THE SEAT OF THE SOUL

Gary Zukav
Simon & Schuster
Scanned: June 17.2001
Last Update: June 17, 2001

FOREWORD

During the years that I was writing The Dancing Wu Li Masters and after, I was
drawn again and again to the writings of William James, Carl Jung, Benjamin Lee
Whorf, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein. I returned to them repeatedly. I found in
them something special, although it was not until later that I was able to understand
that special ness: these fellow humans reached for something greater than they were
able to express directly through their work. They saw more than they could express
in the language of psychology or linguistics or physics, and they sought to share what
they saw. It is what they sought to share through the medium of their work that drew
me to them.
They were mystics. That is my word. They would not use such language, but they
knew it. They feared that their careers might become contaminated by association
with those who did not work within the scientific model, but in the depths of their
own thoughts they each saw much too much to be limited by the five senses, and
they were not. Their works contribute not only to the evolution of psychology,
linguistics and physics, but also to the evolution of those who read them. They have
the capability to change those who touch them in ways that also cannot be expressed
directly in the terms of psychology, or linguistics, or physics.
As I came to understand, in retrospect, the magnetic quality that these works held for
me, I came to understand that what motivated these men was not Earthly prizes or the
respect of colleagues, but that they put their souls and minds on something and
reached the extraordinary place where the mind could no longer produce data of the
type that they wanted, and they were in the territory of inspiration where their
intuitions accelerated and they knew that there was something more than the realm of
time and space and matter, something more than physical life. They knew it. They
could not necessarily articulate this clearly because they were not equipped to talk
about such things, but they felt it and their writings reflected it.
In other words, I came to understand that what motivated these men, and many
others, was in fact something of great vision that comes from beyond the personality.
Each of us is now being drawn, in one way or another, to that same great vision. It is
more than a vision. It is an emerging force. It is the next step in our evolutionary
journey. Humanity, the human species, is longing now to touch that force, to shed
that which interferes with clear contact. Much of the difficulty in doing this lies in
the fact that the vocabulary with which to address this new force, which is indeed the
eternal force, is not yet born.
In this moment and in this hour of human evolution this proper vocabulary and
means of addressing that which longs to transcend religiosity and spirituality and
assume the position of authentic power is longing to be born. We need to give that
which we as a species are now touching consciously for the first time a vocabulary
that is not clouded so that it can be identified clearly in the acts and judgments of the
human race, so that it can be seen clearly, and not through veils of mystery or
mysticism, but simply as the authentic power that moves the force fields of this Earth
of ours. I hope that this book will assist.
As a way of talking about what we are and what we are becoming, I have used the
terms five-sensory and multisensory. Multisensory is not better than five-sensory. It
is simply more appropriate now. As one system of human experience winds down
and another, more advanced system emerges the older system may appear by
comparison to be lacking, but from the perspective of the Universe, the language of
comparison is not the language of lesser and better, but of limitation and opportunity.
The experiences of the multisensory human are less limited provide more
opportunities for growth and development and more opportunities to avoid
unnecessary difficulties. I have contrasted the experiences of the five-sensory human
with the experiences of the multisensory human in each instance to make their
differences as clear as possible, but this does not mean that the five-sensory phase of
our evolution, the phase from which we are emerging, is negative in comparison to
the phase of our evolution that we are entering, the multisensory phase. It is simply
that it is now no longer appropriate just as there came a time when the use of candles
became inappropriate because of electricity, but the advent of electricity did not make
candle power negative.
Who among us is an expert on the human experience? We have only the gift of
sharing perceptions that hopefully can help those on their journey. There is no such
thing as an expert on the human experience. The human experience is an experience
in movement and thought and form, and, in some cases, an experiment in movement
and thought and form. The most that we can do is comment on the movement, the
thought and the form, but those comments are of great value if they can help people
to learn to move gracefully, to think clearly, to form like artists the matter of their
lives.
We are in a time of deep change. We will move through this change more
easily if we are able to see the road upon which we are traveling, our destination, and
what it is that is in motion. I offer what is in this book as a window through which I
have come to see life. I offer this window to you, but I do not say that it is necessary
that you accept it. There are so many ways to wisdom and to the heart. This is our
greatest richness, and the one that gives me the most joy. We have much to do
together. Let us do it in wisdom and love and joy. Let us make this the human
experience.

CHAPTER 1: EVOLUTION
The evolution that we learned about in school is the evolution of physical form. We
learned, for example, that the single-celled creatures of the oceans are the
predecessors of all more complex forms of life. A fish is more complex, and,
therefore, more evolved than a sponge; a horse is more complex, and, therefore, more
evolved than a snake; a monkey is more complex, and, therefore, more evolved than
a horse, and so on, up to human beings which are the most complex, and, therefore,
the most evolved Life forms upon our planet. We were taught, in other words, that
evolution means the progressive development of organizational complexity.
This definition is an expression of the idea that the organism that is best able to
control both its environment and all of the other organisms in its environment is the
most evolved. "Survival of the fittest" means that the most evolved organism in a
given environment is the organism that is at the top of the food chain in that
environment. According to this definition, therefore, the organism that is most able to
ensure its own survival, most able to serve its self-preservation, is the most evolved.
We have long known that this definition of evolution is inadequate, but we have not
known why. When two humans engage one another, they are, in terms of
organizational complexity, equally evolved. If both have the same intelligence, yet
one is small-minded, mean and selfish while the other is magnanimous and altruistic,
we say that the one who is magnanimous and altruistic is the more evolved. If one
human intentionally sacrifices his or her life to save another, by, for example, using
his or her own body to shield another from an unseen bullet or a speeding car, we say
that the human who sacrificed his or her life, indeed, was one of the most evolved
among us. We know these things to be true, but they are at variance with our
understanding of evolution.
Jesus, we are told, foresaw the plot against His life, even to the details of how His
friends would act and react, yet He did not run from what He saw. The entirety of
human kind has been inexorably shaped by the power and love of One who gave His
life for others. All who revere Him, and almost all who but know His story, agree
that He was one of the most evolved of our species.
Our deeper understanding tells us that a truly evolved being is one that values others
more than it values itself, and that values love more than it values the physical world
and what is in it. We must now bring our understanding of evolution into alignment
with this deeper understanding. It is important that we do this because our current
understanding of evolution reflects the phase of evolution that we are now leaving.
By examining this understanding, we can perceive how we have evolved to now, and
what we are now in the process of leaving behind. By reflecting upon a new and
expanded understanding of evolution, one that validates our deepest truths, we can
see what we are evolving into, and what that means in terms of what we experience,
what we value, and how we act.

Our current understanding of evolution results from the fact that we have evolved
until now by exploring physical reality with our five senses. We have been, until
now, five-sensory human beings. This path of evolution has allowed us to see the
basic principles of the Universe in concrete ways. We see through our five senses
that every action is a cause that has an effect, and that every effect has a cause. We
see the results of our intentions. We see that rage kills: it takes away breath-the Life
force-and it sills blood-the carrier o f vitality. We see that kindness nurtures. We see
and feel the effects of a snarl and a smile.
We experience our ability to process knowledge. We see, for example, that a stick is
a tool, and we see the between siblings and between races, between classes and
between sexes. It disrupts the natural tendency toward harmony between nations and
between friends. The same energy that sent warships to the Persian Gulf sent soldiers
to Vietnam and Crusaders to Palestine. The energy that separated the family of
Romeo from the family of Juliet is the same energy that separates the racial family of
the black husband from the racial family of the white wife. The energy that set Lee
Harvey Oswald against John Kennedy is the same energy that set Cain against Abel.
Brothers and sisters quarrel for the same reason that corporations quarrel-they seek
power over one another.
The power to control the environment, and those within it, is power over what can be
felt, smelled, tasted, heard or seen. This type of power is external power. External
power can be acquired or lost, as in the stock market or an election. It can be bought
or stolen, transferred or inherited. It is thought of as something that can be gotten
from someone else, or somewhere else. One person's gain of external power is
perceived as another person's loss. The result of seeing power as external is violence
and destruction. All of our institutions-social, economic and political-reflect our
understanding of power as external.
Families, like cultures, are patriarchal or matriarchal. One person "wears the pants."
Children learn this early, and it shapes their lives.
Police departments, like the military, are produced by the perception of power as
external. Badge, boots, rank, radio, uniform, weapons, and armor are symbols of fear.
Those who wear them are fearful. They fear to engage the world without defenses.
Those who encounter these sym
effects of how we choose to use it. The club that kills can drive a stake into the
ground to hold a shelter. The spear that takes a life can be used as a lever to ease
life's burdens. The knife that cuts flesh can be used to cut cloth. The hands that build
bombs can be used to build schools. The minds that coordinate the activities of
violence can coordinate the activities of cooperation.
We see that when the activities of life are infused with reverence, they come alive
with meaning and purpose. We see that when reverence is lacking from life's
activities, the result is cruelty, violence and loneliness. The physical arena is a
magnificent learning environment. It is a school within which, through
experimentation, we come to understand what causes us to expand and what causes
us to contract, what causes us to grow and what causes us to shrivel, what nourishes
our souls and what depletes them, what works and what does not.
When the physical environment is seen only from the five-sensory point of view,
physical survival appears to be the fundamental criterion of evolution because no
other kind of evolution is detectable. It is from this point of view that "survival of the
fittest" appears to be synonymous with evolution, and physical dominance appears to
characterize advanced evolution.
When perception of the physical world is limited to the five-sensory modality, the
basis of life in the physical arena becomes fear. Power to control the environment,
and those within the environment appears to be essential.
The need for physical dominance produces a type of competition that affects every
aspect of our lives. It affects relationships between lovers and between superpowers,
symbols are fearful. They fear the power that these symbols represent, or they fear
those whom they expect this power to contain, or they fear both. The police and the
military, like patriarchal and matriarchal families and cultures, are not origins of the
perception of power as external. They are reflections of the way that we, as a species
and as individuals, have come to view power.
The perception of power as external has shaped our economics. The ability to control
economies, within communities and within nations, and the ability to control the
transnational economy of the world, is concentrated in the hands of a few people. To
protect workers from these people, we have created unions. To protect consumers,
we have created bureaucracies in government. To protect the poor, we have created
welfare systems. This is a perfect reflection of how we have come to perceive power
as the possession of a few while the majority serves it as victims.
Money is a symbol of external power. Those who have the most money have the
most ability to control their environment and those within it, while those who have
the least money have the least ability to control their environment and those within it.
Money is acquired, lost, stolen, inherited and fought for. Education, social status,
fame, and things that are owned, if we derive a sense of increased security from
them, are symbols of external power. Anything we fear to lose-a home, a car, an
attractive body, and an agile mind, a deep belief-is a symbol of external power. What
we fear is an increase in our vulnerability. This results from seeing power as external.
When power is seen as external, the hierarchies of our social, economic and political
structures, as well as the hierarchies of the Universe, appear as indicators of who has
power and who does not. Those at the top appear to have the most power and,
therefore, to be the most valuable and the least vulnerable. Those at the bottom
appear to be the least powerful, and, therefore, to be the least valuable and the most
vulnerable. From this perception, the general is more valuable than the private, the
executive is more valuable than the chauffeur, the doctor is more valuable than the
receptionist, the parent is more valuable than the child, and the Divine is more
valuable than the worshiper. We fear to transgress our parents, our bosses, and our
God. All perceptions of lesser and greater personal value result from the perception
of power as external.
Competition for external power lies at the heart of all violence. The secondary gain
behind ideological conflicts, such as capitalism versus communism, and religious
conflicts, such as Irish Catholic versus Irish Protestant, and geographical conflicts,
such as Jew versus Arab, and familial and marital conflicts, is external power.
The perception of power as external splinters the psyche, whether it is the psyche of
the individual, the community, the nation, or the world. There is no difference
between acute schizophrenia and a world at war. There is no difference between the
agony of a splintered soul and the agony of a splintered nation. When a husband and
a wife compete for power, they engage the same dynamic that humans of one race do
when they fear humans of another race.
From these dynamics, we have formed our present understanding of evolution as a
process of ever-increasing ability to dominate the environment and each other. This
definition reflects the limitations of perceiving the physical world with only five
senses. It reflects the competition for external power that is generated by fear.
After millennia of brutality to one another, individual to individual and group to
group, it is now clear that the insecurity which underlies the perception of power as
external cannot be healed by the accumulation of external power. It is evident for all
to see, not only with each newscast and evening paper, but also through each of our
countless sufferings as individuals and as a species, that the perception of power as
external brings only pain, violence and destruction. This is how we have evolved
until now, and this is what we are leaving behind.
Our deeper understanding leads us to another kind of power, a power that loves life
in every form that it appears, a power that does not judge what it encounters, a power
that perceives meaningfulness and purpose in the smallest details upon the Earth.
This is authentic power. When we align our thoughts, emotions, and actions with the
highest part of ourselves, we are filled with enthusiasm, purpose, and meaning. Life
is rich and full. We have no thoughts of bitterness. We have no memory of fear. We
are joyously and intimately engaged with our world. This is the experience of
authentic power.
Authentic power has its roots in the deepest source of our being. Authentic power
cannot be bought, inherited or hoarded. An authentically empowered person is
incapable of making anyone or anything a victim. An authentically empowered
person is one who is so strong, so empowered, that the idea of using force against
another is not 2 tart of hl,, or her consciousness
No understanding of evolution is adequate that does not have at its core that we are
on a journey toward authentic power, and that authentic empowerment is the goal of
our evolutionary process and the purpose of our being. We are evolving from a
species that pursues external power into a species that pursues authentic power. We
are leaving behind exploration of the physical world as our sole means of evolution.
This means of evolution, and the consciousness that results from an awareness that is
limited to the five-sensory modality, are no longer adequate to what we must
become.
We are evolving from five-sensory humans into multisensory humans. Our five
senses, together, form a single sensory system that is designed to perceive physical
reality. The perceptions of a multisensory human extend beyond physical reality to
the larger dynamical systems of which our physical reality is a part. The multisensory
human is able to perceive, and to appreciate, the role that our physical reality plays in
a larger picture of evolution, and the dynamics by which our physical reality is
created and sustained. This realm is invisible to the five-sensory human.
It is in this invisible realm that the origins of our deepest values are found. From the
perspective of this invisible realm, the motivations of those who consciously sacrifice
their lives for higher purposes make sense, the power of Gandhi is explicable, and the
compassionate acts of the Christ are comprehensible in a fullness that is not
accessible to the five-sensory human.
All of our great teachers have been, or are, multisensory humans. They have spoken
to us and acted in accordance with perceptions and values that reflect the larger
perspective of the multisensory being, and, therefore, their words and actions awaken
within us the recognition of truths.
From the perception of the five-sensory human, we are alone in a universe that is
physical. From the perception of the multisensory human, we are never alone, and
the Universe is alive, conscious, intelligent and compassionate. From the perception
of the five-sensory human, the physical world is an unaccountable given in which we
unaccountably find ourselves, and we strive to dominate it so that we can survive.
From the perception of the multisensory human, the physical world is a learning
environment that is created jointly by the souls that share it, and everything that
occurs within it serves their learning. From the perception of the five-sensory human,
intentions have no effects, the effects of actions are physical, and not all actions
affect us or others. From the perception of the multisensory human, the intention
behind an action determines its effects, every intention affects both us and others,
and the effects of intentions extend far beyond the physical world.
What does it mean to say that an "invisible" realm exists in which the origins of our
deeper understandings are located? What are the implications of considering the
existence of a realm that is not detectable through the five senses, but that can be
known, explored, and understood by other human faculties?
When a question is asked that cannot be answered within the common frame of
reference, it can be classified as nonsensical, or it can be dismissed as a question that
is not appropriate, or the person who is asking the question can expand his or her
consciousness to encompass a frame
of reference from which the question can be answered. The first two options are the
easy ways out of a confrontation with a question that appears to be nonsensical or
inappropriate, but the seeker, the true scientist, will allow himself or herself to
expand into a frame of reference from which the answers that he or she is seeking
can be understood.
We, as a species, have been asking the questions, "Is there a God?", "Is there a
Divine Intelligence?", and, "Is there a purpose to life?", for as long as we have been
able to articulate questions. The time has now come for us to expand into a frame of
reference that allows these questions to be answered.

The larger frame of reference of the multisensory human allows an understanding of

the experientially meaningful distinction between the personality and the soul. Your
personality is that part of you that was born into, lives within, and will die within
time. To be a human and to have a personality is the same thing. Your personality,
like your body, is the vehicle of your evolution.
The decisions that you make and the actions that you take upon the Earth are the
means by which you evolve. At each moment you choose the intentions that will
shape your experiences and those things upon which you will focus your attention.
These choices affect your evolutionary process. This is so for each person. If you
choose unconsciously, you evolve unconsciously. If you choose consciously, you
evolve consciously.
The fearful and violent emotions that have come to characterize human existence can
be experienced only by the personality. Only the personality can feel anger, fear,
hatred, vengeance, sorrow, shame, regret, indifference, frustration, cynicism and
loneliness. Only the personality can judge, manipulate and exploit. Only the
personality can pursue external power. The personality can also be loving,
compassionate, and wise in its relations with others, but love, compassion, and
wisdom do not come from the personality. They are experiences of the soul.
Your soul is that part of you that is immortal. Every person has a soul, but a
personality that is limited in its perception to the five senses is not aware of its soul,
and, therefore, cannot recognize the influences of its soul. As a personality becomes
multisensory, its intuitions-its hunches and subtle feelings-become important to it. It
senses things about itself, other people, and the situations in which it finds itself that
it cannot justify on the basis of the information that its five senses can provide. It
comes to recognize intentions, and to respond to them rather than to the actions and
the words that it encounters. It can recognize, for example, a warm heart beneath a
harsh and angry manner, and a cold heart beneath polished and pleasing words.
When a multisensory personality looks inside itself, it finds a multitude of different,
currents. Through experience, it learns to distinguish between these currents and to
identify the emotional, psychological and physical effects of each. It learns, for
example, which currents produce anger, divisive thoughts, and destructive actions,
and which currents produce love, healing thoughts, and constructive actions. In time,
it learns to value and to identify with those currents that generate creativity, healing
and love, and to challenge and release those currents that create negativity,
disharmony and violence. In this way, a personality comes to experience the energy
of its soul.
Your soul is not a passive or a theoretical entity that occupies a space in the vicinity
of your chest cavity. It is a positive, purposeful force at the core of your being. It is
that part of you that understands the impersonal nature of the energy dynamics in
which you are involved, that loves without restriction and accepts without judgment.
If you desire to know your soul, the first step is to recognize that you have a soul.
The next step is to allow yourself to consider, "If I have a soul, what is my soul?
What does my soul want? What is the relationship between my soul and me? How
does my soul affect my life?"
When the energy of the soul is recognized, acknowledged, and valued, it begins to
infuse the life of the personality. When the personality comes fully to serve the
energy of its soul, that is authentic empowerment. This is the goal of the evolutionary
process in which we are involved and the reason for our being. Every experience that
you have and will have upon the Earth encourages the alignment of your personality
with your soul. Every circumstance and situation gives you the opportunity to choose
this path, to allow your soul to shine through you, to bring into the physical world
through you its unending and unfathomable reverence for and love of Life.
This is a book about authentic empowerment-the alignment of the personality with
the soul-what that involves, how it happens, and what it creates. To understand these
things requires an understanding of things that appear unusual to the five-sensory
human, but they be come natural once you understand evolution-that five sensory
perception is a journey leading to multisensory perception-and that you were not
always meant to be five-sensory.

CHAPTER 2: KARMA
Most of us are accustomed to the belief that our participation in the process of
evolution is limited to the duration of a single lifetime. This belief reflects the
perspective of the five-sensory personality. From the point of view of the five-
sensory personality, nothing of itself lasts beyond its lifetime, and there is nothing in
the experience of the five-sensory human that is not of itself. The multisensory
human, too, understands that nothing of itself lasts beyond its lifetime, but is also
aware of its immortal soul.
The lifetime of your personality is one of a myriad of experiences of your soul. The
soul exists outside of time. The perspective of the soul is immense, and the
perception of the soul is without the limitations of the personality. Souls that have
chosen the physical experience of life as we know it as a path of evolution, have, in
general, incarnated their energies many times into many psychological and physical
forms. For each incarnation, the soul creates a different personality and body. The
personality and the body that, for the five-sensory human, are the experiential
entirety of its existence, are, for its soul, the unique and perfectly suited instruments
of a particular incarnation.
Each personality contributes, in its own special way, with its own special aptitudes
and lessons to learn, consciously or unconsciously, to the evolution of its soul. The
life of a mother, a warrior, a daughter, a priest; the experiences of love, vulnerability,
fear, loss, and tenderness; the struggles with anger, defiance, emptiness, and jealousy
-all serve the evolution of the soul. Each physical, emotional and psychological
characteristic that comprises a personality and its body-strong or weak arms, dense or
penetrating intellect, happy or despairing disposition, yellow or black skin, even hair
and eye color-is perfectly suited to its soul's purpose.
The five-sensory personality is not aware of the many other incarnations of its soul.
A multisensory personality may be conscious of these incarnations, or experience
them, as its own past or future lives. They are in its family of lives, so to speak, but
they are not lives that it, itself, has lived. They are experiences of its soul.
From the point of view of the soul, all of its incarnations are simultaneous. All of its
personalities exist at once. Therefore, the release of negativity that occurs in one of
the soul's incarnations benefits not only itself, but all of its soul's other incarnations
also. Because the soul, itself, is not confined to time, the past of a personality, as well
as its future, is enhanced when a personality releases currents of fear and doubt. As
we shall see, the release of negativity by a personality benefits a great many other
dynamics of consciousness as well. Some of these can be perceived by the five-
sensory human, but appear to him or her neither as dynamics of consciousness, nor as
related to his or her inner processes, such as the consciousness and evolution of his or
her sex, race, nation and culture. Others extend far beyond the perceptual ability of
the five-sensory human. A conscious lifetime, therefore, is a treasure beyond value.
The personality and its body are artificial aspects of the soul. When they have served
their functions, at the end of the soul's incarnation, the soul releases them. They come
to an end, but the soul does not. After an incarnation, the soul returns to its immortal
and timeless state. It returns once again to its natural state of compassion, clarity and
boundless love.
This is the context in which our evolution occurs: the continual incarnation and
reincarnation of the energy of the soul into the physical arena, into our Earth school.
Why does this happen? Why is it necessary even to speak of personalities and souls?
The incarnation of a soul is a massive reduction of the power of the soul to a scale
that is appropriate to a physical form. It is a reduction of an immortal Life system
into the framework of time and the span of a few years. It is the reduction of a
perceptual system that partakes simultaneously, through direct experience, of
countless lifetimes, some of them physical and some of them nonphysical, to the five
physical senses. The soul chooses, voluntarily, to undertake this experience in order
to heal.
The personality is those parts of the soul that require healing, along with those parts
of the soul, such as compassion and love, that the soul has lent to the process of
healing in that lifetime. The splintered aspects of the soul, the aspects that require
healing, need to interact in physical matter so that each part of the splintered ness can
become whole. The personality is like a complex mandala that is formed from these
splintered parts in addition to the parts that are not splintered. It comes directly from
the parts of the soul that the soul has chosen to work on in this lifetime to heal, that
need to experience physical matter, and those parts that the soul has given to the
process of healing in which you are involved. Therefore, you can see within a
person's personality the splintered suffering of the soul from which it was formed, as
well as the grace that the soul has earned, which is the loving part of the personality.
Consider how powerful the soul is if it can have a part of itself that experiences great
love, a part of itself that experiences fears, a part that is perhaps neutral, a part that
experiences schizophrenia, and a part that is dramatically compassionate. If any of
these parts are incomplete, the personality that the soul forms will be out of harmony.
The harmonious personality is one in which the soul flows easily through the part of
itself that is in touch with its physical incarnation.
The soul is. It has no beginning and no end but flows toward wholeness. The
personality emerges as a natural force from the soul. It is an energy tool that the soul
adapts to function within the physical world. Each personality is unique because the
configuration of energy of the soul that formed it is unique. It is he persona of the
soul, so to speak, that interacts with physical matter. It is a product that is formed
from the vibrational aspect of your name, the vibrational aspect of your relationship
to planets at the time of your incarnation, and vibrational aspects of your energy
environment, as well as from the splintered aspects of your soul that need to interact
in physical matter in order to be brought into wholeness.
The personality does not operate independently from the soul. To the extent that a
person is in touch with spiritual depths, the personality is soothed because the energy
of consciousness is focused on its energy core and not on its artificial facade, which
is the personality.
The personality sometimes appears as a force running rampant in the world with no
attachment to the energy of its soul. This situation can be the origin of what we call
an evil human being, and it can be the origin of a schizophrenic human being. It is
the result of the personality being unable to find its reference point, or connection, to
its mothership, which is its soul. The conflicts of a human's life are directly
proportional to the distance at which an energy of personality exists separately from
the soul, and, therefore, as we shall see, in an irresponsible position of creation.
When a personality is in full balance, you cannot see where it ends and the soul
begins. That is a whole human being.
What is involved in the healing of a soul?
Most of us are accustomed to the idea that we are responsible for some of our
actions, but not all of them. We consider ourselves responsible, for example, for the
good deed that brings our neighbor and us together, or for responding to it positively,
but we do not consider ourselves responsible for the argument between us and our
neighbor, or for responding to it negatively. We consider ourselves responsible for
having a safe trip if we take the time to check the condition of the car before starting,
but if we speed around a car that, in our opinion, has been traveling too slowly, and
almost cause an accident by doing that, we consider the other driver to be
responsible. If we feed and clothe ourselves through our successful business, we
credit ourselves. If we feed and clothe ourselves by burglarizing apartments, we
blame our difficult childhood.

For many of us, being held responsible is equal to getting caught. A friend who
returns each year to his native Italy told me, with a twinkle in his eye, of a dinner out
with his family. When the bill came, my friend's father, who is fastidious, examined
each scribbled item. After some study, he deciphered the last entry and recognized it
to be a short expression that translates, roughly, "If it goes, it goes." He called the
waiter and asked, "What is this item?" The waiter shrugged, "It didn't go." Many of
us feel that if a clerk gives us too much change, and we take it, our life has been
affected only to the extent that we have come into an unexpected gain. In fact, each
of our acts affects us in far-reaching ways.
Every action, thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a
cause that exists as one with an effect. If we participate in the cause, it is not possible
for us not to participate in the effect. In this most profound way, we are held
responsible for our every action, thought .and feeling, which is to say, for our every
intention. We, ourselves, shall partake of the fruit of our every intention. It is,
therefore, wise for us to become aware of the many intentions that inform our
experience, to sort out which intentions produce which effects, and to choose our
intentions according to the effects that we desire to produce.
This is the way that we learned about physical reality as children, and that we refine
our knowledge of it as adults. We learn the effect of crying when we are hungry, and
we repeat the cause that brings us the effect that we desire. We learn the effect of
putting a finger in a light socket, and we do not repeat the cause that produces that
effect.
We also learn about intentions and their effects through our experiences in physical
reality, but learning that intentions produce specific effects, and what those effects
are, proceed slowly when our learning must be done solely through the density of
physical matter. Anger, for example, causes distance and hostile interactions. If we
must learn this solely through physical experience, we may have to experience ten, or
fifty, or one hundred and fifty circumstances of distance from another and hostile
interaction before we come to understand that it is the orientation of anger on our
part, the intention of hostility and distance, and not this particular action or that,
which produces the effect that we do not want. This is predominantly the way that a
five-sensory human learns.
The relationship of cause and effect within the domain of physical objects and
phenomena reflects a dynamic that is not limited to physical reality. This is the
dynamic of karma. Everything in the physical world, including each of us, is a small
part of dynamics that are more extensive than a five-sensory human can perceive.
The love, fear, compassion, and anger that you experience, for example, are only a
small part of the love, fear, compassion, and anger of a larger energy system that you
do not see.
Within physical reality, the dynamic of karma is reflected by the third law of motion:
"For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. " In other words, the great
law of karma that governs the balancing of energy within our evolutionary system is
reflected within the domain of physical objects and phenomena by the last of three
principles, three laws of motion, that govern the balancing of energy within physical
reality.
The law of karma is an impersonal energy dynamic. When its effects are
personalized, that is, experienced from the point of view of the personality, they are
experienced as a reversal in the direction, a coming back to the intender, of the
energy of his or her intention. This is how the personality experiences the impersonal
dynamic that is described by the third law as an "equal and opposite reaction." The
person who intends hatred for others experiences the intention of hatred from others.
The person who intends love for others experiences the intention of love from others,
and so forth. The Golden Rule is a behavioral guide that is based upon the dynamic
of karma. A personalized statement of karma would be, "You receive from the world
what you give to the world."

Karma is not a moral dynamic. Morality is a human creation. The Universe does not
judge. The law of karma governs the balancing of energy within our system of
morality and within those of our neighbors. It serves humanity as an impersonal and
Universal teacher of responsibility.
Every cause that has not yet produced its effect is an event that has not yet come to
completion. It is an imbalance of energy that is in the process of becoming balanced.
That balancing of energy does not always occur within the span of a single lifetime.
The karma of your soul is created and balanced by the activities of its many
personalities, including you. Often a personality experiences effects that were created
by other of its soul's personalities, and, conversely, creates energy imbalances that
are not able to right themselves within its own lifetime. Therefore, without
knowledge of its soul, reincarnation, and karma, it is not always possible for a
personality to understand the significance or the meaning of the events of its life, or
to understand the effects of its responses to them.
For example, a personality that takes advantage of others creates an imbalance of
energy that must be righted by the experience of being taken advantage of by others.
If that cannot be accomplished within the lifetime of this personality, another of its
soul's personalities will experience being taken advantage of by other people. If that
personality does not understand that the experience of being taken advantage of by
others is the effect of a previous cause, and that this experience is bringing to
completion an impersonal process, it will react from a personal point of view rather
than from the point of view of its soul. It may become angry, for example, or
vengeful or depressed. It may lash out, or grow cynical or withdraw into sorrow.
Each of these responses creates karma, another imbalance of energy which, in turn,
must be balanced. In this way, one karmic debt has been paid, so to speak, but
another, or others, has been created.
If a child dies early in its life, we do not know what agreement was made between
that child's soul and the souls of its parents, or what healing was served by that
experience. Although we are sympathetic to the anguish of the parents, we cannot
judge this event. If we, or the parents of this child, do not understand the impersonal
nature of the dynamic that is in motion, we may react with anger towards the
Universe, or towards each other, or with guilt if we feel that our actions were
inadequate. All of these reactions create karma, and more lessons for the soul to
learn-more karmic debts for the soul to pay appear.
In order to become whole, the soul must balance its energy. It must experience the
effects that it has caused. The energy imbalances in the soul are the incomplete parts
of the soul that form the personality. Personalities in interaction are souls that are
seeking to heal. Whether an interaction between souls is healing or not depends upon
whether the personality involved can see beyond itself and that of the other
personality to the interaction of their souls. This perception automatically draws forth
compassion. Every experience, and every interaction, provides you with an
opportunity to look from the point of view of your soul or from the point of view of
your personality. What does this mean in practical terms? How does a personality
begin to look beyond itself and to see its soul in interaction with the souls of others?
Since we cannot know what is being healed through each interaction-what karmic
debts are coming to conclusion cannot judge what we see. For example, 'when we see
a person sleeping in the gutter in the winter, '~ we do not know what is being
completed for that soul. We do not know whether that soul has engaged in cruelty in
another lifetime, and now has chosen to experience the same dynamic from an
entirely different point of view, as, for example, the target of charity. It is appropriate
that we respond to his or her circumstance with compassion, but it is not appropriate
that we perceive it as unfair, because it is not.
There are personalities that are selfish and hostile and negative, but even in these
cases we cannot fully know the reasons why. These are hidden from view. That does
not mean that we cannot recognize negativity when we see it, but we cannot judge it:
That is not our place. If we intervene in an argument, or break up a fight, it is not
appropriate that we judge the participants. Of one thing we can be certain: a person
that is engaging in violence is hurting deeply, because a healthy and balanced soul is
incapable of harming another.
When we judge, we create negative karma. Judgment is a function of the personality.
When we say of another \ soul, "She is worthy," or, "He is not worthy," we create
negative karma. When we say of an action, "This is right," or, "That is wrong," we
create negative karma. This does not mean that we should not act appropriately to the
circumstances in which we find ourselves.
If our car is hit by another car, for example, and the driver of the other car is drunk, it
is appropriate that the other driver be held responsible, through the courts, for the
repair of our car. It is appropriate that he or she be prohibited from driving while
intoxicated. It is not appropriate that we allow our actions to be motivated by feelings
of indignation, righteousness or victimization. These feelings are the result of
judgments that we make about ourselves and the other person, assessments through
which we see ourselves as superior to another being.
If we act upon these feelings, not only do we increase the karmic obligations of our
soul, but we also are not able to enter into these feelings and learn from them.
Feelings, as we shall see, are the means through which we can discern the parts of
itself that the soul seeks to heal, and through which we come to see the action of the
soul in physical matter. The road to your soul is through your heart.
If we are to engage the viewpoint of the soul, we must cease from judging, even
those events that appear to be unfathomable, such as the cruelty of an inquisition or a
holocaust, the death of an infant, the prolonged agony of a death by cancer, or a life
confined to a bed. We do not know what is being healed in these sufferings, or the
details of the energetic circumstance that is coming into balance. It is appropriate that
we allow ourselves to feel the compassion that such circumstances call forth in us
and to act upon it, but if we allow ourselves to judge these events and those who
participate in them, we create negative karma that must be balanced, and we,
ourselves, will be among those souls that choose to participate in circumstances that
are necessary to that balancing.
If we do not judge, how can there be justice?
Gandhi was beaten several times during his life. Although on two occasions he
nearly died, he refused to prosecute his attackers because he saw that they were doing
"what they thought was right." This position of non judgmental acceptance was
central in Gandhi's life. The Christ did not judge even those who spit in His face, and
who subjected Him without mercy to His pain and humiliation. He asked
forgiveness, not vengeance, for those who tortured Him. Did neither the Christ nor
Gandhi know the meaning of justice?
They knew nonjudgmental justice.
What is non judgmental justice?
Non judgmental justice is a perception that allows you to see everything in life, but
does not engage your negative emotions. Non judgmental justice relieves you of the
self-appointed job of judge and jury because you know that everything is being seen-
nothing escapes the law of karma-and this brings forth understanding and
compassion. Non judgmental justice is the freedom of seeing what you see and
experiencing what you experience without responding negatively. It allows you to
experience directly the unobstructed flow of the intelligence, radiance and love of the
Universe of which our physical reality is a part. Non judgmental justice flows
naturally from understanding the soul and how it evolves.
This, then, is the framework of our evolutionary process: the continual incarnation
and reincarnation of the energy of the soul into physical reality for the purposes of
healing and balancing its energy in accordance with the law of karma. Within this
framework we evolve, as individuals and as a species, through the cycle of being un-
empowered to becoming empowered, yet the experiences that we encounter in this
process need not be the kind that we have encountered to now.

CHAPTER 3: REVERENCE
The framework of karma and reincarnation in which we evolve is neutral. Actions
and reactions in the physical arena set energy into motion, forming our experiences
and revealing in the process the lessons that the soul has yet to learn. When our,
actions create discord in another person, we, ourselves, in this lifetime or in another,
will feel that discord. Likewise, if our actions create harmony and empowerment in
another, we also will come to feel that harmony and empowerment. This allows us to
experience the effects of what we have created, and thereby to learn to create
responsibly.
The framework of karma and reincarnation is impersonal, and provides for each soul,
in response to the actions of its personalities, the experiences that it requires in order
to evolve. Therefore, the orientation, or the attitude, with which a personality
approaches the evolutionary process determines the nature of the experiences that
will be required for the evolution of its soul. An angry personality, for example, will
respond to the difficulties of its life with anger, and thereby bring into being the
necessity of experiencing the results of anger; a sorrowful personality will respond
sorrowfully and bring into being the necessity of experiencing the results of sorrow,
and so on.
A person who is angry, and yet reveres Life, however, will respond very differently
to the difficulties of his or her life than a person who is angry and has no reverence
for Life. The person who has no reverence for Life will not hesitate to strike out
against Life. The violence that is released in killing another person, or another living
creature, is much greater than the violence that is released in speaking angry words.
The karmic obligation-the energy imbalance-that is created by killing can be
balanced only by the experience of a commensurate brutality. Thus, a person who is
reverent will automatically be spared the severe karmic consequences of one who is
not.
Even if all of our species were reverent, that would riot end the need for us to move
through our own evolution. It would just change the quality of the learning within the
process of evolution. In other words, if we became reverent this day, we would not
be exempt from the demands of our evolution, but the quality of the experiences that
we would encounter would be different. We would not harm Life. We would still
learn the same thing, but in the process of learning, we would not seek to harm or to
destroy. Our journey from powerlessness to authentic empowerment would continue,
but the nature of that experience would change. We would not encounter the types of
experiences that result from a perception of the world that lacks reverence.
We see Life as cheap. This perception pervades all of our perceptions. When we look
at the animal kingdom, for example, we see the activities within this kingdom as
verification of our evaluation of Life. We see animals kill and feed upon other
animals, and we conclude that weaker forms of Life exist only to nourish the
stronger. We justify our exploitation of Life upon what we perceive to be the design
of Nature. We maim and kill. We create situations in which millions of people starve
while we store grain in silos and pour milk down drains. We look upon each other as
prey to satisfy our emotional and physical needs. We say, "It's a dog-eat-dog world,"
and that to survive in it we must take advantage of others before they take advantage
of us. We look upon Life as a contest that produces winners and losers, and we feel
no restraints upon us when the needs of other people or other groups threaten us.
Our behavior and values are so much shaped by perceptions that lack reverence that
we do not know what it is like to be reverent. When we curse a competitor or strive
to disempower another person, we absent ourselves from reverence. When we work
to take instead of to give, we labor without reverence. When we strive for safety at
the expense of another person's safety, we deprive ourselves of the protection of
reverence. When we judge one person as superior and another as inferior we depart
from reverence. When we judge ourselves, we do the same thing. Business, politics,
education, sex, raising families and personal interactions without reverence all
produce the same result: human beings using other human beings.

Our species has become arrogant. We behave as though the Earth were ours to do
with as we please. We pollute its land, oceans and atmosphere to satisfy our needs
without thinking of the needs of the other life forms that live upon the Earth, or of the
needs of the Earth. We believe that we are conscious and that the Universe is not. We
think and act as though our existence as living forces in the Universe will end with
this lifetime, and that we are responsible neither to others nor to the Universe.
It is not possible for a reverent person to exploit his or her friends, co-workers, city,
nation, or planet. It is not possible for a reverent species to create caste systems, child
labor, nerve gas or nuclear weapons. Therefore, it is not possible for a reverent
person, or a reverent species, to accumulate the type of karma that such activities
create.
Why is this? What is reverence?
Reverence is engaging in a form and a depth of contact with Life that is well beyond
the shell of form and into essence. Reverence is contact with the essence of each
thing and person and plant and bird and animal. It is contact with the interior of its
beingness. Even if you cannot sense the interior, it is enough to know that the form,
the shell, is merely an outer layer, and that underneath it the true power and essence
of who a person is, or what a thing is, is present. That is what is honored in
reverence.
Process is honored in reverence. The unfolding of Life, the maturation process, the
process of growing through and coming into your own empowerment, is a process
that needs to be approached with reverence.
The cycles of Life need to be approached with reverence. They have been in place
for billions of years. They are the reflection of the natural breathing of the soul of
Gala itself, the Earth consciousness, as it moves its force fields and guides the cycles
of Life. If these are revered, how could we look at something as exquisite as our
Earth's ecology and do one thing that would risk the balance of this system?
Reverence is an attitude of honoring Life. You do not have to be authentically
empowered to be gentle with Life or to love Life. There are many people who are not
authentically empowered but who are quite reverent. They would harm nothing.
Often it is the case that they are the most compassionate and the most loving people
because they have suffered so much.
Whether a person is reverent depends essentially upon whether he or she accepts the
principle of the sacredness of Life, any way that he or she defines sacred.
Reverence is also simply the experience of accepting that all Life is, in and of itself,
of value.
Reverence is not respect. Respect is a judgment. It is a response to the perception of
qualities that we ourselves admire, or have been taught to admire. Qualities that. are
admired by the people of one culture may not be admired by the people of another
culture, or by the people of a subculture, or by another generation of the same
culture. Therefore, what is respected by some people may not be respected by others.
It is possible to respect one person and not respect another, but it is not possible to
revere one person without revering every person.
Reverence is a perception, but it is a holy perception. The perception of holiness is
not one that we use continually. It is one that we apply to religion, but not to the
process of evolution or the learning process of the human Life, and so we do not
approach the need to learn and all of the learning experiences of our lives with regard
for their purpose against the background of spiritual development. Perceiving in this
way is true reverence, because it allows you to look at what you are going through
and to see it within the framework of the evolution and the maturation of your own
spirit. It is true reverence, because it enables you to look at all the evolutions that are
taking place simultaneously with your own, in all of the kingdoms of Life, and fully
appreciate, or at least see very differently, how they unfold.
Only when we see through eyes that lack reverence, for example, does the feeding of
one animal upon another appear to be a cruel system instead of one where species
learn to give to each other, where there is a natural give and take and sharing of the
energies between kingdoms. This is ecology: the natural redistribution of energy
between kingdoms. It is only our kingdom, the human kingdom, that wants to
warehouse energy, to use much more than it needs and to store what it does not, so
that the balance of the cycle is disturbed so dramatically. If each of us took only what
he or she needed for that day, it would be perfect. Animals do not warehouse like us,
except in the case of animals that need to for winter.
The perception of reverence allows us to see the interdependency of different species
from 'a more comprehensive and compassionate perspective. It allows us to see the
significance of each living creature, and its experiences, to the compassionate
unfolding of the Universe. This perspective is much less likely to create violent or
destructive responses within us as we grow through our lives because it reveals in
each moment the value of all Life.
Approaching and regarding Life with an attitude of reverence permits the experience
of being unempowered but not cruel. As you work toward becoming reverent, your
tendencies toward harming others and other forms of Life diminish. As you acquire a
sense of reverence, you develop a capacity to think more deeply about the value of
Life before you commit your energy to action. When you are fully reverent, you
cannot harm Life, even though you are unempowered. Without reverence the
experience of being unempowered can become a very cruel one because a
disempowered person is a frightened person, and if a frightened person has no sense
of reverence, he or she will harm or kill indiscriminately.
Reverence is a level of protection and honor about the process of life so that while a
person is maturing toward the journey and through the journey of authentic
empowerment, he or she harms nothing. Because we have no reverence, our journey
to empowerment often includes the experiences of victimizing life. Therefore, there
are victims and victimizers. The process of destroying Life while we are learning
about Life that has characterized our evolution would cease, or at least would be very
different, if we approached Life with a quality of reverence.
It is because we have no sense of reverence, no true belief in the holiness of all Life,
that Life is destroyed and tortured, brutalized, starved and maimed while we journey
from un-empowerment to empowerment. If a sense of reverence were brought into
the process of evolution, then as each of us, and our species, moves through the cycle
of being unempowered to becoming empowered, the many learnings that are
contained within that growing process of evolution would not likely produce
violence and fear to the extent that it is now experienced.
The destructions of human Life, plant Life, animal Life, and the planet would be
considerably diminished, or would cease, if there were an active principle of
reverence within our species, if there were the perception within our species, and
within each of us, that although we are engaged in evolutionary processes that
require personal learning, that does not authorize us to destroy Life while we are
learning, or because we are. We would not have the karmic energy of destruction,
only of learning. Even though learning is contained in destruction, the karmic
consequences of participating in violence and destruction are a high price to pay for
it.
It is not necessary, in other words, to learn what we need to learn and have it cost
somebody his or her life. It is not necessary for progress and the experience of
progress to cost the destruction of nature. It is not necessary, but without a sense of
reverence for Life, who cares that it destroys Life? Without reverence, Life becomes
a very cheap commodity, as it is upon our planet now where the entire process and
the sacredness of evolution is not regarded, accepted, or honored.
If we perceived Life with reverence, and understood our evolutionary process, we
would stand in awe at the experience of physical Life and walk the Earth in a very
deep sense of gratitude. As it is, there are billions of human beings who are filled
with regret that they are on the Earth, with overwhelming experiences of pain,
despair, discouragement, depression, starvation and disease. These are the things of
our planet. They result largely from the fact that so much of the human condition is
without reverence.
Reverence is a perception of the soul. Only the personality can perceive Life without
reverence. Reverence is a natural aspect of authentic empowerment because the soul
reveres all of Life. Therefore, when the personality is aligned with the soul, it cannot
perceive Life except with reverence. Approaching Life with reverence not only
protects the soul from the karmic obligations that are created by personalities that do
not honor Life, but it also is a step toward moving the personality into alignment with
the soul because it brings an aspect of the soul directly into the physical environment.
What does the decision to approach Life with reverence mean in practical terms?
It means challenging the perceptions and the values of a five-sensory world that lacks
reverence. This is not always easy, especially for males who have been taught values
that serve the accumulation of external power. An authentically empowered male
will not be embarrassed or feel less than fully masculine by showing concern for
Life, and for the many creatures on our planet. That is very much the energy of
reverence. Therefore, the decision to approach Life with reverence often requires
courage, not only of men, but also of women who have adopted these values.
The decision to become a reverent person is essentially the decision to become a
spiritual person. There is currently no place for spirituality within science, politics,
business or academia. To a five-sensory personality that lacks reverence, a reverent
businessman or businesswoman appears to be competing at a disadvantage, because
the range of his or her activities is not unlimited, and a reverent politician appears to
be unqualified for leadership in a world where the only power that is recognized is
external power. Yet, to the multisensory human, a reverent businessman or
businesswoman is a person who infuses a new energy into the archetype of
entrepreneur, shifting it from a dynamic that is motivated by profits that are
generated by serving others to a dynamic of serving others that is made possible by
profits, and a reverent politician is a person who challenges the concept of external
power, and brings to the political arena the concerns of the heart. Therefore, the
decision to approach Life with reverence means acting and thinking as a spiritual
person in a world that does not recognize spirit, and it means moving consciously
toward the perceptions of the multisensory human.
To live with reverence means being willing to say, "That is Life, we must not harm
it," and "Those are our fellow humans, we must not destroy them," and mean it. It
means reexamining the way that we treat the members of the animal kingdom that
serve us so-patiently. It means recognizing the rights of the Earth. That the Earth has
rights is a concept that is not even present in our species yet.
An attitude of reverence is the atmosphere, the environment, in which the
multisensory personality evolves. It is a sense of richness and fullness and intimacy
of being. It creates compassion and acts of kindness. Without reverence, without the
perception of the holiness of all things, the world becomes cold and barren,
mechanical and random at the same time, and this creates experiences of alienation
and acts of violence. It is not natural for us to live without reverence, because that
separates us from the basic energy of the soul.
Reverence automatically brings forth patience. Impatience is the desire to have your
needs met first. When your needs are taken care of, do you not then have patience
with the needs of others? A reverent person honors Life in all its forms and all its
activities. It does not think in the terms that are required to produce impatience.
Reverence permits non judgmental justice. The soul does not judge, and so the
personality chooses to bring into physical reality another of its soul's characteristics
when it chooses to approach Life with reverence. The reverent person cannot
consider himself or herself superior to another person or to any other form of Life,
because the reverent person sees Divinity in all forms of Life, and honors it.
An attitude of reverence facilitates the transition from the logic and understanding of
the five-sensory human to the higher order of logic and understanding of the
multisensory human, because, as we shall see, this higher order of logic and
understanding originates in the heart.
Without reverence, our experiences are brutal and destructive. With reverence, our
experiences become compassionate and caring. We shall come to honor all of Life
sooner or later. Our choices are when that shall happen, and the quality of experience
that we shall have as we learn.

CHAPTER 4: HEART
The logics that have served our five-sensory exploration of physical reality cannot
comprehend evolution without time or the influence of the present upon the past.
They cannot meaningfully represent the existence of the soul or a dynamic of energy
balancing that generates and links many lifetimes. They reflect no experiential points
of reference beyond those of the five-sensory personality. Therefore, the time has
come for a higher order of logic and understanding.
The logics and understandings of the five-sensory personality originate in the mind.
They are products of the intellect. The higher order of logic and understanding that is
capable of meaningfully reflecting the soul comes from the heart. The creation of this
higher order of logic and understanding, therefore, requires close attention to
feelings.
The central position of the heart in the higher order of logic and understanding of the
multisensory human, and the sensitivity to emotional currents that is characteristic of
multisensory humans, appear as extraneous to the five sensory personality because
they do not serve the accumulation of external power. As we have come to seek and
wield external power consciously, we have come to view feelings as unnecessary
appendages, like tonsils-useless, but capable of creating pain and dysfunction. Thus,
the pursuit of external power has led to a repression of emotion. This is true of us as
individuals and as a species.
The irrelevancy that we attribute to feelings pervades our thinking and our values.
We admire the "hard-nosed" businessman who fires employees for the sake of
external power. We reward the military officer who sends himself or others to pain
and death for the sake of external power. We honor the statesman who is not swayed
by compassion.
When we close the door to our feelings, we close the door to the vital currents that
energize and activate our thoughts and actions. We cannot begin the process of
understanding the effects of our emotions upon us, our environment, and other
people, or the effects of the emotions of other people upon themselves, their
environment, and us. Without an awareness of our emotions, we cannot associate the
effects of anger, sadness, grief, and joy-within ourselves or others-with their causes.
We cannot distinguish between that part of us which is personality and that part of us
which is soul. Without an awareness of our feelings we cannot experience
compassion. How can we share the sufferings and the joys of others if we cannot
experience our own?
If we are not intimate with our emotions, we cannot perceive the dynamics that lie
behind emotions, the way that these dynamics work, and the ends that they serve.
Emotions are currents of energy that pass through us. Awareness of these currents is
the first step in learning how our experiences come into being and why.
Emotions reflect intentions. Therefore, awareness of emotions leads to
awareness of intentions. Every discrepancy between a conscious intention and the
emotions that accompany it points directly to a splintered aspect of these. lf that
requires healing. If, for example, your intention to marry causes pain instead of joy,
following the pain will lead you to unconscious intentions. If your intention to
advance in your work causes sorrow instead of satisfaction, following the sorrow will
lead you to unconscious intentions.
Without an awareness of your emotions you are not able to experience reverence.
Reverence is not an emotion. It is a way of being, but the path to reverence is through
your heart, and only an awareness of your feelings can open your heart.
The higher order of logic and understanding of the multisensory personality reveals
connections where no connections are apparent to the five-sensory personality, and
meaning where no meaning is apparent to the five-sensory personality. A five-
sensory personality is not able to process fully the data of its senses. Its perception of
reality is segmented. Its experience of the Universe is partitioned.

The five-sensory personality can learn that internal dynamics affect perception, and
formulate this as folklore or cliché, such as, "Smile and the world smiles with you."
It can discover regularities within physical reality, and formulate them as laws, such
as, "A body in uniform motion will remain in uniform motion until it is acted upon
by a force." Yet, the five-sensory personality is not able to experience the
relationships between these domains, and, therefore, is not able to learn about one
from the other. It is not able to experience the same richness through each.

Science, for example, reflects the Divine impulse to become conscious of

relationships that connect apparently separate aspects of experience. It is the pinnacle
achievement of the five-sensory personality, yet when the fruits of science are
grasped only with the logic and understanding of the five-sensory human, internal
dynamics-feelings and intentions-appear to be unrelated to the world of matter.
Neither supernovas nor subatomic decay rates nor anything in between appear to be
affected by what human beings feel or think.

When the discoveries of science are comprehended with the logic and understanding
of the multisensory human, intimate relationships appear between internal dynamics
and regularities that govern physical phenomena. To the multisensory human, for
example, "A body in uniform motion will remain in uniform motion until it is acted
upon by a force," reflects not only a dynamic at work within the realm of time and
space and matter, but also a deeper dynamic that works within nonphysical reality as
well.

How is this?

One of my friends in infantry officer candidate school was a tall, affable and
pleasant-looking young man from Kentucky named Hank. Hank and I liked each
other early on. Several times he lent me his physical strength when my load became
too heavy, and I helped him through intellectual obstacles, such as calculating
artillery trajectories. We shared adventures, and our friendship grew.

Upon graduation, we were assigned to different organizations. I lost track of Hank

until I ran into him in Saigon. He had been wounded, and due to the befriending of
an Army General, had been assigned to a unit that I came frequently to visit. While
serving in Saigon he met a popular female radio announcer, and they became
engaged. It seemed a perfect match-a tall, handsome captain and a beautiful and
admired public figure.

I again lost track of Hank until I had left the army. He called me to say that his wife
was coming to make an appearance at a resort near me, and he asked me to meet him
there. When I met Hank, now a civilian also, he looked troubled, and his easygoing
manner was dampened. He had changed his name to Hal, he told me, and apologized
that his wife was unable to join us. We spoke for a while, and when I asked him what
he was doing with himself, he told me, "Looking for my place in the sun."

The next news that I heard of Hank/Hal was that he had killed himself. When I was
later able to meet his widow, she told me a painful story of marital difficulties, of
Hank's despondency, and of his suicide. In the years immediately following the
Vietnam War, the rate of suicides among Vietnam veterans was significantly higher
than the rate of suicides among non-veterans. Therefore, it is likely that Hank, also,
was affected adversely by his experiences in Vietnam. Yet there was also a more
common dynamic at work in my friend.

Hank was not the kind of person to ask himself deeper questions about his life. He
did not inquire into the deeper meaning of his existence upon the Earth, because that
would have caused him to change his life, and he did not want to do that. He lived his
life without much reflection, and one day he awoke to overwhelming emptiness and
powerlessness.

How does my friend's life relate to the first law of motion, "A body in uniform
motion will remain in uniform motion until it is acted upon by a force"? What does
"uniform motion" mean in terms of a human Life, and what is the "force" that alters
that motion?
The outward events of Hank's life were not uniform. He grew up on a farm in
Kentucky, became a military officer, traveled thousands of miles from his home,
married a celebrity and brought his own life to an end. It was the unconscious quality
of the flow of Hank's life that was uniform in its motion. Neither the experiences of
his childhood nor his military service nor his marriage caused Hank to consider
seriously the deeper meaning of his existence. The pains and the joys that flowed
through him did not affect his awareness of who he was, or what he might become.

Hank did not allow himself to follow the experiences of his life to their roots. On the
contrary, he feared such a pursuit. As a result, his life flowed uniformly unaware,
uniformly unconscious, from its incarnation to its release. He experienced the
situations that were necessary to the balancing of the energy of his soul, he
responded to them in accordance with the conditioning that he had acquired through
the karma of his soul and the environment into which he was born, and he created
more karma unconsciously with each response.

The compassion that Hank brought into the world nurtured many people around him,
including me, but he did not allow it to become his center of gravity. Hank made no
effort to move toward his soul. He spent his life attempting to fulfill the wants of his
personality, and he became too attached to those wants to attempt to change them.
Thus, Hank's life was a "body in uniform motion" that never encountered a "force."

What is the "force" that Hank's life did not encounter?

Gregory was a white, middle-class, and college-educated man from the Northeast.
His childhood was emotionally difficult, and he grew up angry, manipulative, and
bitter. He was incapable of forming relationships, and his violent temper and
argumentative nature kept people at a distance. This further increased Gregory's
disdain for Life and for other people, but he did not stop to ask what role he played in
his experiences.

When, at last, his temper and his disagreeable disposition caused the woman that he
was living with to leave, Gregory fell into a deep anguish not only because of his
loss, but also because he recognized in this latest event the repetition of a long-
standing pattern in which he found himself, in each instance, suffering from
rejection. He determined to confront both his pain and his pattern. He made
arrangements to live in solitude while he searched within himself for the deepest
causes of his painful life.
When he emerged, weeks later, both his perceptions and his values had changed. He
began to soften, and, slowly, his old mannerisms dropped away. Over the following
years he developed a more sensitive way of being with people. His cynicism gave
way to an emerging joy, his anger melted, and other people became central to his life.
He is a productive person now, and he draws his strength from the contributions that
he makes to his fellows.
These changes did not come easily to Gregory. His transition from an angry,
manipulative, disdainful person to a more caring and considerate person was a
journey through pain that required much courage. Yet, by committing himself to that
journey, he changed his life. From the point of view of Gregory's consciousness, the
uniform flow of Gregory's life was altered significantly by his determination to
confront his pain, and was altered further by his determination to cultivate his new
perceptions. The "force" that altered the "uniform motion" of Gregory's life was his
decision to enter into his life consciously. Without this decision, Gregory's life would
have continued, as did Hank's, on the unconscious course that his karma, and his
responses to the situations that it generated, would have created for him.
Is it appropriate to interpret the first law of motion which depicts the idealized
movement of a physical object -in this way? Is the first law of motion, when it is
interpreted in this way, merely a metaphor that conveniently serves to describe a
nonphysical dynamic? It is more than that. It is the reflection in physical reality-in
the world of physical objects and phenomena-of a larger nonphysical dynamic at
work in nonphysical domains. This is the physics of the soul. When science and its
discoveries are understood with the higher order of logic and understanding of the
multisensory human, they reveal the same richness that Life, itself, displays
everywhere and endlessly.
The perception of the multisensory personality is not segmented. The multisensory
human, for example, sees that the paradigms which form the history of science also
reveal a history of the way that our species has seen itself in relation to the Universe:
Ptolemaic astronomy reflects a species that sees itself as the center of the Universe;
Copernican astronomy reflects a more sophisticated and interdependent perspective
of a species that recognizes itself as part of the motion of the Universe; Newtonian
physics reflects a species that is confident in its ability to grasp the dynamics of the
physical world through the intellect; relativity reflects a species that understands the
limiting relationship between the absolute and personalized perceptions of it; and
quantum physics reflects a species that is becoming aware of the relationship of its
consciousness to the physical world.
In other words, from the point of view of the multisensory human, the discoveries of
science illuminate both inner and outer experiences, physical and nonphysical
dynamics. A foundational discovery of optics, for example, is that white and black
are not colors, like blue, green and red. White is a combination of all the colors of the
visible spectrum of light, and black is the absence of that spec with purity, insight,
and Divine inspiration. As we shall see, this type of Light is not merely poetical. It is
real.
A soul can find it difficult to walk the way of Light through the course of an
incarnation. It can find that learning to live in Light is a difficult sojourn. Through
the choices that it makes while it is incarnate upon the Earth -the choice of anger
instead of forgiveness, for example, or condemnation instead of understanding-a soul
accumulates negative karma. As it leaves its body, it remains enveloped with the
quality of Light that it acquired through the choices that it made while it was upon
the Earth. When that soul has to create another personality, it will have to create a
personality that is drawn from this well. Therefore, it will create a personality of
more limitations.
A personality with limitations of consciousness will find what we call evil more
attractive than will one with a more expanded awareness. The temptation to walk that
way will be strong for such a personality. All souls are tempted, but an individual
with limitations of consciousness will find it more attractive to walk into the
magnetic field of fear because it would not recognize fear for what it is. It would
accept it as something else, as something that is normal to Life.
How we understand evil, therefore, is very significant. Evil needs to be understood
for what it is: the dynamic of the absence of Light. It is not something that one
should prepare to battle, to run from or to outlaw. Understanding evil as the absence
of Light automatically requires that we reach for this thing called Light.
Conscious Light is equal to Divinity, to Divine Intelligence. Where there is an
absence of Divine Intelligence, that darkness itself maneuvers. It is simply that there
is darkness, and we stumble in the darkness. The existence in darkness is not
permanent. Every soul will eventually be fully enlightened. A soul with no Light will
always come to know Light because there is so much assistance provided to each
soul at all times. There is much Light, as we shall see, that is continually surrounding
such a soul even though it may not be able to directly penetrate it, and there is much
assistance for souls that insist upon living in darkness. The encouragement to take
even one thought into Light is always available. Eventually, they always do.
Understanding that evil is the absence of Light does not mean that it is inappropriate
to respond to evil.
What is the appropriate response to evil?
The remedy for an absence is a presence. Evil is an absence and, therefore, it cannot
be healed with an absence. By hating evil, or one who is engaged in evil, you
contribute to the absence of Light and not to its presence. Hatred of evil does not
diminish evil, it increases it.
The absence of Light causes the personality to suffer. There is pain. When you hate,
you bring that suffering upon yourself. Hatred of evil affects the one who hates. It
makes him or her a hateful person, a person who also has absented himself or herself
from Light.
Understanding evil as the absence of Light does not require you to become passive,
or to disregard evil actions or evil behavior. If you see a child being abused, or a
people being oppressed, for example, it is appropriate that you do what you can to
protect the child, or to aid the people, but if there is not compassion in your heart also
for those who abuse and oppress-for those who have no compassion-do you not
become like them? Compassion is being moved to and by acts of the heart, to and by
the energy of love. If you strike without compassion against the darkness, you
yourself enter the darkness.
Understanding that evil is the absence of Light challenges the perception of power as
external. Can an absence be defeated? An evil person can be arrested, but can evil be
arrested? An evil group can be imprisoned, but can evil be imprisoned? A
compassionate heart is more effective against evil than an army. An army can engage
another army, but it cannot engage evil. A compassionate heart can engage evil
directly-it can bring Light where there was no Light.
Understanding evil as the absence of Light requires you to examine the choices that
you make each moment in terms of whether they move you toward Light or away
from it. It allows you to look with compassion upon those who engage in evil
activities, even as you challenge their activities, and thus protects you from the
creation of negative karma. It permits you to see that the place to begin the task of
eliminating evil is within yourself. This is the appropriate response to evil.
The higher order of logic and understanding that characterizes the multisensory
human permits it to learn more quickly than the five-sensory human is able to learn
from what its senses alone tell it, and what its intellect makes of that. We have
evolved as far as the intellect will take us. We have explored the scope and depth of
five-sensory reality, and we have discovered the limitations of external power.
The next phase of our evolution will take us into the experiences of the multisensory
human and the nature of authentic power.
This requires the heart.

CHAPTER 5: INTUITION
The central perception of the multisensory human is that he or she is not alone. The
multisensory human does not need to rely solely upon his or her own perceptions and
interpretations of events for guidance, because he or she is in conscious
communication with other, more advanced intelligences. This does not mean that the
multisensory human is relieved thereby from choosing, in each instant, the course of
his or her life, but it does mean that the multisensory human has conscious access to
compassionate and impersonal help in the analysis of his or her possible choices,
their probable consequences, and in the exploration of the different parts of himself
or herself.
The five-sensory human is not alone either, but the five sensory human is not aware
of the assistance that is continually being given to him or her, and, therefore, cannot
draw upon that assistance consciously. The five-sensory human must learn primarily
through his or her physical experiences, and this learning takes longer because
lessons that are learned in this way must come through the density of physical matter.
A person that needs to learn the lesson of trust, for example, will experience a
distrust of others. This distrust will create misunderstandings, and these will lead to
tensions and unpleasant experiences. A fivesensory human will continue to
experience the unpleasantness that result from his or her distrust of others until, in
this lifetime or another, he or she realizes through interactions with others the source
of these unpleasantnesses and takes steps to change it.
If a person is not able to trust, for example, he or she will interpret erroneously the
words and actions of others. If a wife tells her husband that she must attend a
business meeting, although she would like to be with him, and if her husband is
unable to trust, he may take her meaning as a rejection, or as a signal that her work is
more important to her than he is. This misunderstanding results from his inability to
accept what his wife has told him, from his inability to trust her. As the wife
continually experiences her husband's misunderstandings, they generate within her
feelings of surprise, sorrow, frustration, anger, resentment, and, eventually, the
rejection that her husband mistakenly perceived. Thus the husband, through the
dynamic of distrust, creates his most significant fear.
The loss of a mate, or a friend, or a colleague through distrust is not a punishment for
distrustfulness. It is the result of refusing to look consciously within oneself at the
issue of trust. It is an experience that results from choosing repeatedly to distrust
instead of to trust. A distrustful person will create unpleasant or painful situations
until, at last, they bring him or her to the issue of trust. This may take five painful
experiences, or five lifetimes of painful experiences, or fifty, but, eventually, this
path will lead to and through the great lesson of trust.
The same dynamic applies to every personality characteristic that is not an
expression of compassion and harmony. An angry personality, for example, will
create unpleasant, or even tragic situations, until its anger is faced and removed as a
block to its compassion and love, to the energy of its soul. The same is true for
greedy personalities, selfish personalities, manipulating personalities, and so forth.
This is the way that we have evolved until now.
A multisensory human can learn more rapidly than a five-sensory human. With the
help that is available to it, the multisensory personality can understand more quickly
the meaning of its experiences, how they come into being, what they represent, and
its role in creating them. It does not need to experience twelve or twenty or two
hundred painful experiences to learn a major lesson of trust, or responsibility, or
humbleness. This does not necessarily mean that multisensory personalities do not
experience painful situations, but that they have the capability of learning more
quickly from them than five-sensory personalities, and, therefore, are more quickly
able to choose more wisely, and with more compassion.

It is not necessary to be capable of voice-to-voice communication, so to speak, to be

able to draw upon the sources of guidance and assistance that surround you. This
way is available to the advanced multisensory human, but the road to that ability is a
joyful one of developing an awareness that wise and compassionate guidance is
always available to you, and learning to incorporate it consciously into your life.
How does this happen?
The five-sensory personality accepts every impulse and insight as his or her own, as
originating within his or her psyche. The multisensory personality knows that this is
not always the case. Impulses, hunches, sudden insights and subtle insights have
assisted us on our evolutionary path since the origin of our species. That we have not
recognized the guidance that has come to us in this way is a consequence of seeing
reality through only five senses. From the five-sensory point of view, there is no
other place from which insights and hunches can come.
From the multisensory point of view, insights, intuitions, hunches and inspirations
are messages from the soul, or from advanced intelligences that assist the soul on its
evolutionary journey. The multisensory personality, therefore, honors intuition in a
way that the five-sensory personality does not. To the five-sensory personality,
intuitions are curiosities. To the multisensory personality they are promptings from,
and links to, a perspective of greater comprehension and compassion than its own.
To the five-sensory personality, intuitive insights, or hunches, occur unpredictably,
and cannot be counted upon. To the multisensory personality, intuitive insights are
registrations within its consciousness of a loving guidance that is continually
assisting and supporting its growth. Therefore, the multisensory personality strives to
increase its awareness of this guidance.
The first step to this is becoming aware of what you are feeling. Following your
feelings will lead you to their source. Only through emotions can you encounter the
force field of your own soul. That is the human passage in a word.
The husband who was not able to trust, for example, may have felt anger, or shame,
or resentment, or coldness toward his wife when she told him of her business
appointment. If he had been able to experience his feelings consciously, to detach
from them, to observe them as energy currents running through his system, he would
have been able to ask himself, "Why does the news of this business meeting affect
me in this way?" This would have allowed him to discover that his feelings were
reflecting a sense of rejection, or of being less important to his wife than her meeting.
If he then had reviewed his wife's message, he would have seen that she had told him
that she would have preferred to be with him, but could not. This would have
allowed him to ask, "Then why do I still feel so disturbed?" and this would have led
him to the answer, "Because I do not trust that she actually would prefer to be with
me." In this way, becoming aware of his feelings, rather than unconsciously acting
them out, would have led him to his issue of trust.
Having unearthed so much, he then could have asked himself, "Does my experience
with my wife support this suspicion that she is not being honest with me?" If the
answer to this question had been, "No, my experience is that she is a person of
integrity," the husband could have come to see that the dynamic in motion within
him did not relate to his wife, although her words triggered it. It would have allowed
him to see the actual intention of his wife, and his feelings toward her would have
softened. Her response to him would have been one of closeness toward a loving
husband, instead of hurt caused by the rejection of her intimacy by a hostile husband.

Had he followed this course, he would not have had to ruin his afternoon, or his
marriage. He would have been able to learn from his emotions, and his questions
about them, the same lesson that he eventually would learn through the unpleasant
experiences that resulted from his lack of trust. He would have been able to see
within the framework of one instance the effects of distrust, and the effects of trust.
Each question that a person asks, such as, "Why does news of this business meeting
affect me this way?", "Why do I feel so disturbed?", and "Does my experience
support my suspicion?", invokes guidance. Every time you ask for guidance, you
receive it. Every time you ask yourself, "What is my motivation?", you ask the
Universe, "Help me to see," and help comes. You may not always be capable of
hearing the answers to your questions when you ask them, and the answers may not
always come in the ways that you expect, but they always come. Sometimes an
answer occurs in the form of a feeling-ayes feeling or a no feeling-sometimes in the
form of a memory, or a thought:. that, at the time, seems random, sometimes in a
dream and sometimes in the form of a realization that is prompted by an experience
that will occur the next day.
No question is unheard, and no question goes unanswered. "Ask and you shall
receive" is the rule, but you must learn how to ask and how to receive. The intellect
is meant to expand perceptions, to help you grow in perceptual strength and
complexity, and not to do harm. The experiences of the intellect are experiences of
knowledge. Knowledge is power, and for each level of knowledge, you are held
responsible for how you use it. Knowledge that simply comes into your being and
does not in some way or form become processed and used to the benefit of others can
have a seriously detrimental effect upon your body. Karmic obligations that are
created by deliberate misuse of knowledge, by knowingly harming or creating
discord in another, are greater than those that are created in ignorance.
In a world that understands power as external, the intellect often functions without
the compassionate influence of the heart. This creates situations in which intellectual
power is used as a weapon to harm others, to exert willpower without tenderness.
When the intellect is used to design or develop or produce weapons, for example, it
is not being used as it was intended. When an industry, or a plant, is designed or built
or operated without convivial. It prompts you to pursue that which has no apparent
reason in order to survive. Hunches about danger, for example, about what is risky
and what is not, about which street is safe to walk and which is not, or about
checking the car under the hood, help you to remain in the physical world.
Intuition serves creativity. It tells you what book to buy for your project. It tells you
where to meet the colleague that you need to meet, and which ideas from one field
will complement which ideas from another. It is the hunch that a certain painting
should be done in gray, and that another should be done in purple. It is the sense that
an idea that has never been tried before might work.
Intuition serves inspiration. It is the sudden answer to a question. It is the meaning
that takes form in the fog of confusion. It is the Light that comes to the darkness. It is
the presence of the Divine.
Intuition can be thought of as a type of wiring that can be used by various sources.
One of these sources is the soul. Intuition is a walkie-talkie, so to speak, between the
personality and the soul. This happens through the higher self.
The higher self is the connecting link when the soul speaks to its personality. It is the
dialogue between the personality and its immortal self. The personality-soul
communication is the higher self experience, but the personality does not
communicate with the fullness of its soul.
All of the energy of the soul does not incarnate. To incarnate, the soul creates a
personality from those parts of itself that it wants to heal in the physical environment
and from those parts of itself that it lends to the process of healing in that lifetime.

So powerful is the energy of the soul that it could not advance into a physical form
without, literally, exploding that form. In the creation of a personality, the soul
calibrates parts of itself, reduces parts of itself, to take on the human experience.
Your higher self is that aspect of your soul that is in you, but it is not the fullness of
your soul. It is a smaller soul self. Therefore, "higher self' is another term for "soul",
yet the soul is more than the higher self.
Picture a cup, a gallon and a water tank. The water tank is the soul. An aspect of the
soul becomes a gallon. That gallon is still soul, but not the fullness of the soul. It is
that part of the soul that is on mission, so to speak. The personality is the cup. The
cup contacts the gallon, the higher self soul, but not the full-bodied water tank.
Communication between the personality and its soul is an in-house intuitive process.
It is a process that is organic to your own internal system. For example, decision
making, which is your process, can be an intuitive process in which you pull data
from your mind, your heart and your intuition, relying upon the guidance of your
higher self. Each of these sources is part of your own system of energy. Your
personality and your higher self are of your soul.
Intuition also can permit the personality, through its higher self, to receive
information from other souls of higher process, souls that are not its own soul.
Sources of guidance other than your own higher self can come across on the same
radio station, so to speak. This is not the same as an intuitive process. This is a
process of receiving guidance through intuitive channels.
Receiving information through intuitive channels is significantly different from
receiving information through intuitive processes. Receiving information through
intuitive processes is cooking at home. Receiving information through intuitive
channels is ordering out.
The guidance that the multisensory human receives through intuitive processes and
through intuitive channels is as essential for his or her well-being and growth as
sunshine and clean air. Through his or her intuition, the multisensory human comes
to understand and to experience truth consciously.
What is truth?
Truth is that which does not contaminate you, but empowers you. Therefore, there
are degrees of truth, but, generically, truth is that which can do no harm. It cannot
harm.
Higher self connecting to nonphysical teachers produces a level of truth that is true
not just for you, but that would be true for anyone who came into contact with it. If
you subtracted everything that is personal to you from the guidance that you receive
through intuitive channels, there would remain a kernel of truth that would apply to
others, or, at least, the presence of unconditional love, whereas much of the
information that you receive through your own intuitive process will be effective
only for you. This is the difference between personal truth and impersonal truth.
They are both truth, but personal truth is yours, and impersonal truth belongs to all
that is, to each person. We need truth to grow in the same way that we need vitamins,
affection and love.
At times, the truth that comes through intuitive processes or through intuitive
channels can be contaminated with your own fear. Here is a place to apply your
intellect. In other words, you might think that you are receiving a clear intuition, but
if you examine it rationally, if you take it apart, you will be able to see that you are
responding to an insecurity, just as the question "Does my experience with my wife
support my suspicion?" would have allowed the husband to see that the origin of his
emotional response was an insecurity rather than the energy dynamic with his wife.
Answers that come through your intuitive processes or through intuitive channels
may challenge what you would prefer to do. Your lower self, your personality, will
not challenge, but rationalize.
It is natural to ascend to a level where you can learn to distinguish between the
sources of guidance that you receive. The idea of being guided by truth that is
received intuitively appears unusual to the five-sensory personality. The psychology
that has been constructed upon the experiences of the five-sensory personality does
not even recognize intuition in the sense that it recognizes, and studies and seeks to
understand, physical perception, affect and cognition. To the multisensory
personality, it is unusual not to rely upon truths that it receives from its higher self
and, through its higher self, from souls that are more advanced.
The personality is never separate from its soul, and the soul and its personalities are
continually assisted and guided with impersonal compassion and wisdom. This is so
for both the five-sensory personality and for the multisensory personality, but the
five-sensory personality is not aware of its soul or the guidance that it receives from
its higher self and from more advanced souls. The multisensory personality is aware
of its soul - it seeks to align itself with its soul, to become the physical embodiment
of its higher self - and it consciously invokes and receives the loving assistance of its
own soul and of other souls that assist it.

CHAPTER 6: LIGHT

The soul is not physical, yet it is the force field of your being. The higher self is not
physical, yet it is the living template of the evolved human, the fully awakened
personality. The experience of intuition cannot be explained in terms of the five
senses, because it is the voice of the nonphysical world. Therefore, it is not possible
to understand your soul or your higher self or your intuition without coming to terms
with the existence of nonphysical reality.
Knowing in the cognitive sense cannot produce proof of nonphysical reality any
more that it can produce proof of God. Proof of nonphysical reality does not exist in
the
the rational mind seeks it. Therefore, when you ask from the perspective of the five-
sensory personality, "Does nonphysical reality exist?" what you really are asking is,
"If I cannot prove the existence of nonphysical reality, do I decide that it is
nonsensical? Do I decide that there is no answer, or do I expand myself to the level at
which the answer can be given?"
When a mind asks a question that suggests a different level of truth, no matter what
the question, expansion has always been the way of the scientist, the pursuer of truth.
At one time in our evolution, for example, the question was asked, "Are there forms
of life that are smaller than the eye can see?" From the five-sensory perception, the
answer was, "No." Someone did not accept that answer, and the microscope was
invented. Then the question, "Do parts of nature exist that are smaller than what can
be seen through a microscope?" was asked, and, again, from the perception the
answer was, "No," but we did not stop, and instead discovered, and developed a rich
understanding of, atomic and subatomic phenomena. As we created the tools to see,
that which was once considered nonexistent became existent, but we had to expand
first. The challenge, and the task, for the advanced or expanding mind is to expand to
a level at which questions that cannot be answered from within the accepted
understanding of truth can be answered.
What is nonphysical reality?
Nonphysical reality is your home. You came from non physical reality, you will
return to nonphysical reality, and the larger part of you currently resides in, and
evolves in, nonphysical reality. The same is true for each of the billions that lions of
human beings upon this planet. Therefore, the majority of your interactions with
other human beings occur in nonphysical reality. For example, when you think
loving thoughts of someone who is close to you emotionally, such as a family
member, you shift the quality of your consciousness, and this contributes to his or her
energy system.
If a daughter who harbors resentment toward her father, for example, evolves into a
deeper understanding of her relationship with him, such as an understanding of the
karmic role that he has played in activating within her a major lesson of love or
responsibility, and if her intention to heal herself and her relationship with her father
is deep and clear, do not think, even for an instant, that her father is not aware of this,
even if she does not speak to him. He is not aware consciously, but his whole being
feels what she is doing. His conscious mind may feel it through sudden moments of
sentimentalism about things that he had not thought about before, or he may
suddenly look at pictures of his daughter as a young child and feel a pull in his heart
even though he is not consciously aware of why he is feeling what he is feeling or
doing what he is doing.
You participate in this form of data bank exchange, so to speak, with all the souls
that you are close to, and, to some extent, with all the souls that touch your life. As
you shift your data bank content and the information that you send to a soul, it is
processed through his or her own Adak system. It is at that level that the cause and
effect of your intentions, the way that you choose to shape your energy influences
others.

How does this happen?

You are a system of Light, as are all beings. The frequency of your Light depends
upon your consciousness. When you shift the level of your consciousness, you shift
the frequency of your Light. If you choose to forgive someone who has wronged you,
for example, rather than to hate that person, you shift the frequency of your Light. If
you choose to feel affection, or kinship, with a person rather than distance or
coldness, you shift the frequency of your Light.
Emotions are currents of energy with different frequencies. Emotions that we think
of as negative, such as hatred, envy, disdain and fear have a lower frequency, and
less energy, than emotions that we think of as positive, such as affection, joy, love,
and compassion. When you choose to replace a lower-frequency current of energy,
such as anger, with a higher-frequency current, such as forgiveness, you raise the
frequency of your Light. When you choose to allow higher-frequency currents of
energy to run through your system, you experience more energy. When a person is
despairing, for example, or anxious, he or she feels physically depleted because he or
she has merged with an energy current of low frequency. A person in this situation
becomes heavy and dull, whereas a joyous person abounds with energy, and feels
buoyant, because he or she is running a higher-frequency current of energy through
his or her system.
Different thoughts create different emotions. Thoughts of vengeance, violence, and
greed, or thoughts of using others, for example, create emotions such as anger,
hatred, jealousy, and fear. These are low-frequency currents of energy, and,
therefore, they lower the frequency of your Light, or consciousness. Creative or
loving or caring thoughts invoke high-frequency emotions, such as appreciation,
forgiveness and joy, and raise the frequency of your system. If your thoughts are
thoughts that draw low-frequency energy currents to you, your physical and
emotional attitudes will deteriorate, and emotional or physical disease will follow,
whereas thoughts that draw high-frequency energy currents to you create physical
and emotional health.
Lower-frequency systems pull energy from higher frequency systems. If you are
unaware of your emotions and your thoughts, your frequency will be lowered by you
will lose energy to-a system of lower frequency than your own. We say, for example,
that a depressed person is "draining," or that he or she "sucks up energy." A system
of sufficiently high frequency will soothe, or calm, or refresh you because of the
effect of the quality of its Light upon your system. Such a system is "radiant."
By choosing your thoughts, and by selecting which emotional currents you will
release and which you will reinforce, you determine the quality of your Light. You
determine the effects that you will have upon others, and the nature of the
experiences of your life.
"Light" represents consciousness. When we do not understand a thing, we say that
we must "bring it to light.' If we are confused, we say that our process "needs more
light." When a sudden idea reorders our thoughts, we sad that the "light came on,"
and when a person is fully coconscious, we say that he or she is "enlightened."
When you release a negative thought, or a negative feeling, you release lower-
frequency currents of energy from your system, and this, literally, allows an increase
in the frequency of your consciousness.
Thinking of the Universe in terms of light, frequencies, and energies of different
frequencies-in the terms that have become familiar to us through the study of
physical light-is not merely metaphorical. It is a natural and powerful way to think of
the Universe because physical light is a reflection of nonphysical Light.
Physical light is not the Light of your soul. Physical light travels at a certain velocity.
It cannot go faster. The Light of your soul is instantaneous. There is no time between
a daughter's loving intention toward her father and the soul of her father
understanding that intention. Instantaneousness, therefore, is very much a part of
your life. In nonphysical reality, the decisions that you make in terms of how you
choose to use your energy have effects that are instantaneous. They are one with who
and what you are.
Energies that emanate from your soul have instantaneousness to them. Energies that
emanate from your personality follow the path of physical light. Fear, for example, is
an experience of the personality. The soul can be confused and away from Light, but
it does not experience fear. If the soul experiences an absence of Light from a part of
itself, the personality will experience this absence of Light as fear. That fear is of the
personality, and, therefore, of space and time. Unconditional love is of the soul,
instantaneous, Universal, not bound.
Just as visible light is one portion, like an octave, in a continuum of energy of
graduated frequencies that extends below and above what the eye can see, the
continuum of nonphysical Light extends below and above, so to speak, the frequency
range in which the human exists. The human experience is a particular frequency
range in the continuum of nonphysical Light in the same way that visible light is a
particular frequency range in the continuum of physical light.
Other intelligences inhabit other ranges of frequency. These forms of Life do not
exist elsewhere from us. Just as infrared light, ultraviolet light, microwave light and
many, many other frequencies and ranges of frequencies coexist with the visible light
spectrum, but are invisible to us, the Life forms that are characterized by different
frequency ranges of nonphysical Light coexist with us, but are invisible to us. In the
place that you now sit exist many different beings, or groups of beings, each active
and evolving in its own reality and in its own way. These realities commingle with
yours in the same way that microwave radiation exists alongside of visible light, but
is undetectable to the human eye.
Our species is evolving from one frequency range in the spectrum of nonphysical
Light into another, higher range of frequency. This is the evolution of the five-
sensory personality into the multisensory personality. The multisensory personality is
more radiant and energetic than the five-sensory personality. It is aware of the Light
of its soul, and it is able to detect, and to communicate with, forms of Life that are
invisible to the five-sensory person.
The Universe is a hierarchy that has no bottom and no top. Between the levels of the
hierarchy there is an understanding that higher perceptions can be a part of, and are
encouraged to be a part of, the experience of lower plane spirits as they strive to
expand their own awareness. Thus, there is always a higher level of assistance. You
are involved in this process, although your personality is unaware of this, because it
is done at the level of your soul.
There is much that the five-sensory personality is unaware of, and much that even a
fully empowered multisensory personality will not remember until, at the end of its
life, it returns to nonphysical reality. You are not aware of the many lifetimes of the
past and future personalities of your soul, for example, but the intensity of parts of
your being derives directly from these lifetimes, just as do some of your
relationships. If an aspect of your being manifests physically, such as the aspect of
you-as-teacher, or you-as-warrior, then there are connected nonphysical aspects that
are also active and participating in the teaching, or the warring, dynamic from the
nonphysical realms of which you are a part and bonded to. The aspect of self that you
bring to bear in a physical moment represents a force that is many, many times more
significant and complex.
Our nonphysical assistance comes from ranges of nonphysical Light that are higher
in frequency than our own. The intelligences that assist and guide us, unconsciously
in the case of the five-sensory personality, and consciously in the case of the
multisensory personality, are of a higher rank in creation than we, and, therefore, can
provide us with a quality of guidance and assistance that we cannot give to each
other.
The five-sensory personality associates rank within a hierarchy with graduated levels
of worth, and it associates a lower rank within a hierarchy with less worth, less
ability to control others, and more vulnerability. From the point of view of the
Universe, all the ranks of creation are of equal value, all are precious. When seen
through authentically empowered eyes, a being with a higher rank in creation is one
that has more ability to see without obstruction, more ability to live in love arid
wisdom, and more ability and desire to help others evolve into the same love and
Light.
Each human soul has both guides and Teachers. A guide is not a Teacher. Guides are
what might be thought of as experts in certain fields that are called in for
consultation. If you are writing a book, for example, or creating a project, or
organizing an event, a guide that has the quality of warmth, or creativity, or insight
that you wish to incorporate into your work is available to you.
Teachers operate on a more personal plane of involvement, so to speak, although
they are impersonal energies that we personalize, that we feel a personal relationship
with. A nonphysical Teacher brings you ever closer to your soul. It draws your
attention to the vertical path, and to the difference between the vertical path and the
horizontal path.
The vertical path is the path of awareness. It is the path of consciousness and
conscious choice. The person who chooses to advance his or her spiritual growth, to
cultivate awareness of his or her higher self, is on a vertical path. The vertical path is
the path of clarity. The potential for the creation of clarity and the experience of
interacting with your nonphysical Teacher are one and the same.
The horizontal path is the path that satisfies your personality. A businessman or a
businesswoman, for example, who devotes his or her life to the accumulation of
money is on a horizontal path. No matter how diverse his or her ventures may
become, they are essentially identical. If they make money, they please the
personality, and if they lose money, they distress the personality, but they do not
serve the higher self. They do not serve his or her spiritual growth.
A person that seeks relationships only to gratify his or her own needs, such as his or
her own emotional or sexual needs, will find that each relationship is essentially
identical, that the people in his or her life are replaceable, that experiences with the
first and experiences with the second are essentially the same. This is the horizontal
path. Each new experience is not really new. It is more of the same thing. To
experience relationships of substance and depth requires approaching and entering
into relationships with consciousness and concern for the other. That is the vertical
path.
This does not mean that learning does not occur in all situations, and that when a
horizontal path is no longer appropriate to a soul's learning, that soul will not leave it
behind. Sooner or later, each soul will turn toward authentic power. Every situation
serves this goal, and every soul will reach it. The vertical path begins with the
decision to do that consciously.
Guides and Teachers assist the soul in every phase of its evolution. The number of
guides and Teachers that a soul has depends upon what it seeks to accomplish and its
level of awareness. Souls that take upon themselves projects of your soul know its
guides and Teachers. It drew upon their wisdom and compassion in charting the
incarnation that became you, and that part of your soul that is you will be gathered
into their waiting arms when the incarnation that is you comes to an end-when you
go home. You receive loving guidance and assistance at each moment. At each
moment, you are prompted and encouraged to move into Light.
The decisions that you make are yours to make. Nonphysicals Teacher cannot, and
would not, live your life for you. It will assist you through the learning experiences
of your life. The answers that it can provide you depend upon the questions that you
ask-by questioning your own motivations, by praying or meditating and remaining
open for the answer, or by asking directly, as in the case of the multisensory human
that has developed this ability. When you ask one set of questions, one set of
doorways opens before you, and when you ask other questions, other doorways open.

In each instance, your Teacher, or Teachers, will advise you with impersonal
compassion and clarity. It will help you to examine the probable results of each
choice that you make. It will touch your feelings in ways that bring your awareness
to areas that need to be healed. It will answer your questions, but you must ask them,
and, therefore, give direction to your own energy. It will advise you as to which
courses will most likely lead to which results, and it will continue to advise you with
wisdom and compassion no matter what choices you make.
A Teacher can neither create nor remove karma for you. No being, not even a
nonphysical Teacher, can assume use your energy, but a nonphysical Teacher can
help you to understand what your choices and your experiences represent. It can
provide you with the knowledge that will allow you to choose responsibly, and
hopefully, choose wisely. Therefore, the ability to draw consciously upon your
nonphysical guidance and assistance, to communicate consciously with a
nonphysical Teacher, is a treasure that cannot be described, a treasure beyond words
and value.
Every decision that you make either moves you toward your personality, or toward
your soul. Each decision that you make is an answer to the question, "How do you
choose to learn love?", "How do you choose to learn authentic empowerment through
doubt and fear, or through wisdom?" This is the heart of the Garden of Paradise
story. The Tree of Truth, given unto the entire human species, said, "Learn! Which
way do you wish to learn?"
This is the ultimate first act of free will: How do you wish to learn? The question
continues in every one of your life situations. It is the eternal question. It is the
longest running show on Broadway, so to speak. No matter what situation, no matter
what moment, the Garden of Eden question continues and continues and continues.
Each time the opportunity in every circumstance in miniature is, "Will you choose
the way of doubt and fear, or will you choose the Tree of Wisdom?"
The Tree of Life, of Knowledge, of Truth, of Wisdom, is an opportunity, an
archetypal question. Adam and Eve, the male and female principles within the
Garden of Eden, took the apple symbolically, and misused knowledge. Their choice
was to misuse knowledge, and, therefore, they created shame. That was not part of
the human design up to that point. The misuse of knowledge, of truth, of wisdom,
produced embarrassment and shame. That gave rise to guilt. Guilt gave rise to fear,
and so began the evolution of the human species.
The decision to take the apple was a decision of the highest order of evolution, an
order that cannot be conceived, or even grappled with, in the same context that we
would use to understand a human decision. To speak of decisions in terms of an
individual human life, or in the terms of a larger body of individual human lives, is
very different from speaking about how the role of evolution and learning began
billions of years ago with the human species.
The decision to take the apple in the Garden of Eden story does not refer to one
decision that was made by two humans who really existed in such a setting. It was
not a decision such as you or I would make in terms of, "Do I choose this or that?"
The Garden of Paradise story describes the beginning of the whole experience of
earth and the human species. It refers to principles of energy that were brought to
bear upon larger bodies of group consciousnesses that had stress, that had formation
energies, creation energies. In their process of forming their own polarities, polarities
that would become the polarities of the human experience, doubt and fear stood
opposing to trust and Light, and so they came into being.
Yet, it is not inappropriate to understand the Garden of Eden story in terms of human
choices between doubt and fear on the one hand and wisdom on the other, because
the choice to learn through wisdom or through doubt and fear is very much part of
every single challenge that every single human comes up against within every minute
of every day, and this challenge reflects the dynamics that, at a larger level of
evolution, were brought to bear upon our evolution.
This brings us to the relationship between choice, Light, and physical reality.

CHAPTER 7: INTENTION I
Not all forms are physical. A thought, for example, is a form. What is a thought
formed out of?
A thought is energy, or Light, that has been shaped by consciousness. No form exists
without consciousness. There is Light, and there is the shaping of Light by
consciousness. This is creation.
Energy continually pours through you, entering at the top of your head and
descending downward through your body. You are not a static system. You are a
dynamic being of Light that at each moment informs the energy that flows through
you. You do this with each thought. with each intention.
The Light that flows through your system is Universal energy. It is the Light of the
Universe. You give that Light form. What you feel, what you think, how you behave,
what you value and how you live your life reflect the way that you are shaping the
Light that is flowing through you. They are the thought forms, the feeling forms and
the action forms that you have given to Light. They reflect the configuration of your
personality, your space-time being.
You change the way that you shape the Light which is flowing through you by
changing your consciousness. You do this, for example, when you challenge a
negative pattern, such as anger, and consciously choose to replace it with
compassion, or when you challenge impatience and consciously choose to
understand and appreciate the needs of others. This creates different forms of
thought, feeling and action. It changes your experience.
Every experience, and every change in your experience, reflects an intention. An
intention is not only a desire. It is the use of your will. If you do not like the
relationship that you have with your husband or with your wife, for example, and you
would like it to be different, that desire alone will not change your relationship. If
you truly desire to change your relationship, that change begins with the intention to
change it. How it will change depends upon the intention that you set.
If you intend that your relationship with your husband or your wife become
harmonious and loving, that intention will open you to new perceptions. It will allow
you to see the love that your husband or wife expresses for you in his or her own
way, if that is the case. It will allow you to see the absence of that love, if that is the
case. It will reorient you toward harmony and love so that you can see clearly from
that perspective what is necessary to change your relationship, and if that is
achievable.
If you intend to end your relationship, that ending begins with the intention to end.
This intention will create in you a restlessness. You will feel less and less fulfilled
with your mate. You will feel an openness to others in a way that you have not felt
before. Your higher self has begun the search for another partner. When that partner
appears, you will be drawn to him or to her, and, if you accept that partner, which
also is an intention, a new path will open for you.
If you have conflicting intentions, you will be torn because both dynamics will be set
in motion and oppose each other. If you are not aware of all of your intentions, the
strongest one will win. You may have a conscious intention to improve your
marriage, for example, and, simultaneously, an unconscious intention to end it. If the
unconscious intention to end your marriage is stronger than the conscious intention to
improve it, the dynamic of restlessness, lack of fulfillment, etc., eventually will
overcome the conscious intention to become loving and harmonious within your
marriage. In the end, your marriage will terminate.
If the conscious intention to transform your marriage is stronger than the unconscious
intention to end it, and if your husband or your wife is essentially supportive, you
will succeed, but the dynamic of opposing intentions within you will produce
confusions and anguishes, perhaps for both of you, as you become open to new
perceptions of love and harmony within your marriage, and, simultaneously,
experience restlessness, lack of fulfillment and openness to other partners.

