No-soul and 'specialist' no-soul people — their great significance

Important!

A cursory reading and instant opinion isn't enough!

Over the years I've regularly looked in forums where people have posted about the contents of this and certain other pages on this site, and so far almost every time this has been a quite frustrating and discouraging experience. Why? — Because people are disagreeing with me?…

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— No, it's not that (although indeed, predictably, plenty of people do 'disagree' with me). It's because, with only the odd rare and isolated exception, so far I've seen no sign of anyone having read this (or the other respective pages) really carefully and without some sort of preconception that causes them to have a seriously distorted interpretation of at least some part of what I've written — even on the rare occasion when somebody does more or less 'agree' with what they think I've written.

It would be so helpful if people who come here would let go of their preconceived notions and read carefully what I'm actually saying — and then sleep on it and then re-read it to see where their interpretation of what I've written has actually turned it into something else, so they can at least get a more accurate view of what I've written — whether or not they eventually choose to 'agree' with it.

I'd not mind so much if people at least took issue with what I'm actually saying, but they almost invariably go telling the world that I believe or am claiming this, that and the other that actually I hadn't said at all*, or they radically change the meaning of something by taking it out of context, and typically a succession of people then go pulling the stuffing out of what I'd actually never said in the first place, then regarding me as some sort of deluded 'nutter' with very confused ideas, who is best steered clear of.

* A related claim sometimes made about my writings is the generally completely false one that I've obviously based my own insights on the views of a particular specified tradition, 'teacher' or organisation.

Let me emphasize here, as is really made clear throughout this site — at least for those who are genuinely prepared to look at what's there — that, apart from getting some useful initial prompts from Steve Gamble in April 2007 just to get me ditching the 'received wisdom' from the healing and New-Agey mystical traditions, my insights are NOT, to any material or really significant extent, based on any person's, tradition's or organisation's views or outlook. I've worked things out for myself, based on my own observations plus the results of my own inner inquiry supported by Helpfulness Testing. The fact that there are apparent overlaps between my own working model and the scenarios believed in by various teachers, traditions and organisations DOES NOT in itself mean that I've therefore taken on board ideas from them — though naturally I'd have got initial prompts from various views that I've seen or heard expressed.

The reality is that it's the people who keep misinterpreting and misrepresenting my writings who are the confused ones.

It would help so much if those who are about to make forum posts about any of my material checked carefully the accuracy of any supposed quote or interpretation of that material before making their post.

N.B. There's an inherent problem with forums generally, in that these are places where people discuss ideas. Unfortunately doing that is one of the myriad side-tracks that point people away from genuine self-actualization — for the 'forum-heads' forever consider and discuss other people's views and outlooks instead of turning to the one source of the vital information and insight that they actually need — their own deepest aspects.

So, asking another person, for example, What do you think of this fellow Philip Goddard? may be a fascinating pastime, but that sort of behaviour is also a virtually complete block to any genuine self-actualization direction.

I talk here NOT about right and wrong, nor should and shouldn't, but simply of cause and effect. What do you want in your life — forever fascinating discussions relating to various notions of self-actualization, or genuine self-actualization itself? The two are virtually completely mutually exclusive.

Also, a careful reader would understand from what I've written, that I hold no beliefs, and that what I present in my writings is a set of helpful working hypotheses (at least they've helped me greatly) — NOT a statement of categorical fact, apart from recounting actual observations / experiences of mine. So, anyone who says Philip Goddard believes that… is straightaway off the rails, simply spouting opinion, and isn't worth heeding at all.

It's in the light of this pervasive tendency to misunderstand and misrepresent my writings on this site that I indulge in apparent redundancy by frequently repeating certain explanations and clarifications. I appreciate that some readers may find this tiresome (indeed, I myself do!), but hard experience has shown this repeated-clarification approach of mine to be necessary in order to hammer certain points home to the many less receptive people, so with any luck minimizing the quantity of pointless come-back and misrepresentational forum posts relating to this site's contents!

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Okay, the vast majority wouldn't take kindly to my 'blowing the whistle' by characterizing them as 'sheep', but, for better or worse, I didn't come into this life to be yet another 'sheep'-appeasing 'diplomat'!

Rather than any sort of diplomacy, one particular task of mine, as one of those confounded 'specialist' no-soul people, is to be an awkward old b*gger and blow the whistle on our real state of affairs, and to do however much I sensibly can towards enabling Humanity at large to be freeing themselves of the soul programming and associated patterns that make them functionally sub-human.

This page is intended not at all as a rant against 'sheepism', would you believe (that's just an inevitable 'incidental'!), but as something of an inspiration point and rallying call for no-soul people, and especially the much rarer-still 'specialist' no-soulers, all of whom would be suffering from some degree of what I call dysfunctional majority stress*, and would benefit greatly from supportive and encouraging contacts with appropriate fellow no-soulers.

Most of the information here has appeared in various other parts of this site, but I draw it together here to focus my loving support and encouragement for other no-soulers, with clear intent that over time this would facilitate the much-needed transition to full authentic human function becoming the overriding norm in all civilizations, both here on Earth and indeed anywhere else in the whole of 'Existence'.

