extinguished. This unstoppable countdown, which should be an important driver of the inner dialogue, urges the soul to seek its salvation, its freedom, in a life that cannot be destroyed, annihilated, extinguished. The soul, when she has connected with her spirit, is then revealed in her inner conversations, her meditations, that her salvation comes from the source of life, which is the divine spirit, for it is indestructible and eternal; it is an unstoppable force called love, and its center is called God. The inner dialogue offers the soul the opportunity to connect with this power of divine love in order to be nourished by it.

The world offers a range of experiences that all appeal to the soul's love, or rather, its tendency to fall in love. The physical body supplies the soul with stimuli from the outside world via the senses. These stimuli awaken love in the soul, which learns to sense attraction and rejection in order to regulate its love for the outside world, which acts like a fashion show for it. 

For this the soul needs help, for the soul itself has no great capacity for insight and often makes mistakes that cause it pain, a necessary incentive for it to learn to improve its way of loving. And in this improvement there comes into play from the spirit a corrective dialog for the soul or self, whose love must not be completely subjected to the external stimuli that we call experiences, but must be regulated by that dialog that we can call meditation, in order to access the creative inner treasures that God has placed in the soul as potentials or talents. Through the combination of love and intelligence, the soul can and must reveal its creative power in the image and likeness of God. Without this dialog, if the soul is only focused on the outer world, this creativity can never unfold and the self will be limited to being a taking, swallowing, consuming self, a consumer rather than a creator. We are potential gods testing our divinity, our power, through incarnation on earth - a terrain where the soul can easily lose sight of its own purpose and destiny and indulge in lower motives to satisfy its self submerged in the body. 

In anticipation of such a downfall, so that the soul has a place to turn to in case of despair, God has given us a spark of Himself, namely our spirit. Prayer or meditation are the means to get in touch with our spirit, to ask for a dialog that can take place anywhere and anytime, but best in silence and solitude. 

So what is this meditation-conversation between my soul, the "I" that feels and desires, and my spirit?  

We can call this dialog conversations about love with myself. In this dialog, the quality of my love is put to the test. And when these conversations progress in the form of an approach of my soul to my spirit, the dialog becomes a path of salvation for my soul, because it actually connects with God, who shows it the right path to the right happiness, to bliss, through the right love. But what is the right love? It is a love that is coupled with wisdom, that takes what is right and gives everything it has to those who need it. It is a love that draws from an inexhaustible source of abundance, namely from the spirit of life, God. The dialog between my soul and my spirit can reveal the truth about this love to the soul. This truth is a source of endless bliss for the soul. 

Rebirth. 

The soul, receptive to stimuli that ignite her love, must fall in love with the truth that lies in what her spirit, which is identical to God in its wisdom, communicates to her. The benefit for the soul is to feel a living love that is connected to an eternal source and thereby to attain the serene wisdom of the spirit. The soul, which in its natural state is always at first dimly enlightened and has little judgment, when it falls in love with God, is imbued with the light of the divine spirit within it through inner dialogue (meditation), which enables it to mature, awaken and finally be reborn in the spirit, which is called the true resurrection of the flesh, which was and still is misunderstood by Christianity for centuries.  

We must therefore understand that the dialog between soul and spirit has only one ultimate goal, namely the rebirth of the soul, what others call its enlightenment. Understood in this way, it is a conversation with God, who offers us a new and eternal life. And the good thing about it is that we can all engage in this conversation voluntarily. 

Every time we create something beautiful and useful for someone other than ourselves, we are talking to God; composers with their music, painters with their paintings, a poet with a few verses or a baker with a loaf of bread baked with love. Every gesture with which we help others becomes a dialog with God, which we experience in our souls as indescribable happiness. Sometimes the misfortunes that life brings us are hidden or clear opportunities to resume this dialog that has been interrupted by our selfishness and our insensitivity to the pain of our brothers and sisters. Each time we seize these opportunities, we come a big step closer to our enlightenment. 

Every creative process that brings something beautiful and useful into the world is the fruit of our inner dialog; no one can be creative through an external order; they can follow guidelines and techniques, at most set up the ideas of others, but not be a creator. Creating and illuminating something, a light that comes from the depths of our soul, is a conversation with our divine power, with our spirit.

Keep calm and think for yourself. 

The inner dialog that brings about this enlightenment or rebirth of the soul in its higher self, its spirit, we can enliven through meditation and prayer, but essentially it is about maintaining the conversation even in the most mundane moments, something that requires no special skill but is learned through the habit of quiet and calm reflection, allowing what we call intuition to express itself within us. If I understand how important this dialog is within me because it has a high spiritual purpose for my soul, which is certainly related to the transcendence of the soul after death, I will do well to keep this conversation, which can also be called thinking for myself, alive. 

However, if this dialog is broken off, which in any case happens by the decision of my soul and never my spirit, there is a distancing of the soul from the spirit, in the direction of the stimuli provided by the physical body, which plunges the soul into the material world, i.e. into the transient. When the soul succumbs to the temptations that the body reinforces in it through its needs, the will of the soul becomes completely subject to the body. There are people, creative people, who lead a life with ups and downs in their soul, with phases of deep connection with their spirit and other phases in which their soul loses itself completely in loves that drag it down and make it lose its will. It is really a gravitational process that pulls the soul towards matter, although in this process related spiritual forces intervene through attraction, i.e. entities that are not incarnate but are connected to this material world through their own lower degree of spiritual development and act as seductive voices for the soul to seek more and more physical gratification. These spirits can influence a person so that his will is broken and he becomes an easy prey for all kinds of vices. 