This is the experience of a splintered personality. A splintered personality struggles

with itself. The values, perceptions, and behaviors of a splintered personality are not
integrated. A splintered personality is not conscious of all the parts of itself. A
splintered personality is frightened. It fears aspects of itself that threaten what it
seeks and what it has attained.
A splintered personality experiences the circumstances within its life as more
powerful than itself. A splintered personality that has a conscious intention to
improve its marriage, and a stronger, unconscious intention to end it, for example,
will feel, after the collapse of its marriage, that despite its efforts, despite even its
best efforts, things did not work out as it intended. This is not so. They worked out
exactly as it intended, but, because she or he held conflicting intentions, much
turbulence, so to speak, was created in the flow of the Light through that person.
If conflicting intentions are nearly balanced, and if a personality is not willing or able
to acknowledge that an aspect, or aspects, of her self or his self stand opposed to her
or his conscious intention, severe stress and emotional pain result. These can cause
states of schizophrenia and physical illness. In less severe cases the anguish can be
just as painful.
A splintered personality is a personality in need of healing. As a personality becomes
conscious and integrated, it heals those parts of its soul that incarnated in order to be
healed. The Light that flows through a whole personality is focused into a single,
clear beam. Its intentions are powerful and effective. It becomes a laser, a phase-
coherent beam of Light, and a beam in which every wave precisely reinforces every
other.
A whole personality is not like a laser. A laser is like a whole personality. Lasers are
the reflection in physical reality of an energy dynamic that, until very recently, has
not been central to the human experience. The development of the laser in the middle
part of this century reflects within the physical arena a dynamic that is central to
what our species is evolving into.
We are evolving into a species of whole individuals, individuals who are aware of
their nature as beings of Light, and who shape their Light consciously, wisely and
with compassion. Therefore, the physical phenomenon of phase-coherent light, light
that does not struggle with itself, so to speak, has come into being. It is a new
phenomenon to the human experience, and it reflects the new energy dynamic of the
whole human. The achievements of science, in other words, do not reflect the
laboratory capabilities of individuals, or nations, but the spiritual capabilities of our
species.
Intentions affect more than relationships. Intentions set into motion processes that
affect every aspect of your life. If you desire to change your job, for example, that
change begins with the intention to change. As the intention to leave your present job
emerges into your consciousness, you begin to open yourself to the possibility of
working somewhere else, or doing something else. You begin to feel less and less at
home in what you are doing. Your higher self has begun the search for your next job.
When the opportunity appears, you are ready to accept it. You may require additional
time to step into the new situation consciously, to make it your own, because it is
human nature to resist change, but, if you accept it, your intention will manifest
physically. It will assume a physical form.
Decisions such as where to work and whom to partner with and where to live are not
the only type of decisions that you make, nor are they the decisions that have the
most influence upon your life. At each instant you make decisions in the form of
your attitudes about the Universe, about other people, and about yourself. You make
these decisions continually and your experiences at each moment are created by
them. You are a decision-making being.
A single choice to challenge your anger and replace it with understanding does not
immediately change these attitudes, but it brings them, through your feelings, into
awareness, and as you make the decisions of your life consciously and responsibly
and wisely, your attitudes come to reflect your decisions. Eventually, the deepest
decision making processes within you-those that shape from moment to moment the
Light that flows through you become aligned with what you choose consciously, just
as they are aligned, before you choose awareness, with what you choose
unconsciously.
You create your reality with your intentions. How does this happen?
Intentions shape Light. They set Light into motion. Each intention-anger, greed,
jealousy, compassion, understanding-sets energy into motion, sets patterns of Light
into motion. Physical matter is the densest, or heaviest, level of Light.
Physical reality is not a dead and empty stage on which Life evolves. Every physical
form, as well as every nonphysical form, is Light that has been shaped by
consciousness. No form exists apart from consciousness. There is not one planet in
the Universe that does not have an active level of consciousness, although it may not
be what we recognize as consciousness.
Physical reality and the organisms and the forms within physical reality are systems
of Light within systems of Light, and this Light is the same Light as the Light of your
soul. Each of these systems of Light is shaped by consciousness. The physical reality
of the Earth school is shaped by the decisions of those who are in it.
What is the relationship between physical reality and the choices that you make in
your life?
Reality is a multi-layered creation. No two people have the same reality. The first
layer of your reality is your personal reality. This is your personal life, your personal
sphere of influence. Here your decisions are most effective, and are felt directly. By
choosing to feel kindness instead of coldness, you change the frequency of your
consciousness, and this changes your experiences. Within your personal reality, you
can choose to be selfish or to be giving, to look upon yourself and others brutally or
with compassion, to serve yourself or to serve others and the Earth. Each of these
decisions shapes the Light that flows through you, and creates the reality within you.
This reality spills over into the realities of those around you.
The second layer of your reality is your family. When individual human souls come
together, they form a group energy field, a merger of soul energy in a group.
Therefore, the decisions that you make within your personal reality, such as the
decision to be giving or to be selfish, or the decision to be angry or to be
understanding, contribute to the shaping of the reality that you share with your
family. The same is true for each member of your family. Your father's dependability
or drunkenness, for example, contributes to this level of your reality, as does your
mother's timid-ness or assertiveness, and your sister's jealousy or support, etc. As you
move into this layer of your reality, you move into an atmosphere that includes
others within your life. While it is also personal, you are beginning to move outward
from the intimacy of your personal reality.
The next layer of your reality is your school, or the place where you work. This level
of reality is also a co-creation, and is more impersonal than the reality that you share
with your family. Not all of the perceptions that are central to your personal reality
are central to this reality. For example, you may have discovered that when you pray,
you get answers, but this perception is not necessary to the functioning of your
university, or your business. It may not be appropriate to share this perception with
the person sitting beside you in the lecture hall, or with the receptionist in the front
office.
The next layer of your reality includes those people that you come into contact with
in the course of your living, such as the people from whom you buy your airline
tickets, the people at the grocery store, and the bus drivers and the merchants in your
town. The beliefs that you hold as a participant in this and other more impersonal
layers of your reality also are not all as intimate and personal as the beliefs that you
hold in your personal reality. In these arenas you share your personal beliefs that you
feel are more aligned with the larger general atmosphere of beliefs upon our planet.
In other words, as you move outward from your personal reality, you move outward
in bands of energy that are shared by more and more individuals with whom you
have a great deal in common vibrationally. Most individuals, for example,
understand "city," and "urban area." Most individuals understand "Europe," and
"United States." These are shared collective perceptions, but they are not shared as
widely as the perceptions of "water" and "air," which are universal perceptions upon
our planet.
Not all the people on our planet know that there is a place called "Europe." "Europe"
is a majority perception upon our planet, but not a universal perception, such as "air.
" Consciously receiving answers to prayers is not a majority perception upon our
planet. Therefore, you are free to tell the people at the grocery store that you hear
answers when you pray, but you may decide not to share that perception for your
own sense of safety, because you realize that their consciousnesses may not be able
to accept that.
The next layer of your reality is your town or city, the next is your state, or area of
the country, and the next is your culture, or nation. A nation is an aspect of the
personality of Gala, the Earth's soul, which, itself, is developing its personality and
soul-hood. The group dynamic that is the United States is a personality aspect of
Gala, as are the group dynamic that is Canada and the -group dynamic that is
Greenland, and the group dynamic that is each nation. The individual human souls
that participate in the evolution of these aspects of Gala form these group energy
dynamics and, at the same time, their own developments are served by the karmic
energy properties of these nations.
Consider the United States, for example, as simply one unit of energy that is evolving
with a particular consciousness. The individual souls that pass through this collective
consciousness expand it, create actions, create thought forms, create causes and
effects, and that is how it accumulates karma. The relationship of these souls to their
nation is like that of cells to a body. Your consciousness affects every cell in your
body, and every cell in your body affects your consciousness. There is a mutuality.
Each individual in the collective consciousness that is called the United States can be
thought of as a cell in that nation, in dialogue.
The Earth school and the Earth are not the same. The Earth is a planet. With or
without humanity, it would be. The purpose of the planet is double, so to speak. It
has its own evolution, and part of its evolution includes the housing of a species
called human. The Earth has agreed to interact with the human species, and to allow
the development of this species to merge with its own consciousness. Part of this
agreement can be understood as an
agreement that matter will be co-created upon this planet with the consciousness of
the Earth. Since the Earth now has creative residents, it responds to their energy. Our
Species and the Earth form a mutual response system. This happens in the same way
that Nature exists, and is also a co-creative adventure.
As you continue to move outward through the layers of your reality, they become
more and more impersonal. The next layer of your reality is your race. If you are
black, you-your soul-has chosen to participate in the evolution of what it is to be a
black human. Your experiences of exhilaration, anger, wisdom, or kindness help to
shape this impersonal energy dynamic.
The next layer is your sex. If you are female, you have chosen to participate in the
evolution of femininity within the human species.

If you look upon this structure as an inverted pyramid, with your personal reality at
the bottom, and each layer of your reality above your personal reality as more
inclusive and more impersonal, the uppermost layer, the broadest and most
impersonal layer, is humanity, the experience of being human.
As an individual you participate in group experiences simultaneously with being an
individual, just as you can simultaneously be a man, a father, and a husband, or a
woman, a wife, and a mother. These experiences are all simultaneous. Some of them
are collective, and some o1 them are individual. You can have an individual
experience as a father, for example, and an occupation as a baseball player with a
team. There you participate in a groin energy system.
You contribute to the creation and the evolution of each of the collective
consciousnesses in which you participate. If a person is French, he or she contributes
to the evolution of the group consciousness that is called French. If a person is
Catholic, he or she contributes to the group consciousness that is called Catholic.
In other words, the dynamic of creating reality operates at more than one level. While
you are here you participate in the creation of both personal reality and impersonal
reality. Just as you can participate in the creation of a building that will remain long
after you are gone, you participate in the evolution of group energy dynamics that
will remain after you are gone.
Creating a building is a group effort. Several souls participate in the construction of
that reality. It is built with group energy, and not with just individual energy.
Therefore, it has an existence that is independent of each of the individuals that built
it. In the same way, you are participating in the evolution of the United States, yet
when you die, this place called United States will continue.
You are connected in layers and through layers to your experience. As you advance
from the individual experience of your own life into the larger experience of the
family of which you are a part, and beyond, you move
into dynamics of group energy. The group dynamic of the family is part of the larger
group dynamic of the community, which is part of the larger group dynamic of the
nation. Group dynamics advance through the system and the entire system-the entire
inverted pyramid-is the soul of the human species.
The soul of the human species is sometimes called the collective unconscious, but it
is not that. It is the soul of humankind. Your soul is a miniature of the soul of the
human species. It is a micro of a macro. It has as much individual energy and power.
As part of the micro, you have all the power of the macro calibrated to an individual
form of certain frequencies. You form collective energies that help the whole evolve,
although they are not themselves souls, and do not have souls. In between the micro
and the macro are the various experiences afforded the individual human soul
learning within a group, participating in group evolution, such as the evolution of
your country, your religion, and the individual personal experiences that comprise
the human experience.
As you move down from the top layer of the inverted pyramid to the layer beneath it,
your experience reduces from being a part of the whole of human evolution to being
a part of the evolution of male or female energy. In the next layer down, you become
part of the evolution of Caucasian, or Negro, or mongoloid. In the next layer down
you is part of the evolution of the energy field of the United States. In the next layer
down you are part of the evolution of an individual whose experiences will include
an aspect that participates in the evolution of military, an aspect that participates in
the evolution of teacher, an aspect that participates in the evolution of father, and so
on. Layer by layer, that is what the reality of each individual looks like.

From the top layer, which is all humanity, all humanness, each layer downward
locates you more individually and more specifically.
The most impersonal consciousness, the human species, is the first layer. This
consciousness then takes on personal attributes. It is personal that you are part of the
United States. It is personal that you are a white male part of the United States, or a
brown female part. These are parts of your personal experience and characteristics
that serve the evolution of the whole. A university, by analogy, is a group dynamic.
Each of the schools of a university-undergraduate, business, medicine, law is also a
group energy system, a less Inclusive collective of group energy of souls in
evolution. What happens within the schools affects the whole of the university itself.
Then within a particular school there is the experience of a certain class, which is
more personal, and after that the experience of the student himself or herself, which
is intimately personal.
The reality of each individual is created b his or her intentions and the intentions of
others. What we think of as a physical reality that we share is an intermingling, or a
formation, a massive overlay of appropriate realities. It is a fluid massive
consciousness in which each of us exists independently of each other and yet coexists
interdependently with each other.
What we, as a species and as individuals, are now becoming aware of is the effect of
consciousness on this process.

CHAPTER 8: INTENTION II
You are the product of the karma of your soul. The dispositions, aptitudes and
attitudes that you were born with serve the learning of your soul. As your soul learns
the lessons that it must learn t balance its energy, those characteristics become
unnecessary and are replaced by others. This is how you grout As you come to
realize, for example, that anger leads no where, your anger begins to disappear and
you move into a more integrated and mature orientation toward your experiences.
What once angered you now brings forth different responses.
Until you become aware of the effects of your anger, you continue to be an angry
person. If you do not reach this awareness by the time you return home, your soul
will continue this lesson through the experiences of another lifetime. It will incarnate
another personality with aspects that are similar to your own. What is not learned in
each lifetime is carried over into other lifetimes, along with new lessons that arise for
the soul to learn, new karmic obligations that result from the responses of its
personality to the situations that it encounters. The lessons that the soul has learned
also are brought forward into other lifetimes, and this is how the soul evolves.
Personalities mature in time, and the soul evolves in eternity.
Your dispositions, aptitudes, and attitudes reflect your intentions. If you are angry,
fearful, resentful, or vengeful, your intention is to keep people at a distance. The
human emotional spectrum can be broken down into two basic elements: love and
fear. Anger, resentment, and vengeance are expressions of fear, as are guilt, regret,
embarrassment, shame, and sorrow. These are lower-frequency currents of energy.
They produce feelings of depletion, weakness, inability to cope and exhaustion. The
highest frequency current, the highest energy current, is love. It produces buoyancy,
radiance, lightness and joy.
Your intentions create the reality that you experience. Until you become aware of
this, it happens unconsciously. Therefore, be mindful of what you project. That is the
first step toward authentic power.
You may seek companionship and warmth, for example, but if your unconscious
intention is to keep people at a distance, the experiences of separation and pain will
surface again and again until you come to understand that you, yourself, are creating
them. Eventually, you will choose to create harmony and love. You will choose to
draw to you the highest-frequency currents that each situation has to offer.
Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all
there is.
This journey may take many lifetimes, but you will complete it. It is impossible not
to complete it. It is not a question of if but of when. Every situation that you create
serves this purpose. Every experience that you encounter serves this purpose.
The healing journey of the human soul through its incarnations into the physical
arena is a process of cycles of creation:
Karma --> personality --> intentions --> Energy experiences --> reactions --> Karma
--> etc.
The karma of the soul determines the characteristics of the personality. It determines
the physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual circumstances into which the
personality is born. It determines the ways that the personality is prone to understand
its experiences. It determines the intentions with which the personality will shape its
reality. These intentions create the reality that provides the soul, at each moment,
with the experiences that are necessary for the balancing of its energy, and the
personality with the clearest choice between learning through wisdom or learning
through doubt and fear. Through these intentions the personality shapes the Light
that is flowing through it into the reality that is optimal for its growth, for the
evolution of its soul.

The reactions of the personality to the experiences that it has created creates more
karma. Reactions express intentions. They determine the experiences that will be
created next, and the reactions of the personality to those experiences create more
karma, and so forth, until the soul releases that personality and body.
When the soul returns to its home, what has been accumulated in that lifetime is
assessed with the loving assistance of its Teachers and guides. The new lessons that
have emerged to be learned, the new karmic obligations that must be paid, are seen.
The experiences of the incarnation just completed are reviewed in the fullness of
understanding. Its mysteries are mysteries no more. Their causes, their reasons, and
their contributions to the evolution of the soul, and to the evolution of the souls with
whom the soul shared its life, are revealed. What has been balanced, what has been
learned, brings the soul ever closer to its healing, to its integration and wholeness.
If the soul sees that it is necessary, it will choose, also with the help of its Teachers
and guides, another incarnation. It will draw to itself the guides and Teachers that are
appropriate to what it seeks to accomplish. It will consult with other souls whose
evolution, like its own, will be mutually served by interactions within the physical
arena. Then it will undertake again the massive, voluntary reduction of its energy, the
infusion of its energy into matter, the calibration of its energy to an appropriate scale
and range of frequencies, that is an incarnation into the learning environment of the
Earth school, and the process begins again.
The world as we know it has been built without a consciousness of soul. It has been
built with the consciousness of the personality. Everything within our world reflects
personality energy. We believe that what we can see and smell and touch and feel
and taste is all there is to the world. We believe that we are not responsible for the
consequences of our actions. We act as though we are not affected when we take and
take and take. We strive for external power and in that striving create a destructive
competition.
The introduction of consciousness into the cyclic process of creation through which
the soul evolves permits the creation of a world that is built upon the consciousness
of the soul, a world that reflects the values and perceptions and experiences of the
soul. It allows you to bring the energy of your soul consciously into the physical
environment. It allows the consciousness of the sacred to fuse with physical matter.
The world in which we live has been created unconsciously by unconscious
intentions. Every intention sets energy into motion whether you are conscious of it or
not. You create in each moment. Each word that you speak carries consciousness-
more than that, carries intelligence -and, therefore, and is an intention that shapes
Light.
When you speak of a "marriage," for example, you invoke a particular consciousness,
a particular energy. When two people marry, they become "husband" and "wife."
"Husband" means the master of a house, the head of a household, a manager. "Wife"
means a woman who is joined to a man in marriage, a hostess of a household.
Sometimes it means a woman of humble rank. The relationship between a husband
and a wife is not equal. When two people "marry," and think and speak of themselves
as "husband" and "wife," they enter into these consciousnesses and intelligences.
In other words, the archetypical structure of "marriage" can be thought of as a planet.
When two souls marry, they fall into the orbit, or gravitational field, of this planet
and, therefore, despite their own individual intentions, they take on the characteristics
of this planet called "marriage." They become part of the evolution of the structure
itself through their own participation in a marriage.

An archetype is a collective human idea. The archetype of marriage was designed to

assist physical survival. When two people marry, they participate in an energy
dynamic in which they merge their lives in order to help each other survive
physically. The archetype of marriage is no longer functional. It is being replaced
with a new archetype that is designed to assist spiritual growth. This is the archetype
of spiritual, or sacred, partnership.
The underlying premise of a spiritual partnership is a sacred commitment between
the partners to assist each other's spiritual growth. Spiritual partners recognize their
equality. Spiritual partners are able to distinguish personality from soul, and,
therefore, they are able to discuss the dynamics between them, their interactions, on a
less emotionally-bound ground than husbands and wives. That ground does not exist
within the consciousness of marriage. It exists only within the consciousness of
spiritual partnership because spiritual partners are able to see clearly that there is
indeed a deeper reason why they are together, and that that reason has a great deal to
do with the evolution of their souls.
Because spiritual, or sacred, partners can see from this perspective, they engage in a
very different dynamic than do husbands and wives. The conscious evolution of the
soul is not part of the structural dynamic of marriage. It does not exist within that
evolution because when the evolutionary archetype of marriage was created for our
species, the dynamic of conscious spiritual growth was far too mature a concept to be
included. What makes a spiritual, or sacred, partnership is that the souls within the
partnership understand that they are together in a committed relationship, but the
commitment is not to physical security. It is rather to be with each other's physical
lives as they reflect spiritual consciousness.
The bond between spiritual partners exists as real as it does in marriage, but for
significantly different reasons. Spiritual partners are not together in order to quell
each other's financial fears or because they can produce a house in the suburbs and
that entire conceptual framework. The understanding or consciousness that spiritual
partners bring to their commitment is different, and, therefore, their commitment is
dynamically different. The commitment of spiritual partners is to each other's
spiritual growth, recognizing that that is what each of them is doing on Earth, and
that everything serves that.
Spiritual partners bond with an understanding that they are together because it is
appropriate for their souls to grow together. They recognize that their growth may
take them to the end of their days in this incarnation and beyond, or it may take them
to six months. They cannot say that they will be together forever. The duration of
their partnership is determined by how long it is appropriate for their evolution to be
together. All of the vows that a human being can take cannot prevent the spiritual
path from exploding through and breaking those vows if the spirit must move on. It is
appropriate for spiritual partners to remain together only as long as they grow
together.
Spiritual partnership is a much freer and more spiritually accurate dynamic than
marriage because spiritual partners come together from a position of spirit and
consciousness. How spiritual partners merge and move their concept of partnership is
a matter of free will. So long as they recognize that they bring the consequences of
their choices into their partnership, and know the full extent of their choices, that is
what influences the manner and direction that the partnership goes.
Spiritual partners commit, to a growing dynamic. Their commitment is truly a
promise toward their own growth, to their own spiritual survival and enhancement,
and not to their physical.
The archetype of spiritual partnership is new to the human experience. Because there
is not yet a social convention for spiritual partnership, spiritual partners may decide
that the convention of marriage, reinterpreted to meet their needs, is the most
appropriate physical expression of their bond. These souls infuse the archetype of
marriage with the energy of the archetype of spiritual partnership, as do marriage
partners who have discovered in their togetherness that their bond is actually one of
commitment to mutual spiritual growth rather than to physical survival or security or
comfort.
Just as external power is no longer appropriate to our evolution, the archetype of
marriage is no longer appropriate. This does not mean that the institution of marriage
will disappear overnight. Marriages will continue to exist, but marriages that succeed
will only succeed with the consciousness of spiritual partnership. The partners in
these marriages contribute through their participation in them to the archetype of
spiritual partnership.
When you bring the consciousness of your soul to your intention-setting process,
when you choose to align yourself with your soul instead of with your personality,
you create a reality that reflects your soul rather than your personality. When you
look upon the experiences of your life as karmic necessities, when you react to your
experiences as the products of an impersonal energy dynamic rather than the
products of particular interactions, you bring the wisdom of your soul into your
reality. When you choose to respond to life's difficulties with compassion and love
instead of fear and doubt, you create a "heaven on Earth"-you bring the aspects of a
more balanced and harmonious level of reality into physical being.
The introduction of consciousness into the cyclical processes of creation at the point
of intention, and at the point of reaction, allows choice. It permits the selection of
alternatives. It brings consciousness to the process of evolution. Your intention and
attention shape your experiences. What you intend, through the density of matter,
through the densest level of Light, becomes your reality. Where your attention goes,
you go.
If you attend to the negative aspects of life, if you choose to focus your attention on
the weaknesses of others, on their faults and shortcomings, you draw to yourself the
lower-frequency energy currents of disdain, anger and hatred. You put distance
between yourself and others.
You create obstacles to your loving. Your energy and influence move slowly through
the realm of the personality, the arena of time and space and matter. If you direct
your energy into criticism of others with the intention to disempower them, you
create negative karma.
If you choose to focus your attention on the strengths of others, on the virtues of
others, on that part of others that strives for the highest, you run through your system
the higher-frequency currents of appreciation, acceptance and love. Your energy and
influence radiate instantaneously from soul to soul. You become an effective
instrument of constructive change. If your intention is to align your personality with
your soul, and if you focus your attention upon those perceptions that bring to you in
each situation the highest-frequency currents of energy, you move toward authentic
empowerment.
As you come to recognize the power of your consciousness, that what is behind your
eyes, so to speak, holds more power than what appears in front of them, your inner
and outer perceptions change. You cannot become compassionate with yourself
without becoming compassionate with others, or with others without becoming
compassionate with yourself. When you are compassionate with yourself and others,
your world becomes compassionate. You draw to yourself other souls of like
frequency, and with them you create, through your intentions and your actions and
your interactions, a compassionate world.
As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you
begin to seek and see them in yourself also. As you draw to yourself the highest
frequency currents of each situation, you radiate that frequency of consciousness, and
change the situation. You become more and more and more consciously a being of
Light.
To become aware of the relationship between your consciousness and physical
reality is to become aware of the law of karma, to see it in action. What you intend is
what you become. If you intend to take as much from life and others as you can, if
your thoughts are of taking instead of giving, you create a reality that reflects your
intentions. You draw to yourself souls of like frequency, and together you create a
taking reality. Your experiences then reflect your own orientation, and validate it.
You see the people around you as personalities who take, rather than personalities
who give. You do not trust them, and they do not trust you.
The creative dynamic of intention, the relationship between intention and experience,
underlies quantum physics, our species' most profound attempt to comprehend
physical phenomena from the perspective of the five-sensory personality. Quantum
physics was born of an intense and cumulative effort to understand the nature of
physical light.
It is possible to build a device that reveals the wave-like nature of light, that causes
light to produce phenomena that can only be produced by waves. It is also possible to
make a device that detects particles of light, as though they were tiny pellets, and to
measure the force of the impact of each particle. Yet, it is not possible for light to be
described as a wave phenomenon and a particle phenomenon at the same time. In
other words, it is not possible to describe the nature of light-literally, the shape of
physical light-apart from the experimental apparatus that is used to determine it, and
this depends upon the intention of the experimenter.
The scientific accomplishments of our species reflect our awareness as a species of
nonphysical dynamics as they unfold within the arena of matter and time, within the
realm of the five-sensory personality. The dependency of the form of physical light
upon the intention of the experimenter reflects in a limited but accurate manner the
dependency of the form of nonphysical Light upon the intentions of the soul that
shapes it, just as the nature of physical light itself reflects in a limited but essentially
accurate way the nature of the Light of the Universe.
The creation of physical experience through intention, the infusion of Light into
form, energy into matter, soul into body, are all the same. The distance between you
and your understanding of the creation of matter from energy is equal to the distance
that exists between the awareness of your personality and the energy of your soul.
The dynamic of soul and personality is the same dynamic as energy converted into
matter. The system is identical. Your body is your conscious matter. Your
personality is the energy of your soul converted to matter. If it is unaware, it is the
splintered-ness that is transmitted. If it is aware, it begins to become whole.
The dynamic of soul-to-personality, energy-to-matter, lies at the heart of our creation
mythology, the story of Paradise. Are you not metaphorically within a Garden of
Eden, so to speak, your own creative reality, within which you choose each day how
you will create your reality with the male-female principle inside of you, the Adam
and Eve principle, with the Tree representing your personal energy system, your own
cord of knowledge? How will you use your power? Will you create Paradise or be
Cast Out, as it were?
The challenge to each human is creation.
Will you create with reverence, or with neglect?

CHAPTER 9: CHOICE
The center of the evolutionary process is choice. It is the engine of our evolution.
Each choice that you make is a choice of intention. You may choose to remain silent
in a particular situation, for example, and that action may serve the intention of
penalizing, sharing compassion, extracting vengeance, showing patience, or loving.
You may choose to speak forcefully, and that action may serve any of the same
intentions. What you choose, with each action and each thought, is an intention, a
quality of consciousness that you bring to your action or your thought.
The splintered personality has several, or many, aspects. One aspect may be loving
and patient, another may be vindictive, another charitable and another selfish. Each
of these aspects has its own values and goals. If you are not conscious of all of the
different parts of yourself, the part of yourself that is the strongest will win out over
the other parts. Its intention will be the one that the personality uses to create its
reality. The charitable part of you, for example, may want to see the burglar that was
caught in your house given another chance, but if the vindictive part of you is
stronger, you will, perhaps with mixed feelings, press for his or her arrest.
You cannot choose your intentions consciously until you become conscious of each
of the different aspects of yourself. If you are not conscious of each part of yourself,
you will have the experience of wanting to say, or to intend, one thing, and finding
yourself saying or intending something else. You will want your life to move in one
direction, and find that it is moving in another. You will desire to release a painful
pattern from your experience, and see it reappear yet again.
It is not easy for a splintered personality to become whole because only some parts of
a splintered personality seek wholeness. The other parts, because they are not as
responsible, or caring, or compassionate as the parts that seek wholeness, pull the
other way. They seek to create what satisfies them, what they have become
accustomed to. These parts of the personality are often strong and well established.
The splintered personality must always choose between opposing parts of itself. This
is the backbone situation of our evolution. This is the foundational situation-the point
of choice.
The choice of intention is also the choice of karmic path. If you speak or act from
anger, for example, you create the karma of anger. If you speak or act with
compassion, you create the karma of compassion, and a different path opens before
you. This happens whether you are aware of the different parts of yourself or not,
whether even you are aware of the choices that you make at each moment.
Unconscious evolution through the density of physical matter, through the
experiences that are created unconsciously by unconscious intentions, has been the
way of our species to now. This is the unconscious road to authentic empowerment.
Conscious evolution through responsible choice is the accelerated way of evolution
of the multisensory personality, and the five-sensory personality that is becoming
multisensory. Responsible choice is the conscious road to authentic empowerment.
What is responsible choice?
As you follow your feelings, you become aware of the different parts of yourself, and
the different things that they want. You cannot have all of them at once because
many of them conflict. The part of you that wants more money and a bigger house
conflicts with the part of you that suffers with the poor and hungry. The part of you
that reaches out with compassion toward the beauty in others conflicts with the part
of you that wants to use others for your own benefit or gratification. When you
satisfy one part of yourself, the needs of another go unsatisfied. The fulfillment of
one part of you creates anguish in another, or others, and you are torn.