True nature of the soul

As already explained elsewhere on this site (so this is just a précis), the soul isn't at all what all the traditions and belief systems claim it to be. As far as I've been able to ascertain, it's a seriously dysfunctional state in which a would-be fully functioning human's clear continuum between dualistic conscious 'ordinary mind' and the non-duality of fundamental consciousness is distorted and disrupted by a mass of programming in the form of illusory realities, patterns and limiting self-beliefs. It thus blocks one's conscious connection with one's deepest aspects (including 'the Ultimate', which is none other than one's deepest level of consciousness), so one is extremely unhelpfully driven to try to find that apparently missing 'greater part' of oneself outside oneself — a quest that is intrinsically doomed to failure.

That 'outside' decoy can be one or a selection of things, including 'God', 'Jesus' or any other supposedly 'divine' beings (all illusory and harmful to engage with), and in extremely unhelpful attached close relationships with other people (marriage, for example, whether traditional or 'gay', being a harmful idiocy), and awareness-reducing preoccupations with socializing, social media, social self-harming (such as drinking alcohol and smoking), and passive 'pursuits' such as watching TV / videos, listening to masses of low-grade mind-numbing music, and so on. Anything to anaesthetize yourself against your loneliness instead of recognising it for what it is and actually clearing yourself of it! (Please see link in previous section.)

The soul is thus something that needs to be dissolved if a person so afflicted is ever to function anything like a 'fully-fledged' human.

The soul programming has been laid-in incrementally in the course of the process of each reincarnation, so the amount of such programming a person is carrying can range from nothing (i.e., the no-soul state) to so much that the individual can't reincarnate anymore and becomes one of what I (not fully accurately) call parasitic lost souls.

'Nearly no-soul' people

There's a whole category of people (quite common) who I refer to as being nearly no-soul. Those have only a very small to tiny amount of soul programming, and have maximum possibility of being able to clear that out and become fully no-soul and thus fully human.

However, there are two subcategories, as follows. They are all typically lovely and vibrant people (i.e., if they've not got significantly screwed-up), with much awareness, though not having quite the incisive 'edge' of clarity that I immediately sense about fully no-soul people.

• 'Nearly no-soul' — The person's previous incarnation was a 'failed' no-soul one — that is, there was a miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth, or death within a very few days of birth, and thus little or no previous lifetime (as a no-souler). I often encounter them.

  The reason such 'cut-short' no-soul lifetimes have usually resulted in the following incarnation having the beginnings of a soul stems from the fact that they were not yet properly grounded when they got cut short.

  When they were in the dying process they were in a state of automatically constantly grasping for 'lifetime' experiences, and the garbage would virtually every time ply the unfortunate individual with a whole range of astral realm experiences posing as real-life experience, in which the consciousness was being given the basic soul programming, which would ensure that the particular consciousness would become diverted into the soul reincarnation cycle.

• 'Almost no-soul' — The person's previous incarnation (no-soul, so this is their first soul incarnation), extended at least beyond that critical first few days, so theoretically each such person has a lifetime's-worth of soul programming, BUT in a small proportion of those, for some reason there's very little of that programming indeed — much less than normal for a first-time soul incarnation. Rather weirdly, in some cases the amount of soul programming is markedly less than I've detected for the people whose previous no-soul incarnation was cut short very early.

  It appears that the reason for these people often having picked up less soul programming than the first category is that when they died they were doing so usually from a reasonably grounded state, so there was much less opportunity for the garbage to capture them in astral realms and give them soul programming.

  Because of this, I find some people in this category to be very like fully no-soul people, in a way that people in the first category rarely are. Indeed, when I encounter one of these with 'sniff-it-out' configuration (see further below), I typically experience virtually as strong and harmonious resonance with them as with a 'sniff-it-out' (fully) no-soul person.

Note that the above distinction is a schematic one and there would be a fair amount of personal variation as to exactly at what point in a person's life they're sufficiently grounded to reincarnate into the second category above. Also, I expect there really isn't such a strict cut-off point that determines which of the two categories a no-souler would end up in for their next incarnation, i.e., if it were indeed to have any soul programming at all.

So, if you're using inner inquiry to establish what is the soul / no-soul status of yourself or another person, you'd need to be ready for some people to give equivocal results, which then would require the testing of hypotheses as to the reason for such indeterminate responses, and what their actual situation is (likely to be).

No-soul people

I've explained in some depth about their situation in The true nature of 'the forces of darkness' and its interference and attacks. However, that describes only the general situation for no-soul people, and doesn't go into specific categories of them.

For some no doubt very interesting reason, during 2021 and much more notably in 2022 my previously quite uncommon encounters with people who I recognised as no-soul became increasingly frequent during my hikes and the hitch-hikes that took me to and from the hiking routes. Previously, such encounters were generally wonderful experiences, and, rarely, would involve a warm and deeply-felt embrace upon parting — no-soul people being at least largely free from social convention wherever that gets in the way of behaving in the most positive and 'human' ways.

