Psychology of the Soul (consciousness - personality)

  • 2014

The study (logos) of the Soul (psyche)

When studying a concept as intangible as that of Alma, it becomes necessary, to make it accessible to practical understanding, to contrast it with the more tangible nature of the human being: personality.

Objective experiences (good and bad) of personality are the tools we have to deepen, through observation-reflection, in the subjective background of what is experienced.

Every personal expression practiced, imagined or thought, if observed and analyzed carefully from impersonality, shows the reflection of a deeper meaning, its true "reason for being."

All that glitters is not gold, but there is gold.

What is the Soul in relation to the Personality?

We understand that the Soul is the subjective spiritual quality that conditions the densest expressive forces of the personality.

The reality we call soul is basically an expression of three types of energy - life, love and intelligence . The lower triple nature (personality) has been prepared for the reception of these three energies, and the intelligence aspect is reflected in the mind, the love nature in the emotional body of desires and, the life principle in and through the etheric or vital body "*

In all the relations between “the new and the old” there are frictions, crises, which are the signal that this relationship demands recognition in consciousness and its consequent vital readjustment

The Crisis (the triumph of a defeat)

We understand by crisis, (frustration, impediment, excess, depression, symptom, pathology, difficulty, disappointment, fear, inhibition, ...), as the condition that denies the satisfaction of the personality, but that after the obfuscation that this produces, is the opportunity to recognize the Soul, the superior energy that is asking, if not demanding, a greater presence in the Consciousness, which is the manager of the daily reality of that personality.

We should not think that the crisis is something sacred or necessary, but that it is the natural result of a dual relationship and that it is in the field of experiences that the crisis proposes, where consciousness can recognize that it is the perspective of the Soul and not the personal perspective that can unify this duality.

The period of crisis presents an important problem to today's advanced aspirants, which evokes the interest of psychiatrists and psychologists accordingly. Instead of treating difficulty as a symptom of progress, as an indication of a relatively high stage in the evolutionary scale, and a reason to be encouraged, it is considered as a disease of the mind and personality. Instead of considering it as a condition that deserves to be explained and understood, although it does not imply true concern, we try to avoid the difficulty by eliminating it instead of solving it, which, although the personality can be temporarily relieved, the work of the soul is paralyzed and delayed during that particular life cycle ”*

The crisis is a condition that forces the personality to an act of humility through "humiliation." An act (attitude) that entails the correct understanding that rejects the ego-crystallized and rediscovers the joy (unconditional) of the Heart.

This Joy without conditions, is not a naive joy, because behind it is the understanding that generates the pain of an accepted defeat. This Joy is the demonstration that the personality is being receptive to the energy of the Soul. In other words, the Joy that expresses the personality is the external reflection of the responsibility that she (the personality) is exerting towards the call of the Soul.

Being responsible with the truth of the Soul is shown as joy.

Soul - Consciousness - Personality

The One Soul shines in the upper part of this scheme with its own light, but the main thing is to focus attention on the central part of the scheme, because it is in the Consciousness where the part of the One Soul that we have already incorporated to our knowledge resides, in At this point the concepts my Consciousness and my Soul are synonyms.

The role of consciousness

Consciousness, in the human being, is the "place" where the Soul is realized.

In the consciousness of Alma is the true meaning and, the creative word or act that expresses it. In it, attention, silence, self-observation and, the level of identification with experience are practiced. She is the will to good and the type of action that is generated, together, with the reflection of the result. In it is the concern and the achievement of understanding and, the understanding itself with its consequent sensibility and creative imagination. She is the subject, and also the way to structure it in order to understand and develop it.

Gradual logical expansion

In the consciousness of the Soul it is possible to conquer another "place" through the "place" occupied. This expansion is staggered or logical, because to reach a step it is necessary to have the foot in the one below, that is, the new perspective is acquired through the experience of the present that does not forget or flee from the past.

To forget to start over, for the psychology of the Soul, is to repeat itself, a compulsion that is justified in a naivety or false innocence, is a selfish attitude that is imposed. Another issue is the level of unconsciousness of the practitioner. The new point of view we are talking about here must be able to distill the past by transforming it into a tool of understanding that brings a new attitude.

No duality

In Soul consciousness, internal and external duality disappears. There is no intention to control and / or impose personal desire in the outside world, but there is an intuition that confirms (knows) that every attitude must take into account the whole as a unit. That is, with the same Know that I understand myself I also understand my surroundings, therefore there is no difference, but a point of view or a Knowledge that includes both. In this attitude is the golden rule, expressed in the words of the Master as "you will love your brother as yourself."

Harmless

Soul consciousness is to achieve harmlessness, because the relationship with the environment does not depend on an ego-ego with an exclusive desire and its often destructive-blind impulse, but depends on an inclusive sense, which suggests an attitude to the personality moderate in thinking, feeling and speaking-acting. In this attitude is the main characteristic for the correct service.

Service

Service is the "instinct" of the Soul, every instinct is something natural, and the consciousness of Alma has as its main logic to be inclusive, and this logic, when the personality is receptive to the Soul, is expressed through responsibility. Responsibility and inclusive logic in this case are synonyms.

The personality, when it becomes receptive to the wisdom of the Soul and to its welcoming silence, is inspired to show its talents, in a happy free altruistic way and "with Heart", where its responsibility (inclusive logic) detects that it must do so.

Climbing a step is to shake hands with those who invite us to climb, and the grateful heart responds by offering the other hand to those who follow.

David CM

* Paragraphs in italics are extracted from the book "Esoteric Psychology II" by Alice Bailey-DK

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