Soul is the unique natural property of us as organisms in an ongoing never ending, progressive natural world and one way for our consciousness to survive is for it to be attached to this indestructible soul which persists forever as an intrinsic part of the progressive, never-ending, continually improving awareness of the universal wisdom. I have used "Soul" and "Consciousness" as synonymous words throughout my book. To me, they are one and the same, but the soul indicates a more personal aspect of the being, while consciousness is a more universal expression for the awareness of the Universal Consciousness (God). A harmony must exist between spirituality and scientific discovery, and there can be no contradiction between one and the other. The discovery of the nature of the individual identity called "Being" is an intimate part of the common identity we call "consciousness". The preparations we need to undertake that will facilitate our destiny with the uni- versal consciousness, and no matter from what perspective we happen to contemplate life, it gives us clues about a common destiny. My arguments are based on the fact that everything in the cosmos is made up of energy, and this energy has a purpose, meaning, and expression. Therefore, during my research, I have discovered some of this purpose, meaning, and expression in the vibrations of life we call sacred. We can observe this energy in the shape of things, their colour, and sound frequency, but we must be attuned to them. They manifest themselves in the things that are familiar to us, such as the well-recognised shapes of famous renderings like Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, or the exquisite architecture - perfect in its proportions - of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral, or the exquisitely proportioned shapes in nature, like the Nautilus shell or a flower, or the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore or the mathematics of Euclid. Unfortunately for some of us, these experiences pass us by unnoticed, and we, therefore, stumble through life deprived of the signs that give meaning, beauty, and pupose to our existence. Everything in the universe, whether it is matter or energy and existence itself, abides by at least two great sets of laws: the laws of thermodynamics and the laws of motion. In addition, some rules control the progress of our consciousness and the consciousness in the hereafter. The rules are not the same in this life as they are in the next. We have come to generally identify this consciousness as "soul". The soul has both a meaning and a purpose - the "what" and the "how". To facilitate the discovery of its intricacies, we must develop a fluid comprehension of consciousness.
Is the mind a part of your consciousness? William James used the term "transcendental mind", a continuum of cosmic consciousness that exists in a higher dimension and subsumes individual minds. The Catholic theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin pos- ited the existence of a membrane of consciousness girdling the globe that would be enhanced anytime the consciousness of any one individual in the world is raised. Leonard Shlain's writing in Art & Physics goes further by describing the universal mind as an overarching, disembodied universal consciousness that organises the power generated by every person's thought. Shakespeare said it well when he had the praying Macbeth emote, "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go." We may be part of a much larger entity existing in the space-time continuum with an agenda of which we are not aware. If the individual self-reflective mind knows that it knows, the uni- versal mind knows everything, everywhere and anytime.
