Becoming Soul - Sabra Saperstein

I’ve started to notice the language of Soul re-enter the field. About 5 years ago, I didn’t hear that word very often. Or if I did, it was spoken as a term, a foreign concept. A shift seems to be underway in the collective field. I’m hearing many people speak the word soul from a place of knowing it intimately, sensing their world with soul. Folks are using it in many different ways, from a range of lineages and understandings. Its return feels somehow very auspicious. I grew up in San Francisco, immersed in a pool of New Age ways of looking and developed quite an aversion to the bedlam of spiritual language that felt superficial and unintegrated. I used to associate the word soul with these New Age territories. My spiritually starved body finally found its doorway onto the spiritual path in my early 30s through Buddhism, in the Vipassana lineage, where the word soul was never mentioned. About halfway through my six years at Insight Meditation Society, although the practice had saved m

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