Bob Olson: Answers about the Afterlife
Bob Olson: This is for me from over the years and eventually this is what I recognized: a lot of people are calling spirit and soul the same thing, and I was too. Then, eventually I realized that I now define soul as that part of us that many people might call our Higher Self. It is that part of us that remains in the Spirit world all the time. The soul is able to enjoy many lifetimes and by doing that I believe that the soul creates a part of itself, which I call the spirit to experience a life. He then provides us with an analogy that his soul created the spirit of Bob to go into the physical body that he has now to experience the lifetime that he is living.
“One way people can look at it is that I think of the soul as the ocean. The spirit is the wave that goes to the shore to experience what the shore is like. Now, all the while, this is a great analogy because the wave never really leaves the ocean. We know that. We can see that. And yet, it is still sort of separate in its own and experiences the shore in a way that no other wave will do. It has its own experience, and then it rushes back and becomes one with the ocean again – the soul”. Obviously, we recognize that people may or may not believe in reincarnation. If we can each allow ourselves to see life, to see these experiences, to see everything from that Higher Self/soul perspective, we are able to recognize consciousness. Whether we view ourselves as drops in the water or waves in the ocean, we are each having our own human life experience as a spiritual being/spirit. Sometimes, people are able to understand that, to acknowledge it, and sometimes it may take a little longer for others.