Just as the experimenter in quantum physics cannot produce the experience of waves
from physical light and the experience of particles from physical light at the same
time, and must choose which experience he or she will create, so you, also, as you
shape nonphysical Light must choose which experience you will create.
As you become conscious of the different parts of your personality, you become able
to experience consciously the forces within you that compete for expression, that lay
claim to the single intention that will be yours at each moment, that will shape your
reality. When you enter these dynamics consciously, you create for yourself the
ability to choose consciously among the forces within you, to choose where and how
you will focus your energy.
The choice not to choose is the choice to remain unconscious and, therefore, to wield
power irresponsibly. Awareness of the splintered personality and of its need for
integration brings with it the need for conscious choice. Each decision requires that
you choose which parts of yourself you want to cultivate, and which parts you want
to release.
A responsible choice is a choice that takes into account the consequences of each of
your choices. In order to make a responsible choice you must ask yourself, for each
choice that you are considering, "What will this produce? Do I really want to create
that? Am I ready to accept all of the consequences of this choice?" Project yourself
into the probable future that will unfold with each choice that you are considering.
Do this not with the energy of intention, but simply to test the water, to get the feel
for what you are considering creating. See how you feel. Ask yourself, "Is this what I
really want?" and then decide. When you take the consequences of your choice into
your decision, and when you choose to remain conscious, that is a responsible
choice.
Only through responsible choice can you choose consciously to cultivate and nourish
the needs of your soul, and to challenge and release the wants of your personality.
This is the choice of clarity and wisdom, the choice of conscious transformation. It is
the choice of the higher frequency energy currents of love, forgiveness and
compassion. It is the choice to follow the voice of your higher self, your soul. It is the
decision to open yourself to the guidance and assistance of your guides and Teachers.
It is the path that leads consciously to authentic power.
How does this happen?
You may be aware that deceiving another person is not in alignment with your soul,
but decide to do that anyway in order to gain a profit, or save a relationship that you
are not yet ready to lose. You may know that the path of compassion is to share your
thoughts and actions, and yet decide not to share them because you think that would
cost you money, or security. When you choose the energy of your soul-when you
choose to create with the intentions of love, forgiveness, humbleness and clarity-you
gain power. When you choose to learn through wisdom, you gain power. When you
choose to create with the energy of your personality, with anger, jealousy or fear
when you choose to learn through fear and doubt-you lose power. You gain or lose
power, therefore, according to the choices that you make.
The personality is interested in itself. It likes thrills, so to speak. It is not necessarily
responsible nor caring nor loving. The soul is the energy of Universal love, wisdom
and compassion. It creates with these energies. The personality understands power as
external; it perceives in terms of competition, threats, and gains and losses that are
measured against those of others. When you align yourself with your personality, you
give power to the realm of the five senses, to external circumstances and objects.
You disempower yourself. As you grow aware of your spiritual self and origin, your
immortal-ness, and you choose and live according to that first, and the physical
second, you close the gap that exists between the personality and the soul. You begin
to experience authentic power.

When you interact in terms of the perceptions of your personality, in terms of your
five senses, there is an illusion that you do not see. A disagreement between two
friends, for example, is not so much a disagreement as aspects of each surfacing in
order to be healed. If they were not souls in agreement, they would not be together at
all. If a father longs to be at the birth of his son, for example, but circumstances take
him elsewhere, the perception that he is elsewhere is an illusion. He is with his son.
As the personality becomes whole and empowered, it becomes content to let the
illusion play.
This is the creation of the dynamic of the soul whereby, no matter what situation it is
in, it creates the best of all worlds from the power that it draws to the situation. From
the perception of the personality, it is not possible to see clearly those human beings
who, from the outside, appear to be making foolish decisions, or to be unaware of
their environment, when in truth they are simply drinking from the finest nectar of
their environment and are totally content to let the illusion play.
The splintered personality is not content. The contentment that it feels in one moment
is replaced by anger or fear or envy in the next moment as conflicting aspects of
itself struggle with each other. Your responses to the struggles between the
conflicting aspects of yourself determine the way that you will evolve, consciously or
unconsciously, through the experience of negative karma or positive, through fear
and doubt or through wisdom. Your struggles themselves do not create karma or
determine the way that you will evolve, only your responses to them.
If your struggle with the conflicting parts of yourself is conscious, you are able to
choose consciously the response that will create the karma that you desire. You will
be able to bring to bear upon your decision an awareness of what lies behind each
choice, and the consequences of each choice, and choose accordingly. When you
enter into your decision-making dynamic consciously, you insert your will
consciously into the creative cycle through which your soul evolves, and you enter
consciously into your own evolution.
This requires effort, but is it really more difficult than living through the
consequences that follow a decision to act in anger, or selfishness, or fear when you
know that with each decision to act without compassion you yourself will experience
the discord, or fear, or anguish that you create in another? Is it not worth the effort to
project yourself ahead into the probable consequences of each of your actions, at
each point of choice, and see how you will feel in each instance, how comfortable
you will be with each of the consequences, if doing that will allow you to harvest
love, compassion and authentic power?
The effort that you apply to each decision to align yourself with your soul is
rewarded many times. The part of yourself that reaches toward Light may not be the
strongest part of you at the moment that you choose to journey toward authentic
power consciously, at the moment that you choose the vertical path, but it is the part
that the Universe backs.
When it becomes necessary, for example, for the physical, emotional body of a
person to heal, a dramatic shift in nutrition is often required wherein a person
must release every one of his or her eating habits and take on the habits of
eating certain foods that are much higher in vibration. Ninety percent of the
person's personality may not want to do that, but the ten percent that is choosing that
path for the sake of health and wholeness has more power ultimately than the ninety
percent that is fighting to remain where it is and have its own way, because the
Universe backs that ten percent and not the ninety percent.
Think in terms of what it means to make decisions and try to cause the rest of you to
fall into alignment with them, of responsible choice, and as you move into the
healing of who you are and the conscious journey toward what it is you want,
recognize that the Universe backs the part of you that is of clearest intention.

You are constantly receiving guidance and assistance from your guides and Teachers,
and from the Universe itself. When you choose consciously to move toward the
energy of your soul, you invite that guidance. When you ask the Universe to bless
you in your effort to align yourself with your soul, you open a passageway between
yourself and your guides and Teachers. You assist their efforts to assist you. You
invoke the power of the nonphysical world. That is what a blessing is: the opening of
a passageway between you and nonphysical guidance.
A personality that is conscious of its splintered-ness, and struggles consciously to
become whole, does not need to create negative karma in order to evolve, in order to
learn to create responsibility, in order to acquire authentic power. When you struggle
consciously with a choice between the wants of your personality and the needs of
your soul, you enter a dynamic through which you are enabled to evolve without
creating negative karma. That is the dynamic of temptation.
What is temptation?
Temptation is the Universe's compassionate way of allowing you to run through what
would be a harmful negative karmic dynamic if you were to allow it to become
physically manifest. It is the energy through which your soul is given the gracious
opportunity to have a dry run at a life lesson, at a situation that, if you can see
clearly, can be removed and healed within the confines of your private world of
energy and not spill into a larger energy field of other souls. Temptation is a dress
rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity.
The entire dynamic of temptation is the compassionate way of allowing you to see
your potential pitfalls, and cleanse yourself before you can affect the lives of others.
It is a form of decoy in which the negativity is compassionately drawn from you, if
you can see that before you create karma. As you respond to the decoy, you cleanse
yourself by becoming aware and not having to actually live through the experience.
You cleanse yourself without creating karma and interaction with other souls. How
exquisite is temptation. It is the magnet which draws your awareness to that which
would create negative karma if it were allowed to remain unconscious.
In other words, temptation is a thought form that is designed to draw possible
negativity from the human energy system without harming others. The soul
understands that. Left to its own device it would operate completely within the
human energy system, without spilling over and contaminating the collective
conscious.
Temptations are not traps. Each temptation is an opportunity through which the soul
is able to learn without creating karma, to evolve directly through conscious choice.
The dynamic of temptation is the energy of what might be thought of as the
challenging dynamic of the human experience, as the Luciferic principle. It serves
the purpose of assisting the evolution of power.
Lucifer means "Light bringer." Temptation, the Luciferic principle, is that dynamic
through which each soul is graciously offered the opportunity to challenge those
parts of itself that resists Light. The Luciferic energy is represented in the Garden of
Eden story by a snake, by the idea of a presence other than human that could tempt,
but, literally, could not have dominion over the human being. The Luciferic energy
tempts you, tempts the level of human being that is mortal, that is five-sensory, but
the snake cannot destroy the soul. It can merely threaten that part of you that
becomes too linked to the physical. The snake is of the Earth. When you are too close
to the Earth, when you find yourself honoring the gods of the Earth, and make Earth
your god and master, then so, too, you shall be bitten.
The Light-bringing energy, the Luciferic energy, that tempted the person Jesus of
Nazareth who became the Christ, and that tempted the person Siddhartha Gautama
who became the Buddha, is the same energy that tempts you. It tempts the accountant
to steal, the student to cheat, the spouse to adultery, the human being to external
power. It opposes the Light of your immortal soul to the physical light of your
personality. It sets before you the vertical path and the horizontal path. What is the
nature of transformation? It is the compassionate way of temptation.
Temptation is the gracious way of introducing each soul to his or her power. When
you are seduced or threatened by external circumstances, you lose power. They gain
power over you. With each choice that you make to align yourself with the energy of
your soul, you empower yourself. This is how authentic power is acquired. It is built
up step by step, choice by choice. It cannot be meditated or prayed into being. It must
be earned.
When you choose to release anger, for example, you create an energy template
around which your experiences will form. This energy pattern will draw to the
surface the anger within you in order that you can release it. When you choose to
challenge and to release a negative aspect of yourself, that aspect comes to the
foreground. Everything starts to serve that purpose. Your dreams show you the
archetypical dynamics of your anger. You find yourself continually in situations that
generate anger within you. Your life appears to be distorted around anger, because
that is the aspect of yourself that you have chosen to challenge, and the Universe has
responded to your choice with compassion.
When you consciously invoke growing, consciously invoke wisdom, you consciously
invoke the parts of yourself that are not whole to come into the foreground of your
life. With each recurrence of anger, or jealousy, or fear, you are given the choice to
challenge it, or to give into it. Each time you challenge it, it loses power and you gain
power. Each time you are tempted to become angry, or jealous, or fearful, and you
challenge that feeling, you empower yourself. There would be no accumulation of
strength inside if the choices that you make did not require discipline and intention.
If you decide that you cannot beat a temptation, what you are really doing is giving
yourself permission to be irresponsible. The desires and impulses that you feel that
you cannot resist, that you lack the power to overcome, are your addictions.
Addictions are the wants of the parts of your personality that are very strong and
resistant to the energy of your soul. They are those aspects of your personality, of
your soul incarnate, that are most in need of healing. They are your greatest
inadequacies.
Your addiction may be to food, or drugs, or anger, or sex. You may have more than
one addiction. In each instance, you cannot release the addiction until you understand
the dynamic that underlies it. Beneath every addiction is the perception of power as
external, as the ability to control and use the environment or others. Beneath every
addiction is an issue of power.
The journey to the soul begins with understanding that we are drawn automatically as
a species to come to terms with power. Each human being is experiencing the causes
and effects of his or her choices, his or her desires to fill in the empty, powerless
places within him or her. This dynamic can be described in terms of an insecure
humanity, but that is just the obvious. The mechanism at work is the journey toward
genuine, authentic empowerment.
This is why each human being struggles so deeply with power: the lack of it, the
acquisition of it, what it is really, how one should have it. Underlying every crisis,
emotional, spiritual, physical and psychological, is the issue of power. Depending
upon the lens that you wear to interpret your crisis, you will either step closer to your
soul or closer to the Earth.
The journey to wholeness requires that you look honestly, openly and with courage
into yourself, into the dynamics that lie behind what you feel, what you perceive,
what you value, and how you act. It is a journey through your defenses and beyond
so that you can experience consciously the nature of your personality, face what it
has produced in your life, and choose to change that.

CHAPTER 10: ADDICTION

You cannot begin the work of releasing an addiction until you can acknowledge that
you are addicted. Until you realize that you have an addiction, it is not possible to
diminish its power. The personality rationalizes its addictions. It dresses them in
attractive clothing. It presents them to itself and others as desirable or beneficial. A
person who is addicted to alcohol, for example, will say to herself or himself, or to
others, that
drunkenness is a way of loosening up, of relaxing after a tense day, of having fun,
and, therefore, it is constructive. A person who is addicted to sex will say to herself
or himself, or to others, that random sexual encounters are expressions of closeness,
or love, that they reflect an evolved and liberated perception, and, therefore, they are
desirable.
Recognition of your own addictions requires inner work. It requires that you look
clearly at the places where you lose power in your life, where you are controlled by
external circumstances. It requires going through your defenses. Even when striving
for clarity, or when outer circumstances-such as an injury caused by driving drunk,
or a marriage wrecked by promiscuity-provide evidence of an addiction, the
personality often clings to a perception of its addiction as a mere problem, initially,
as a small problem, then as a bigger problem, and then as a significant problem.
Why does the personality resist acknowledging its addictions?
Acknowledging an addiction, accepting that you have an addiction, is
acknowledgment that a part of you is out of control. The personality resists
acknowledging its addictions because that forces it to choose to leave a part of itself
out of control, or to do something about it. Once an addiction has been
acknowledged, it cannot be ignored, and it cannot be released without changing your
life, without changing your self-image, without changing your entire perceptual and
conceptual framework. We do not want to do that because it is our nature to resist
change. Therefore, we resist acknowledging our addictions.
An addiction is not merely an attraction. It is natural for males and females to admire
each other, for example, and to feel a warmth and attraction toward each other. An
addiction is more than that. An addiction is characterized by magnetism and fear.
There is attraction plus fear, plus a jolt of energy that is out of proportion to the
situation. Attractions are a pleasing part of life. They can be satisfied and left behind,
but addictions cannot.
An addiction cannot be satiated. A sexual addiction, for example, cannot be satisfied
by sex. This is the first clue that the dynamic that is involved in what appears to be a
sexual addiction is not sexual, but that the experiences of addictive sexual attraction,
or repulsion, serve a deeper dynamic.
An addiction can be anesthetized. A sexual addiction, for example, can be made
dormant within a relationship by a fear of losing the security of the relationship, but
it cannot be healed without a recognition that it is there, and an understanding of the
dynamic that lies beneath it. Unless this takes place, it will break through the
relationship, or the facade of monogamy, at those moments when the personality
feels most insecure, or most threatened. At these times, the personality will feel a
sexual attraction to others.
Sexual addictions are the most universal within our species because the issues of
power are tied so directly to the learning of sexuality within the human structure.
Sexuality and issues of power were created within our species to complement each
other. That is why each human being who is sexually out of control actually has
issues of power in which he or she is out of control with his or her own power. At
heart, they are identical. A person cannot be in

his or her own power center and be sexually out of control or dominated by the
sexual energy current. These cannot exist simultaneously.
What is the dynamic behind sexual addiction?
The experience of addictive sexual attraction is a signal to the experiencer that in that
moment he or she is experiencing powerlessness, and is desiring to feed upon a
weaker soul. This is the dynamic beneath all addictions: the desire to prey upon a
soul that is more shattered than oneself. This is as ugly to look at as it is to
experience, but it is the central core of negativity within our species.
Sex without reverence, like business without reverence, and politics without
reverence, and any activity that is done without reverence, reflects the same thing:
one soul preying upon another weaker soul. The way out of a sexual addiction,
therefore, is to remind yourself when you feel that attraction, that you are, in that
moment, powerless, and desiring to prey upon a soul that is weaker than yourself.
In other words, when you are feeling the draw of a sexual addiction, consider
simultaneously that you are in a mode of powerlessness that causes a desire to use
others to surface within you. That desire feels like a sexual attraction. Remind
yourself clearly of what it is that is being ignited in you. That does not mean that you
do not physically feel a connection or an attraction, but, underneath it, what causes
you to want to act is a different dynamic, one of powerlessness.
Allow this consciousness to penetrate deeply within you so that, at that point, if you
want to act on your addiction, you need to walk through your own reality.
If you are married, or in a monogamous relationship, remind yourself that acting
upon your impulse may, or will, cost you your marriage, or your relationship. Ask
yourself if what you want to do is worth that. If you are healthy, remind yourself that
acting upon your impulse may cost you your health, because you do not know
whether or not the partner that you have chosen carries a disease, such as AIDS. Ask
yourself if what you want to do is worth that risk.
Remind yourself that the partner to whom you are most likely drawn is drawn
equally to others, as are you, that he or she has no more feeling for you than you have
for him or her. You can be assured that this is the case because the sexual attraction
that you have felt for this person is a response in you of a weakness detection system,
so to speak, that you have used to scan those around you. When it locates a person
who is weak enough to be susceptible to you, to be seduced by you, it triggers within
you the experience of sexual attraction. Will you advance your masculinity, or your
femininity, by exploiting the weakness of this person? Will that gain you what you
want to gain?
Remind yourself that you both have chosen to interact sexually in ways that do not
ignite your feelings because, if your feelings were awakened, they would only let you
know that the person you are drawn to is no more emotionally involved with you
than you are with him or her. It is one thing to think that you are sexually involved
with someone and not feeling anything. It is another to face that neither is your
partner feeling anything for you.
Look closely at the dynamic in which you are involved, and you will see that when
one soul seeks to prey upon a weaker soul, and a weaker soul responds, both souls
are the weaker soul. Who preys upon whom? The logic of the five-sensory
personality cannot grasp this, but the higher order logic of the heart sees it clearly. Is
there truly a difference when two consciousnesses are trying to link into a dynamic
that ultimately will lead to balance when both have identical missing pieces? What
causes the need to dominate, for example, is the same that causes the need to be
submissive. It is merely the choice of which role the soul wishes to play in working
out the identical struggle.

Enter into your own fear, into your own sense of wanting a drink, or sex with a
different partner. Ask yourself to seriously review all of the times in your life that
you thought you would gain so much from that, and face what you gained.
Hold onto the thought that you create your experiences. Your fear comes from the
realization that a part of you is creating a reality that it wants, whether you want it or
not, and the feeling that you are powerless to prevent it, but that is not so. This is
critical to understand: your addiction is not stronger than you. It is not stronger than
who you want to be. Though it may feel that way, it can only win if you let it. Like
any weakness, it is not stronger than the soul or the force of will. Its strength only
indicates the amount of effort that needs to be applied toward the transition, toward
making yourself whole in that area of your life.
Recognize that what you are doing when you fear that you will be tempted, and that
you will not be able to resist the temptation, is creating a situation that will give you
permission to act irresponsibly. Is it possible to create a test that you cannot pass?
Yes. The experience of wanting to be tempted in order to test yourself is the act of
creating an opportunity to act irresponsibly, to say to yourself, "I knew I couldn't do
it, anyway," and give in to your addiction. The heart of making a temptation that is
greater than you can resist is that you do not wish to be held responsible for your
choice.
The greater the desire of your soul to heal your addiction, the greater will be the cost
of keeping it. If you-if your soul-have chosen to heal an addiction now, you will find
that the decision to maintain your addiction will cost you the things that you hold
most dear. If that is your wife or your husband, your marriage will be placed in the
balance against your addiction. If that is your career, your career will be placed in the
balance.
This is not the doing of a cruel Universe or a malicious God. It is a compassionate
response to your desire to heal, to become whole. It is the compassionate Universe
saying to you that your inadequacies are so deep that the only thing that will stop you
will be something of equal or greater value in opposition to your inadequacies. This
is the same dynamic that is expressed in terms of space and time and matter by the
second law of motion: "A change in the momentum (mass, direction of movement,
and speed) of a body in motion is directly proportional to the force affecting the body
in motion, and takes place in the direction that the force is acting." By the magnitude
of the costs of your addiction you can measure the importance of healing it to your
soul, and the strength of your own inner intention to do that.
Try to realize, and truly realize, that what stands between you and a different life are
matters of responsible choice. In your moments of fear, what you are obscure about
in your thinking is the power and magnitude of your own choice. Recognize what
your own power of choice is. You are not at the mercy of your inadequacy. The
intention that will empower you must come from a place within you that suggests
that you are indeed able to make responsible choices and draw the power from them,
that you can make choices that empower you and not disempower you, that you are
capable of acts of wholeness. Test your power of choice because each time you
choose otherwise you disengage the power of your addiction more and more and
increase your personal power more and more.
As you work through your weaknesses, and you feel levels of addictive attraction,
ask yourself the critical questions of the spirit: If, by following those impulses, do
you increase your level of enlightenment? Does it bring you power of the genuine
sort? Will it make you more loving? Will it make you more whole? Ask yourself
these questions.
This is the way out of an addiction: Walk yourself through your reality step by step.
Make yourself aware of the consequences of your decisions, and choose accordingly.
When you feel in yourself the addictive attraction of sex, or alcohol, , or drugs, or
anything else, remember these words: You stand between the two worlds of your
lesser self and you're full self. Your lesser self is tempting and powerful because it is
not as responsible and not as loving and not as disciplined, so it calls you. This other
part of you is whole and more responsible and more caring and more empowered, but
it demands of you the way of the enlightened spirit: conscious life. Conscious life.
The other choice is unconscious permission to act without consciousness. It is
tempting.
What choose you?
If your decision is to become whole, hold that decision. You will not be as tempted
or as frightened as you think. Hold it and remind yourself again and again: You stand
between your lesser self and your whole self. Choose with wisdom because the
power is now fully in your hands. Do not underestimate the power of consciousness.
As you live and make conscious choices each moment and each day you fill with
strength and your lesser self disintegrates.
As you choose to empower yourself, the part of you that you challenge, the
temptation that you challenge, will surface again and again. Each time that you
challenge it, you gain power and it loses power. If you challenge an addiction to
alcohol, for example, and you are drawn twelve times that very day to have a drink,
challenge that energy each time. If you look upon each recurrence of attraction as a
setback, or as an indication that your intention is not working, you choose the path of
learning through fear and doubt. If you look upon each recurrence as an opportunity
that is offered to you, in response to your intention, to release your inadequacy and to
acquire power over it, you choose the path of learning through wisdom, for that is
what it is.
The first time that you challenge your addiction, and the second, and the third, you
may not feel that anything has been accomplished. Do you think that authentic power
can be had so easily? As you hold to your intention, and as you choose again and
again and again to become whole, you accumulate power, and the addiction that you
thought could not be challenged will lose its power over you.
When you challenge an addiction, and choose to become whole, you align yourself
with your nonphysical help. The work to be done is yours, but assistance is always
there for you. The nonphysical world, the actions of your guides and Teachers,
touches yours in many ways-the thought that brings power, the memory that reminds,
the surprise occurrence that reinforces. There is much joy in the nonphysical world
when a soul releases major negativity and the quality of its consciousness shifts
upward into higher frequencies of Light. Therefore, do not suffer in aloneness. There
is no such thing.
Look at yourself as someone who is reaching for healing, and at the complexity of
what needs to be healed. Do not think that you exist alone without other human
beings of equal complexity. All that the human experience is about is the journey
toward wholeness. Therefore, you can look at each individual and rest assured that
they are not whole. They are in process. Were they whole, they would not be
physical upon our plane. In other words, you have the company of billions of souls.
When you have worked hard, take the time to appreciate what you have done. Do not
always look at the distance that you have yet to travel. Join your nonphysical
Teachers and guides in applauding what you have accomplished. This does not mean
to relapse into your addiction. It means allowing yourself to rest when you need it, to
recognize when you become exhausted, and to give yourself the grace of knowing
that even the best of us get tired.
Understanding the dynamics behind your addiction is one thing. Actually making the
emotional connection to discharge the need for it is another story. Your addiction is
not insurmountable. It is not overwhelming. If it continues to appear that way to you,
it is because deep in your heart you do not see yourself as able to release the
addiction, even if you understand why you are drawn to it. If your addiction lingers,
ask yourself if you really want to release it, because in your heart you do not.

Until you fill in the inadequacies within you, you will always have your addiction. In
order to release your addiction, it is necessary to enter your inadequacies, to
recognize that they are real, and to bring them into the light of consciousness to heal.
It is necessary to look deeply into the parts of yourself that have such power to you,
to look clearly at how deep they are within you, and to see them as honestly as you
can. It may be that your addiction has provided you one of the few genuine pleasures
of your life. What is more important to you, your wholeness, and your freedom, or
the pleasures that you get from satisfying your addiction?
When you understand that your addiction results from an inadequacy, the question
becomes how you will respond to your inadequacy-by reaching for another drink, or
another sexual encounter, or by reaching inward for those things that fill the whole?
Move into how strong the power of your addiction is, into how deeply you feel its
attraction, and ask yourself if the time is really right for you to release this form of
learning. That is for you to ask and answer. You may hear the guidance of your
nonphysical Teachers, and feel that it offers you a path of higher wisdom, but at the
same moment realize that you are not ready to take that path. You might decide that
this is not the right time, that you are not yet strong enough to live a certain way. You
might indeed have to face that.
Ultimately, you will take the higher path, but if you wish to put the journey off for a
day or a week or seven lifetimes, that is sufficient. Your Teachers see from a
perspective that does not include time. It is the depth of wisdom for you to know that
you will eventually take the path of consciousness. If that is the path that you will
eventually take, why wait? Yet, there are times when there is wisdom in waiting as
the rest of you prepares for the journey. There is no shame in this decision.
The Universe does not judge. Eventually, you will come to authentic empowerment.
You will know the power of forgiveness, humbleness, clarity and love. You will
evolve beyond the human experience, beyond the Earth school, beyond the learning
environment of space and time and matter. You cannot not evolve. Everything in the
Universe evolves. It is only a question of which way you will choose to learn as you
evolve. This is always your choice, and there is always wisdom in each choice.
When you return home, when you leave your personality and body behind, you will
leave behind your inadequacies, your fears and angers and jealousies. They do not,
and cannot, exist within the realm of spirit. They are the experiences of the
personality, of time and matter. You will once again enter the fullness of who you
are. You will perceive with loving eyes and compassionate understanding the
experiences of your life, including those that seemed so much to control you. You
will see what purposes they served. You will survey what has been learned, and you
will bring these things into your next incarnation.
If you choose to continue with your addiction, you choose to experience negative
karma. You choose to create without compassion. You choose to be unconscious.
You choose to learn through the experiences that your unconscious intentions create.
You choose to learn through fear and doubt, because you fear your addiction and you
doubt your power to challenge it successfully.
If you choose to challenge your addiction, to move consciously toward wholeness,
you choose to learn through wisdom. You choose to create your experiences
consciously, to align the perceptions and the energy of your personality with your
soul. You choose to create within physical reality the reality that your soul wishes to
create. You choose to allow your soul to move through you. You choose to allow
Divinity to shape your world.
When you struggle with an addiction, you deal directly with the healing of your soul.
You deal directly with the matter of your life. This is the work that is required to be
done. As you face your deepest struggles, you reach for your highest goal. As you
bring to light, heal, and release the deepest currents of negativity within you, you
allow the energy of your soul to move directly into, and to shape, the experiences and
events of physical reality, and thereby to accomplish unimpeded its tasks upon the
Earth.
This is the work of evolution. It is the work that you were born to do.

