4 March 2026

Making The Soul More Real.

How can you distinguish between your mind and your soul? How do you make the soul feel more real?

Much has been written elsewhere (such as in the Padgett Messages) about the different functions of the soul and mind, so I will settle for giving my own experience of soul awareness.

What I’m about to describe is subtle but real. Because of the subtleties involved, I will first describe things from my perspective and then I’ve asked my divine guides to give their input on the subject.

At some point after becoming acquainted with the Padgett Messages, I noticed that just filing ideas away and having an intellectual knowledge of supposed new spiritual truths wasn’t very satisfying. For one thing, I wasn’t sure that I really ‘owned’ the truth. Nor did anything change inside me just by reading a book. In short, I felt my soul was being changed by divine love but, as far as I could tell, my mind wasn’t. I knew I was missing something and had to find a way of bridging the disconnect between mind and soul.

I decided to reread all the Padgett-inspired spiritual writings I could find. I reasoned that the truth isn’t so much thoughts in my mind as a living energy in my soul. So I tried to switch my attention from the words themselves to how they made me feel, on the basis that the soul senses and acknowledges truth in a very different way to the mind.

When doing this, I would sometimes find myself reacting strongly to certain words or ideas and would often feel a flow of divine love into my soul and a change in my awareness. This subtle change was my soul starting to overshadow the mind. On reflection, I believe that contemplating the words on a deeper level was helping to open my soul to experience brief glimpses of God’s reality.

This is a practice that I’ve continued with ever since, alongside seeking God’s divine love. Yes, all of us on this path would like a momentous spiritual awakening but I’m comfortable with taking lots of little steps like those I experience.

This is my guides input on the subject:

‘When you read divinely inspired material then you are connecting with the truth. This strengthens your appreciation of the truth both on a soul level and in your mind. As a whole, you become more anchored in the truth. The recognition of this increases your faith and, as you experienced, can cause a welling up of emotions and a flow of divine love into your soul. It can also cause a download of information that helps you to a more profound recognition of the truth.

‘As you have discovered, not all of the truth is revealed at once. Different aspects become clearer as one progresses. The truth itself never changes but our perspective changes as our awareness expands.

‘When you read with an open mind and willingness to learn then changes in awareness may take place as you connect with your soul. Barriers will still remain in the mind but the rapport between mind and soul strengthens. As you now recognise, your strong focus while reading helped your normal mindful reality to fall away, making room for your soul aspirations to rise up and trigger changes in awareness.

‘There’s always the possibility that the mind will misinterpret the truth that resides in your soul and will go off at a tangent. The distinction between mind and soul in terms of the boundary between one and the other is not usually clear to you but the interaction between them can be. Becoming aware of this interaction is achievable. New thoughts can arise in your mind that you’ve never had before. When this happens on a regular basis then you would be right to conclude that this is the influence of the soul. The quality of consciousness itself may also change to something new and unexpected. This experience can be profound, depending on your willingness to step into it.

‘God has decreed that the truth be known on earth and we in the celestial realms are working to bring the truth to all of you.’

The message then finished on a more personal note that I’ve not included. Connecting to the soul is what I value most, as this is the gateway to everything I aspire to be on the divine path. If I don’t experience some change in awareness on a regular basis then I view that as evidence of slipping into complacency whereby the mind is regaining the upper hand. All of us on the divine path need to develop a strategy that makes room in our lives for our soul to flourish. Prayer must be at the heart of our efforts, but not slipping back into our normal frame of mind the rest of the time is also an important pursuit. Consciously and gently exercising our developing soul awareness when reading, or during other activities, is one way of doing this.