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The soul moves through brokenness, through sorrow, and through the valleys of life. The spirit, in a sense, would like to cure everything, just the way the mind would always like to think that there's a cure for this illness. For some reason the mind doesn't seem to notice that after you find a cure for an illness, there's a new illness. The soul notices and says more about how to live with the incurable. You know one of the big issues in the United States that puts fire into the culture is racism. It's very possible that racism is incurable. It's not going to be resolved, except every time it gets worked on. It's only cured by being in the wound of it, over and over.
So the old idea of soul-making or being in the soul-world was this unfortunate human experience of being in these same incurable circumstances over and over again. It's a tough idea and one that the spirit doesn't like. From the spirit point of view, everything will get better, get fixed, worked through, made all right. The soul lives that life differently. The soul limps, collapses, dreams, and feels the same illness over and over again.
-- Michael Meade
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