The Soul's Scale

What I'm about to share is a simple concept.  Matter of fact, it is so simple that it will be very easy to just read right over and miss the revolutionary power of the statement to affect one's entire perception of reality.

"The soul is not in the body; the body is in the soul".

The majority of mystical systems and traditions have held up that the body is in the soul, not the other way around.  This distinction allowed for the scale of the soul to be greater maybe even infinite.  This understanding promoted the idea that we are enclosed by the soul.  This is in contrast to the reduced view and scale of the soul that has developed in Modern Western Culture.  The effects of the Industrial Revolution turned us into machines on an assembly line.  Combined with Newtonian Science that gave us a view of the universe that was not organic and living but dead and mechanistic.  Add to that, the views of René Descartes, the Father of Modern Western Philosophy, who held that if we have souls at all it is located and associated with the Pituitary Gland; which is about the size of a pea.  Modern Western Culture radically changed our perception of the soul's scale; possibly taking it away from us all together.  And without soul, we become machines going through the motions, punching time cards, cogs in the wheel, the living dead in a dead universe.

Miester Eckhart said, "go in, go into your soul, you will find it contains the whole universe".  Contrast Eckhart's scale of the soul compared to Descartes'; the whole universe compared to a pea.  Eckhart was not alone with his view. All the Medieval Christian Mystics held that the soul was infinite and that it enclosed the body; that all of life was enclosed, contained, and gently held by the soul.

Please, don't loose how revolutionary flipping this simple phrase can be.  Reclaim your infinite soul. Refuse to be a machine in a mechanistic universe.  Remove from your vocabulary the phrase "the soul is in the body".  Instead, proclaim boldly that, "the body is in the soul".  Live boldly with the idea that your soul is vast and expanse; that your soul gently holds all that you are and encloses you in and with infinite wisdom and love.