But in these last two years not only had the frequency of such encounters risen to at least one in probably more than half my outings, but certain of those encounters were a still more powerful experience. This caused me to do some inner inquiry to attempt to work out the significance of those — that is, just why they were more powerful and I was getting certain intriguing inner impressions about them.

I explain about this in the Postscript section of About Philip Goddard, so won't repeat that in full here.

'Specialist' no-soul people

One thing I established was that I was one of a very thin scattering of no-soul people with a 'specialist' configuration to make one better equipped and more motivated to attempt to figure out what was the underlying cause of the pervasive human dysfunction, and be able to feed back to deeper consciousness the requisite conceptual description of the issue(s) that would then enable deeper consciousness to take measures eventually to fix those issues — i.e., on a universal level, so all human-type beings anywhere in the whole of 'Existence' would benefit as they lose their major and, one could say, 'systemic' dysfunctions.

In fact it's not individual people that received that configuration. Rather, the latter was applied to a scattering of incarnational threads, as that's much simpler and more effective to execute and manage. So, rather than make individual attempts, it made much better sense to give whole incarnational threads — and a reasonable scattering of them — a gradually increasing prospect of hitting upon the right set of life circumstances that would point them in the right direction for one or more of them to eventually work out what was really going on. It appears that this node on my particular incarnational thread just happened to have the right 'developmental trajectory' for me myself to stumble into the requisite discoveries.

I know of four of these 'specialist' configuration types, but my inner inquiry points to there being a few other types that I haven't yet identified. Apparently they're for less crucial, albeit still important, roles. If / when I identify any of those I'll add respective notes here. In the meantime, the following four are the ones I know.

The recognition signs that I give below are my own, and may differ for different people, and refer to typical cases, who aren't unduly screwed-up by issues of this lifetime. I always use Helpfulness Testing to confirm my initial identifications. The impressions from individuals with two or more specialist configurations take more practice to recognise. Helpfulness testing is best always used to check if there are additional configurations, and what they are.

Sniff it out! — getting to the bottom of the universal human dysfunctions

My particular configuration that helped me to 'get there' — what I refer to as the 'sniff-it-out' configuration — included making me exceptionally independent-minded, shunning beliefs and 'received wisdoms' in favour of direct observation and working things out for myself on the basis of what really 'adds up'. Basically, that's a rigorously scientific approach (yes, Occam's razor included!), coupled with a strong and grounded (and thus very practical) exploring urge.

Also, importantly, my sexual orientation had to be homosexual, so that I'd be very unlikely to get diverted into family life (the latter would be a real show-stopper for my primary task). That would also have the advantage of making me more likely to be drawn, at the appropriate time, to other 'sniff-it-out' no-soulers, most of whom would also be homosexually oriented for the same reason.

All other 'sniff-it-out' people would have similar basic characteristics, albeit always modified by their individual life experience, just like the effects of genes being modulated by environmental and developmental factors. Their intended roles are secondary, in the sense that they're all dependent on one of the 'sniff-it-out' people having at last 'cracked' the misconfigurations within deeper consciousness, and those then having been fixed.

One particular issue for some 'sniff-it-out' no-soul people — being 'diagnosed' as 'autistic'!

Once I understood about my own 'hyper-tweaked' sniff-it-out configuration I could see more clearly than ever that it was quite a wonder that I myself never got 'diagnosed' as having some degree of 'autism'. Thank goodness I didn't, because, far from helping me, such a 'diagnosis' would have caused me all sorts of problems in addition to the relevant issues that I do have! The whole 'medical model' mindset is hopelessly wrong-headed and harmful when applied to this range of differences from the norm*, which all get bundled together and called 'autism'.

What deeper consciousness is indicating consistently to me through my inner inquiry is that a large majority of people who've got stuck with that 'autism' label are in reality no-soul individuals with the 'sniff-it-out' configuration. That does NOT mean that sniff-it-outers generally are autistic, but that (a), a pronounced 'sniff-it-out' configuration does tend to tick a small proportion of the boxes for being labelled as 'autistic', and (b), this configuration carries with it a much higher risk of troublesome side-effects than the other specialist configurations.

Most or maybe all sniff-it-outers do have some unhelpful side-effects of that configuration, but they'd be unlikely on balance to earn the affected person an 'autism' diagnosis. On the other hand, a small minority of sniff-it-outers are grievously unfortunate in the severity of those side-effects, and it's primarily those who are regarded as having classic 'autism'.

Nowadays it's widely recognised that 'autism' covers a very wide spectrum of differences from the norm. However, that whole assessment is wagging the dog with its tail! Let's remember that 'autism' is just a label of sort-of convenience, NOT a condition in itself. What that label really is, most fundamentally, is a whacking great FIG LEAF that the caring professions put on people, which saves them the challenge of ever working out what is really going on for people who've been given that convenient but prejudicial and obfuscatory label!

It's widely been a subject of some mystification, that a certain proportion of autism-labelled individuals display an 'abnormal' (i.e., unusual to exceptional) level of good functioning in certain aspects of their lives — especially with regard to intelligence. In other cases, of course, the troublesome side-effects would block that high-level functioning, and indeed in other cases there would be other causes of the problems, such as genetic or environmentally-determined developmental factors.

