{"id":70399,"date":"2022-06-19T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=70399"},"modified":"2022-07-01T08:32:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T12:32:29","slug":"what-is-the-purpose-of-the-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is the Purpose of the Soul? (The Seat of the Soul)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is the purpose of the soul? Why does it manifest in our bodies?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>The Seat of the Soul<\/em>, Gary Zukav argues that the soul&#8217;s main purpose is to evolve. It does this by learning, healing, and balancing. It might take several bodily manifestations for a soul to complete its purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more for Zukav&#8217;s discussion of the soul&#8217;s journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-purpose-of-the-soul\">The Purpose of the Soul&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Zukav, we all have an immortal soul dwelling within us. But what is the purpose of the soul in manifesting in the material world, in our bodies? Zukav says that the main purpose of the soul in coming to live on Earth is to evolve. However, this is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/spiritual-evolution\/\">spiritual evolution<\/a>, rather than a biological one. He says we typically understand evolution as a physical process of species moving toward greater complexity, but there is also a spiritual evolution taking place\u2014the evolution of our souls.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zukav says that all souls in the universe are evolving, but only some have to do it through material manifestation. He explains that <strong>the purpose of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-souls-journey\/\">soul\u2019s journey<\/a> in the material world is for it to learn lessons, heal, and balance its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/karmic-law\/\">karma<\/a><\/strong>. The soul needs to enter a series of bodies, he says, and live out many lifetimes to experience many different aspects of material life in order to heal itself. So, being a vehicle for our soul\u2019s evolution is actually our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/finding-your-purpose\/\">purpose in life<\/a>, though we often don\u2019t recognize that because we\u2019re not attuned to our souls.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>The \u201cMasters\u201d and the Soul<\/strong><br><br>Zukav doesn\u2019t explain why, or from what, our souls need to heal. But in <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/many-lives-many-masters\"><em>Many Lives, Many Masters<\/em><\/a> we can find some ideas about the soul\u2019s incarnation that are similar to Zukav\u2019s. In this book, psychiatrist Brian Weiss describes the experiences of a patient who appeared to have past life memories and who received guidance from spiritual \u201cmasters.\u201d Weiss says, according to those \u201cmasters,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/many-lives-many-masters\/1-page-summary#the-purpose-of-life\">the purpose of life is for the soul to learn universal values, like love and faith, through its experience in corporal form<\/a>. He says that physical incarnation is necessary because we need both spiritual wisdom and intellectual knowledge to understand all of life\u2019s lessons, and that intellectual knowledge can only be gained with the mind\/brain.&nbsp;<br><br>Like Zukav, Weiss also says that the soul exists within a system of karma, with debts being created across its many incarnations, and one of our goals in life is to balance that karmic debt, by living good lives.&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with the soul\u2019s evolution, Zukav says all of humanity is evolving toward \u201cenlightenment\u201d\u2014 it\u2019s the natural path of our species to go this way. But we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/there-is-no-free-will\/\">have free will<\/a>, so we can consciously choose which direction to go in our lifetimes; choosing to walk a spiritual path, or choosing worldly pursuits. <strong>When your body and soul are totally aligned, he says, you will realize the interconnectedness of everything, and you\u2019ll make choices that assist your soul toward its conscious evolution to enlightenment.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the purpose of the soul? Why does it manifest in our bodies? In The Seat of the Soul, Gary Zukav argues that the soul&#8217;s main purpose is to evolve. It does this by learning, healing, and balancing. It might take several bodily manifestations for a soul to complete its purpose. 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