VE: What's your understanding of the soul, and how can we increase
our awareness of it? IF: I don't believe it's possible to convey a really good understanding
of the soul in words because the soul must be experienced to be understood.
However, one of the more successful attempts to define the soul verbally
is the classic statement that the soul is neither matter nor spirit,
but the intermediary between the two. We can find that statement in
many writings, from ancient times down to the present. In modern times
we can find it in the works of the psychologist James Hillman and
in the teachings of D.K. in the Alice Bailey writings. There are many misconceptions about the soul. There are so many misconceptions
that, in my work with people, I've found it's almost more important
to explain the misconceptions about the soul than to try to explain
everything the soul is. Many of these misconceptions come from not
appreciating that the soul is the intermediary between spirit and
matter and involve thinking of the soul as either too much like spirit
or thinking of the soul as too much like matter or the personality.
We are thinking of the soul as too much like spirit if we think of
it as something that we won't meet until we die, something that has
no relevance to our daily life. The truth is that the soul is a living
reality that we are meant to experience here on earth, thereby bringing
feelings of profound joy, aliveness and love into our daily life.
I believe that most people have such experiences partially, however
fuller experiences can be fostered through openness, meditation and
energy work. We are thinking of the soul as too much like the personality
when we project our negativity onto it and describe it as making wrong
choices, moving away from God, etc.. The truth is that the soul is
in profound union with God, is completely pure and has no moral lessons
to learn. The reason it is so important to see through all these misconceptions
is that they result in our experiencing our own thought forms about
the soul rather than the soul itself." KHU,
Egyptian Mystery School Irving
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