CHAPTER 11: RELATIONSHIPS

There are certain growing dynamics that can occur only within the dynamic of
commitment. Without commitment you cannot learn to care for another person more
than yourself. You cannot learn to value the growth of strength and clarity in another
soul, even if that threatens the wants of your personality. When you release the
wants of your personality in order to accommodate and encourage another's growth,
you attune yourself to that person's soul. Without commitment, you cannot learn to
see others as your soul sees them-as beautiful and powerful spirits of Light.
The archetype of spiritual partnership-partnership between equals for the purpose of
spiritual growth-is emerging within our species. This is different from the archetype
of marriage which was designed to assist physical survival, and in which the partners
do not necessarily see themselves as equals. When individuals enter into a marriage,
the ability of each to survive physically is enhanced. They are more capable together
of finding fire, shelter, food and water, and of defending themselves, than they are
individually. The marriage archetype reflects the perception of power as external.
The archetype of spiritual partnership reflects the conscious journey of multisensory
humans toward authentic power. Spiritual partners recognize the existence of the
soul, and consciously seek to further its evolution. They recognize nonphysical
dynamics at work within the world of time and matter. They see matter as the
densest, or heaviest, level of Light that is continually being shaped and reshaped by
the souls that share this sphere of learning. They consciously co-create their
experiences with each other, with an alive Earth that loves Life very much, and with
a compassionate Universe.
Communities, nations and cultures-all of our collective creations-are built upon the
values and perceptions of the five-sensory personality, the values that are reflected
by the archetype of marriage. They are designed to serve the physical survival of our
species. They also reflect the decisions of our species to learn through fear and doubt.
Our entire world is built upon the energy of the fivesensory personality that has
chosen to learn through fear and doubt. Nations fear nations, races fear races, and the
sexes fear each other. The exploration of physical reality, which is external power,
could have been accomplished in a spirit of cooperation with, and appreciation of,
the Earth. Instead, we chose as a species to explore it with a sense of domination and
exploitation. This is the path of learning through fear and doubt, fear of the physical
environment and doubt that we fit naturally into it.
Our world reflects the basic thought form that there is no afterlife, that in this lifetime
the only thing that insures power is what can be had and gained. Sometimes we speak
of an afterlife, but we do not really believe that after we leave the Earth we are still
responsible for the choices that we have made upon the Earth or our choices would
be very different.
Our species is no longer humble. It has no reverence. It is arrogant and filled with its
own technology. It seduces itself constantly in terms of its illusions that it is in
control, and so it creates chaos and still refuses to see that it is impossible for it to
control. We take from the Earth and from each other. We destroy forests and oceans
and atmosphere. We enslave each other, and torture and beat and humiliate and
murder each other.
When the archetype of spiritual partnership-of individuals joined in equality for the
purpose of spiritual growth-emerges at the level of community, it creates values and
perceptions at that level that reflect those of the multisensory personality. Just as
individuals that bond in spiritual partnership and choose to express their bond
through the convention of marriage infuse the energy of spiritual partnership into the
archetype of marriage, and thereby create new values and behaviors within marriage,
individuals that join in spiritual partnership at the level of organization, city, nation,
race and sex infuse the collective consciousnesses of these levels with the energy of
spiritual partnership, and create new values and behaviors at these levels.
The evolutionary process that occurs at the level of the individual is the same process
that occurs at each level of interaction between individuals. When an individual
invokes the energy of the archetype of spiritual partnership, not only the partnership
that it forms with another individual is affected, but also its community, nation and
the global village. Your decision to evolve consciously through responsible choice
contributes not only to your own evolution, but also to the evolution of all of those
aspects of humanity in which you participate. It is not just you that is evolving
through your decisions, but the entirety of humanity.
If you wish the world to become loving and compassionate, become loving and
compassionate yourself. If you wish to diminish fear in the world, diminish your
own. These are the gifts that you can give. The fear that exists between nations is a
macrocosm of the fear that exists between individuals. The perception of power as
external that separates nations is the same that exists between individuals; and the
love, clarity and compassion that emerge within the individual that chooses
consciously to align itself with its soul is the same that will bring sexes, races,
nations and neighbors into harmony with each other.
There is no other way. Though each human being is responsible for the quality of
Life that he or she personally experiences, simultaneously that extends into the
macrocosm.
The threat of nuclear annihilation, for example, is a macrocosmic idea or notion on
our Earth, and it requires the complete evolution of the microcosm in order for that to
evaporate. So long as those who strive to establish harmony at the level of nations
have within themselves the anger and violence that they seek to heal between
nations, the harmony that they seek to create at the macrocosmic level cannot come
into being. What is in one is in the whole, and therefore, ultimately, each soul is
responsible for the whole world.
When you commit to a spiritual partnership with another human being, you bring the
energy of the archetype of spiritual partnership into the physical arena. You begin to
form and to live by the values, perceptions, and actions that reflect equality with your
partner and a commitment to his or her spiritual development and your own. You
begin to set aside the wants of your personality in order to accommodate the needs of
your partner's spiritual growth, and, in doing that, you grow yourself. That is how
spiritual partnership works.
You begin to see that what is necessary to the health of your partnership is identical
with what is necessary to your own spiritual growth, that each of you holds the pieces
that the other is missing. If you are jealous, for example, you will find that jealousy is
what brings to the surface in your partner an aspect that needs to be healed, and that
that aspect is mirrored in yourself. You begin to value your partner's contribution to
your development. You experience that his or her perceptions and observations are
helpful, and, indeed, central, to your growth, that conversations between you stir
deep waters.
You learn the roles of love and commitment and trust in making your partnership
work. You learn that love alone is not enough, that without trust, you are not able to
give and to receive the love that both of you have for each other. You learn that your
commitment must be translated into a form that satisfies the needs of both you and
your partner. You learn to value the needs of your partner as much as you value your
own, because the partnership that you both want requires two healthy and inwardly
secure individuals.
You learn to trust not only each other, but also your ability to grow together. You
learn that you put your partnership most at risk by avoiding that which you are most
afraid will destroy it. It is not easy to express what is inside you, especially that
which makes you feel vulnerable or painful or angry or upset. These are the emotions
that empower words that can do either damage or can do so much healing. You learn
that sharing your concerns with consideration and the intention to heal and trust in
the process is the only appropriate avenue. As you approach your needs with courage
instead of fear you ignite a sense of trust. The true human condition in its most
perfect form has no secrets. It does not hide, but exists in clear love.
You learn not to do stupid and careless things to each other. You learn that wanting
what you want is not enough, but that you must both want it deeply and create it
every day, that you must bring it into being and hold it in being with your intentions.
As the consciousness of each of you becomes lighter, your partnership becomes
richer.
You learn the value of considering the other's position. By becoming the other
person, by truly walking into the fears of the other and then returning into your own
being again, you open up the conversation to transcend the personal and become
healing at the impersonal. This allows you to see each other as spiritual playmates as
you work through the areas that require healing in each of you. Even into the
toughest moments of your work on feelings of insecurity you can be light and remind
yourself that you are spirits who have taken on the physical experience and have far
greater power than you are showing in that moment of weakness.
The things that are the individual's to learn in spiritual union with another individual
are the group's, the community's and the nation's to learn in spiritual union with other
groups, communities and nations. The choice in each instance is between learning
through fear and doubt or through wisdom, between the lower-frequency energy
currents of the personality and the higher-frequency energy currents of the soul. If
the anger of one personality toward another creates distance, shatters intimacy and
causes defensiveness, the anger of one nation, or religion, or sex toward another
produces the same. If the concern of one personality for another produces closeness,
appreciation and mutual regard, the concern of one nation, or religion, or community
for another produces the same. The dynamic is identical.
You are related to every form of Life upon this planet and beyond. As your soul
evolves, you move into greater awareness of the nature of that relationship, and the
responsibilities that you assume.
Within our species there are degrees of soul consciousness. The significance of the
evolution of responsibility is that each human being moves through levels of
responsibility on its way to wholeness. In other words, as a soul chooses the lesson of
responsibility, it will find itself incarnating into an atmosphere of more potential
impact upon the species. The personality must also come to agree with what the soul
has chosen. If you are not consciously ready, you will not be put into a position to
impact many for the protection of your own soul.
A soul that is new to the human experience, for example, a soul that has evolved
from the animal kingdom and is beginning its journey of human evolution, although
there are very few of them at this point, begins within a certain frequency range, and
for its own protection incarnates into a limited sphere of human life. It may incarnate
into a remote region so that it can have a gentle life familiarizing itself with the
human physical experience. As it becomes more adept at the human sensory system,
at human intelligence, at the connection between the soul and body energy and what
is expected within a human incarnation, its capacity to move and incarnate into more
responsible centers of activity increases. Center of activity does not mean the
presence of a city or a university, but an activity of karmic proportion.
In other words, a person that is living in a remote area in which the temptations of
life and the definitions of good

and evil are far more clear, and in which there are not as many temptations, is not in
the same karmic center as a soul that has chosen to incarnate as one who would have
a larger sphere of influence within a family, or a community, or a nation. A soul's
center of activity refers to the degree of expansion of its karmic influence and energy
influence. A soul needs to be more advanced to handle the possibilities that come
from the expansion of its karmic energy influences. This is the significance of the
evolution of responsibility.
As souls choose to participate consciously in more inclusive levels of interaction,
they take on not only their own transformation, but also those of the larger
collectives in which they participate. Think of your consciousness in terms of
physical light. That light shines, but a brighter light shines over a wider range, and a
dimmer light shines on a smaller range. The extent to which your light shines is the
width and depth and breadth of your karmic influence. If you are a major light you
shine upon the entire globe. If you are growing into a major light but are a lesser light
you shine 'within a different range of which you are held karmically responsible, but
your potential to shift your own quality of consciousness and the quality of
consciousness of others is equally enormous.
Within the sphere of possibilities and probabilities for the soul there exist many
opportunities, including the possibility that the soul might choose, for example, its
most remote path of growth instead of the one that is most natural to its energy, so to
speak. If, in the privacy of his or her own spiritual choices, as he or she advances in
faith and in courage and in feelings for his or her own humanity, a soul may well
open that door which leads to greater awareness and to greater karmic influence and
responsibility. Whereas that possibility might have existed with only a small
probability at the time of the soul's incarnation, a door that would open only under
certain circumstances if this happened and then if that happened-it may become so
that the soul does indeed find its way to that path.

Every micro consciousness, or individual soul, affects the macro consciousness

depending upon its quality of Light, upon the frequency of its consciousness. A soul
that agrees to incarnate into a lifetime in which it has significant potential to affect
the lives of many is a great soul. The quality of power of such a soul is great. It is
global. Its capacity to touch the lives of millions, and, indeed, billions of human
beings is very real, and so will be its karmic debt if it fails in its task to advance
humanity. It will have the karmic responsibility of billions of souls upon its own.
Great souls upon our planet, like all souls upon our planet, must make decisions
moment by moment. As you look upon the many souls of our Earth who stand in
major positions to maneuver the lives of thousands, or millions, or billions of human
beings, allow yourself to distinguish them from their personalities. Even though a
soul has the ability to influence the lives of billions of people, or even the entirety of
humanity, its personality is tempted.
When the personality, Jesus, encountered the Luciferic principle, the challenging
principle of our species, when he was offered dominion over the entire globe, the
fulfillment of all that he could conceive, was he tempted? Yes, he was tempted. If he
were not, there would have been no power in his choice. Were the choice of the path
of glory that he chose not balanced against another of equal attraction, how could he
have drawn such power from that choice? Authentic empowerment is not gained by
making choices that do not stretch you.
When a soul chooses the vertical path, when it chooses to evolve consciously through
responsible choice, it becomes capable of liberating itself from its own negativities. It
reaches for authentic power. It takes on, so to speak, its own negativity, the
unconscious intentions of the splintered parts of its personality. As a personality
becomes conscious, as it evolves into a multisensory personality and becomes
integrated, the frequency of its consciousness increases. It becomes whole. Its
negativity's drop away and the quality of its consciousness becomes lighter. It
becomes able to see itself and those around it with compassion and clarity, with the
wisdom of its soul.
When a soul chooses to participate consciously in more inclusive levels of
interaction, it becomes capable of participating directly in the liberation of its family,
or its group, or its community, or its nation from the negativity's that are present and
active at those levels. It also runs the risk of contamination by those negativities. In
other words, a soul that seeks to bring a higher quality of consciousness to a more
inclusive level of human interaction runs the risk of being contaminated by the fear,
or the anger, or the selfishness of that level.
Great souls, such as the soul that was Gandhi, for example, run the risk of great
contamination. At the level of soul contact, a great soul deals not only with its own
fear, its personal fear, but it also takes on the evolution of the collective fear of the
species. The weight of that is where a great soul risks contamination on a great level,
but its possibility of releasing the fear from the collective consciousness of the
species becomes also possible.
The consciousness of a great soul is symbolic of the larger consciousness, the macro
consciousness, that holds the same values and fears and guilt. That macro
consciousness might be the collective consciousness of the United States, or the
Soviet Union, or Ethiopia. The many souls that form that collective are in continual
dialogue with its own. The great soul is the person who has taken on the task of
change. If he or she is able to transcend fear, to act out of courage, the whole of its
group will benefit and each one, in his or her own life, will be suddenly more
courageous, though they may not see how or why.
Not all souls accomplish the tasks that they have set for themselves. As you look at
the individuals who are in major positions of influence upon our planet you can see
whether or not they are succeeding in their tasks of advancing humanity by the
choices that they have made. Some have chosen to align themselves, like
mannequins, with the dying consciousness of the five-sensory human that has existed
within the collective consciousness of each of our nations. They have chosen, in
other words, to represent a system that is disintegrating, and so their own systems are
disintegrating before their eyes. Their comrades are corrupt. Their governments are
corrupt.
These souls represent a form of power that is no longer effective, but they have failed
to understand that. They draw to themselves those whose consciousnesses are aligned
symbolically and in terms of beliefs to their own. They choose to walk the shifting
pattern of fear and selfishness. They exhibit great paranoiac energy, and, therefore,
they attract to themselves, their governments and their militaries fellow human
beings that have the same paranoiac desire to destroy life, as if the destruction of life
will save our planet, but it will not.
Through the decisions that they have made, these souls have refused to acknowledge
that the older forms of power, the perception of power as external, no longer will be
tolerated upon the Earth. Nonetheless, the evolution from external power to authentic
power is occurring now in full force, and so their decisions affect only how that shift
will take place. They have chosen the path of fear and doubt, of trauma and pain.
The difference between a great soul that aligns itself with openness and growth and
interdependence, that transcends its fear on behalf of itself and its collective, and one
that does not is that the soul that chooses openness has a different active level of
courage and insight and wisdom, and the one that does not has consistently weakened
under the impact of the fear of the collective. Choice to choice to choice to choice,
negativity upon negativity, and a Hitler is created. The soul that was Hitler had great
potential as well.

Every soul that agrees consciously to bring to a level of human interaction the love
and compassion and wisdom that it has acquired is trying through his or her own
energy to challenge the fear patterns of that collective. This is the archetypical
pattern that was put into place within our species by the Teacher, Jesus. It is what He
symbolized as He moved through His lifetime in the way that He did. He released the
negative karmic patterns of the collective unconscious that had accumulated to His
time. In each great soul it is the same pattern-the pattern of taking on the whole
through the power of his or her own consciousness to transform it.
When a soul reaches for authentic power and chooses consciously to bring that
power into the levels of interaction that it shares with other souls, it enters this
dynamic. It brings to a collective energy system the consciousness of authentic
power, and through that power engages in the transformation of that collective.
Your evolution toward authentic power, therefore, affects not only you. As the
frequency of your consciousness increases, as the quality of your consciousness
reflects the clarity, humbleness, forgiveness and love of authentic power, it touches
more and more around you. As your temptations become greater, so does your ability
to make responsible choices. As you shine brighter, as your Light and power increase
with each responsible choice, so does your world.

CHAPTER 12: SOULS

Each human being has a soul. The journey toward individual soul-hood is what
distinguishes the human kingdom from the animal kingdom, the vegetable kingdom
and the mineral kingdom. Only the human kingdom has the experience of individual
soul-hood. That is why its powers of creation are great.
The soul process moves through degrees of awareness. Animals, for example, do not
have individual souls. They have group souls. Each animal is a part of a group soul.
Each horse is a part of the group soul of horse, each cat is a part of the group soul of
cat, and so on. A group soul is not the same as an individual soul.
Consider, for example, the group soul of buffalo. There is one group soul of
enormous impersonal energy that is called, "buffalo." It is an enormous expansive
sphere of impersonal energy that is buffalo consciousness. It exists at a level of
simply energy dynamics, not individual selfhood. That energy is in continual
movement. As it heightens in frequency, it can spill over into the next level, and it
also can absorb other frequencies from a lower level, so the soul continues. It is a
group soul, not individual. There are not individual buffalo souls within a whole.
There is only one soul energy system wherein there is no individual-hood. Instinctual
behavior is the way of the group soul.
Picture a movement that looks like the mouth of the Mississippi River. As you walk
up the river from that place, the river grows more and more and more narrow until it
reaches but a point of power. The open mouth area is analogous to a group soul. The
size of it, the collective nature of it, is the group soul. This is the nature of the souls
in the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. In other words, "cat" is a cat soul,
"dolphin" is a dolphin soul, and so on.
Within the animal kingdom, there are graduations of intelligence and awareness. For
example, dolphin, horse, and dog are not on the same wavelength. The consciousness
of the dolphin is closer to the consciousness of the ape, and then closer to the
consciousness of the dog, but the consciousness of the horse is on a level beneath
them.
It is possible that the human soul can be produced through the evolution of the
animal kingdom as a collective energy from the animal soul.
How does this happen?
The dolphin soul, for example, evolves through each particular individual dolphin.
The particular advancements of each particular dolphin advance the soul of the
dolphin itself. The collective is enhanced by the accomplishments of the individual
dolphin. The same mechanism works within the human kingdom. With each of our
individual advancements, the group soul of humanity what we call our collective
unconscious-evolves. In this way, evolution continues within the dolphin species, as
within all species.
Let us say, arbitrarily, that the consciousness of the dog soul is twenty percentile
points below that of the dolphin soul, twenty points less than the intelligence of the
dolphin. If the group soul of dog produces high Light consciousness, it is possible for
that consciousness to release itself from the group soul of dog and advance into and
penetrate the consciousness of dolphin. Likewise, it is possible, and it does happen,
that human beings' souls come from the advanced soul energy of the dolphin soul or
the ape soul, and begin their process of evolution into the human soul.
Unlike an animal, you have an individual soul. You are an individual energy system,
a micro of a macro. As part of the micro, you have all the power of the macro
calibrated to an individual form of certain energies. Animals are not micros of a
macro. Cats, for example, do riot have individual souls or ego energy. They are
merely physical manifestations of a huge macro system. That certain cats are scared
and certain are comforted is merely the different numerous millions of frequencies
that interact into the group cat soul.
Animals do not evolve through responsible choice as we do. Rather, the frequency of
their consciousnesses becomes Lightened in the fullness of the evolution of their soul
as a group. This does not mean that animals are not capable of individual acts of
love. What of an animal that lays down its life for its human? That is as legitimate a
sacrifice of love of life as it is for a human, because in that instance the animal
realizes that it is willingly releasing its life. That, for an animal, is graduation to the
human experience, or to its next higher level.
The nature of a group soul can be seen through its manifestations. The nature of
dolphin soul, for example, is expressed through dolphins. The same is true for our
species. The nature of the soul of humankind can be seen through the nature of
human beings.
The dolphin soul is leaving the Earth, that is, the dolphin species is becoming extinct.
The dolphins are beaching themselves. They are creating diseases within themselves.
This is their way of refusing to continue to live upon the Earth. They feel that they
cannot fulfill the purpose for which they are born. Therefore, they are leaving. Their
deaths are not suicides because they are not frightened. They are exhausted.
The dolphin soul manifests itself-dolphins are born to bring love and life and
creativity to the oceans. They manifest to form a bridge of joy and love and
intelligence between the aquatic kingdom and the human kingdom. This they cannot
do. Our species reaches toward the dolphin soul only with brutality.
The dolphin spirit-how it suffers! This is a time of great sorrow. It is a time to look
soberly and deeply upon the values and behaviors that result from the perception of
power as external. It is a time to grieve with the dolphin soul, to offer comfort to it.
If you wish to offer comfort to the dolphin soul, image from the heart of the dolphin
consciousness that your energies are moving below deep warm clear soothing water.
As you feel yourself emerging into the aquatic kingdom, let yourself begin to radiate
your thoughts to these fellow creatures that share our planetary home. Image that you
are sending them love as they continue their evolution and leave the Earth school,
that you grieve with them and yet you know that, like you, they are immortal. Send
these thoughts. Let them know they are not leaving without human beings
understanding. Let them hear you say, "I am one who understands."
Can you do that?
It will make their grieving journey of value.
There is more than one avenue from which individual souls are formed. Part of the
chain of evolution within our global village is the process of this advancement from
kingdom to kingdom to kingdom, but if a soul that has not been before upon our
planet chooses the human experience, it would not be necessary for that soul to move
through kingdom evolution. It would, indeed, pick up the situation within the
physical environment that is most appropriate for it.
There are souls that have never had the human experience. When we speak of souls
entering the physical arena to heal, to balance their energy, to pay their karmic debts,
we are speaking of the evolution of Life as we know it upon our Earth. We are not
speaking of other galaxies, or of Life on other levels that are not physical as we know
them. The experience of physical-ness is not always necessary to certain advances. If
it is, it is encouraged.
There comes a point when the physical-ness experience no longer serves the soul's
awareness, and, therefore, the soul chooses to learn in the nonphysical realm. It may
choose to learn, for example, through the task of becoming a nonphysical guide.
Each individual human soul is a micro of the macro that is the soul of the human
species, but the soul of humankind is not a micro of a macro. In other words, there is
no larger spiritual human soul beyond the soul of humanity. Beyond that comes the
experience of master, the experience of moving into advanced levels of Light that is
no longer specific to human.
Our nonphysical Teachers are from these levels of Light. Therefore, it is not
appropriate to consider them from the dynamic of the personal. Rather, it is more
appropriate to think of them as impersonal consciousnesses, which is that which they
are, from realms that cannot be understood in human terms. They do not, for
example, have the splintered personality aspects that we have. They do not have
shadow sides, so to speak. Does an Angel have a soul? An Angel is its soul, its full
soul.
That is the difference between that which is whole and in union and that which is
growing into it. Duality only exists in certain levels, and not in others. Duality is a
dynamic of learning. It is its own rhythm and tension and does not exist beyond
another level of learning and development. You are existing in duality and your on
physical Teachers are not.
This is not their home, so to speak. They are teachers to our plane. They are free to
teach in our plane without being of our plane. Your nonphysical Teacher does not
become of this plane when it counsels you any more than a parent becomes an infant
in order to teach its infant. It is not necessary. That level of evolution is assumed in
the presence of the parent. It is simply the natural dynamic of evolution.
We are destined to evolve beyond the nature of duality. Duality is that which is
understood in time and space. As you evolve beyond that, and also when you leave
your physical body and journey home to your nonphysical plane of reality, you will
not exist in dualism, and that sense of the wrathful, or sorrowful, or fearful self that
you think of as present to you now will evaporate. It has no power in the realm
beyond duality where there exists the perfection of all that is. When you leave your
physical form, you will join the nonphysical level of reality that is appropriate to
your vibrational frequency at the time that you leave your incarnation.
Where do advanced human souls go?
There are many forms of Life that exist as advancements of this one. There are
literally millions of options. There is life in numerous galaxies. There are millions,
indeed, billions of other life-filled planets. There is not one planet that lacks a level
of active consciousness, some of which is akin to our human form, and some of
which does not come close to our form, but remains consciousness as we understand
the term.
There exists a realm that the religious language of the West would call the Angelic
kingdom. This is a range of beings of numerous frequencies and qualities of
consciousness, many of whom guide and interact with us upon the Earth. This realm
is indeed balanced with other forces, but it cannot be understood in human terms.
Evolution continues in that realm, although there is that perception that our words
"harmony" and "perfect-ness" would address. An Angel might be thought of as a
force of consciousness that has evolved into an appropriate teaching modality for the
planetary village called Earth, but may also have been a part of the evolution of other
galaxies and Life forms there.
An Angel's home, so to speak, is that kingdom, the Angelic kingdom, and the range
of nonphysical Life forms that exist within and lower than and beyond that
vibrational sphere. Angels continue evolution, as do other members of that realm, as
do those consciousnesses that we would recognize as masters, such as those after
whom religions have been named upon our Earth. That evolution continues, but there
is perfect-ness rather than the experience of fusing consciousness with matter that
occurs within our Earth school.
Does the law of karma apply to nonphysical beings?
The law of karma is universal in the sense that there is not a Life form that is not
responsible for its energy, but karma cannot be understood in terms of nonphysical
dimensions in the same way that we understand it. An Angel does not have the
barriers that we have. An Angel sees something, for example, and we do not. The
difference is a barrier. An Angel does not have our barriers, and so it cannot create
the karma that we do. It has a level of sight and knowledge that prevents certain
actions from happening simply because of the depth of knowingness that is of its
rank in creation.
The great law of karma works because an Angel still has will, but an Angel is armed
with a great deal more than the limitation that characterizes the human experience.
An Angel does not fear death. It has no physical-ness. It is only that it is immortal. It
is with all that is. It has no doubt. It sees and lives in Light, so the ingredients that
create karma for the human experience are not part of its personal reality. Although
an Angel has will, the circumstances cannot be described in which that will might
bend in the wrong way, if there were such a thing, or in a negative way. In one sense,
an Angel can be considered to have evolved beyond the need to be tested, and,
therefore, for it, there is no karma.
Other levels also exist, such as the level in which disincarnate spirits are bound close
to their physical-ness in the immediate environment of the Earth arena. These spirits
do not pursue the journey back to their higher selves, but remain bound with their
nonphysical individual states close to the Earth.
Imagine that your personality, your characteristics, and part of your nonphysical self
wish to remain intact and not proceed on their evolution. The process of the soul
discharging the aspects of personality does not happen. A combustion and congestion
occurs within the energy system. Usually this happens when a soul cannot accept that
it must move on and release a particular incarnation. In some instances, a soul holds
on to a personality because that personality was particularly successful or powerful in
its lifetime.
The congestion in the process of evolution that occurs produces the phenomena that
we refer to as evil spirits, ghosts, or possessions. These spirits choose to remain
Earthbound, within the Earth's auric field. Are they evil? They are negative, yes, but
evil is another issue. Do they encourage negativity? Yes, but that is part of the law of
attraction; their own energy is drawn to like forces of energy, or like forces of
weakness. Within this realm, these spirits can create additional negative karma by
pursuing malevolence.
Therefore, it is possible to speak of evolving beyond karma, as the Buddha's do.
They are referring to the karma of the Earth where there is always this circumstance
of choice between how you want to learn, which path shall you choose. The Buddhas
refer to the Earth, to the human experience and how it is set up, which is with free
will, choice, placed between faith and doubt, good and evil, between the choices and
dualisms that our species has created. It is that karma that they are referring to, not
the karmic patterns that cease to be once you, as a soul, no longer require learning in
the world of duality. Even though Angels have will they do not accumulate karma as
we think of it. It is not part of their dimension. Yet they have will. The law of karma
as we understand it is the law of karma for physical matter and spirit, not for spirit.
Many realms that are nonphysical are not Angelic. In addition to the realm of
disincarnate human beings that are bound close to the Earth, for example, there is the
Devic community of our Nature kingdoms. There are numerous, numerous realms of
nonphysical life. Beyond the Angelic realm are realms upon realms of intelligence
that we would think of as God.

Within the human species there exist degrees of soul consciousness. Not all humans
are equally aware of their souls. Therefore, do all human beings have equal potential?
Yes and no. This question is complex. It cannot be answered simply because among
souls that are on the same frequency band, such as those within the Earth school,
there is a common quality of consciousness, yet there is a difference between their
ranges of consciousness. An individual that is not quite as expanded in his or her
awareness is not equal in the sense that we usually mean equal to someone of greater
awareness. There is an inequality. Yet it is not an inequality that remains unequal. It
is just a temporary level of momentum in the flow of evolution.
A soul has no beginning and no end, and yet some souls are older than other souls.
Both are true. All souls come directly from the Godhead, and yet there is no single
way that souls are formed individually. Both are true. Understanding the soul
becomes paradoxical only if you apply a type of thinking that holds the notion of
beginning.
All that is can form itself into individual droplets of consciousness. Because you are
part of all that is, you have literally always been, yet there was the instant when that
individual energy current that is you was formed. Consider that the ocean is God. It
has always been. Now reach in and grab a cup full of water. In that instant, the cup
becomes individual, but it has always been, has it not? This is the case with your
soul. There was the instant when you became a cup of energy, but it was of an
immortal original Being.
You have always been because what it is that you are is God, or Divine Intelligence,
but God takes on individual forms, droplets, reducing its power to small particles of
individual consciousness. It is a massive reduction of power, yet the power is as full
in that droplet as it is in the whole. It is as immortal and as creative and as expressive
but in its tinier form its energy is reduced appropriately to its form. As that little form
grows in power, in selfhood, in its own consciousness of self, it becomes larger and
more Godlike. Then it becomes God.
This is a process that parallels the process of your personality, which is of your soul,
expanding into your higher self, and thereby coming into the full power of your soul
incarnate. It also parallels the process of your personality and higher self reentering
the fullness of your soul when you leave the Earth. As an individual soul, you remain
an individual soul. You are both individual and one with all that is.
The individual unit of evolution is the soul. This perception is new to us because, as a
species, we have not before been aware of the existence of the soul. In our religious
thoughts we acknowledge what we call the soul, but we have not, until now, taken it
seriously enough to consider what the existence of the soul means in terms of
everyday experience, in terms of the joys and pains and sorrows and fulfillments that
make a human life.
We have not turned our attention to the needs of the soul. We have not considered
what is required by the soul in order to be healthy. We have not studied the soul, or
sought to help it attain what is necessary to its evolution and its health. Because we
have been five-sensory, we have focused upon the body and the personality. We have
developed an extensive knowledge of the physical apparatus that the soul assumes
when it incarnates. We know of amino acids, neurotransmitters, chromosomes, and
enzymes, but we do not know of the soul. We do not know how these physical
functions serve the soul, or are affected by it.
We seek to cure dysfunctions of the body by controlling its environment at the
molecular level. In other words, our approach to healing is based upon the perception
of power as external. This type of healing can be helpful to the body, but it does not,
and cannot, heal at the level of the soul.
Consider that those who are trained in this way are accustomed to learning about Life
through the study of dead matter. They seek to learn of Life through the study of
carcasses and corpses. Through the study of that which does not have spirit, how can
they see spirit? Even as such minds look out into this vast galaxy, they cannot see
Life because they are convinced that the entire galaxy does not have Life, except as
they see it and identify it, so the Life forms and the brothers and sisters that we have
on other galaxies remain hidden, and will remain hidden until the basic premise that
Life is and permeates all that is, that there is only Life, becomes the principle of what
we call science. Then we will explore the physics of the soul. Then we will study
Life with Life and not dead matter and not try to breathe intelligence and purpose
into it by taking apart in our laboratories human forms and animal forms. This will be
seen someday as a very primitive form of learning because there is no consciousness
there.
The body is the instrument of the soul. If the piano player is sick, does it help to
repair his or her piano? What an instrument produces depends not only upon the state
of the instrument, but also upon the musician. If the musician plays the blues, or
soars with joy, the instrument follows. Even a tuned and polished instrument cannot
soar with joy if the musician chooses sadness or grief. In the case of your soul and
body, the instrument becomes the blues, or soars with joy. If the musician becomes
consumed with grief, or anger, or sadness, the instrument disintegrates. In some
cases, a broken instrument can be repaired, but a repair at that level cannot cure what
caused the breakdown.
After several years of marriage to a willful partner, an acquaintance of mine found
herself suffocating in the relationship, unable to express her deepest desires and her
creativity. One winter morning her husband's jeep, which was parked on their steep
driveway, broke loose and rolled over her, crushing her pelvic area. Surgery and
chemicals healed her hips and eased the pain of her body, but can surgery mend the
damage that is done when a woman's creativity-represented, in this case, by her
pelvic area, her reproductive capability, the physical symbol of her feminine
creativity-is crushed by the uncontrolled macho masculinity of her husband-
represented, in this case, by a runaway jeep? Can chemicals ease the pain of a
suffering soul?
Is it chance that one person develops heart disease, while another develops cancer?
Even though disease states have correlations to factors of diet, exercise, lifestyle, and
heredity, these correlations cannot mask the fact that life, for some people, is a
heartbreak, while others allow themselves to be consumed, to be eaten alive, by the
negative experiences of their lives. Can by-pass surgery or chemotherapy heal that?
Are the numerous ways that physical dysfunctions occur without meaning? Health
for some people is a matter of the heart, for others a matter of what they can digest or
eliminate in the course of their lives, for others a matter of the head, and for others a
matter of being able to hear, or to see, or to move through their lives flexibly, or to
stand on their own, or literally to handle the experiences of their lives. These are the
issues that must be addressed directly and openly and honestly in the creation of
health.
This does not mean that it is inappropriate to care for the body, or to see a physician
in times of illness. Even though the physical is not as real, so to speak, as the
nonphysical, it is, nonetheless, the lowest, densest projection of spiritual matter, and,
therefore, it must be honored. It must be honored. The body needs rest, and it needs
care, but behind every aspect of the health or illness of the body is the energy of the
soul.
It is the health of the soul that is the true purpose of the human experience.
Everything serves that.

