An
artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe
toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in
the approximate period from 1800 to 1840. Partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution, it was also a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature.
Just as your essence is an expansion of the Tao (highest plane of spiritual existence), your personality is an
expansion of your essence.
We are paradoxes; our bodies, our wholeness is the complete vehicle that we were given at birth, yet our essence is constantly growing, learning and expanding so we are never truly 'whole'.
The essence becomes bored when there is little growth occurring. Sometimes the
essence will generate a traumatic event to jar the personality loose, because
that is the only way to get through. On Earth today, people insist on growing through pain, however, it feels much better to grow
through joy than pain.
Essence and personality are two aspects of you. Neither should dominate. If you
are “blissed out” on your essence to the point where you are not
experiencing your personality, you may as well go back to the astral plane. But
if you are experiencing only your personality, you have forgotten what the game
is about. Your conscious awareness, if properly placed, is not fully at the
level of personality, yet not fully at the level of essence. It partakes of
both.
To try and detect someones soul age you "start with someone who seems to be mostly in his true personality."
Now, if someone is living with trauma or mental illness, you tend to see
the trauma or illness rather than the true personality. This does not effect what age their soul is because the aforementioned trauma or mental illness is part of their life path and they will deal with this in the appropriate way for them.
Infant,
young, and old souls are more individualistic. Whereas baby and mature souls are
more community oriented.
A good question to ask yourself when examining is: Does the person put greater emphasis on
community or societal issues, or is she marching to her own drumbeat?
You can ask if the person is more outwardly focused (meaning they are in the infant, baby, and
young group) or more internally focused (mature and old). You might then get the soul
age by process of elimination.
This is a chart that is basically stereotypes of the positives and negatives of the soul ages. It can help you identify where someone is on their journey.
It's IMPORTANT to remember that negative traits, though easy to spot, do NOT lock someone into a particular age range, you need to factor in their positive traits as well which can give you more insight into how they behave and strive toward their goals!
INFANT: Survival/Existing - Me, not me + innocent openness
– terrified aversion
BABY: Structure/Organizing, Arranging - Me, other me's + formation and structuring
– rigidity
YOUNG: Success/Doing - Me, you + worthwhile accomplishment
– self-centeredness
MATURE: Relationships/Perceiving - You, as you perceive yourself + resonant perception
– subjective perception
**24% are mature
OLD: Context/Being - You, as part of something greater + inclusiveness
– undirected
**11% of humans are old
TRANSCENDENTAL: Social revolution - Synthesis
INFINITE: Spiritual revolution - Tao
Only a small minority of people, even among old souls, are seeking
to consciously awaken. Luckily for many, a soul can complete the physical
plane without ever being spiritually conscious, just as one can complete college
without being smart. Even if you never practice trying to find out someones soul age, it's a nice tool to have in your chest if for nothing more than greater understanding and patience for others around you.
There are 5 stages of which a soul can be manifesting itself as.
Below are explanations of the different ages.
Click on the names for an in depth explanation!
Infant souls deal with issues of survival; they do not yet have a basis for
making sense of what is “out there”—they only know that it is “not me.”
Baby souls
have a need for structure and tend to live according to beliefs based on dogma,
such as religion. Baby souls, focused as they are on bringing people together
under the umbrella of civilization, see others, sometimes simplistically, as
being “just like me.” They can become confused and
upset when those “other me’s” act differently than expected.
Young souls are success oriented
and set high standards of personal achievement. Young souls are learning to
impact the world, and see others as “you”s they can impact.
Mature souls are relationship fixated and tend to gravitate towards emotional
drama. Mature souls, delving into their inner world and exploring relatedness,
can keenly feel other people’s “stuff,” and perceive it in the same way they
perceive their own. This can make for much intensity and, often,
subjectivity.
Old souls
seek the larger perspective of life, and have less interest in playing the
material game. They tend to be
more detached, and try to see themselves and others within a larger context.
My absolute favorite time period is the Dark Romance times ranging from (some say) 1770's until the 1840's.
The way these scholars and artists beautifully applied language and creativity to art and literature created some of the most disturbingly wonderful works known today. "The tales and poems commonly feature outcasts from society, personal torment
and uncertainty as to whether the nature of man will bring him
salvation or destruction." "The Dark Romanticsadapted images of anthropomorphized evil in the form of Satan, devils, ghosts, werewolves, vampires, and ghouls."
As a beginner, it is important to remember that discovering your soul and interpreting the world around you does not mean that are better than anyone else. It does not mean that you can look down on someone for being in a "lower" spiritual plane or they you, there is no such thing as lower, just different. We all exist in the same realm and the the differences in spiritual levels makes us realize the vastness and diversity of everyone around you.
Here is an article that will explain my point better:
