🌟 The Soul’s Journey
When We Understand That Life Doesn’t End — It Transforms
This post is also available in Spanish. Read it here
Since the beginning of time, different cultures have tried to answer the same question:
What are we, really?
Are we a body? A name? A story?
Or are we something that continues even when the physical form stops?
Today, I want to reflect on that: the soul, consciousness, and the path that continues even beyond time.
1. What Is the Soul?
I’m not speaking about religious doctrine.
I’m speaking of the soul as essence —the energy that gives us identity, light, inner movement.
The soul is the part of us that feels, intuits, loves, and recognizes.
The part that remains even in the deepest silence.
2. The Purpose of the Soul
Many traditions agree that the soul comes here to:
learn,
love,
accompany,
and expand.
Some souls stay for decades; others stay for less time, yet leave deeper marks than entire lifetimes.
Souls that shine brightly don’t need to stay long to transform those they touch.
Matías, for example, came with a light so immense that his presence continues to guide every step —even now that his feet no longer walk on this earth.
What he came to plant keeps blooming.
3. Consciousness Is Not Physical: The Soul Continues
Here I want to pause on something very important.
For a long time, people believed that consciousness lived in the brain —that it depended on it to exist.
But there are experiences —thousands, all over the world— that suggest the opposite.
Near-Death Experiences (NDEs)
People who were clinically dead for minutes, with no detectable brain activity, have reported:
seeing and hearing what was happening in the room from above,
describing full conversations that occurred while they had no neurological function,
recognizing doctors or instruments they never saw physically,
and feeling clarity, calm, and lucidity… more intense than in life.
And when they come back, they recount all of this with accuracy that has puzzled doctors and scientists for decades.
If the brain was inactive, where was that consciousness coming from?
These testimonies aren’t absolute proof, but they point strongly toward one conclusion:
Consciousness doesn’t seem to reside inside the body.
Consciousness seems to be the soul.
And that is why, when a body dies,
the light that lived within it remains alive.
4. Signs: The Language of the Soul When It No Longer Uses Words
Souls don’t speak with voices, but they do speak.
Sometimes through intuition, dreams, objects that appear at the right moment, impossible synchronicities, or small luminous events that make sense only to the person receiving them.
This happens to me with Matías.
His energy expresses itself in ways that are so coherent with who he was:
his sweetness, his playfulness, his gentle light.
Every sign is like a bridge between two worlds.
And although the mind tries to search for logic, the heart always knows.
5. The Soul’s Time Is Not Human Time
We live in minutes, hours, calendars.
But the soul lives in a different time:
A wide time.
A timeless time.
A time with no rush, no pressure, no “too soon” or “too late.”
Grief, for example, has very different rhythms for each person.
Some can donate belongings right away.
Others need months.
We needed more than two years.
And that’s okay.
There is no correct time.
There is only your time —the one guided by the soul.
Sometimes, those who have crossed over accompany that process:
a sign here, another there…
as if whispering:
“I’m with you. Go at your pace. When you’re ready, you’ll know.”
6. The Soul’s Legacy
The body may leave, but the soul leaves its marks:
in how it loved,
in how it touched our lives,
in what it awakened in us,
in what it changed forever.
That legacy doesn’t disappear.
It transforms, multiplies, and becomes part of those who remain here.
Matías, for example, remains present in everything we do with love —in every act of kindness, in every word that comes from this connection he opened forever.
He is part of this path, this space, these reflections.
7. Closing: The Soul Continues Walking With Us
Life doesn’t end —it simply changes form.
Love doesn’t fade —it expands.
Consciousness doesn’t turn off —it becomes presence.
And even though it hurts, even though it’s hard, even though the absence feels heavy,
the soul always finds ways to stay close.
There is no obligation, no hurry, no “you should be over this by now.”
The relationship with those we love continues —
it simply adopts a new language.
When we learn to listen to it, we discover that we are not alone.
We continue walking together.
And the soul —their soul, our souls—
has a journey wider than time, deeper than death, and more luminous than any darkness.
♥️💙