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Editor’s Note: In reading this, it is helpful to note that The Book of Wesley was conceived, if not set to paper, during a time when Wesley was separated not only from one he considered his soulmate, but also from the rest of living beings. He sat alone, creating an entire world out of the thoughts in his mind and then watched as his mind was unable to hold that world together and it disintegrated around him. It is no wonder that he was constantly looking for the “Why” in attempting to explain the “What.”

 

41.      The linking of souls is different than the traditions of coupling either as two individuals or a group. Soul-mating is a deliberate act, much like lovemaking, but the bond is at a level of intimacy seldom, if ever, achieved on a physical plateau.

42.      Nor is soul-mating restrained by physical limitations. It knows no bounds of time or place. In fact, it is a rare and exquisite experience to share a close time-space with one’s soul mate.

43.      The more knowledge that is gained—usually through the shared experience of others—the more difficult it is to live according to traditions oritinating in the innocence of a time past. In the new, urban society, for example, it becomes nearly impossible to have two people who can fulfill each other completely. Each tends to expand indifferent directions and at different speeds. Thus, satellite relationships become more prevalent in the more urban environment.

44.      Refusing to accept the knowledge received leads to a distortion of the tradition—not a return to innocence. We call this warping the innocence. In the present case, it leads to a possessionist posture. One’s claim on another person becomes a property right, reducing the other’s perceived humanity or self-worth.

45.      Accepting the knowledge and its implications grants freedom and individuality to each of the partners. But, it does not mean that one would not occasionally yearn for that lost age of innocence, just as we, millennia separate from it, still yearn for paradise.

46.      The Transient Conscious. Another paradox is that the Conscious, while separate from the physical, is inseparable from it. One cannot exist without the other. Yet, the Conscious is not limited by the physical. The physical is the chosen expression of the Conscious.

47.      It is therefore possible that a single physical entity might be the joint expression of more than one Conscious. Perhaps revealed in the psychological expression of schizophrenia.

48.      It is equally possible—the Conscious not being bound by physical limitations of time and space—for a single Conscious to express itself in more than one physical. Hence, the phenomenon of a person being able to see glimpses of past and even future lifetimes. And, it could certainly not be considered beyond the realm of possibility to live simultaneous lifetimes. Thus, a derivative of our earlier recitation of physical law (8): It is possible to be in two places at the same time.

49.      Language is an encumbrance to communication. Perhaps one should say not language, but words. The mind does not think in separate words, but, like our earlier networks, in relationships of connections or, figuratively speaking, in pictures. Since we have only one method of input for our thought patterns—sensual perception—our words are defined only by our experience.

50.  Our words communicate with another person only when our experience base is the same or quite similar.