Overall, then, there's a real need for all the caring professions to get out of their beliefs and orthodoxies over this, and get recognising the 'sniff-it-out no-souler' issue and respond to individuals in that category with true understanding of what's going on for them, and how it's come about — AND, for goodness' sake, to recognise many of their differences from the norm as being fundamentally 'meant to be there' and not a 'condition' or 'something wrong' about them.

Look at this crazy Philip monkey here! I'm very much a non-'sheep', not a socializer, bullied and ridiculed in my early years, always tending to be socially excluded. Even my often unique literary and music works are consistently sidelined in favour of the more superficial or conventional works that are aimed at gaining financial success. My mental acuity and self-command has brought me into loggerheads with schoolteachers, university lecturers, doctors and psychiatrists, experts in various scientific and creative fields, not to mention all the belief-driven people in all manner of spiritual / metaphysical / 'healing' traditions. That's all because I genuinely think for myself and don't let others' poorer functioning deflect me from what I've carefully worked out for myself on the basis of my own observations, rigorously worked-out deductions, plus nowadays input from deeper consciousness itself. On the other side of that coin I'm slow in carrying out all sorts of everyday tasks, and with a certain clumsiness… (Some checkboxes duly checked for supposed 'autism')

Why am I like that? — Because I'm 'autistic'? — F*ck, no, at least not in any usefully meaningful sense! It's because I have a brain function anomaly (i.e, difference from the norm) that was deliberately configured by deeper consciousness about the time of my conception, for a specific crucial positive purpose. Rather than repeat about all that here, I refer you to the final main section in About Philip Goddard.

Guardian / overseer for Humanity

This is of at least equal importance to 'sniff-it-out', and is restricted to a quite small proportion of people with that configuration (nobody else). In other words, a thin scattering of sniff-it-outers are configured so that their 'sniff-it-out' capability is strongly directed and focused towards benefiting Humanity at every level, including the universal. Such individuals are intended and motivated for facilitating the development of new, 'clean' global civilizations, which have started arising after the fixing of the misconfigurations within deeper consciousness that had been causing all the human dysfunction and irrationality that we are still observing here on Earth.

It's envisaged that, roughly speaking, a 'handful' of such people (per planet) would operate as a lovingly monitoring and guiding group, who would be on the lookout for issues and would report them back to deeper consciousness in conceptual forms that the latter can use for it to be able to work out and apply solutions. The group would also be responsible for disseminating methods similar to what I'm nowadays doing my best against great odds to disseminate here in the highly dysfunctional Earth civilizations, so people can generally become progressively better integrated between 'mind' and deepest aspects and thus become still more powerful, constructive and creative.

I myself have this configuration, and I know of two and possibly a third similarly configured individuals who are intended, all being well, to incarnate not too far away from me when I enter my next incarnation (not on Earth, which is a figurative sinking ship now in terms of habitability for humans), together with a few more, so we can operate as one of the first such groups in a new, 'clean' civilization.

High-level leadership capability for 'transition time'

I don't know the specifics about their particular configuration, but they would all connect with a much wider range of people than the 'sniff-it-out' people, and tend to be effective to downright powerful as conciliators, while being strong on clearly thought-out decision-making, and indeed able and ready to briefly put on a dictatorial-seeming 'hard edge' if that's what is genuinely required to cut through some bit of nonsense that's threatening to cause significant problems. Also, the need for a specific sexual orientation is not so clear-cut, so there's more tendency for an open-minded bisexuality, though not so much for 'hetero-only', which would tend to divert too many such individuals into more 'normal' family lives and lose them from availability for their fundamental task.

Supportive companionship for other 'specialist' no-soul people

People with this configuration can have aptitudes in common with any of the other 'specialist' configurations, but their primary speciality is to be more approachable and 'accessible' fully compatible friends / companions for those 'specialist' individuals whose configuration (primarily sniff-it-out) have caused them a persistent state of isolation and consequent loneliness. This role's relevance emerges only now, following the alleged fixing of the basic misconfigurations in deeper consciousness and consequent inactivation of any 'keep apart from others' element of their 'specialist' configuration.

Having that barrier inactivated is all very well, but affected people would still be carrying strong patterns that perpetuate their stressful state of isolation, especially keeping separate from the most obviously compatible people (those with their own 'speciality' configuration). Hence the availability of a whole category of people who are fully compatible in 'energy' terms but more inviting and less inclined to trigger 'keep apart' responses.

Actually this speciality can readily be a problem for people carrying it, because, without relevant compatible people being readily available, there's been a strong tendency for them to develop a pattern of giving themselves away to others (at least in 'energy' terms) without being able to accept much or indeed any giving back to them.

They can appear on the surface to be living a great and rewarding life, 'helping' others and apparently with little or no issues they need to address or have any support for, but actually that sort of pattern is keeping the person largely 'out in the cold' emotionally, and gradually weakening them both physically and emotionally. Yes, ironically they themselves are commonly in a situation of shutting out the genuinely supportive and compatible companionship that they would most benefit from!

