Mind, Body, and Soul

Anam Cara

“In the Celtic tradition, there is a beautiful understanding of love and friendship…and the idea of soul-love; the old Gaelic term for this is anam cara. Anam is the Gaelic word for soul and cara is the word for friend…so anam cara in the Celtic world was the ‘soul friend’. Excerpt by John O’Donohue from the book Anam Cara A Book of Celtic Wisdom

I share with you this day from the book Anam Cara written by John O’Donohue. I have spent many a moon contemplating this beautiful concept of my ancestors and today yet another meaning revealed itself. The phrase was traditionally used by the early Celts to describe a relationship with a person who was a teacher, or a spiritual guide. But what if this phrase represented a relationship with oneself? What if your anam cara, soul friend, was in fact, your soul?

It was an interesting thought that became more interesting as I heard Guidance Energy say, “of course”, loudly in my left ear. They repeated what I had heard from them before, “Soul is always present and it can be accessed in an environment of mundane reality when preoccupation is not just on that one dimension of reality, but includes the realm of Divine. Many of you have some sort of a spiritual practice and in that practice find great comfort, great knowledge and great wisdom. And yet you come to a place where the burden of mundane reality pulls at you forcing you into spiritual practices to find comfort. What if you simply lived in the balance of both? What if you simply lived in the balance coming from collaboration with your soul in the first place; wouldn’t it make it easier? This would begin the process of engaging communication with your soul.”
To which I replied quickly “ perhaps calling my soul a friend, would make this communication easier…”
“Yes” they replied, “and would unite you together on its journey as soul friends. You would then see your life journey from the perspective of your soul together as one with you, regardless of the circumstances it may be initiating in your mundane reality.”
“and by mundane reality you would be referring to the real world?” I asked.
They replied “the real world, as you know, is the world of spirit, your guides and Divine. The real world is Divine Collaboration. See your soul as your friend on this journey of life you are engaging and in this know you are collaborating with Divine.”
My soul as friend. This makes something at times so intangible, the idea of soul, tangible. I hope it does the same for you…blessings to all on this day of the Celts.

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Comment by Naga Flamingo on March 18, 2010 at 10:02am: I love the idea of soul as true friend, in companionship on the journey~
I will get the book to look at and ponder.

Comment by Kathleen on March 17, 2010 at 9:08pm: Anam Cara...Soul Friend... Soul as Friend. When we look at Guidance Energy's words posted below with this in mind, it is for me, much more tangible and easier to understand. And for you? Share with us your offerings on this...Blessings!

Comment by Guidance Energy on March 17, 2010 at 9:04pm: Guidance Energy:The answers you seek on your life path lie within your own soul, therefore you must be able to communicate with your soul. We call this process of communication Soul Speak, which is to Speak from Soul. In this process, you allow soul, which is connected to and in collaboration with a benevolent, loving Divine to communicate through your guidance system, connected to various parts of the body, and express it. In this environment, we are asking for the expression in words. Even if you get visuals, or hear, one must translate this. How do I do that you might ask? You don’t do it. You just Be and let it float through. When you have contact with divine, then you really surrender. This is the mystical alignment of all things. Your soul is what allows all of your Guides, all of your counsel, all of the spirit world to be present. Your soul is the magnet that draws it. One must be in balance with soul which means in balance with Divine. Our Revelations allow a collaboration with your Guides in connection to Divine Collaboration to be called forth and invoked. And so, Speak from Soul, as SoulSpeak and shift yourselves and your world.

Comment by Kathleen on March 17, 2010 at 8:33pm: Yes, Naga, changing forms...Last night I watched the film "The Secret of Roan Inish", the myth of the Selkie - the seal turned lass and upon retrieving her stolen skin, turned seal once again, returning to her primal wildness. Shapeshifting and the blending of worlds..changing the form of our language to the language of soul..thank you for the reminder.

Comment by Naga Flamingo on March 17, 2010 at 8:24pm: Lovely~
Went to see the animated film "Secret of Kells" last night, had the visual beauty and lyricism and lilt of the magic of the green forest drawn with circles and spirals that came alive, also some scary dark violent passages, but what stayed with me today and my daughter was the young lass Ashlynn who was pale as white with wide green eyes and could transform amidst this into a white fox and create magic in changing forms in the world around her~An anecdote.

Comment by Lesley on March 17, 2010 at 8:14pm: Hi Kathleen,
A perfect explanation. No division. We cannot live in just one world because our soul is having an experience living in the mundane world. They must marry. If one looks at it as two streams of water meeting we get the best of both worlds/lessons.

Anam Cara

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