The world is full of broken souls. God allows these evil influences here on earth from the lower spiritual plane that surrounds our planet, for the earth is the ultimate test world where we find all kinds of difficulties, but also the opportunity to emerge victorious from this melee that prevails here. The soul has two tools in this battle: its will and the light of its spirit. 

The soul is always free to direct its love in one direction or another. His spirit will never force it to listen to him, but he will be there, God will be there, when the soul comes to him, broken by its mistakes or dead with fear. 

Let us rise again from the underworld to the place where there is a constructive dialog between soul and spirit, where there is also positive influence from the spiritual world, influence that encourages the soul to continue on the right path towards love and compassion. We speak of the guardian spirits or guardian angels. There is a whole army of them, because they know how difficult it is to live here. But they do not interfere with the freedom of the soul. In both cases, the descent and the ascent of the soul, it depends on the soul's own free decisions in love, and therefore the biblical statement always applies: Ask and it will be given to you. What needs to be added and understood is that we are given exactly what corresponds to the decisions we make. These decisions determine whether our invisible companions are bad and harmful or good and liberating. Those who do not want help are left alone. 

The same applies to the friendships we maintain with others in this earthly life. From both sides, the visible and the invisible, good and bad friends influence us on the material and the spiritual plane; some to continue the dialog with our spirit or with God within us; others to turn their backs on this dialog in order to enjoy life, even if it is at the expense of others and our own health. Some will tell us to pray to God and ask him for help; others will advise us to go to a store to buy the object of our desire to make us feel better. Life is hard and full of easy and seeming ways out. Any material advantage can become a trap for the soul, which abandons its inner dialog in order to keep the gifts of life or what has cost it so much personal effort. Therefore, it is important not to forget the real, long-term benefit of saving the inner dialog, and that is not meditating on a weekend retreat, massage included. 

To appreciate this inner dialog between my soul self and my higher spiritual self, I need to understand what it gives me. As we have said before, it reveals my creative self, my talents, all that I can fulfill myself with and help others with; that which I am strong in. We are all strong in something, but the world will not tell us, because it has its own plans, the plans of those who dominate it, who defend its interests. With their propaganda, they make us take an interest in subjects and professions that we choose for purely external reasons, for success or wealth. How many people regret having studied a profession for years? When they have finished their studies, they do not feel the slightest motivation to enter professional life, simply because they have not opted for the inner dialog with their spirit that could have revealed to them the source of their own wealth, which lies in their talents. We all have a hidden calling waiting for us. We are potential suns waiting to be ignited, but we need to know what stuff we are made of, what our strength is. This is not possible without an inner dialog. The soul must be able to ask her higher self, the spirit. Who does not do it, fails the target. For example, there are doctors who should be writers and lawyers who would like to be musicians. There are many valuable talents that are wasted and drown in a life that is lived involuntarily and lovelessly. If only they had allowed themselves to listen to themselves and have faith in their calling. 

We must choose what makes us generous and strong people, able to be a support to others by example. Imagine a world in which everyone, from the inner dialog with the innate wisdom that God has given us, carries out the activities for which his or her soul was born. Happiness does not lie in the complexity or prestige of a profession, but in the fact that it corresponds to my talents. Fortunately, we are discovering this truth more and more, even though the education system holds students back for too many years with superfluous training that only fills the pockets of schools and universities. In this world, the challenges of staying in the inner dialog that allows us to see what we need, who we are, even when the world says otherwise, are truly daunting. We can do this by cultivating this dialog between soul and spirit through meditative introspection or prayer, which is the same thing. You can start right away. A one minute break, please!

Let us remember that our inner dialog goes far beyond the choice of profession or career, because, as we have already said, it is a dialog about our love. Those who do not want to be disappointed in this matter in life would do well to subject their love - their tastes and preferences - to this dialog with their spirit or conscience every day, an inner dialog that is also a judgment, a good judgment, because that is what it is all about: loving with good judgment, being fair, for ourselves and for others. 

Let us also remember our threefold nature, which forms a single self; three levels of our being, ready for action and necessary for our development, which must learn to communicate properly with each other. Our body is the "escape room" that presents us with the difficult challenge of living in matter, in the flesh, literally imprisoned and with complete amnesia about our origins and past. But we have our intelligence, our spirit, to guide us. We need to activate that connection, start an inner conversation; we need to remember who we are and what awaits us after this short life on earth. The answers will never be found on the outside, because true religion is an inner act of reconnecting with life, truth and love. 

Responsibility. 

The soul must therefore find the exit, that is, it must know that there is a life beyond the physical plane, beyond biological life. The soul is responsible for what it does with its body and for not allowing itself to be dominated by the body and fall into despondency, but it is also responsible for what it does with itself in terms of its love, because it is this love that will give life to the soul when it transcends the physical plane with the death of the body. 

It is our spirit that shows us the way out, which is to become aware of our spiritual being and our immortality, however difficult it may be, it must be so, so it is a matter of faith. Matter will never provide proof of eternal life, because it is subject to time and carries the seal of death. We must therefore engage in inner dialog in order to stay the course towards the truth in the spirit with confidence in light and comfort. 

Let your daily meditations or prayers be this inner dialog, a dialog between two lovers, between you and the loving Creator, a dialog with God. The secret to be revealed through this dialog is to feel that God has sown himself in us with all his power and love so that we are identical with him. We must penetrate the mystery of being created in the image and likeness of God by listening attentively, dialoguing with humility and patience and trusting in the message of Christ. Meditating means improving my love. It is not the technique that matters, but the goal, which is the unfolding of our creative, humble and luminous love, a love that lights the way to life for those around us, a love that creates harmony; the love that Christ showed us with his words, his message and his sacrifice.    Amen.