To answer the first question we need to address some cosmological aspects that give us a key to understanding who we are, where we come from and what we came here to do. We will discuss this extensively in the cosmology chapter of the course (found
HERE).
We can try, briefly, to answer the second question immediately. Our soul, an expression of our original spirit that manifests itself in the here and now, is experiencing. It is the part of us that experiences earthly life. Our soul experiences in every moment. It experiences pleasure, pain and a whole range of emotions and polarities which, however, often also create disharmony.
We therefore happen to have the feeling that our life is not going as we would like, we get “stranded” in situations, in relationships that do not satisfy us and that make us live badly. These experiences “mark” our soul, cause it a burden by bringing disharmony. Its work of acquiring and gaining experience is therefore limited, or at least partially hindered in its best spontaneity.
Taking care of the Soul means restoring balance, dissolving the polarity and duality that mark our time and our life, so that the dialogue with our Original Spirit can return to being clear and natural. We will go back to providing ourselves (to the original Shen to use an entirely Taoist expression) with the experience of the here and now, without getting entangled in the polarity that the here and now necessarily entails on the physical plane.