CHAPTER 13: PSYCHOLOGY

Psychology means soul knowledge. It means the study of the spirit, but it has never
been that. Psychology is the study of cognitions, perceptions and affects. It is the
study of the personality.
Because psychology is based upon the perceptions of the five-sensory personality, it
is not able to recognize the soul. It is not able to understand the dynamics that
underlie the values and behaviors of the personality. Just as medicine seeks to heal
the body without recognizing the energy of the soul that lies behind the health or
illness of the body, and, therefore, cannot heal the soul, psychology peeks to heal the
personality without recognizing the force of the soul that lies behind the
configuration and experiences of the personality, and, therefore, also cannot heal at
:he level of the soul.
In order to develop and nurture your mind and your body, it is necessary to realize
that you have a mind and a body. To heal directly at the level of the soul it is first
necessary to acknowledge that you have a soul. If you have a soul, is it a hollowness
that myth-logically fills your rib cage? No. If, then, your soul is real and alive with
force end beingness, what is its purpose?
To develop a healthy and disciplined mind, an intellect hat can expand wholesomely
and fully into any task, requires more than merely recognizing the existence of the
rind. It requires understanding how the mind works, ,what it desires, what
strengthens it and what weakens it, and then applying that knowledge. In the same
way, it is not possible to consciously assist the soul in its evolution merely by
recognizing the existence of the soul. It is necessary to understand the soul's
temperament, to learn what he soul can tolerate and what it cannot tolerate, what
contributes to its health and what breaks its health down. these things must be looked
at.
The means for doing this have not yet been developed. ale have not yet created a
disciplined and systematic understanding of the soul. We do not understand how our
Behaviors and activities affect the soul. When we see the ~personality in
dysfunction, we do not think of what this reveals about the soul. Yet the personality
is specific aspects of the soul reduced to a physical form. Therefore, dysfunctions of
the personality cannot be understood without an understanding of the soul.
The fears, angers, and jealousies that deform the personality cannot be understood
apart from the karmic circumstances that they serve. When you understand, and truly
understand, that the experiences of your life are necessary to the balancing of the
energy of your soul, you are free to not react to them personally, to not create more
negative karma for your soul.
Pain by itself is merely pain, but the experience of pain coupled with an
understanding that the pain serves a worthy purpose is suffering. Suffering is
meaningful. Suffering can be endured because there is a reason for it that is worth the
effort. What is more worthy of your pain than the evolution of your soul?
This does not mean that you become a martyr. When you understand that by
consciously serving the evolution of your soul you contribute the most that you can
to your world, you become one who contributes consciously to the well-being and
spiritual development of those who share the human learning experience with you. If
you are unkind to yourself you will be unkind to others, and if you are negligent of
yourself you will be that to others. Only by feeling compassion for yourself can you
feel compassion for others.
If you cannot love yourself, you cannot love others and you cannot stand to see
others loved. If you cannot treat your own self kindly you will resent that treatment
when you see it in anyone else. If you cannot love yourself, loving others becomes a
very painful endeavor with only occasional moments of comfort. In other words,
loving others, or how you treat yourself, is your own dose of your own medicine that
you really give to others at the same time.

Individuals who experience what might be thought of as a martyr attitude see

themselves as giving all that they have to others. They see this as a form of loving,
but in truth the love that they give is contaminated because it is so filled with sorrow
for themselves. A sense of guilt and powerlessness clouds the energy from their
hearts and so when their affection is felt by another it does not feel good, actually. It
feels somehow thick with need, yet the need is never articulated, so their love feels
like cement pulling you.
When you can do kindly things to yourself then you know what it is to be able to
love yourself. Then you can look at others who desperately need kindness and love
and feel good about their getting it, not patronizing, but truly good. This is the energy
of the soul. This is the perception of the soul. When there is no compassion, when
there is guilt, remorse, anger or sorrow, there is opportunity to heal the soul. What is
the relationship of these experiences to a healthy soul and to a soul that is not
healthy? What is a healthy soul?
A spiritual psychology is necessary to answer these questions, a new discipline of the
spirit that is truly of the spirit, that has as its focus the soul of the human being.
Human evolution, and the evolution of the spirit in matter, is a very specific
evolution. It is not haphazard. It is not chaotic. It is very specific. When certain
necessary processes of the maturation of the union of matter and spirit are not
honored, the spirit breaks down. Psychologists have attempted to explain these
breakdowns in the terms of psychology. We can continue to use that language, but let
psychology then expand to include a language of the spirit. This will eventually
become its first tongue, so to speak, and all psychoses and psychotic breakdown will
finally, eventually, be put into its proper language, which is shattered spirit.
Re-incarnation and the role of karma in the development of the soul will be central
parts of spiritual psychology. The characteristics of a personality, the qualities that
make one personality different from another, cannot be appreciated without an
understanding of the karma that created those characteristics. They cannot always be
understood in terms of the history of the personality because they may reflect
experiences that predate the personality, in some cases by centuries. At issue,
therefore, is not the effects of anger, jealousy, bitterness, sorrow and so forth upon
the personality, but upon the soul.
An understanding of each of the personalities, each of the lifetimes, of a soul is not
necessary. The numerous, numerous lifetimes of a soul are not equally central to the
development of each of its personalities, but without awareness of the experiences of
those lifetimes that bear directly upon the struggles of your personality, you cannot
understand the extent of what is being healed through your experiences, or seeking to
come to conclusion. If your soul was a Roman centurion, an Indian beggar, a
Mexican mother, a nomad boy, and a medieval nun, among other incarnations, for
example, and if the karmic patterns that were set into motion within those lifetimes
are in motion within you, you will not be able to understand your proclivities, or
interests, or ways of responding to different situations without an awareness of the
experiences of those lifetimes.
It may be that the medieval nun of your soul developed an ability to see an Angel.
What an extraordinary spiritual achievement! Your nonphysical Teacher will come to
you upon those same frequencies of Light. She gives to you the fruits of a lifetime of
contemplation and struggle and pain and courage. The Roman centurion of your soul
is not dead millennia ago. That energy can literally step into your body and want to
hold a modern weapon out of curiosity.
Do you dislike certain types of people? Were you drawn to medicine as a child? Are
you frightened of small places? Reactions such as these are not always explainable in
terms of the experiences of your life. The healing power at the core of psychology is
the power of consciousness. Seeking out, facing with courage, and bringing into the
Light of consciousness that which is unconsciousness, and, therefore, in a position of
power over the personality, is what heals. When that which needs to be made
conscious is not recognized to exist-such as the experiences of lifetimes that were
lived in other places and at other times-it cannot be healed in this way.
Have you left a partner or a spouse? Has a spouse or a partner left you? It may be that
your souls have graciously and with great compassion agreed to enact within this
lifetime a situation that they have experienced together in another lifetime, or other
lifetimes, a situation that still has healing potential for both. It may be that your souls
have agreed to a mutual balancing of energy, so that one experiences the same
painful loss that it inflicted previously upon the other. Experiences such as these are
not meant to cause meaningless pain. There is not one act in the Universe that is not
compassionate.
Your parents are the souls to whom you are closest in your lifetime, and whose
influence upon you is the greatest. This is so even if it does not appear that way, even
if, for example, you were separated from your parents, or a parent, at birth. Your soul
and the souls of your parents agreed to your relationship in order to balance the
energy that each needed to balance, or to activate dynamics within each other that are
essential to lessons that each must learn. Without an awareness of your karmic
interactions, of the experiences of other lifetimes of your soul, you are not able to
understand the depth of the potential awakenings that can result from your
interactions with a parent, or a sibling.
The exploration and understanding of intuition will be a central part of spiritual
psychology. Intuition is the voice of the nonphysical world. It is the communication
system that releases the five-sensory personality from the limitations of its five-
sensory system, that permits the multisensory personality to be multisensory. It is the
connection between the personality and its higher self and its guides and Teachers.
Psychology does not even recognize the intuition, except as a curiosity. Therefore, it
does not recognize the knowledge that is obtained through the intuition, and,
therefore, this knowledge is not processed by the intellect.
The five-sensory personality processes only the knowledge that it gathers and
substantiates through its five senses. The multisensory personality acquires
knowledge through its intuition, and, in processing that knowledge, aligns itself, step
by step, with its soul. The conscious path to authentic power requires recognition of
the nonphysical dimensions of the human being, of the soul, and a growing
knowledge of what the soul is and what it wants.
Spirituality will be at the core of spiritual psychology. Spiritual psychology will be
oriented toward spirituality and spiritual crises will be considered legitimate
sufferings. Spiritual psychology will trace and understand the functional
relationships between karma, reincarnation, intuition and spirituality.
Spirituality has to do with the immortal process itself. You have your intuition, for
example, but your spirituality is not limited to your personality and its intuitional
system. Your spirituality encompasses your whole soul's journey, whereas your
intuition is the way that your soul can contact your beingness to help it in survival
situations, or in creative situations, or in inspirational situations. It is the way that,
through your higher self, you can ask and receive assistance from other souls and
from your Teachers and guides. Your spirituality pertains to that which is immortal
within you, whereas, when you leave your body, the intuitional system that was
developed for that body will be left behind because it will no longer be necessary.
Spiritual psychology is a disciplined and systematic study of what is necessary to the
health of the soul. It will identify behaviors that operate in opposition to harmony
and wholeness, in opposition to the energy of the soul. It will consider the broad-
reaching elements of negativity, and how many forms of negativity there are, and the
effects of these upon the soul.
Anything that increases separation within a person shatters the soul or in some form
diminishes its strength, not to be confused with its immortality. The soul, as it
reduces itself to fit into a physical incarnation, has the blueprint of holism in it. A
genetic spiritual pattern, so to speak, of holism is there and present, and when the
personality operates outside of the genetic pattern of holism, dysfunction results.
Spiritual psychology will bring to light those situations that would shatter the spirit if
seen clearly. Brutality, for example, shatters the human spirit. The soul cannot
tolerate brutality. It cannot tolerate abundances of pain and irrationality. It cannot
tolerate being lied to. Consider that on our planet. It cannot tolerate non-forgiveness.
It cannot tolerate jealousies and hatreds. These are contaminants, poisons, for it.
When the personality engages in these behaviors, it is as though it feeds its body
arsenic again and again. It is just like that. These behaviors distort and contaminate
and destroy the strength of the soul, in the same way. This is the distortedness of the
soul that the physical reduced counterpart of the soul, called the personality, takes on
in order to cleanse, in order to let other souls see so that it can be helped.
Understanding this dynamic is at the heart of spiritual psychology. It is the
foundation upon which spiritual psychology is built so that when pain is seen it is not
responded to with judgment or ugliness or avoidance, but recognized as the soul
shattered. In this way, we shall say, in this circumstance, let us heal him. Let us heal
her. Let us not run from the unattractiveness of a shattered soul.
The personality of a shattered soul is unaware. There is a continual interaction
between your personality and your soul. The question is are you aware of it or are
you not? If you are not aware of it, then it is not direct. It is indirect through having
to move its currents through the density of doubt, through the density of
unawareness. If you are aware of the guidance from your higher self, and are
receptive to it, that receptivity allows guidance to flow instantly and immediately. If
you are unaware and deny that there is any level of higher wisdom and guidance to
your life, then the guidance must come through the density of physical events.
Awareness first enters into an unaware personality through crisis. When the
personality is not attached to, or is apart from, clear soul energy, it becomes seduced
into the physical matter-ness of life. That always results in a personality crisis
because the necessary strength and guidance that are meant to flow into the
personality have been cut off. The personality that is unaware of, or denies the
existence of, its higher sources of wisdom cannot draw upon its guidance, its
intuition, or any of the guiding mechanisms of our species. Therefore, crisis results.
Was it meant that crisis be central to our growth? No. This pattern evolved through
the choices that were made by our species. The flow of our evolution did not have to
include this pattern of crisis. It did not have to include the experiences of pain and
trauma, of emotional or physical violence and brutality in order to grow. It was given
in Divine order that our species would move into wholeness at some point in its
evolution. How it moved and learned in the course of its evolution was left to be
determined by the choices that our species made of how to maneuver energy within
the Earth school. Doubt was created and chosen as the major teacher through human
choice itself. Our species chose this way of learning, and, therefore, set karmic
patterns into motion, generational karmic patterns.
As our species evolved, as it experienced its spectrum of fears, its spectrum of
desires, its spectrum of attachments to the physical, collectively and individually
certain choices began to characterize and form the path that would be most familiar
to us. Awakening into the need to touch something more, to touch one's own spiritual
energy system, is now a well-worn path that includes the experience of becoming
physically powerless in relation to the structure of the Earth school before the soul
will reach for genuine power.

In other words, the awakening of the personality to the potential of the soul has come
to require the loss of a mate, or the death of a child, or the collapse of a business, or
some situation that renders the individual powerless. It requires the failure of external
power. That, to the fivesensory personality, is crisis.
Spiritual psychology addresses this situation by addressing directly the issue of
authentic power. It is timely because it comes at a time when our species is evolving
beyond the five-sensory personality, beyond learning through five-sensory
exploration of the physical world, which is external power, and into the experiences
of the multisensory personality, the experiences of the nonphysical world and the
conscious journey toward authentic power through responsible choice with the
assistance of nonphysical guides and Teachers.
The personality, including the five-sensory personality, is neither positive nor
negative. It is a tool of the soul, a natural part of incarnation. The development of the
five senses was a celebration in which the intellect was expanded and our species
was allowed to learn through physical matter. The quest for external power came to
be generated by insecurity not because of the limitations of the five-sensory
personality, but because of the choices that were made by our species to learn
through fear and doubt instead of through wisdom.
Our species is again being given the chance to choose how it will learn, how it will
evolve. This is a time for us as a species and as individuals to choose again. It is an
opportunity for us as a species and as individuals to choose differently, to choose
otherwise, to choose this time to learn love through wisdom, to take the vertical path
of clarity, of conscious growth and conscious life.
We are coming to the end of a phase of evolution that was written long before we
existed. When the learning and evolution of our species was designed, it was
designed to complement cycles, great cycles that work within the Universe, within
our galaxy and within others. These cycles move within physical form at certain
speeds, serving certain purposes and balances of energies.
The cycle that we are ending, and, therefore, beginning, is of a moment in which
three cycles come to conclusion and begin again. These cycles act one inside of the
other. Just as the moon orbits the earth which orbits the and there are orbits within
orbits, so, too, there are cycles within cycles. We are coming to the close of a grand
cycle astrologically, a two thousand year cycle, and an even grander cycle, where a
twenty-five thousand year cycle is linking with a conclusion of a one hundred and
twenty five thousand year cycle. That is why these things, within this moment in our
evolution, are happening now. This is when they were meant to be.
The negativity of the last two thousand year cycle is being collected now so that it
can be discharged and transformed, so that the next cycle of two thousand years
which starts with the next beginning cycle of twenty-five thousand years and the next
beginning cycle of one hundred twenty-five thousand years, all three simultaneously,
can begin fresh.
This is what this present situation and moment upon our Earth is about: the birth of
very different opportunities, opportunities to release patterns that are no longer
necessary. The more Light, literally, the more enlightened that you are, the more you
will choose different ways.
Spiritual psychology will support the choice to learn through wisdom, the choice to
release patterns of negativity, of doubt and fear, that are no longer appropriate to who
we are and what we are becoming. It will make clear the relationship between the
personality and the soul, the differences between them, and how to recognize those
differences. It will make explicit the effects of interactions between personalities
from the perspective of the impersonal energy dynamics that they set into motion,
and it will show how these dynamics can be used to heal.

CHAPTER 14: ILLUSION

Each interaction with each individual is part of a continual learning dynamic. When
you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows
each soul to perceive what it needs to understand in order to heal. It creates, like a
living picture show, the situations that are necessary to bring into wholeness the
aspects of each soul that require healing.
The illusion is a learning vehicle. It is of the personality.
You will leave the illusion behind when you die, when you return home. Yet a
personality that lives in love and Light, that sees through the eyes of its soul,
metaphorically speaking, can see the illusion and simultaneously not be drawn into it.
This is an authentically empowered personality.
The illusion is exquisitely intimate to the needs of each soul. Always each situation
serves each person involved. You cannot, and will not, encounter a circumstance, or
a single moment, that does not serve directly and immediately the need of your soul
to heal, to come into wholeness. The illusion for each soul is created by its intentions.
Therefore, the illusion is alive at each moment with the most appropriate experiences
that you can have in order for your soul to heal.
The illusion is malleable. This does not mean that what is created jointly within the
illusion does not have an independence of the individual souls that participated in its
creation. It means that there is no perception that cannot be healed, just as there is no
intention that cannot be changed, or replaced with another. Understanding how the
illusion comes into being, how it works, the dynamics behind it and the role that it
plays in the evolution of the soul is at the heart of spiritual psychology.
Spiritual psychology allows the personality to detach itself from the illusion and,
therefore, to see it from a knowledgeable perspective, to see it in action. Just as, for
example, an intelligence with a knowledge of modern medicine would be able to live
among the populations of Europe during the time of the bubonic plague and not be
affected by it, a personality with knowledge of the illusion and how it works is able
to live within it and not be affected by it.
Bubonic plague is transmitted by fleas on rodents. This is known now but it was not
known then. By keeping his or her environment clean, by avoiding all that attracts
rodents, and by practicing personal hygiene, such a person could not only survive,
but also keep others safe as well. When we experience fear or anger or jealousy, we
are in an illusion that is designed to bring to awareness those parts of the soul that
require healing. These things do not actually exist. That is why pursuing them does
not bring power. What exists between souls is love, and that is all that exists. By
understanding this, the personality is able to remain aware within the illusion, to
accept consciously the healing that it offers, and to help others heal as well. The
power of awareness and knowledge is identical in both situations.
The illusion holds power over you when you are not able to remember that you are a
powerful spirit that has taken on the physical experience for the purpose of learning.
It has power over you when you are compelled by the wants and impulses and values
of your personality. It holds power over you when you fear and hate and sorrow and
fester in anger or strike out in rage. It has no power over you when you love, when
compassion opens your heart to others, when your creativity flows unimpeded
joyously into the present moment. In other words, the illusion has no power over a
personality that is fully aligned with its soul.
The illusion is governed by impersonal energy dynamics. It is shaped initially by the
law of karma. The configuration of each personality, the unconscious intentions with
which it is born, is determined by the karma of its soul. These intentions shape that
personality's illusion, its reality within the Earth school, until they are replaced by
other intentions, unconscious or conscious. If the reactions of the personality create
additional karma for the soul, and if that karma cannot be balanced within the
lifetime of the personality, that karma contributes to the shaping of another
personality, and the intentions of that personality create its illusion, its reality within
the Earth school, and so on.
Even after a personality becomes conscious and aware of its illusion, and sets its
intentions accordingly, the karmic obligations of its soul must still be met. Karma is
karma. Energy is energy. The awakened personality understands this, and therefore,
does not respond to the experiences and the events of its life with anger, fear, sorrow,
or jealousy, which would create additional negative karma for its soul, but with
compassion and with trust that the Universe, in each moment, is attending to the
needs of its soul. This draws to it other souls with the same frequency of
consciousness.
Each personality draws to itself personalities with consciousnesses of like frequency,
or like weakness. The frequency of anger attracts the frequency of anger, the
frequency of greed attracts greed, and so on. This is the law of attraction. Negativity
attracts negativity, just as love attracts love. Therefore, the world of an angry person
is filled with angry people, the world of a greedy person is filled with greedy people,
and a loving person lives in a world of loving people.
The law of attraction creates a cocoon, so to speak, of like energy around each
personality so that as it seeks to heal its anger, or its fear, or its jealousy, the
metamorphosis process into wholeness is intensified and accelerated, is brought to
the center of the stage of awareness. The personality sees its anger or its fear not only
within itself, but everywhere outside itself as well. If the personality chooses
consciously to heal its anger, or its fear, every circumstance, every encounter
becomes irritating or fearful as the Universe compassionately responds to its desire to
become whole.
As the anger, or the fear, within a personality builds, the world in which it lives
increasingly reflects the anger, or the fear, that it must heal, so that eventually,
ultimately, the personality will see that it is creating its own experiences and
perceptions, that its righteous anger or justifiable fear originates within itself, and
therefore can be replaced by other perceptions and experiences only through the
force of its own being.
Just as the frequency of anger evokes a like frequency in the consciousness of those
around an angry personality, the frequency of love awakens also like responses. It is
the intention that determines the effect. If what you offer to others is not sensitive, if
it does not support and nourish, if it does not empower but disempowers them, it will
be met with resistance at some level, and that resistance will be the counterpart of
your energy that seeks to disempower, or to control. Separation and distance are
always the result of the pursuit of external power.
Within this impersonal framework operate the dynamics of temptation and
responsible choice.
The human emotional system can be broken down into roughly two elements: fear
and love. Love is of the soul. Fear is of the personality. The illusion of each
personality is generated by and sustained by the emotions that follow fear, such as
anger, rage, vengefulness, hatred, jealousy or envy, loneliness, spite, sorrow, despair,
grief, regret, greed, lust, arrogance, alienation, self-pity, lethargy, guilt, resentment,
and feelings of inferiority and superiority. Emotions such as these lead to
corresponding behaviors, such as selfishness-toward people and animals and the
Earth and the kingdoms of the Earth-and using others in the many ways that humans
use one another commercially, sexually, emotionally-and lying, manipulation,
violence, brutality, impatience, ridicule, and judgment.
When the personality is unconscious, every emotion of fear, or that follows fear,
produces a negative behavior, a behavior that creates negative karma for its soul.
Each of the emotions that follows fear can cause any of the behaviors that are based
upon fear. Jealousy, for example, can result in lying, or in ridicule, which are forms
of manipulation, or in violence. Greed can result in impatience, which is a form of
selfishness, or judging or using others.

If you are unconscious of the part of yourself that is angry, for example, if you are
unaware of yourself as a splintered personality, you will enact the anger of that part
of yourself without thinking. You will strike out, or withdraw, or ridicule, or in some
way express your anger. Your anger will spill out of your private energy sphere and
into the collective energy of those around you, creating negative karma. As you
encounter the results of your own anger, as they come back to you through the laws
of karma and attraction, you, or another of your soul's personalities, eventually will
learn to create differently, and so on for each of the negative emotions that follows
fear.
Behind fear is powerlessness. As you reach outward to fill the places within you that
are empty of power, you learn, one by one, that those places cannot be filled in that
way. Eventually, whether in this lifetime, or after a thousand lifetimes, you will turn
toward authentic power. This is the unconscious way of learning. It is learning
through the experiences that are created by the unconscious parts of the personality,
and through the experiences that are created by unconscious responses to those
experiences.
If a personality is aware of its splintered state, if it is aware not only of the aspect of
itself that is angry and demands vengeance, for example, but also of the aspect of
itself that is compassionate and understanding, it benefits from the dynamic of
temptation. It is able to preview the consequences of identifying with the frequency
of energy that is anger that is running through its system, to look them over in
advance of living them, and to decide whether they are worth expressing the anger
that it feels. It is able to foresee, through its decision to foresee, how expressing the
current of anger in that moment will affect itself and the people around it, and also
the effects of expressing understanding and compassion.
The unconscious personality is not aware in the moment of its anger or its rage that
there are aspects of itself that would prefer to respond with compassion and
understanding, but it would recognize them if it could see clearly in that moment.
What of the parts of itself that suffer the loneliness and alienation that result from
expressing anger, the parts that long for warmth and companionship, for relationships
of a depth and quality that are not possible to those who live in anger or fear or
jealousy?
If the personality that is tempted decides to align itself with love, with clarity,
understanding, and compassion, it gains power. The impulse towards anger, or
resentment, or vengeance loses power over it, and in this way, step by step, conscious
decision by conscious decision, it becomes truly powerful. If it decides to remain
unconscious, to avoid responsibility for its actions, it allows negative currents of
energy to form its words and shape its actions. This results in negative behavior, and
this results in negative karma.
What does this mean in terms of the illusion?
Negative behavior produces within others and within oneself negative emotions and,
therefore, more opportunities to gain power through responsible choice or to create
negative karma. Negative karma means that the personality that chooses negative
behavior will experience that same negative behavior from another personality, and,
again, be given the opportunity to decide to release or continue that mode of learning.
This is the illusion. It is an illusion because you and the other souls that are involved
have agreed, in compassion and wisdom, to participate in the learning dynamics of
the Earth school in order to heal. It is illusion because within nonphysical reality
neither space nor time nor anger nor jealousy nor fear exist. It is an illusion because
when you return home it will cease to be.

Therefore, how are you to judge a soul that is involved

in this learning process? What step, or steps, do you abstract and say, "This is
wrong", "That is worthy", "Here she has succeeded" and "Here he has not"? You
cannot judge the learnings of a soul on the basis of how that learning takes place
without creating negative karma. In other words, a soul is capable of being examined
in process. Just as you can ask yourself, "Where does my anger come from?" and
realize that it springs from a multitude of dynamics, some of which were set into
motion centuries ago, or longer, and that are only now coming to completion, that it
is a current of energy within you that you are seeking to release in order to heal your
soul and balance your karmic energy, you cannot try another as if you were a judge
in a court for a single angry experience. Rather you would have to see clearly that
there is a process unfolding and add to that the factor of karma.
You can only judge that the soul is involved by its own will in a process of healing,
and that it is evolving, as are you, and as is the rest of the Universe. This is
nonjudgmental justice. It is justice that does not judge the process of the soul's
evolution except that it recognize with love that the soul is reaching for love.

It is not the way of the Universe to look through the eyes of right and wrong and
failure or success. How do you know what "success" is? Can you see in fullness the
causes and effects of your being and of your acts and of your words? Therefore, how
do you know what success is, and how can you possibly imagine what failure is?
What is "failure" but a cause and effect? What we call failure is simply a cause and
its effect, simply the process of cause and effect in action. It is wise to imagine the
dynamics that we think of as "failure" and "success" as not truly existing, because
they do not, not from the position of truth, only from the position of judgment.
How can you say what within the illusion is worthy and what is not? "Unworthiness"
is the judgment of not being perfected, but look around you. Do you see perfection
completed by each human being, except that they are, in their own process, perfect
and worthy? It is the process that is worthy and perfect at all times, and in that you
complete the task fully.
How is it possible to know what to pursue within the illusion and what not to pursue?
Ask yourself what is the difference between your essential needs and your adopted
needs, or perhaps another term might be artificial needs. What are your genuine
needs, and what are the needs that you have created for other reasons, to control, or
to maneuver others, or to gain attention? Distinguish these in your mind. Know
yourself reply and clearly enough to recognize what is a legitimate need of you as a
human being and of you as that part of yourself that has created needs for certain
other reasons-such as to gain external notice, or prestige, or to become a
distinguishable individual. Learn to identify these and then choose which you wish to
live with.
For example, is your irritation at the neighbor's noise a result of a genuine need that
is going unmet, or a created need? Does your annoyance with the sounds that the
garbage truck makes, or your desire to have the clerk at the grocery store treat you
politely, reflect an essential need or an artificial one? Learn to distinguish your real
needs, what you truly need as a human being and a soul, from the needs that you
have adopted for reasons that are based on external power and do not emerge from
the needs of your soul. Once you get a clear sense of that you can begin to separate
yourself from your artificial self, and then you are in a position to choose clearly how
you wish to respond, and to hold yourself accountable when you allow your artificial
needs to take over.
Authentic needs belong to the soul. You need, for example, to love and to be loved.
You need to express your creativity, whether that is in raising a family or leading a
country. You need to cultivate your spirit, to work consciously at aligning your
personality with your soul. You need to be counseled with the impersonal wisdom of
your nonphysical Teachers, and the guidance of your nonphysical guides. These are
some of your authentic needs.
Non-authentic needs belong to the personality. They are what you adopt in your
physical life in order to maneuver the space you claim and walk in upon the Earth.
Artificial needs are the needs from which negative karma is incurred. As you reach to
fulfill these needs without letting them go and bending and flowing, as you determine
to have them satisfied or to use them, you can gain great negative karma.
A non-authentic need is a barrier. Neither nations nor individuals need as much as
they have. They are artificial barriers, and the purpose behind their formation is the
accumulation of external power. The secondary gain, so to speak, behind the creation
of artificial needs is artificial power. Look clearly and you will see it everywhere-in
marriages, in international relations, in every conflict.
It is not possible for you to experience the complete emergence of your soul when
you are clouded over by artificial needs. When that happens all you can see are
artificial needs, and you see them as being ever so important, ever so significant, but
are they really? As you look at your not-as-authentic needs, can you see how they
drain energy from you? So long as your priorities come from your lesser self, you
cannot touch your higher self in a direct way.
Authentic needs are the needs that are always met by the Universe. The Universe is
that which supplies you with your authentic needs. You are always being given
opportunities to love and be loved, for example, yet ask yourself how many times in
your life you have squandered these opportunities.
By learning to respond to your authentic needs and by allowing your artificial ones to
drop aside as unnecessary defense mechanisms, you become more open and
understanding and compassionate with others. There is a natural give and take in the
course of every human life. Each human being has authentic and non-authentic
needs, and that is where the natural grit for the flow between us comes from in the
living environment. You begin to learn to give and take as you begin to work through
an understanding of what your real needs are, and learn to compromise and give and
transcend when it comes to the needs of those parts of yourself that are not genuine
or do not enhance your development.
If you see clearly through your own authentic needs, you will see that what you are
really feeling threatened by when you experience an artificial need is the loss of your
power, and, therefore, rather than being able to address it directly, you create an
artificial need that does the speaking for you. Learn to address the real need so that
you do not have to burden yourself with behavioral patterns that are not true to your
own nature, that cloud you, that give you some artificial persona that you have to live
up to.
Begin by truly watching your own needs in action where they are real and where they
are not, and where they are not, expect to experience a negative emotion. Work on
becoming one step detached from that feeling so that you are no longer blinded by it
or unaware that you are feeling it. Become a step away so that you can let it begin to
work its way through you without penetrating as deeply as it does in terms of
creating action and negative thoughts and emotional withdrawals and all the other
reactions it creates within you. Become one step detached from it, and every time
that you are able to see it you will become more and more and more detached.
You will begin to be able to see the illusion in motion, and that is a part of authentic
power.

