{"id":28,"date":"2007-08-01T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T01:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/conversationswithgod\/2007\/08\/wednesday-is-question-and-answ.html"},"modified":"2007-08-01T01:01:01","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T01:01:01","slug":"wednesday-is-question-and-answ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/conversationswithgod\/2007\/08\/wednesday-is-question-and-answ.html","title":{"rendered":"When the Soul Leaves the Body……does the ‘aura’ go with it?<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday is Question and Answer Day <\/strong>on the blog…a time for exploring many of the questions that people have recently asked about the nine Conversations with God <\/em>books and the New Spirituality. Here’s this week’s entry…<\/strong>
\nTopic: <\/strong>The Soul
\nQuestion asked by: <\/strong>Morgan Kiilehua
\nQuestion:<\/strong> In Conversations with God-Book 3<\/em> God says that our soul is not located in our body, but rather, the body is located in our soul…that the soul is our aura. When we sleep, the soul will leave to “rest”. Question: Does that mean that when we sleep, we have no aura?<\/p>\n


\nNeale’s Response: <\/strong>What a wonderful question, Morgan!
\nActually, Conversations with God<\/em> makes it clear that the soul is not really the aura of a person, but that the imagery of an aura was used in order for us to better understand how the soul “envelops” the body. The body is never without its aura (which is the Essential Energy that animates it), but the soul can and does, from time to time, “split off” a small portion of itself to “remain behind” and “mind the store” while the larger part of Itself leaves the body — usually when we are in a deep sleep. You may experience this as an extraordinary “dream.” Or sometimes even as an “out-of-body experience.”
\nMy understanding is that almost every night the soul leaves the body in order to “rest.” This could, however, be for nothing more than what, here on earth, we would experience as a nonno-second. Remember that in the experience of the soul, “time” does not exist. Therefore, the soul can get all of the “rest” it needs in what to us would seem like the blink of an eye. It feels to me that it is when the soul stays away for longer than this that we experience ourselves as having a very long and vivid and often a lucid dream. Or, as I said just above, an out-of-body experience.
\nThese are all just my understandings, of course, and so it is necessary for me to say that all of this could be inaccurate. As with all of the material in the Conversations with God<\/em> books, take this information inside and see if it makes sense — if it “fits” — for you.
\nLove, Neale.
\n(Ask Neale<\/em> may be accessed on a daily basis in the Messengers\u2019 Circle at Neale’s personal website: www.nealedonaldwalsch.com. Each week Neale selects a question from those posted there and publishes it in this blog.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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