(The first part of the event recording accompanies this article.)

The new series Portals Into the Soul reveals the soul’s mission as a companion and guide that seeks to keep us safe, nudge us toward learning and growth, and champion our higher universal purpose. In the live event, we are invited to expand this understanding beyond knowledge and words to something finer, as we begin to sense, feel and experience new pathways to the soul.

The live gathering begins with an exercise of imagery to help us appreciate the true miracle of being a human with a soul and spirit, born into an extraordinary planetary ecology. We also learn to transcend one of the most common polarities in Eastern and Western spiritual thought and practice: thoughts and feelings.

By integrating this duality, we unlock feelings that carry potent, intentional thinking; we begin to feel our thoughts. The transcendence unlocks a creative impulse and a sense of soul communion, inside of which we bring to life intuition, guidance and greater intelligence.

Join Aviv Shahar and a team of global Portals friends as they, and each of us, begin to sense and feel and create a new partnership with our soul, one of the most valuable resources we have on our journey through life on this planet. Among the team’s impressions:

• Inside this awareness of the soul, we can experience in a fully embodied way the value we have for life; for being given this body, these sense organs, these capacities, to fully express life.
• Integrating thinking and feeling unlocks a creative impulse and sense of soul communion, which brings to life an intuition and guidance and greater intelligence.
• When you begin to feel your thoughts, you care more deeply about what you think. Angry or cruel thoughts towards somebody else are felt first inside your own system.
• Forms of mindfulness offer access to inner luminosity through disassociation with thinking and feeling. There is another way, which is to dwell with, not empty, our mind and heart.
• The soul is a built-in GPS system, helping us navigate a rapidly changing social or personal landscape, like feeling our way through the daily mental and emotional obstacle course.
• Our soul journey comes at a time when much appears to be coming to an end; the operating system we've known since the late 20th century, and aspects of the modern world, are crumbling.
• Our soul unlocks the capacity to integrate the interior orchestra of our inner lives along with all the profound scientific and technological capabilities we've developed in the modern trace.

The live global exploration of the soul continues June 1 as we deepen our experience with Chapter Two of the series.

This conversation is part of the continuing Portals discovery into what is emerging on the frontiers of human experience in this time of profound change. Information about upcoming special events can be found on the Events page. Also visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel.