Myself and many Reiki Masters and therapists work when we are asleep, travelling and doing healing and rescue work. This is because there are global changes occuring, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, unprecedented weather, floods, forest fires, landslides, wars and civil unrest to name but a few. These occurences have prompted our recruitment by those in spirit to work at night. The recruitment took place at a Reiki Share one evening by a Tibetan Lama who told me, Hilary a clairvoyant and another friend Jane that we were to do this work and to meditate once a week, so we could be prepared.

Does it take a soul to have a mind? In this short article, I shall refer to those who believe that it is so as soul theorists. I shall contend that this belief is actually vulnerable to a couple of commonsensical facts that have largely been ignored. It is that if human consciousness and memory were really carried by soul rather than body-brain, two troublesome questions in particular would have to be addressed. (1) Why should anyone become temporarily unconscious when body-brain is made to suffer a severe blow or is put under general anaesthesia? (2) Why should anyone fail to remember his/her own past when he/she gets too old or after having suffered certain injuries to brain?

Of first question, it has always been a second nature of sorts to assume that if it is a fact that a tired body is usually accompanied by a tired mind, and if there is no problem in accepting that a sleeping body is also indicative of a sleeping soul, it should also goes without saying that when body blacks out, so should its soul. Reasonable as this way of reasoning may seem, let me say that question has not really been answered. The question is: if it is soul that carries one’s consciousness, why should soul go out of consciousness when blackout blow or anaesthesia is delivered to body-brain?

It should be observed that by light of soul theory, body-brains are in and of themselves cognitive inert anyway. It should also be observed that it would not help to reason that as in case of one who died, an unconscious body means a departed soul. For unlike case of someone who is dead, our unconscious friend (or his soul rather, as presumed) does return to consciousness at some point after blackout. And if this return to consciousness is to be understood in terms of a soul’s rejoining its body when latter is sufficiently on mend, there are still much that need to be explained. In first instance, why should soul regain consciousness only when body has sufficiently recovered? And why is it that upon its return to consciousness, such a soul does not really know what has happened either to body or itself during interim? In other words, why should soul, as carrier of consciousness, lose consciousness when its bodily habitat is temporarily out of whack?