For those of you who would like to know a bit more, here is an excerpt from my book Soul Therapy.
Soul doesn’t need therapy..
We need Soul Therapy to learn
how to live on Soul Level.
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Ego and Soul
By Ego, I mean that part of the person that is conditioned and that is identified with being conditioned. Ego is a kaleidoscope of ever-changing energies: thought energies, emotional currents, instinctual forces, the energetic tensions in every personal history and in every nationality, the energy that sustains likes and dislikes, the energy of sub-personalities cooperating and conflicting. It is what we refer to when we say “I – me.”
Ego seeks to find the meaning of its life: who it is, where it comes from, why it is the physical child of its physical parents, what lessons it is here to learn, what its life-task is. This is a Soul Quest.
Ego seeks its Soul Path because its task is a Soul Quest. It has to find its way to Soul, to communicate with Soul and to unite with it in order to know who it truly is. That way lies true happiness.
By Soul, I mean that part of the human being that cannot be described, but that can be sensed as perfect balance, absolute harmony, absence of all conflict and separation, full awareness, being centered, Unconditional Love, Peace, Truth. Sometimes it is called the Higher Self, sometimes Oneness. The Buddhists describe it as No-self, Unconditioned, Emptiness, Buddha Nature, Already-Enlightened, or Perfect. When I look for a contemporary expression, I call it the inner shaman.
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What I say about this book
We come into this difficult enterprise of being human without a User’s Manual, and at the same time, our life is our job.
Our ego does the hard work of living in the material world. Part of its work is the quest for relationship with our Soul. As this succeeds, our ego increasingly hears, and learns to bow to, our Soul’s Guidance.
Our ego can’t hear or feel or sense or know our Soul’s guidance unless it develops. Developing, therefore, is our ego’s quest. Good, lasting development takes place on a strong foundation.
From a strong foundation we reach wherever we are called to go.
Soul Therapy teaches you how to create this strong foundation. Then your Ego is tuned into your Soul – and the Greater Soul – all the time and you fulfil your destiny.