The soul is something completely different from the spirit. The soul is of manifest matter. The spirit is not. The spirit cannot be scientifically captured and documented, while the soul is and will be in the future. The soul is the tiny spark of electrical energy that enters the body as a thought form. It is in the center of etheric matter; it is a small “cloud bundle” (the ethereal matter) that has an infinitesimal pinprick of electricity embedded in it.
This cloud wisp, the soul, is installed in whatever chakra it has been determined that the soul wants to work with and express in that lifetime. It remains in the etheric body in the energy of that chakra until the blending of soul and personality takes place. At that time it enters physical matter and embeds itself in the physical organ that relates to the chosen chakra. This soul then permeates the brain with messages, sending them through the nervous system to the brain, where they are then processed and used by the brain to determine action on the physical plane.
Ethereal matter is something that cannot be captured and held in the hand. It’s made of ether, which is an atmosphere in a high energy field, a rarefied atmosphere, perhaps, would be a better way to put it. Your etheric body surrounds your physical form. It displaces the solid atmosphere around your body with a thinner, finer substance of higher vibrations. These higher vibrations reflect the prismatic colors in a different way than the ordinary atmosphere does. This is exactly the same as a rainbow. Perhaps this is the best description that could be given of ethereal matter, a rainbow. A rainbow is something you can see and are familiar with, but you know you can never touch it and you also know it’s real because you can see it. Some people can see this field around matter, such as the physical body. You should know then that this is what the mind is, the ethereal substance that surrounds the physical organ called the brain. The personality is built on the mind as an even lighter ethereal matter. The two mix over time, but remain ethereal matter. They never manifest in physical matter.
The soul is an ally, if you will, of the physical body, a bridge element between physical evolution and divine or exoteric and esoteric evolution. The soul is the part left over from the original spark, the part that starts the engine, the little piece of nuclear energy that sits in the middle of the furnace that has formed around it. It is embedded in the emotional body.
The amount of influence that the soul in incarnation has over the development of the personality depends on two factors. One is the genetic stock from which the physical form comes and the other is the spiritual evolution of the embodied entity. Those on the higher planes have been experimenting with allowing more evolved souls to come into a more highly refined physical form. They are now starting to work with the idea that maybe this is not the right approach and that the more highly evolved souls should go into the more animalistic forms. Souls who would take an incarnation like this would earn “extra credit” for their own growth.
This was what happened before Atlantis was destroyed. Some souls volunteered to enter by leaving half of themselves out of incarnation to determine if the more strictly masculine qualities in a masculine form and the feminine qualities in a feminine form worked better than having asexual souls enter single bodies. sex. It was found to work better and the entire human creation was restructured. Those on the higher planes are trying to determine if we are at another similar milestone in humanity’s ongoing evolutionary progress.
It depends on the combination of two factors. A highly refined physical form coupled with a highly evolved soul would have much influence over day-to-day activities. An animal form would generally be entered by a less evolved one and there would be very little control. The implications are quite obvious and perhaps you can see the basis for the thinking of those on higher planes as to more evolved souls going into more animal forms. At first there were no controls on which part of the divine spark went into which particular animal form. This changed in the time of Atlantis and the entry of bodies began to be regulated. Now may be the time for another, more tightly controlled regulation to come into force.
Your soul in incarnation has knowledge of the goals you set for this life, what karma (guilt for past actions) you wanted to erase, and what lessons you wanted to learn in terms of attitudes or behavior. Your soul knows itself and knows what its flaws are and what its strengths are. These strengths are the knowledge you have gained in previous incarnations that you plan to bring into this life to help with this life’s lessons and goals. The soul on the inner planes knows all this.
Both halves of the soul, the one that is incarnated and the one that remains on the inner planes, have full and complete knowledge of the path of progress that souls must take in their spiritual quest. They have knowledge of how the Akashic records work; they are aware of future stages of progress; they have knowledge of the past evolutionary gains of all kingdoms. There is not much you don’t know about the spiritual life. What they don’t know are the lessons they must learn. These are how to combine physical matter with these spiritual truths and bring this knowledge back to the inner planes. This will help form a more highly evolved soul that will experience all that the Creator can experience on this planet before moving on. You see, all the sparks that fell must re-evolve to be one with the Creator God before anyone can move on. Therefore, one of the primary goals for everyone is to help everyone else in their evolutionary growth so that they can all move forward together.