Anomalous situations

I've already mentioned 'nearly no-soul' people, who can be confusing to identify / understand precisely, but there can also be anomalies relating to fully no-soul people.

On a Cornish coast path hike on 9 April 2022 I was starting the tricky descent towards Trevaunance Cove, when I encountered a very intent- and aware-looking man coming the other way. I noted particularly an almost fiery focused intensity of his gaze as he laboured up towards me. We got chatting, and the formalities rapidly fell away as I rapidly picked up cues from him and steered our talk to self-actualization. With each brief exchanged sentence or two he got more excited and his gaze more intent, and then I sprung my little surprise on him, telling him that I'd been checking him out internally, and it appeared beyond all reasonable doubt that he had something great in common with me — of course, that he had no soul —, and I explained very briefly the significance of that. It was really striking how each thing I said 'clicked' with him, with immediate understanding (i.e., as distinct from just swallowing my words and ideas as a belief).

I gave him one of my cards to put him in touch with me and this site, which intensified further his fiery enthusiasm towards me, and then we both had to go on our different ways. He held out a hand, and of course I laughingly dismissed that, and it was really quite hilarious to observe him almost blowing a circuit breaker as I started taking my pack off, saying something like This is the real way no-soulers do it…. He couldn't get his pack off fast enough for that intense and rapturous embrace!

What struck me particularly afterwards was that his 'energy' and outstandingly focused intensity and bang-on understandings, suggestive to me of a 'sniff-it-out' no-souler, hadn't had the powerful and indeed even erotic effects on me that I'd experienced from the one 'sniff-it-outer' I'd so far encountered then, and the further one I encountered (still more powerfully) on the coast path near Boscastle on 30 April 2022.

My inner inquiry on this anomaly indicates that the guy near Trevaunance Cove had no 'specialist' configuration in his incarnational thread, BUT his developmental trajectory in this particular lifetime had given him a much more superficially based close replica of that particular 'thread-level' configuration — or at least, a major part of it.

At least, now I have a very good yardstick for recognising a range of niceties about no-soulers' special configuration type or lack of it when we embrace! — Indeed, I need all the self-command at my disposal to keep myself in balance and not fall into, shall we say, 'unhelpful' behaviour with the true 'specialists', especially ones with the same configuration as my own*.

Are 'specialist' no-soulers immune to getting trapped into a soul reincarnational sequence?

The contents of the following panel are based on my original cautious 'fall-back' scenario, that the misconfigurations within deeper consciousness (and therefore the garbage) still exist…

Having said the above, however, my default working assumption now is that the major misconfigurations within deeper consciousness really had been fixed in early 2022, so that nobody at all would any longer enter the soul reincarnation cycle, and at least almost all would die properly and reincarnate without a soul.

I say 'at least almost all' because my inner inquiry results on this suggest that, as a rarity, the odd person may not lose every last bit of their soul programming upon death this time round — though they would lose any remainder either in their next lifetime or upon dying at the end of it. In other words there is allegedly no longer an ongoing cycle of soul reincarnation for anyone.

However, as that possible exception applies only to soul-programmed people, unsurprisingly it cannot apply to no-soul people.

Where are the women in all of this?

They are present, though apparently less numerous, and often more difficult to recognise. Currently it appears to me that few are in a sufficiently 'free and open' state to be motivated to play much part in the proactive aspects of the current 'coming together' trend — the problem being the strong socially-inculcated fixation upon projecting an inevitably false stereotypical 'feminine' self-image. For most, that's much more than just appearance, and embraces life preoccupations (typically child bearing / rearing and associated domesticity) and a certain 'non-maleness', which tends to down-rate their intellectual abilities in favour of appearing to be 'warm' and emotionally spontaneous.

The provisional good news, then, is that, on the assumption that Project Fix the Human Condition really has succeeded in its primary objectives, and the garbage really has been dissolved now, and all its harmful effects are now in a process of dissolution, then (a) all new births would at least very soon be no-soul, and (b) extant people would be coming to their senses increasingly, and women would be progressively less interested in projecting false images of themselves (i.e., they'd be becoming more authentic and free at last). There would thus be a progressive transition of many people who are not too heavily soul-programmed, towards fully no-soul state, regardless of gender.

So, although it would take some time, there should be a steady transition to all people being no-soul — by which time the 'speciality' configurations may have been removed from all incarnational threads, for those configurations would then be redundant. How far that transition would have got before we're more or less all wiped out in the impending global collapse of human civilization here on Earth, I don't know — though it looks to me and many people to be within a very small number of decades.

Getting together? — Wow!!…?

No-soulers generally have an apparent big problem, in that when one encounters another, and recognises the latter for what (s)he is, all the pent-up loneliness / isolation feelings are very likely to cry out for coming together and being 'soul mates', 'twin flames' or getting into other versions of closely entangled and attached 'relationship'.

