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Our Soul Mind—Ruach (from ruah, for wind or air)—is the moral consciousness that may subdue the urges and patterns of the Living Being. Here we have the ability to distinguish between good and evil, to subdue the most powerful instinctual urges for reasons higher than the gratification of these urges. This is the discerning mind and conscience. It is the involved mind that analyzes and correlates desires and measures them against the entity’s deepest ideals. It is the expressed breath or “wind” of the glassblower. It is with us inside this projected experience (the glass).

This is also the portion of us that is the dreamer. When we are in this portion, we feel perfectly comfortable. We are ourselves. However, there is a subtle yet opaque veil separating this deeper mind from the outer consciousness. We know these two aspects of ourselves well. For example, each of us has had the experience of waking from an attention-getting dream, only to notice that the bladder is full, so we get up to empty the bladder, then return to the bed to review the dream—but it’s gone! We have none of the content of the dream that so captured our attention just moments ago. How is this possible? It is possible because we have just experienced these two parts of ourselves: the Soul Mind, which dreamed the dream, and the Living Being, which accommodated the full bladder but did not dream the dream. So subtle is the veil between these two that we don’t even notice when we move through it, yet it is so opaque that we cannot see back through the veil. That is, unless we learn to. Then the veil becomes much more transparent, and we become more sensitive to subtle shifts in states of consciousness.

The Soul Mind is the subconscious, but with a much greater expanse than we normally give to the subconscious.

In Cayce’s discourses this aspect of our being is tightly integrated with our outer mind (the conscious mind) and our body. One of the common communication channels between these two parts is dreaming.

We have the body, the enquiring mind, [Ms. 288], with dreams as come to the body from time to time. These, as we see, are applicable to the body, in the study of forces as are manifested in the physical world, and are correlations of mental mind, body-mind, soul, and the subconscious forces, or mind of the soul.

EC 288–14

These dreams as come to these individuals are lessons to be applied in their daily lives and are the correlating of the developments of the mind, the body, the soul forces of same, acted upon by the soul forces of subconscious mind in inductive forces and emblematically given to the mind as instructions, see?

EC 294–36

Inner life goes on in a manner reflective of how it does in the physical, material plane. Let’s consider an example of love living beyond the physical in this following communication between two souls who knew each other while incarnate and are continuing to commune after one has passed on from the physical world. They were mother and daughter. The mother’s nickname for the daughter was “Sister.” It begins with a simple dream interpretation requested by the daughter, who had dreamt about her mother, who had died. After the reading’s initial comments, it quickly becomes a direct communication with the mother, who now lives in another plane, using Cayce’s attunement as a medium for this conversation.

MHB: You will have before you the body and enquiring mind of [Ms. 243], present in this room, and the dream this body had of recent date, in which her mother, [Mrs. 3776], came to her and put her arms around her, and told her that she loved her. The body [Ms. 243] asked her if she knew how much she had always loved her, and the mother replied, “Yes, you’ve proven it always.”

EC: Yes, we have the body and the enquiring mind of this body, [Ms. 243], present in this room. “The dreams, as we see, come to individuals through the subjugation of the conscious mind, and the subconscious being of the soul—when loosed—is able to communicate with the subconscious minds of those whether in the material or the cosmic plane. In this as is seen the body-mind takes that concept of the subconscious that is closest to the soul forces of the body, and the mother in the living being as it is, then, gives that assurance to the body through this means of its full life existence:

“Sister—Sister—as is seen by you, Mother sees, Mother knows, Mother feels those same feelings of that love which is in the earth that makes of the heavenly home. And while I am in the spirit planes I am yet present in the minds and hearts of those who express to me the love as builded in the being—the love the Master shows to all when He gave that He would prepare the home for those who would come after Him.

“Love those about you in the way that Mother gave, and be that as Mother would have you be—for Mother does not leave you, Sister—and Mother knows! For the life is the whole life, even as the Master gave that He was the life and the light of the world, in that same concept as shown in that felt as Mother gathers Sister in her arms—and Mother knows! Mother Knows!”

Q: The mother guides, guards, as the living angel, though unseen to sensuous eyes?

A: In this there is seen that as has oft been given, that through the subjugation of physical forces the subconscious—which is the mind of the soul—communicates those same feelings, those same expressions, which are that which really builds in the material plane—for as is experienced by this body-conscious mind, [Ms. 243], there is seen the love that is expressed through the mother love. Not as that which is passed, or gone, or not present, or not among the living! For GOD is God of the living, the Savior is the Savior of the living. Let him that is dead bury the dead. Let him that is alive be alive to that which may be gained by those closer manifestations of the guards that keep those who seek to know His way.

EC 243–5

Soul life and consciousness are not far from physical life, and relationships extend beyond the separation that occurs when a body dies. This requires that we awaken to our Soul Mind, develop an awareness of the veil that separates us, and learn how to transform the veil’s opacity to transparency. As we do this, we become aware of our next higher Self! This self is beyond the personality that we know in the projected life in physicality.