We've all heard the dichotomy: “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” – Teilhard de Chardin - Such phrases are important as we seek a valid context for our lives. New wisdom on human suffering suggests: "We are spiritual beings having psychological experiences."

-Vecchio-

Most people believe that it is good to have a healthy ego but there is nothing healthy about ego in the spiritual sense until it has been suffered awake. The ego tries to convince us that it is there to serve and protect us. It says, ‘Where would you be without me? I am the fire in your belly.’ *This show discusses the ego’s real ambition which is to separate and imprison us from other people and keep us away from our soul's intent.

The human spirit is designed to provoke the ego awake which means our feeling re-action to the 'fated break’ from the soul is self-correcting. This can take a lifetime if we never realize that the Soul's Path is a conscious choice.

Spirituality defines soul as the essence of your human potential which is latent within you. We are told it is capable of being actualized and manifested in our daily lives. Most of us foget that the personality or ego is nothing more than a composite container of traits and atttributes used to adapt to our lives. Meanwhile, the soul is the contents of this container and a valid representation of who we really are.

Fear of being seen for fear of rejection, shame, or indifference is familiar to many. Spiritually, we know this as a transition from low confidence to becoming comfortable in out own skin. As we spend time in the dimension of fear we need to learn the art of self-reflection. This is different that being self-focused. One is ego the other is Soul.

The language of birthing captures the cycles of spiritual growth. Imagine, in the beginning we were conceived, gestated, and became pregnant with potential. All that remained was to manifest who we are IN the world. Unfortunately for many, our labor has been extended becasue we've resisted the cycles of our own evolution. Showing up in our lives is the beginning.

The human spirit provokes the ego to move, change, and grow. Unaware of this relationship the ego will resist with indifference. The result is the inner noise of frustrating and angst. The Soul's Intent is that the spirit and ego work together to achieve presence.

One of the culture's great weaknesses is its naivete regarding the dark side of human nature. It gets conceptualized in different ways (like sin or evil) which blocks our capacity to know its deepest value. Carl Jung called this dark side the human shadow.

The soul’s intelligence takes us on a journey of self-recovery that makes us who we are while revealing the truth about who we've become. Merging the worlds of psychology and spirituality, this podcast speaks to the conditioning of the human mind as it lays out pathways to transform our conviction from believing to knowing the power of our existence.

Self-judgment is probably best understood spiritually as a form of inner motion. Particularly, as two forms of movement with respect to the dimension of truth: recollection and repetition. Recollection is understood as recovering a truth that is already present in the individual, which has been repressed or forgotten. This is a movement backwards, since it is retrieving knowledge from the past. This backward motion alone can never discover the dimension of truth. In contrast, repetition is defined as "recollection forward" which is definitive movement toward not only truth but love and freedom. The recess or time out we will be discussing tonight is about not going backwards without moving forward. This is only possible if we are observing or paying attention. ~Vecchio~