Okay, such attempts towards 'living happily together for ever after' do happen, and the couple would at least initially claim that they have the ultimate relationship bliss, and all that. — Yet, once they've fallen into that trap they're lost to further self-actualization, until such time as they come to their senses and go their own ways once more, or maybe change the nature of the relationship, so that it's no longer an entangled emotional attachment (in other words there has effectively been a parting, of sorts), but they're simply working together on a project instead. Then they're much freer, and are able to connect once more with other fantastic no-soulers who they'd never have had the joy of properly encountering if they were still stuck in that suffocating 'pair' relationship.

'Specialists' getting together — now he's getting 'personal'!

After a few most unsatisfactory experiences of trying to pair up with somebody or, shall we say, having a little squirm together in my earlier adulthood, I found it unremarkably easy to recognise that those sorts of preoccupations were pointing me in really silly-unhelpful directions (providing me with stress and indeed intensified loneliness), so it was relatively easy for me to recognise that any answer had to lie in some other direction.

It was clear that there was some strong incompatibility between me and even people who I thought I liked a hell of a lot, or who simply triggered sexual arousal because of various 'fetish' fantasy effects. I therefore learnt pretty quickly to avoid any likely route to the popular notion of a 'relationship', pending my having sorted myself out sufficiently that I understood what the eff all my inner turmoils and issues were really about and how to get beyond those and all the unhelpful pressures from people to live this or that way.

In retrospect I clearly see that, however stressful it was to maintain an aloofness from the people around me and avoid getting close with any of them (and for so, so long — ouch!), it was totally the best strategy for me, until the current time (in 2022), by which time a shift in emphasis was clearly occurring. Now it's become almost hilariously common for me (i.e., as compared with previously) to encounter and immediately recognise no-soulers and indeed 'specialist' ones. That does at least present one with opportunities for transient close friendships, with some sense of enduring connection even if one doesn't see the other person ever again.

Armed with an exceptional level of insightful perception and experience-based confidence, I'm now able briefly to relate directly with those wonderful individuals at their own level, in the process of telling each about what's special about him (/her), and giving him (/her) a card with my web address and contact details on. My own hiking outings have taken on a new and amazing dimension with such beautiful and often intense experiences along the way.

My understanding from my current inner inquiry about all that is that, with the main underlying causes of human irrationality purportedly now fixed, it's time now for some of us 'specialist' no-soulers to come together more purposefully, and not leave it entirely to 'hit and run' encounter experiences. — Except that currently that can't work out for most relevant people because of the issue of their patterns left over from the effects of the now allegedly fixed misconfigurations in deeper consciousness. Those patterns aren't dissolving rapidly as had originally been expected, and so the vast majority of us 'specialist' no-soulers are still unable to come together in healthy and self-actualization supportive ways.

Because of that issue, it's best that we don't actively seek the sort of friendship that we long for, or that we simply recognise as being the most healthy for us, but simply enable it to develop if / when a fluke opportunity arises. It does make sense, though, to take the odd measures that would increase the chance of that coming about, but without making it a big thing in your life, for that would unbalance your life experience and cause a lot of stress, especially if none of the sought-for friendships turn up.

And now, after the cautions, the provisional Green Light!

Reading the above cautions and caveats would no doubt reinforce many isolated-feeling ('specialist') no-soulers in their fear / timidity about getting in touch with each other or indeed with this monkey who writes such outrageous things here. There's no guarantee that anyone with whom I've had a tremendous encounter on one of my outings will be constructively bold enough to get in touch to follow up that encounter by keeping in touch and (shock horror!) actually meeting up sometimes for a workshop session, some other project sharing, or sensibly constrained social togetherness and enjoying the beauty and life-affirming nature of real prime physical contact as we'd get only from a 'specialist' no-souler, so one is going some way towards at least ameliorating, and with any luck actively shattering, that miserable old 'isolation' bogey we've had to live with for so long.

Yes, we do need to apply thought all the time to how we're conducting ourselves, and to intercept the 'attachment' bogey wherever it creeps in, as it will try to — but we also need to risk making supposed mistakes, for the purpose of extending our horizons and learning as we go. No 'mistakes' is bound to mean minimal learning and outward progress, and minimal life improvement! — Stands to reason!

Do take care! — Rubbish! Be bold, with awareness, and risk making 'mistakes', so you can learn and experience more! — Now we're getting somewhere!

When we 'boob', the obvious thing is to make any due apology, hopefully in light-hearted manner, and back off a bit or simply do things differently in a similar situation next time.

Making sense of getting horny…

If, while you're together and 'the serpent rises' for both of you, simply abstaining or trying to avoid or deny the issue wouldn't normally make sense (can cause all manner of harmful stresses).

It's important to understand that the erotic feelings are NOT YOU!! — They are experiences that arise for you just as other experiences arise. If you train yourself to perceive them as something that is imposing itself upon you when it's come on unbidden, rather than its simply being you, then you're in a better position to find means to stop those feelings and urges coming on except when you deliberately allow them, when it makes best sense to 'get erotic'.

