Philosophy comes from the Greeks meaning ‘the love of wisdom.’ In the context of The Soul’s Intent wisdom is a disposition to find the truth coupled with a clarity as what to do once you have it. Developing wisdom is a key benefit of a psychospiritual perspective. Tune in as we discuss how this virtue unfolds in the human experience.

To pretend is to cause (or attempt to cause) what is not so to seem ‘as if’ it is. This is the creative act of pretending or imagining. Not to run from the truth or fuel a delusion, rather to discover a new perspective or create something that wasn’t there before. Psychology says that pretending joy or happiness can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. This simple but awake practice can help us discover and enhance our capacity for positive feelings. Few realize that pretend, pretense, and presence all include an awareness of time and possibility.

We hear all the time that some of life's greatest lessons are hiding in plain sight. You can see as a spiritual being when you close your eyes and try to see with something else. This is the vision of the human heart. It’s a perspective that allows us to feel our way through something versus grope in the dark. The ego automatically thinks it needs to have some sort of intellectual engagement with life. Is life right or wrong, fair or unfair. Meanwhile, the heart is simply looking for true and false.

We witnessed this past weekend what happens when the human spirit provokes us into passion and purpose. During the peaceful demonstration of healing and saying 'enough is enough' many are realizing (some for the first time) that this is what it means to have an inner life. *It was/is a spiritual moment! (*Though my cohost Irma Francis sounds telephonic in this recording the content was too good not to post.)

An often-asked question is: How do you tell the difference between your soul's guidance versus your ego's interference? In order to understand this particular show a couple of assumptions are made: the first is human beingx have a soul, the second assumption is that our soul operates as the observer of life. That being said we can proceed to look at how the soul's intent is quite different from the voice of the ego.

Ease drop in on a passionate conversation about why we are spiritual beings, the illusion that we cannot ask why human beings suffer, and much, much more as we have a contemporary discussion about spiituality that is important. At a time when 'fake news' is dominating the headlines, integrity in our inner lives is essential. This is the gift of learning the soul's intent.

Bridge building is an important step in moving between the worlds of ego and soul. Spiritual beings or incarnated souls in the face of overwhelming psychological forces requires its construction and care. One plus one equals a third thing (creation) when the bridge is functional. Otherwise, we polarize to one side of the equation and see our potential of wholeness in the distance but never realize it.

The soul orchestrates life for us to see on the outside what is happening internally. It turns out, this is a profound way to see what it is we need to change. Most think it is the other way around. If I can just get my life in order 'out here' everything will fall in place on the inside. Few realize spiritual growth is an inside-out process not the reverse. In this way, there is no better teacher than your own soul.

From the soul's perspective we are whole and more than enough. The Soul's Intent is for us to BE fully in this moment without restriction. Meanwhile, the ego is concerned about whether we are deserving, worthy, or good enough. In one reality we are free to love and exude authenticity. In the other, we are suffering for no apparent reason other than guilt or shame. The spiritual question is which reality represents the truth? Your soul knows the answer.

Self is defined as a continuity of consciousness where the ego enters this existence as a blank slate. Born with no innate ideas or right and wrong or true and false, knowledge (even enlightenment) is determined by the subjective experience that is you and I through our senses. The soul becomes constricted by these experiences until we shed the character we became to survive...to just simply BE.