by Shahid Saleem

First things first. Mind power, to me, is also related to one’s deeper connection with his soul.

I imagine soul to be something that not only makes us what we are but has also the ability to help or lead us in critical moments of our lives.

Before going ahead with phenomenal mind power, we have to create a contact with our souls for the purpose.

2.1 Soul in Religions

A soul seems just like light, something like waves or some sort of invisible thing having no mass, weight, color, smell, etc., and never to be felt by our five senses of smelling, eating, hearing, touching and tasting. In my view, it can only be sighted with mind’s ‘inner-eyes’ that have ability to sense dark energy or dark mass. It may be in some other dimension, though always present before us, but the dimensional difference keeps it away from the reach of our physical eyes and senses. A person who can really make use of his sixth or the super sense, may be able to feel or even see it. Almost every religion (Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc.) talks about it. For instance, Hindu mythology, its creeds, folk-lore, religious books, rites and customs, idea of seven births, etc., show that their elders thought about this aspect of life. Same is the case with the meditators, sufis, mystics, scholars and philosophers of all other religions. 

2.2 Soul for Earlier People

Now, we shall delve deeper and go to the earliest historians and the most primitive people who talked about soul. We have its traces in Africans, Egyptians, Greeks, and in various global tribes. Chronologically speaking, we can find its clues from the Prophet Adam (Peace be Upon Him) to the last prophet of God, the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be Upon Him) and then to modern psychological studies of man and his environment. I am not writing an encyclopedia on soul; I rather want to give a few quotations and sayings of the main personalities of different religions so that to stick to my own object of revealing a new science to the world, the science of achieving phenomenal mind power level. I feel these things as distractions from my main point but what for? They are here to explain my point of view vehemently.

If you want to study what Islam, Christianity, Jainism, Judaism, Shamanism, Sikhism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Brahma Kumaris, Bahá’í, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Avicenna and Ibn al-Nafis or any other philosophy or knowledge have to say about soul, you may read the related books or surf the World Wide Web to get a gist of different beliefs. I am here to show connection between the universal consciousness with mind power and soul.

2.3 What I Feel

My rumination of the matter says that souls are of different types. There is a reason of having this theory; I think that human beings will be given distinct lives in the world hereafter while plants, animals, worms, viruses, bacteria, etc., may be part of a big single self-complementing soul. But there is still another belief that our hands, feet, eyes and other body parts along with stones, bricks, plants, rivers, etc., will be witnesses on doomsday in favor of or against our deeds here.

2.4 Four Kinds of Souls

I think, souls may be of four kinds:

1. One for humans to be given a body again in the world hereafter.

2. Second for bigger animals, like, lions, elephants, panthers, dogs, etc.

3. Third for plants and other (not very active) microorganisms.

4. Fourth for the natural phenomenon that are continuously occurring and making things to happen, like earthquakes, galaxy formations, wind phenomenon in atmosphere, cyclones, watery phenomenon in oceans, energy phenomenon in the universe, etc.

2.5 My Reason-cum-Imagination

My reason-cum-imagination says that a soul is just like a liquid or a gas made up of some sort of dark energy. It assumes the shape of a body that contains it. It does not sound to reason that souls were created according to the shapes of bodies because, in that case, a cat’s soul would have been just like a cat and a rat’s soul would have been just like a rat’s body and so on. In the same way a unicellular organism and paramecium’s soul would have been shaped just like their bodies. My imagination says that human souls are like humans but the souls of second, third and fourth categories have no shape at all. They are shapeless and adopt the shape of a body that contains them. When an animal dies, its soul gets free to be moved to its final heavenly abode (may be either for becoming available to be incarnated into another animal’s body or to stay there intact).

I do not say anything about the human soul because it seems different from other souls. Almost all religions provide little bit of knowledge about it. Science, religion, arts, philosophy, scholars, teachers, etc., are almost silent about it.

The question arises: if a person’s one leg is cut off, where does the soul of that leg go?