IMPORTANT: The following reveals divine truth about emotional “boundaries” between souls. In no way should the following be construed as a suggestion that any soul ignore a breach of physical boundaries. Nor should anyone who feels anything less than wholly connected with source divinity take the following as a recommendation to let down emotional boundaries with those who might seek to tear them down in this way. As stated in this post, so-called boundaries are far preferable to absorbing (or worse, reflecting) negative energy directed at us when we feel anything less than perfect inner peace.

This physical world imposes so much on our souls: sensation, social interaction, societal constructs…. As much as we crave incarnation, and as much as the Earth and our experiences here can be spectacularly beautiful and enriching, that same intensity and diversity of experience sometimes comes at a price.

Souls not well-connected to source divinity and love may often feel overwhelmed by all of it. When sleeping souls have suffered (in any of the countless ways that a soul not connected to source via regular meditation do), they search for ways to fill the void. Sometimes these hungry souls choose power as the tonic for their emptiness. This may manifest as a soul’s quest to participate in Earthly government, rise up through the ranks at their place of mundane employment, or gain social standing within their circle of friends and acquaintances.

This last manifestation can mutate to something even uglier, when a disconnected soul begins to gain satisfaction, and a feeling of enhanced social standing, by abusing and/or manipulating others. We see this exemplified in the countless incidences of social jockeying happening in schools of every different age group, in rudeness from fellow souls in all walks of life, and in fits of rage carried out face-to-face or via technology. Belittling, despising, embarrassing and downright abusing their fellow beings becomes a high and a way of life for these unfortunate lost souls.

We observe and encounter these incidents all too often, and conventional wisdom, even from those trained in psychology and sociology, tells us to learn to shield ourselves from their negative impact. The socially-accepted method for dealing with fellow souls, when they become abusive, frames their words and actions as weapons, bullets against which we must steel our hearts. Words like “emotional boundaries” come to mean the closing off of our connection with these fellow souls in an attempt to safeguard our well being. While it’s a preferable strategy to absorbing the negative energy put out by these abusive lost souls (or even worse, echoing and amplifying it back to them), it’s a whole world away from the freedom and connection enjoyed by fully-wakened, well-connected souls.

Once we tap into the divine and develop genuine inner peace, any need for “emotional boundaries” with others falls away, because we’re already assured our relation to divinity. That assurance cannot be swayed or broken by the false words of a wanting and disconnected fellow soul.

In fact, in the event that a lost soul tries to manipulate or abuse an awakened, connected soul, the enlightened person will immediately see both the attacker and their emotional “ammo” for exactly what they are – a disconnected soul and a stream of obvious falsehoods. For nothing less than divine truth can stand up to the illumination of divine light, and awakened souls see the world, and their passage through it, illuminated perfectly by the same.

The absurd offensives of the disconnected (in this case, those looking to achieve social power through manipulation and abuse), will appear preposterous to the soul with true inner peace; so much so, that enlightened persons may find themselves both bemused by and compassionate toward their would-be attackers. The scene of such an exchange takes on the quality of a small child hurling ludicrous and nonsensical insults and threats at a loving, stable adult. Thusly, enlightened souls don’t waste time worrying about anyone else believing the false words of the lost soul. An enlightened soul knows that the opinions of fellow souls cannot harm them. Any and all “loss” resulting from others’ beliefs and opinions about them is nothing more than an illusion projected by the physical world.

Once we tap into divine love and wisdom, we lose all prior need we may have had for emotional walls or “boundaries” between ourselves and our fellow souls, be they fellow travelers along the path to enlightenment or souls for whom this particular incarnation will never bring them close to connection with the divine. In moments such as these, we’re called to remember that, in truth, there is no other, and lost souls are simply hurting and hungry parts of the whole whose flaws and frivolity will be wholly and perfectly revealed to them, as they will to every one of us, upon spiritual return to the divine source.