Sure - happy to offer a viewpoint.

In the Openhand Approach the soul is the etheric essence of who you are - with various characteristics woven together in a vibrational expression - your unique 'soul ray harmonic'.

But to truly manifest, the soul needs a vehicle through which to express. Within humanity, there are 7 main possibilities - a bodily vehicle for each of the main 7 chakras (check this article... The Seven Bodily Vehicles of Expression...and How they interact with the Chakras). Now what has happened in humanity, is that the lower aspects of self (the lower three vehicles: physical, emotional and lower mind) have generally been disconnected from the higher aspects of self (the higher mind, celestial body and spirit light body). This has happened at the level of the karmic plane, where the fourth vehicle, the causal body, resides.

So in most people, what you have is a separation of the lower self (which is defined as the soul embodied through the lower 3 bodily vehicles) from the higher self (the soul embodied through the higher 3). So in most people, when they begin to connect with their higher self, it's felt as being outside of themselves and will literally manifest as some kind of form or reflection (often seen in dreams).

The challenge - the invitation - is to integrate lower self and higher self progressively, which leads to Kundalini activation and the Gateway 3 experience of "Transfiguration".

Best wishes

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