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Old Souls

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To me, an old soul is a person who is born having more knowledge than the average Joe. They are wise beyond their years. They have a certain understanding of the world that is not typical of a young person. It is also said that old souls are those who learn psychic and magical skills quite easily, due to them having learned them in lives passed.

As a child, my grandmother once talked to the Ouija about reincarnation. The spirit board told her that we come back to earth until we learn what we are supposed to learn in life. This makes sense to me. As a child, I was often told that I was an old soul. As I grew, and moved away from home, I went to places where I knew things that I should not have known.

For example, in S. Texas we were out looking for Indian artifacts. I told my friend that I had a feeling we should go to a particular spot and we walked that way, stopped and began to dig. We had a huge score of artifacts there. I did that on more than one occasion and still have many of those artifacts to this day. I had an uncanny ability to find our way home when I lived in that area. To this day, I believe that I had been in that area in a past life.

I had similar occurrences through my life, until I hit about 27. After that, I've never had that deja vu of an unknown sort. Now when I have deja vu it is from dreams I have had. Perhaps back then I had dreams that told me these things, but I was not yet well practiced enough to recall them. If not that, then perhaps I died quite young. I suppose I'll never know for sure, but I do find it interesting. :-)

Seven Levels, or Planes, of Being

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It is said that the seven planes originated from the time of creation. When God exploded into existence, he spread out, and fell into, the seven levels of existence. These seven planes are not definitive, but rather, conceptual. These seven planes are:

The physical: where we experience physical form and sensation

Emotional: where we experience emotional feelings

Mental: our experience of thought and abstract concepts and understandings

Astral: where we create our existence and its conditions

Soular: the development of those traits that make a unique part of Deity

Mondaic: the part of us that is divine but is separate from the whole of Deity

Divine: where we are one with all existence

We too pass through these planes. We are at any time working within any of these planes and may be at other times working on more than one at a time. It is our way to learn and grow. Each plane has its special lesson. Since we are all of Goddess, these lessons are of great importance for our souls.