So, we have these two broad choices…

How 'specialist' no-soulers can maximize their chances of encountering and recognising others — a non-exhaustive list for starters

• Be sure to set your intent that you're going to encounter other 'specialist' no-soulers here and there as an ongoing feature of your outings, and that the relevant developmental trajectories (in deeper consciousness) be adjusted accordingly now. Use a formal declaration of intent to make that maximally effective.

• Learn to use Helpfulness Testing carefully and rigorously, so you can check on the status of any individual whose 'vibes' and other cues (such as signs of exceptional mental clarity together with deep awareness) seem suggestive. Learn also to identify certain types of probable contra-indicating issues, such as attached soul fragments (I sense a dark, mucky or sticky 'something' around such people), and seriously weak grounding (I sense a faint whitish radiance around them), and hidden agendas. A lot of contact or exchanges with a very weakly grounded person can weaken your own grounding and eventually cause you problems.

  Another type of issue that needs recognising and either avoiding or awarely and firmly handling is the pattern of always giving oneself away to others and not being able / willing to accept support or reciprocating 'energy' from them. Such a person's 'energy' can feel exquisitely beautiful and loving, because it has a 'coloration' (actually a distortion), but it is actually disempowering to those who receive it. Healthy, undistorted 'energy', has an uncoloured, 'pure spring water' quality, so its power and beauty are a much more subtle experience.

  A close, reasonably long full-frontal hug is a great way to pick up fully on the state of a person's 'energy' and outlook and presence of potentially problematical patterns, and helps you subsequently to get the most reliable Helpfulness Testing results relating to that person. That's another reason why I myself am so keen on hugging 'specialist' no-soulers.

• Get out on walks and hikes in countryside and wild places. Normally do it solo OR with another 'specialist' no-souler, working then as a team for spotting no-soulers, otherwise you'll likely miss most relevant individuals because your attention wouldn't be focused in the right way — and by the same token, they'd not recognise you as anyone potentially significant to them.

  Solo hiking is generally more beneficial and deeply enjoyable anyway, with maximal connection with one's surroundings and noticing all the beautiful fine details and nuances that are missed when you've got company — and it's overall the most self-empowering sort of outing or trip.

• For those with 'sniff-it-out' configuration, a considerable emphasis on wild rugged places is particularly indicated, which are challenging or remote enough that they don't get masses of ordinary people. Challenging long-distance hiking routes, or sections thereof, are a good bet.

• If it's workable in your country / area, use hitch-hiking frequently, at least in wilder places, and be properly kitted up for that (prominent clear computer-printed destination signs, and high-visibility wear, including high-vis / reflective strips attached to the rucksack so you're prominent to traffic coming from behind if you're walking. That's not only safer, but increases your chances of getting picked up, and by the right sorts of people. Extra layers of appropriate clothing are normally needed in case of very long waits in cold or windy situations.

  I give some useful info for hitch-hiking between Exeter and various parts of Cornwall, UK in Favourite great hikes.

  
  

• If you're driving, be ready to pick up hitch-hikers, though of course still with discernment as there are potential risks in doing so, and there are countries where it's much less safe than here in the UK, and may not be a good option. Best, if at all possible, to use Helpfulness Testing very quickly the moment you spot a possible hitch-hiker ahead, to get some idea whether it would make sense to pick the person up. In that event, and particularly in less safe countries, be sure not to pick up unless you get a clear 'strengthening' response, and are experienced enough to know to what extent you could trust even that.

• If you can afford it, have a meal in a restaurant (NON-fast-food, and with at least some genuinely healthy eating options) as often as is sensible for you. If possible, try different restaurants and make a short-list of those with the most 'interesting' staff, who relate with you in the most 'human' and genuinely interested (rather than formal) ways, and make a point of taking interest in them. Rotate through the short-list to maximize variety of cuisine and number of people you encounter. In my own experience so far it hasn't been so much customers who've been of interest, but certain staff members. Getting to know and address the more interesting ones by their first name is a good starter. As with hiking, this is best done alone, otherwise you'd miss most opportunities that do present themselves.

  Even though there may appear to be no relevant staff initially, if you make a point of reasonably regularly frequenting certain of those venues, that would result in a reconfiguration of your and other people's developmental trajectories such that there becomes an increased probability of relevant 'specialist' no-soulers popping up there, helped of course by the normal quite rapid turnover of most staff in the hospitality trade generally.

• Generally shun socializing places and events unless you genuinely get something beneficial from particular ones (use Helpfulness Testing to find out), for, generally speaking, they're a complete and frustrating waste of time, and a deep stress-maker and not the sort of place that other 'specialist' no-soulers (particularly 'sniff-it-outers') would be drawn to, even though there might be the rare exception.

• Always carry a little bunch of some sort of contact or business card with at least your name and basic contact details, and, if you can sensibly fit it in, not only any relevant URL of your own, but the URL of this site.