CHAPTER 15: POWER

What is the nature of power? What does it mean to be a truly powerful human being?
Power is not the ability to exert your will upon another person. There is no inner
security in that kind of power. That is an attribute of time, and as time changes, that
changes, too. Do you have a strong body that others cannot challenge? That will
change. What will you do then?
Do you have a physical beauty that can be used to influence others? That will
change. What will you do then? Do you have a cleverness that maneuvers others?
What happens when you are too tired to use it, or you miss the opportunity?
If you are not at home in the world, you live in the fear of one who can never truly
relax and enjoy Life. Is this power? There is no power in fear, or in any of the
activities that are generated by fear. There is no power in a thought form of fear, even
if it is supported by armies. The armies of Rome disappeared more than a millennia
ago, but the force of the life of a single human that Roman soldiers put to death
continues to shape the development of our species. Who had the power?
You are only as powerful as that for which you stand. Do you stand for more money
in the bank and a bigger house? Do you stand for an attractive mate? Do you stand
for imposing your way of thinking upon others? These are the stands of the
personality seeking to satisfy its wants. Do you stand for perfection, for the beauty
and compassion of each soul? Do you stand for the power of love and the clarity of
wisdom? Do you stand for forgiveness and humbleness? These are the stands of the
personality that has aligned itself with its soul. This is the position of a truly powerful
personality.
Power is energy that is formed by the intentions of the soul. It is Light shaped by the
intentions of love and compassion guided by wisdom. It is energy that is focused and
directed toward the fulfillment of the tasks of the soul upon the Earth, and the
development of the personality as a physical instrument of the soul that is appropriate
to those tasks. It is the force that shapes the illusion into the images of the souls that
are creating it, and not those of their personalities.
What does this mean?
There is a continual energy exchange between souls. This exchange is splintered
when the personality is splintered. Energy, power, leaves a splintered personality
through each of its different parts. If one part of you fears the loss of your job, and
another fears the loss of a relationship, and another dreads confrontation with an
unpleasant coworker, power flows from you without your conscious control. This is
how the energy dynamics of an un-empowered personality work.
When energy leaves you in fear or distrust, it cannot bring you anything but
discomfort or pain. When energy flows from your system in fear or distrust, you
experience a physical feeling of pain or discomfort in the part of your body that is
associated with the particular energy center that is losing power. When you fear for
your ability to protect and care for yourself in the world, to pay your rent, for
example, or to keep yourself safe from physical or emotional harm-when you see
power as external and you feel that you do not have enough of it to insure your well-
being or your safety-you experience discomfort or pain in the area of your stomach,
in the area of your solar plexus. What we call anxiety is the experience of power
leaving through the energy center that is located in this area of the body. An anxiety
attack is a massive loss of power from your system through that energy center. Power
losses affect the surrounding parts of the body. Power loss through this center, for
example, can cause indigestion. If it is chronic or acute, it can ulcerate the stomach.
When you fear that your ability to love or to be loved is threatened, when you fear,
for example, expressing your own love or receiving love from another, you
experience physical discomfort or pain in the region of your chest, near your heart.
What we experience, literally, as heartache is the experience of power leaving in fear
or distrust through this energy center. Have you lost a mate, or a child, or someone
very dear to you? Sort through your experience. Determine what it is that you felt.
You will discover that your body hurt, that you were in pain in the vicinity of your
chest. That is the experience of power leaving through that energy center. That is
what a heartache is, the loss of power through your heart center. Chronic or acute
loss of power through the heart center results, literally, in an attack of the heart.
There is more to myocardial infarction, to heart attack, than cholesterol in the blood
and other conditions of the physical system.
Every distress and every dysfunction of the physical body, every illness, can be
understood in terms of power loss to an external circumstance or object through one
of several energy centers within the body. You lose power when you rage against an
injustice. You lose power when you are threatened by another person, or other
people. You lose power when you distance yourself from your fellow humans out of
resentment or bitterness, or a sense of disappointment or unworthiness or superiority.
You lose power when you long for something or someone, when you grieve, and
when you envy another. Beneath all of these is fear, fear that you are vulnerable, that
you are not able to cope without the person or the situation that you miss, that you
are at a disadvantage without that which you envy. You lose power whenever you
fear. That is what a loss of power is.
You do not stop losing power by refusing to recognize your fear, by anesthetizing
yourself to what you feel. The road to authentic power is always through what you
feel, through your heart. The way of the heart is one of compassion and emotional
perception. Therefore, it is never appropriate to suppress an emotion, or to disregard
what you feel. If you do not know what you feel, you cannot come to know the
splintered nature of your personality, and to challenge those aspects and those
energies that do not serve your development.
By remaining in your power you do not become a static energy system, one that
hoards energy to itself. You become a stable energy system, capable of conscious
acts of focus and intention. You become a magnet for those who are illumined and
those who want to be. At issue is the manner in which energy flows from you. When
energy leaves you in any way except in strength and trust, it cannot bring back to you
anything but pain and discomfort. An authentically empowered human being,
therefore, is a human being that does not release its energy except in love and trust.
What are the characteristics of an authentically empowered human being?
An authentically empowered person is humble. This does not mean the false humility
of one who stoops to be with those who are below him or her. It is the inclusiveness
of one who responds to the beauty of each soul, who sees in each personality and in
the actions of each personality the soul incarnate upon the Earth. It is the
harmlessness of one who treasures and honors and reveres life in all its forms. Are
you concerned for the Earth? It is the humble who have never harmed the Earth.
What does it mean to be harmless?
It means being so strong that you need not harm a creature. That is what it means:
you are so able and empowered that the idea of showing power through harm is not
even a part of your consciousness. Without genuine humility, you cannot have this
kind of power because power leaves you when you feel that the situation that you are
in, or the people that you are with, do not command your respect.
A humble spirit walks a familiar world. People are not strangers to it; they are its
companions upon the Earth. A humble spirit does not ask for more than it needs, and
what it needs, the Universe provides. A humble spirit is content with the fulfillment
of its authentic needs, and is not burdened with artificial needs.
Humble spirits are free to love and to be who they are. They have no artificial
standards to live up to. They are not drawn to the symbols of external power. They
do not compete for external power. This does not mean that they do not take pride in
what they can do well, or that they do not focus their efforts to produce the best that
they can, or are not spurred onward by their fellow humans when that is appropriate
to the situation.
To compete means to strive for something in company or together, to aim at
something, to try to reach something, to seek after something with others. If the
something that you aim for is prestige or notice or a gold medal instead of a tin
medal, it is your personality that is motivating the competition. You are striving to
empower yourself at the expense of others, to assert your superiority over another, or
over other human beings. You are striving for external power. By striving for this
reward and that reward, you ask the world to assess and acknowledge your value
before you can value yourself. You place your sense of self worth in the hands of
others. You have no power even if you win every gold medal that the world can
produce.
If what you seek is the joy of giving without reservation, of giving with purpose and
joy and consciousness all that you have to the effort that you and other souls are
creating jointly, your competition is the expression of your soul. When the effort that
finishes last in time has the same value as the effort that finishes first, when the
quality of the immortal, timeless soul is honored instead of the time-bound
personality and body, when your giving is not impeded by fear of vulnerability, when
the size or color or shape of what you receive or do not receive does not matter, you
will know the power of a humble spirit.
An authentically empowered person is one who forgives. Forgiveness is not a moral
issue. It is an energy dynamic. When most people forgive they do not want those that
they forgave to forget that they forgave and forgot. This kind of forgiveness
manipulates the person who is forgiven. It is not forgiveness. It is a means of
acquiring external power over another.
Forgiveness means that you do not carry the baggage of an experience. When you
choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you. When
you choose not to forgive, it is like agreeing to wear dark, gruesome sunglasses that
distort everything, and it is you who are forced every day to look at Life through
those contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them. You wish
everyone else to see the world that way because you wish to see the world that way,
and it is indeed the world that you are looking at, but it is only you who sees it. You
are looking through the lenses of your own contaminated love.
Forgiveness means that you do not hold others responsible for your experiences. If
you do not hold yourself accountable for what you experience, you will hold
someone else accountable, and if you are not satisfied with what you experience, you
will seek to change it by manipulating that person. Complaining, for example, is
exactly that dynamic of wanting someone to be responsible for what you experience,
and to fix things for you.
Complaining is a form of manipulation, but you are free to move beyond that into the
next step, which is perception and sharing without manipulation. What is at stake is
not your sharing, but the intention behind it. When complaining is used instead of
sharing, that is what becomes negative, but not the sharing. It is how you cast the
sharing, or shape it, before-the intention with which you share. Before you share, ask
yourself, "What is my intention in sharing this? Am I looking for a particular
response?" Use this as a way of centering your attitude before committing energy to
words. When you assume responsibility for what you experience and share what you
experience in a spirit of companionship, that is the same as forgiveness.
When you hold someone responsible for what you experience, you lose power. You
cannot know what another person will do. Therefore, when you depend upon another
person for the experiences that you think are necessary to your well-being, you live
continually in the fear that they will not deliver. The perception that someone else is
responsible for what you experience underlies the idea that forgiveness is something
that one person does for another. How can you forgive another person for the fact
that you have chosen to step out of your power?
When you forgive you release critical judgment of yourself as well as of others. You
lighten up. You do not cling to negative experiences that resulted from decisions that
you made while you were learning. That is regret. Regret is the double negativity of
clinging to negativity. You lose power when you regret. If one person grieves at his
or her experiences while another is able to laugh, who is the lighter? Which is
harmless? The heart that dances is the innocent heart. The one that cannot laugh is
burdened. It is the dancing heart that is harmless.
This does not mean that you do not learn from what you have experienced, and apply
that in each moment as you make your decisions. That is responsible choice. If you
are doing all that you can to the fullest, of your ability as well as you can, there is
nothing else that is asked of a soul.
An authentically empowered human being is clear in his or her perceptions and
thinking. Clarity is the perception of wisdom. It is seeing with wisdom. It is being
able to perceive and understand the illusion, and to let it play. It is being able to see
beyond the activities of the personality to the force of the immortal soul. It is being
able to understand what it is that is striving to come into being-the health and
integration of the personality and the evolution of the soul. It is the ability to
recognize nonphysical dynamics as they appear within the world of time and matter.
It is understanding the laws of karma and attraction and their relationship to what you
experience. It is being able to see the role of responsible choice and choosing
accordingly in each moment.
Clarity is the ability to see the soul in action in the physical world. It results from
choosing to learn through wisdom instead of through fear and doubt. Clarity allows
you to experience your fellow humans with compassion instead of with judgment.
Can you not see the karma that another is creating for himself or herself by choosing
the currents of anger or greed? Have you not made the same choices yourself? Have
you not felt vulnerable? Have you not struck out at others? Clarity brings forth true
compassion, the sharing of passion with others. It allows the energy of the heart to
flow.
Clarity turns pain into suffering. It sees the dynamic of the personality that is the
cause of the pain, and the relationship of that dynamic and that experience to the
evolution of the soul. It is the perception in each moment that everything is designed
for wholeness and perfection, and every aspect serves ultimately a beautiful learning.
An authentically empowered personality sees the perfection of each situation and
each experience for the evolution of each soul and the maturation of each personality
involved. It sees perfection in the smallest details everywhere. Wherever it looks, it
sees the hand of God.
Clarity evaporates fear. It allows you to choose the vertical path and to stay on it. It
allows you to understand the dynamics beneath your addictions-what your addictions
serve and how they operate-and to make the choices that will disempower them and
empower you. It allows you to challenge not merely a force that you do not
understand, such as attraction to alcohol, or a drug, or indiscriminate sex, but a
dynamic that you understand in terms of its causes and its effects. It allows you to
choose consciously, and to know why you are choosing as you do.
Clarity allows you to see the world of physical matter for what it is, a learning
environment that is created jointly by the intentions of the souls that share it.
Therefore, it allows you to recognize the effects of the intentions that shape the
personal reality of each human at work at levels of reality that are created jointly. It
allows you to see, for example, the extent to which relationships between nations
have been shaped by the energy of the personality and the extent to which they have
been shaped by the energy of the soul, and to recognize that the energy of the soul is
entirely lacking at this level, and at most others.
Clarity allows you to see that the decision-making process within the human
condition is linked to the evolution of others, and in what way. It allows you to see
that you participate in the evolution of joint energy dynamics, such as the archetypes-
the collective human ideas-of sacred partnership, male, female, wife, and priest
through the decisions that you make. It allows you to see that your contribution to the
evolution of your soul is precisely the decisions that you make at each moment, and
that those decisions are embodied in the physical reality that you share with your
fellow humans.

An authentically empowered person lives in love. Love is the energy of the soul.
Love is what heals the personality. There is nothing that cannot be healed by love.
There is nothing but love.
Love is not a passive state. It is an active force. It is the force of the soul. Love does
more than bring peace where there is conflict. It brings a different way of being in
the world. It brings harmony and an active interest in the well-being of others. It
brings concern and care. It brings Light. It washes away the concerns of the
personality. In the Light of love there is only love.
There is a relationship between love and power and the transformation of the quality
of experiences that occur within the Earth school as a whole. The type of power that
you are trying to transform in yourself is the type of power that needs to be
transformed in general upon the Earth. There are numerous, numerous, numerous
human beings who are drawn to violence-violent fantasies and violent acts. Most of
them essentially center in the fact that the individual himself or herself feels
powerless and victimized and, therefore, wants to live, for a brief period of time with
one other human being, a sense of being empowered, but there is no genuine power
to be found in that area.
It is through the evolution of your own consciousness, through focusing on more and
more empowered choices that you create the distance that is necessary between you
and your negative emotions, and heal yourself in such a way that violence no longer
asserts itself. To heal violence there must be love.
Love is the energy of the soul, and, therefore, the experience of giving and receiving
love, of living a life of love, fulfills the personality. It is something that the
personality continually reaches for. Reaching for love unconsciously can produce
anger and fear. This happens when the personality does not see clearly what it is
reaching for, which is the case with addiction.
If you reach for an addictive sexual relationship, for example, you are reaching for
love. It is the illusion that you think that you are reaching for something so manly or
womanly. You are reaching for love, but you will not admit it and will not deal with
it, so there is anger within you because there is a level of energy and emotion that
longs to be born but is never given an outlet.
It is emotionally, spiritually impossible to have a sexual connection with a human
being and not ignite certain emotional patterns, but they are a continual dead-end
street when there is no relationship or true emotional feelings to go with the act.
Therefore, there is a level of brutality, frustration, and eventually emotional disease
which results in physical illness and breakdown because a significant pattern is being
tremendously abused. Remember, you do get what you ask for.
Asking for love is asking for the energy of the soul. It brings with it a genuine
concern for the other. You cannot prey upon someone whose well-being is in your
heart.
When you seek to impose your intelligence or your way of seeing upon another, you
are reaching for love, but you are routing your reach, so to speak, through the wants
of your personality. You are seeking external power. There is only emptiness there.
When you seek to dominate another you dominate no one but disempower yourself.
The less empowered you feel, the more you feel a need to control that which is
external. The loving personality seeks not to control, but to nurture, not to dominate,
but to empower. Love is the richness and fullness of your soul flowing through you.
Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are
the foundations of authentic power.

CHAPTER 16: TRUST

Each soul comes to the Earth with gifts. A soul does not incarnate only to heal and to
balance its energy, to pay its karmic debts, but also to contribute its special-ness in
specific ways. Each soul brings the particular configuration of the Life force that it is
to the needs of the Earth school. It does this with purpose and intention.
Before it incarnates, each soul agrees to perform certain tasks upon the Earth. It
enters into a sacred agreement with the Universe to accomplish specific goals. It
enters into this commitment in the fullness of its being. That is why when a soul
succeeds in accomplishing its goal, in fulfilling what it has agreed to do, there is a
richness and a special-ness to the lifetime of that personality that is recognized and
honored by its fellow souls, both physical and nonphysical.
Each soul takes upon itself a particular task. It may be the task of raising a family, or
communicating ideas through writing, or transforming the consciousness of a
community, such as the business community. It may be the task of awakening the
awareness of the power of love at the level of nations, or even contributing directly to
the evolution of consciousness on a global level. Whatever the task that your soul has
agreed to, whatever its contract with the Universe, all of the experiences of your life
serve to awaken within you the memory of that contract, and to prepare you to fulfill
it.
An un-empowered personality cannot complete the task of its soul. It languishes in
an inner sense of emptiness. It seeks to fill itself with external power, but that will
not satisfy it. This sense of emptiness, or something missing, or of something wrong,
cannot be healed by satisfying the wants of the personality. Gratifying needs that are
based upon fear will not bring you to the touchstone of purpose. No matter how
successful the personality becomes in accomplishing its goals, those goals will not be
enough. Eventually it will hunger for the energy of its soul. Only when the
personality begins to walk the path that its soul has chosen will it satisfy its hunger.
Authentic empowerment and the fulfillment of the soul's task upon the Earth,
therefore, are not separate dynamics. Authentic empowerment is necessary to
accomplish fully the mission of the soul, yet as you move into authentic
empowerment, you move toward the fulfillment of your soul's agreement with the
Universe, and as you move toward that fulfillment-as you move consciously toward
the energy of your soul-you empower yourself. You and the work of your soul upon
the Earth expand together. As one grows and develops, so does the other.
When a soul incarnates, its memory of the agreement that it has made with the
Universe becomes soft. It becomes dormant, awaiting the experiences that will
activate it. These experiences are not necessarily experiences that the personality
would choose. They are nonetheless necessary to the activation of the awareness of
the power and the mission of the soul within the consciousness of the personality,
and to its preparation for that task.
What does it feel like to remember your soul's task?
When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing, when your
activities and actions become gratifying and purposeful, when what you do serves
both yourself and others, when you do not tire within but seek the sweet satisfaction
of your life and your work, you are doing what you were meant to be doing. The
personality that is engaged in the work of its soul is buoyant. It is not burdened with
negativity. It does not fear. It experiences purposefulness and meaning. It delights in
its work and in others. It is fulfilled and fulfilling.
Interactions with your parents, and with those whom you have chosen to share your
intimacy, and with those whom-out of the billions of souls upon our planet you share
parts of your life, serve to activate within you in awareness of who you are and what
you are here to do.
The pains that you suffer, the loneliness that you en Writer, the experiences that are
disappointing or distress the addictions and seeming pitfalls of your life are the
doorways to awareness. Each offers you an opportunity to see beyond the illusion
that serves the balancing within each experience of pain or negativity is the
opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it, fear that lies behind it,
and to choose to learn with wisdom. The fear will not vanish immediately, but it will
disintegrate as you work with courage. When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay.
When you choose to learn trough wisdom, to evolve consciously, your fears surface
be at a time in order for you to exorcise them with inner
That is how it happens. You exorcise your own Your guides and Teachers
continually offer you Light. They encourage you in each moment to your fullest
growth and development, yet they cannot prevent you m your learning or your
growing or your moving cough your experiences and letting your experiences in
influences you. This is so even if you are able to communicate with them consciously
and directly. Your experiences will move you right or left, and you will ask your
Teacher this question or that. If you move left, your question will be entirely
different than if you had moved right, and the reality that you open by that question
will be entirely There is no single optimal path for the soul. There are many optimal
paths. With each choice you immediately create numerous paths within a choice, one
of which is then optimal. In other words, the optimal path of your soul is the choice
of awareness, the vertical path. Once you have made that choice, then come the
various forms of enactment.
In what way, therefore, does nonphysical guidance serve you?
It is a partnership of challenging you to come to terms with the full width and breadth
and depth of authentic power and responsible choice. It is not that you give
permission to be mindlessly manipulated. It is that you give permission to be shown
the fullest of your power and guided to its use.
When you depend entirely upon the ability of your personality to determine what is
best for you, you may stand in the way of a richness that is waiting for you. How do
you know what the Universe has waiting for you if you take off your restrictions? If
you are determined to have your life unfold in a particular way, and none other-if you
have your heart set on using your creativity only to accumulate money, for example-
consider that you build your entire reality around that. The Universe cannot help you
in the same way that it can if you are trusting of it, because it cannot overshadow nor
penetrate your choice. Yet what if what you are doing is more appropriately regarded
in a social sphere rather than an economic one? In other words, what if the enterprise
that you seek to develop is more appropriately a way to an avenue that you have not
yet recognized? It is now deadlocked because it cannot go down its appropriate path,
for you have your ltd on a door that you insist upon opening that will go
Let go of what you think is just reward. Let go. Trust. ate. Be who you are. The rest
is up to your nonphysical Teachers and the Universe.
Take your hands off the steering wheel. Be able to say the Universe, "Thy will be
done," and to know it within your intentions. Spend time in this thought. consider
what it means to say, "Thy will be done," and allow fur life to go into the hands of
the Universe completely. the final piece of reaching for authentic power is releasing
your own to a higher form of wisdom.
Long before we, as a species, became aware that there is such a dimension as the
realm of nonphysical guidance and teachers, each human being was guided, and
beautifully, y many nonphysical Teachers. Even though unseen by us this guidance
happened nonetheless in its perfection and in its balance. That is what is happening
now. It is just tat for the first time, as we become multisensory, we are aware of it,
and can put names with nonphysical Teachers and have a sense of personal
relationship with them, yet ;ilk it is that what you experience is always appropriate
and will always move toward the greatest wisdom of your development and
guidance.
Remind yourself that you are supported, that you are not going it alone upon this
Earth. Dwell in the company your nonphysical Teachers and guides. Do not
discriminate in terms of what you can and should ask and speak out. Just assume and
live in the beauty of the bond. Do not fear dependency. What is wrong with being
dependent upon the Universe, whether that is your Teachers or Divine Intelligence?
You do what you do for yourself and the Universe and your nonphysical Teachers
and guides are there in assistance. They will never do it for you. It is not possible for
them to do it for you. Delight in the dependency. Give your guides and Teachers
permission to come closer.
When you ask for guidance and assistance, simply assume that it immediately is
pouring forward. You may need to work a while to relax your mind into receptivity,
or you may need to have lunch, or drive into town or do whatever it is that you need
to do in order to relax your mind to hear or to feel, but live in the total assumption
that the moment that you ask for guidance it is pouring in.
Try looking at life as a beautifully well-organized dynamic. Trust the Universe.
Trusting means that the circumstance that you are in is working toward your best and
most appropriate end. There is no when to that. There is no if to that. It is. Release
your specifications and say to the Universe: "Find me where you know I need to be. "
Let them go and trust that the Universe will provide, and so it shall. Let go of all. Let
your higher self complete its task.
Allow yourself to pray. Just as the many times human beings find themselves in
circumstances where the hurt or the pain is so great that on their own power they
cannot forgive, it is enough that they pray to be given the grace, the perception, the
elevated Light that will allow them to forgive.
It is impossible for you to come full circle in this way of empowerment without
prayer. It is not enough to want or to intend or to meditate. You must pray. You must
talk. You must ask. You must believe. That is partnership.
Think of what you are doing as entering into partnership with Divine Intelligence, a
partnership in which you begin to share your concerns with the understanding that
there is an Intelligence receptive to what you are saying that helps you create within
your own environment of matter and energy the most effective dynamics to bring
you into wholeness. You do not need to think that you create alone, but rather that
you are guided strongly in ways to help cocreate in the most effective way for your
healing and for the fulfillment of your contract.
Consider your intentions and your meditations as part of what is done within the
context of prayer. Be able to say within your intentions and your meditations, "And I
ask for guidance or help," and expect to get it. Expect to get it. Aside from your level
of the responsible choice of energy and how you form that into matter, the
dependency on prayer assists you in pulling to yourself and invoking grace. Prayer is
moving relationship with Divine Intelligence.
It is impossible to have a prayer without power. It is impossible to have a thought
that is a secret for all energy is heard. When you pray, you draw to you and invoke
grace. Grace is uncontaminated conscious Light. It is Divinity. Prayer brings grace
and grace calms you. That is the cycle. Grace is the tranquilizer of the soul. With
grace comes a knowing that what you are experiencing is necessary. It calms you
with a sense of knowing into a personal.
Relax into the present moment. Do what you need to do in the present moment.
Yours is not to worry about that which we call the future. That does not mean that
you do not consider the consequences of each of your choices. Taking into account
the consequences of your decisions is responsible choice. It means to create strongly
in the present moment. Do not lose power over the what-ifs of your life. These are
unlimited and endless. Keep your power in the now, in present time. Keep your
power just in the day that you are living on the Earth, and not on how to maneuver
tomorrow.
Use all of your worldly connections, but not out of panic and not out of fear. Do what
you need to do on your end. Your choice comes in knowing appropriate timing, clear
motivation, and trust. Allow your intuition to guide your timing. Take it inside, ask
how you feel, and then move forward. Allow yourself to experience what it is to
learn step by step the freedom that comes from being unattached to the outcome, but
operating from an empowered heart.
Do not assume that the Universe operates like humankind, because it does not. Do
not insist that the Universe comply with your understanding of it. Rather hold onto
the thought that there is nothing without value that exists upon the Earth, that it is
impossible to create any form of Life that does not have value. Therefore, it is
impossible to create any action that does not have value. You may not see it, but that
is irrelevant. Live in the trust that when it is appropriate, pieces will fall into place
and you will see clearly. Trust allows you to call forth your negativities in order to
heal them. It allows you to follow your feelings through your defenses to their
sources, and to bring to the Light of consciousness those aspects of yourself that
resist wholeness, that live in fear. The journey to authentic power requires that you
become conscious of all that you feel. The unearthing and healing of your
negativities may appear to be an endless process, but it is not. Your vulnerabilities
and weaknesses and fears are not different from those of your fellow humans. Do not
despair because your humanness awakens.
Feel your intentions in your heart. Feel not what your mind tells you, but what your
heart tells you. Rather than serve the fake gods of your mind, serve your heart, the
real God. You will not find God in your intellect. Divine Intelligence is in the heart.
Open yourself to your fellow humans. Allow yourself to experience what you feel
toward them, and to hear what they feel. Your interactions with them form the basis
of your growth. When you fear what you will find in yourself, or what you will find
in others, if you allow yourself to hear what others have to say, you turn your back
on the opportunities that the Universe is giving you to find the power of your heart,
the power of compassion. It is not until you have the courage to engage in human
relationships that you grow.
Compassion is mutual compassion. The physical body is soothed and invigorated by
the energy of the heart, and torn by lower frequency currents of anger, rage, fear and
violence. When you treat another harshly and distance yourself from your heart, it is
you that suffers as well as the other, and when you treat another with compassion,
you treat yourself kindly at the same time. As your consciousness expands, and as
you become aware of what you feel, you become aware of the dual effects of
compassion and the lack of it. You become aware of the damage that you do to your
own body when you feel and act without compassion.
Challenge your fears. Fear of growing and of transformation of self is what causes
you to want to disengage from the present situation and reach for another. When you
feel that you are in a pattern of wanting what you do not have instead of what you do
have, of seeing the grass in the other pasture as greener because it is in the other
pasture, confront it. Challenge it each time that it comes up by literally realizing that
when it comes up you are not in the present moment, you are not engaged in your
present energy dynamic but, rather, you are letting energy leak to a future that does
not exist.
Each time you feel negative, stop, acknowledge that you are, and discharge it
consciously. Ask what you arc feeling and what is at the root of it. Go for the root of
it in that instant and as you work to pull the root, simultaneously look at the positive
side and remind yourself of the greater truth that there is something spiritually
profound at work, that your life is no accident, that you are under contract.
Be mindful of the words that you use and the actions that you live and who you are
and how it is you use your power. In other words, as you say what you say, as you
make commitments, as you form the power of your life, keep clear at all times that
you are what you say you are, that you put your force behind what you say, and
monitor that accordingly. If you are unaware of your intention, or if you suspect that
you are operating from a second agenda, ask yourself, "What is really going on?"
Check your motivations. That automatically engages guidance. You will not be alone
in your assessment.
Trust allows you to give. Giving is abundant. As you give so it shall be given to you.
If you give with judgment, limitation and stinginess, that is what you will create in
your life judgment, limitation and stinginess. What you say to others shall be done
exactly unto you. That is the law of karma, and how you love and serve others shall
be done exactly unto you. If you radiate love and compassion, you do receive it. If
you radiate fear and suspicion and a sense of wishing to keep people at arm's length,
then negativity comes to you because that is what you are asking for.
Trust allows the experience of bliss. When you trust that the Universe in each
moment is providing for the needs of your soul, and that the guidance and assistance
of your nonphysical guides and Teachers are always available to you, you are free to
enjoy your interactions with others and to leave aside the heavier frequencies of
manipulation and protectiveness. Awakened is a blissful state, not a painful one. It is
blissful. It is fully balanced and lovingly harmonious. It is all of these things and
more. The vertical path means clarity, not pain.
Trust allows you to laugh. You can just as easily laugh and play while you grow as
become serious and overwhelmed. Spiritual partners see from the perspective of the
impersonal, and they help each other see from that perspective the meaning of their
experiences. They can laugh at the richness and the beauty and the playfulness of the
Universe. They enjoy each other. They see the frustrations of the wants of the
personality for what they are, learnings, sometimes great learnings, for the soul.
All of what you are doing in each day is creating what is appropriate and perfect.
Apply consciousness to this process. That is trust. Although what you encounter and
what you do in each moment is appropriate and perfect to the evolution of your soul,
the shape of the experiences of your life is determined nonetheless by the choices
that you make. It is you that chooses to linger in resentment, or to be consumed by
anger, or enveloped in grief, or to release these lower-frequency currents of energy.
Each choice that you make, to dwell in negativity or to take up residence in your
heart, serves perfectly the evolution of your soul. All roads lead to home.
If you choose anger, or grief, or resentment, or jealousy you will learn the lesson of
love, but you will learn it through pain and trauma and a sense of loss. You will not
evolve. This is not possible. You are on a quest for authentic power. You cannot give
up this quest. Your only choice is whether you wish to have the quest consciously or
unconsciously. You can choose through your responses to life's difficulties to engage
the full power of your soul. This is the conscious path to authentic empowerment.
If you will eventually evolve beyond the Earth school, beyond the need for a
personality and a body and the illusion in which fear and anger and insecurity appear
to exist, why should you choose the vertical path?
This is for you to decide. The path that you now walk is not unknown to the
Universe. The pains and distresses and violence that you experience can be
considered as signposts along the path that you have chosen. If you have chosen the
path of learning through jealousy, for example, you will experience anxiety and fear
of loss of what you think you cannot live without because these experiences are part
of the path of learning through jealousy. They might be thought of as what that road
looks like between mile twenty and mile thirty. If you choose the path of learning
through anger, you will experience rejection and violence; if you choose the path of
love, you will experience being loved by others, and so on, because the choice of a
particular path is also the choice of particular types of experiences. You do not break
new ground from the point of view of the Universe.
Whether you continue the quest for external power, which now leads nowhere, or
decide to build within yourself authentic power and align yourself with the
evolutionary path that our species is now on determines the experiences that you will
contribute to the evolution of your soul and to the soul of humankind. You contribute
appropriately and perfectly to your evolution and to the evolution of others no matter
what you choose. This is true. Yet why choose to learn unconsciously? Have you
gained the sense of security and contentment and fulfillment that you seek in this
way?
What is it that you wish to contribute and to experience as our species, and as each of
us individually, makes the evolutionary transition from the five-sensory perception of
the Universe to the multisensory, from evolution through the five-sensory
exploration of physical reality to evolution through responsible choice with the
guidance and assistance of nonphysical guides and Teachers? Are you comfortable
with the thought that the Universe is alien and dead and no more than your five
senses can detect? How does your heart respond to the thought that the Universe is
alive and compassionate and that with it and with other souls of great power and
Light you learn through the process of cocreating the reality that you experience?
Look at the probable futures that are unfolding before our world that is built upon the
energy of the personality, and the probable futures that would unfold before a world
that is built upon the energy of the soul. Which do you choose?
Allow yourself to become aware of what you feel. Give yourself permission to
choose the most positive behavior in each moment. As you discharge negative
energy consciously and set your intentions according to what your heart tells you, as
you challenge and release your fears and choose to heal, you align your personality
with your soul and move toward becoming a being of the Light, fully whole and
empowered and inwardly secure. Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love, all the
gifts of the spirit, take root and bloom, and you draw to yourself the Universe's
greatest gift: human beings with open hearts.
Rather than a soul in a body, become a body in a soul. Reach for your soul. Reach
even farther. The impulse of creation and power authentic-the hourglass point
between energy and matter: that is the seat of the soul. What does it mean to touch
that place?
It is exciting to come of age spiritually.