the journey home

In the story of The Hymn of the Soul, the voyager, the adventurer, is deliberately sent on the journey to find and recover the pearl, his own soul. Are we ourselves on such a journey? Whether any of us believe we are or not, the metaphor is striking. We are here to find and recover our own and the world’s soul. We become entranced by the soulless world, stare overlong at it, dress ourselves in its attire, take on as nourishment what it has to offer, and move into stuporous sleep.

We cannot forget our origin, however, and messages to awaken continue to call to us, to pester us in our state of zoned-out slumber. The story says that we wake up, throw off the clothes, stop eating the food of hypnosis, do not even glance at the dragon serpent that guards the pearl, that kept us from our soul ways. We recover our soul. We are strong. We are happy. We rejoice. Nothing gets in our way because our way is the way of soul.

The world soul is the way it is because our consciousness had been captured. When our consciousness changes, the world soul begins to change. As each of us awakens, the world transforms. We know what to do and we do it. We move in right relationship with all around us, with all that is. This is the journey home.