How Your Soul Experiences Taste
This article is part of the Are You Coming to Your Senses? series.
Welcome to the third installment of our five-part series on how your soul perceives your physical senses. We have previously discussed the senses of sight and sound, and in this article we explore the sense of taste that resides within your human embodiment.
Taste is so important to us that we have come to sensationalize the eating experience. There are currently numerous cooking shows and competitions where contestants compete for who can prepare the best meal. Someone then passes judgment on what is the best food based solely on personal taste preference.
Source Has No Limit
Think of all the spices and food additives that have been created for the enjoyment of the human experience. Isn’t it interesting how people can react so differently to the same spice, or have such opposing reactions to the same food? Even people sharing the same meal at a table together can have entirely different taste reactions. Humans also have completely different reactions when biting into, swallowing, or ingesting the same foods as others. This could be due to food allergies, how the food is grown, and what chemicals or fertilizers were used in production. In short, there are endless variables when it comes to taste.
We declare that no two humans taste anything exactly the same! How something tastes is based solely upon YOUR taste buds, circulatory, and sensory systems — not anyone else’s. And no two people are the same.
From a spiritual (soul’s) perspective, why would Source need to taste something the same way every time? That would mean that Source would have a limitation to it, and Source has no limit.
The Soul’s Perspective on Taste
Let’s talk about the Soul’s perspective on taste. There is taste from within! Have you ever had a stressful or traumatic experience and gotten a sour taste in your mouth? Or perhaps a metallic taste in the back of your throat? What is that? If there is no food or something physical that you are ingesting in that moment, what is it that you are tasting?
It’s a taste sensation that is in alignment with an emotion. That is your soul’s inner taste experience! Yet humans are constantly explaining it away as a bad meal they ate earlier in the day, or some food that didn’t sit well in their stomach.
Physical taste is in alignment with the contact of your tongue and taste buds with a substance. The physical response to something is in reference to whether you thought what was being tasted was sweet, sour, salty, savory or bitter, or pleasant or unpleasant to you.
Emotional Experience First
Your inner soul’s taste works differently. It is ignited by the emotional experience first. This emotion can actually cause you to taste something in your mouth. Think of the phrase “the sweet taste of success.” What does success or joy taste like? It must taste sweet because so many humans have made that declaration.
What about the traumatic experiences that so many of you go through when you experience dry mouth or a sour taste? What is that? It is when your soul is having a traumatic soul sensation! A traumatic soul taste sensation based upon your emotions being stirred.
Physical vs Soul Taste
How can you tell when you’re experiencing a taste whether it’s physical or your soul’s taste sensation? Is your tongue touching something physical, which then allows an emotional response? Then that is taste based upon the physical. If you are getting the emotion first, and then a type of sensation through your embodiment or your taste sensory system, that is your soul connection!
You are the master of your physical embodiment and the energy flow in your physical body. You have the ability to experience your soul’s sensation through your senses.
As you refine your awareness process and your awareness state is heightened, you will more readily experience being in alignment with your soul through any or all of your senses.
When you are working on aligning with your soul and you’re practicing the art of conjuring the emotion of your soul, you can be experiencing this through sight, sound, and even the tasting of your emotions.
Did you realize your emotions had a taste to them? We hope that with this new awareness you will start experiencing taste from your soul’s perspective.
Soul Retrieval on Gaia
Just like the traumatic experiences Brad mentions above that can give you a bad taste, trauma also can fragment your soul. The good news? You can reclaim your power and once again become the master of your soul. Get started with Jill Kuykendall on Soul Retrieval on Talks with Regina Meredith.
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How to Connect with Your Ancestors Spiritually Through Ceremony
The desire to communicate with our ancestors is an innate part of the human experience. We intuitively sense their presence in our wisdom bodies, and it begs the question: can we communicate with them?
You don’t need special skills to begin. Just an open mind, a clear intention, and a willingness to listen. Through daily prayer, meditation, creation of art, music, food, and ceremony, the ancestor spirits can communicate, guide, protect, and heal the living. Ancestral communication has been a spiritual practice in every wisdom tradition throughout time. Your ability to connect with your ancestors is always available.
This kind of spiritual connection supports emotional healing, clarity, and insight in everyday life. Simple ways to begin connecting with your ancestors include:
- Creating a home altar
- Offering prayers or intentions
- Practicing meditation or visualization
- Journaling or dreamwork
- Making food or art in their honor
In particular, the days on and around October 31 to November 2 are a transformational portal on the wheel of life. It’s the mid-point between fall and winter, the death and dying season. Therefore, it’s a powerful time to communicate with one’s deceased family members.During this window, the veil between worlds is said to be thinner. It’s an ideal time to begin your practice, even for the first time.
Read on and receive intuitive guidance on how to create a beautiful ceremonial journey to communicate with your ancestors.
The Traditions of Ancestral Communication
Ancestral communication is an ancient and daily practice found in many cultures around the world, including Mayan, Celtic, Aborigine, Native American, Ancient Greece, Ancient Eurasia, African Tribal, Tibetan, and the Vedic/Yogic traditions.
Across cultures, these traditions often include:
- Prayer or chanting
- Offerings of food, flowers, or incense
- Honoring the dead on specific holy days
- Storytelling and oral histories
- Building shrines or ancestor altars
Through ancestral communication, you’re able to open your heart, experiencing a deeper love within yourself, due to the connection you have with your family tree. Through this practice, people have been able to reconcile deep wounds and karmic patterns that stem back from past life trauma and even issues between the deceased and living families.
“Ancestral work can transform the karmas of past generations, as well as work into the current and future generations for healing.”
This is the foundation of ancestral healing: releasing inherited pain while reclaiming guidance, wisdom, and support.
Connecting Ancestors to Halloween and the Day of the Dead
Halloween and the Day of the Dead are sacred windows in time. They offer a unique opportunity to connect with your ancestors, honor the dead, and reflect on the impermanence of life. Whether you know these traditions as Halloween, Samhain, All Saints Day, or Día de los Muertos, this season marks a turning point in the spiritual year, a time when the veil between the living and the spirit world is considered thinnest.
These days are more than cultural holidays, they are spiritual invitations. They ask you to slow down, listen, and remember. This is when ancestor work becomes easier, more natural. The energy of remembrance is already in the air.
Halloween, or All Hallows’ Eve, literally means “Holy Night” or “All Saint’s Night.” Its roots trace back to ancient European traditions that honored the dead with light, prayer, and seasonal ritual. Over time, the focus shifted toward costumes and candy, but the essence remains: a recognition that something sacred is moving through the darkness.
Día de los Muertos, rooted in Indigenous Mexican tradition and blended with Catholic influence, continues to carry that essence fully. During this celebration, families build elaborate altars, cook traditional foods, decorate with marigolds, and welcome the spirits of their loved ones back for a brief visit. It’s a joyful, colorful, deeply communal ritual.
Throughout villages and cities, people gather to remember, not in silence, but in celebration. Candles burn late into the night. Music fills the streets. Portraits of the deceased are surrounded by flowers, bread, tequila, chocolate, and handwritten messages. It is a shared act of love, extended across time.
By contrast, modern Halloween often forgets this sacred thread. But the jack-o-lanterns, the candlelight, the masks, they all echo an older story. If you choose to, you can reclaim the spiritual intention. Light a candle. Speak a name aloud. Cook a meal they loved. You don’t need a crowd or a festival. Just your attention and sincerity.
A few quiet moments, held with purpose, can open the door. Even something as simple as sitting beside a lit candle and offering your thoughts or gratitude becomes a form of ancestral veneration. That’s all it takes to create a spiritual connection.