• If you've determined that a person is at least likely to be a 'specialist' no-souler, if you're feeling really strong positive resonance with the other person, gently suggest that you both have a warm and really 'meant' hug, as is the real thing for no-soul people. If hitch-hiking, suggest to the motorist that when (s)he drops you, (s)he get out of the car too, so you can hug properly. The best form of words I've yet found to get round any off-putting awkwardness about making such a suggestion is a light-hearted If you're game for it, I suggest that when I get out of the car…

  On the other hand, more caution and discretion is needed if you're male and the driver female. In order not to stress a female driver, who could feel quite threatened by such a suggestion from a 'strange' (indeed, weirdo!) man, you could perhaps qualify a hug suggestion with a recognition that you're used to doing this with relevant male drivers, but would make such a suggestion to her only if that is really what she wants — or something like that. I myself have hardly ever hugged a female motorist who's picked me up, though it could happen with an exceptionally 'with-it' woman who's clearly no-soul and not identifying with a woman stereotype (for one thing, no make-up!).

  Note, however, that same-gender hugs are generally significantly more effective and healthy than most cross-gender ones. That's because of all the gender stereotype interactions that occur between men and women, which tend to hinder or obliterate any really aware and healthy interaction.

Notes for individuals who I've encountered and told they're no-soul

If your experience of that encounter with me was a genuinely positive and inspiring one for you, and you want to make something more special, inspiring and fulfilling of your life, I want to encourage you to push through any timidity or feeling that you wouldn't know what to say or write to me, and to email or phone me, and keep in touch with me so that we can possibly follow that up to help enable you towards fulfilling that wish or motivation to whatever extent is workable for you. This is a two-way process, so it's not a matter of me giving myself away.

Although my self-actualization methods are strictly do-it-yourself, the sordid truth is that, never mind what the notes on my Contact page say (please do read them anyway for your entertainment and edification!), in most cases of people who I've told about their being no-soul, if they are still reasonably local so we can meet in person, I'd generally like to give them a bit of 'head-start' training / coaching in the odd 'workshop' sessions, with a whole lot of self-confidence boost (no fee asked).

All being well, that should help you point yourself in the direction of recognising no-soul people you encounter, and, when you have sufficient confidence about that, to explain to them what you've picked up about them — and of course to put them in touch with this site so they have the opportunity to follow that up.

But even if you're currently not thinking in terms of taking such positive actions, potentially to be a real life-changer for other no-soulers, you can at least use your no-soul qualities to be an increasingly effective good role model for people you interact with generally in your everyday life.

The top priority thing for me to give training in is Helpfulness Testing, and likely also with an introductory Alexander Technique lesson, also with clarifications concerning use of various of my self-actualization procedures.

Postscript — one great big 'but'…

(Written on 17–20 June 2022)

You know that old saying, don't you, If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is?

As already intimated, the problem is that the expectations of us no-soul people readily coming together as ongoing friends / companions and project co-workers was based on a set of rather shakily-based assumptions (within deeper consciousness) — in particular, that people's patterns left over from the effects of the apparently recently fixed serious misconfigurations within deeper consciousness would be rapidly dissolving after those fixes.

That particular assumption, sadly, has turned out to be mistaken. Yes, it does appear that I myself am encountering a wonderful succession of 'specialist' no-soul people (mostly but not entirely male) on my hiking outings and associated hitch-hikes this year, BUT, despite the often powerfully mutual rapport and hugs, and often-stated intent of the other individuals to contact me very soon, so far NONE of those people has got back to me at all, apart from in a couple of cases sending me relevant photos they'd taken during the respective encounter, with no sign that either was thinking of continuing the contact. It wouldn't make great sense for me to chase after those individuals, for that would give rise to all sorts of stresses and distortions.

At least at face value, that's a continuation of a rather tormenting 'story of my life', with people just being unable to connect with me for any sort of ongoing friendship / companionship. The issue is clearly that the same patterns are running as before the alleged universal deep-level fixes — both for me (to some extent) and for the other people, and so, apart from the wonderful encounters (great in themselves), little has changed for the better, yet.

Presumably the situation would be the same for other no-soulers experiencing lifelong isolation and now hoping for better times. That doesn't mean that I or the odd other 'specialist' no-soul person may not 'strike lucky' in the odd isolated instance, but overall it appears that for the time being we'll need simply to make the most of the 'specialist' no-soul encounters that we do get — i.e., just as transient encounters. Maybe that's the most we'll get out of our current lifetimes (me especially, as I'm now just into my 80s), and we'll just have to console ourselves in our presumably not having this sort of issue in our future incarnations.

I state all this as the worst-case scenario, and in my view probably that won't last for all that long before we're more or less all destroyed anyway through global-scale collapse of human civilization. Then presumably we'd incarnate into an altogether better situation, without the sort of issues that have plagued our lives here on Earth, and with any luck nobody on our new home planet would have a soul, nor indeed 'specialist' configuration any longer* to get in the way of a really inspiring and satisfying existence, with whatever companionship is genuinely healthy and fulfilling for each of us.

In the meantime, here on Earth, it's still conceivable that at some point deeper consciousness would find some means after all to considerably speed up the clearance of our left-over patterns and enable some sort of 'great coming-together' of 'specialist' no-soulers to develop more or less as originally envisaged, but I suspect there's not much time for that to come about before we're more or less all wiped out anyway.