Posted by Two Spirits, One Soul.
By Paul Hersh

Start upon your own journey of awakening and enlightenment by exploring what consciousness is where it comes from.

• Spirituality primarily being about personal and emotional growth.
• Awareness being about a level of consciousness, self-awareness, sense of knowing.
• Physic ability being about intuition, the sixth sense, the awareness of a fact or reality that may or may not take place, and the various techniques, and exercises; clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, chakra alignment, and meditation.

All of these fields overlap across many disciplines and my goal here is to collect the different ideas, facts, and my experiences, and combine them to form a single idea or impression. The articles and blogs I personally have written are constant evolving documents and are likely to undergo some changes from time to time.

So foar my journey so far has revealed that spiritual growth exists along a dualistic continuum. On one end lies emotional growth, shaped through relationships; on the other, intellectual growth, centered on the metaphysical. I believe the physical world—perceived through our five senses—is complemented by an invisible spiritual realm. This is not a realm of fantasy or imagination but a genuine environment for the human spirit. While the spirit world is distinct from the physical, it constantly interacts with it.

Not everyone may agree, but I hold that the physical self is created at conception and persists until death, whereas the spirit self often exists prior to birth, moving freely between realms. The spirit, however, begins its permanent autonomous existence at birth, initially connected to the physical body and then continuing after the body dies in the spiritual realm. The spirit world is not distant during earthly life, but for most people, it remains unseen due to underdeveloped spiritual senses. In essence, humans inhabit two worlds simultaneously, though the role of the spirit often remains hidden.

Awareness of this dual existence has profoundly shaped my life, guiding me to this point—sharing these reflections with you in hopes of fostering a deeper understanding of eternal spiritual reality.

~Paul Hersh