Every mortal human being has a spirit nucleus. The mind is a system existing around that spirit nucleus and functioning in a material environment. Such a relationship of mind and spirit gives us the potential for eternal personality. Real trouble, lasting disappointment, serious defeat, or inescapable death can come only if we lose sight of the governing power of the central spirit nucleus. There is something real, something of human evolution, which survives death. This newly appearing entity is the soul, and it survives the death of both your physical body and your material mind. This entity is the child of the human You in liaison with the divine You. This child of human and divine parentage is the surviving element of mortal origin; it is the immortal soul. When mortal mind is subservient to matter it is destined to become increasingly material and consequently to suffer eventual personality death. Mind yielded to spirit is destined to become increasingly spiritual and in this way to attain survival and eternity of personality existence. At death the identity associated with the human personality is temporarily suspended. The stoppage of life destroys the physical brain patterns of the mind and terminates mortal consciousness. The consciousness of that creature cannot reappear until a situation has been arranged which will permit the same human personality to function again in relationship with a new form of living energy. Death adds nothing to the intellectual possession or to the spiritual endowment, but it does add the consciousness of survival to one's experience. Most human beings die because, having failed to achieve the spirit level, death is the only possible way in which they may escape the limitations of time and matter. Having survived the trial life of time and material existence, it becomes possible for you to continue on for eternity. Love of adventure, curiosity, and dread of monotony -- these traits inherent in evolving human nature -- were not put there just to aggravate and annoy you during your short time on earth, but rather to suggest to you that death is only the beginning of an endless career of adventure, an everlasting life of anticipation, an eternal voyage of discovery.