A – Birth of a Soul

The Birth of Sensation, the Sleep of the Soul

We are born into this life and in most cases, we forget we are a soul. Many spend a lifetime’s work reclaiming their soul awareness. I am going to endeavour explaining this dynamic without too much Alchemy and Kabbalah.

This world is sensory; we have senses, the body transmits sensation to the awareness, and we respond to these signals. As a Baby the sensory input is overwhelming, the baby has no control, it simply splashed into the waters of birth from a completely different consciousness, somewhat like coming from a dark room into sunlight – the shock and adjusting to the sunlight, leaves the darkness behind – forgetfulness, but still you cannot see – amnesia of the soul. The awareness has so much sensory input, these senses are the language of the communication between the inner world and the outer world. The baby surrenders to the senses, what else can it do, it just relieves itself without mental input, screams when the sensation of hunger calls, and sleeps when at peace. Not only is the body developing so too the ego; I am hungry, tired and so on. This life conditions us to believe we are these sensations. Not everyone matures, most of us mature enough to control our bowels and bladder, not all mature enough to control their appetite, their anger of not having the sensation’s needs met.
Then puberty, another shock taking the awareness on another journey, enter what is called the ‘real world’, to be totally consumed by the sensations of life – consumerism. Yep, you got it, children being consumed by sensation. Look at advertising, politics, all carefully designed to create sensation, so the babies all respond instinctively – feeding time at the zoo.

Spiritual awakening makes one step back from the ‘real world’ and question, “is this my beautiful house, is this my beautiful wife?”, that classic Talking Heads moment, “Once in a Lifetime; same as it ever was!”.

I hope you can see the message the Masters are giving when they tell you to overcome your senses, it is not to become senseless, but to regain your sensibility, your soul.

We attach to all life’s experiences by how we sensed them, the sensual impact they have on us infants. We generally believe our senses in this manner, and act accordingly through the veil of our attachments to the senses, if you understand?

You are not the sense or the reaction; you are the one experiencing via your senses and your conditioned reaction. That does not make your senses and reactions bad etc, it just involves you and you really have no choices. With detachment, seeing becomes seeing clearly – clairvoyance, hearing – clairaudience etc., different sensuality altogether.

A little bit of Kabbalah, Christ said, “I have come with the sword”, the sword is the magical weapon that is used to master angels and demons. The sword is the Hebrew letter Zayin 7, the card of the Lovers, where the first choice was made to bite of the forbidden fruit. In a way Adam and Eve lost their choice, they fell into this world, ‘oh how sad’, it is all their fault 🙂
Let us see Christ as a consciousness between 2 thieves –  the consciousness making the choice, not what you choose, but the freedom to choose, the path of return. It is not the in an out-breath that is life, it is you who exists between; it is not birth and death, life and death, but you who exists in between. Christ overcame death between two thieves – see it now? That is you, you are the one between each breath, you are the soul, not the body or the senses; you are conditioned to “believe” you are these sensations, this body.

Alchemy has 3 principles: salt, sulphur and mercury – Body, Feeling, Thought; the burning upon the wick, the flame that rises and the light that emanates – instincts, soul, spirit.
What captures your soul?
What spirit do you walk life’s path in?
Are your instincts, senses, your servants, or are you theirs?

A simple contemplation: to capture a soul is to imprison it to feel a certain way, capture your fire, your energy.
So, what is making you feel in any manner,?
Addictions serve who?

Question everything, you are free to do that.
Peace is not the absence of sensation; it is simply a step away, be in the world but not of it.
Paul Tisdell
21st February, 2026