Soul-Work

Its all soul-work in this life on the planet. This means that everything related to Spirit and the vertical axis is designed to assist in the restoration and completion of the soul on its horizontal journey through space-time. There has always been a tendency to avoid the soul and its evoltuion in favor of "spiritual experiences" which take us away from the heavy-duty work of soul-making. Often focus on the development of consciousnes, and more importantly perhaps, being, was avoided in order to have transcendent experiences away from the day-by-day work that the soul must undertake.

It is certainly true that Spirit assists soul, for without such assistance, soul-work becomes narcissitic at best--a kind of myopic "navel gazing." But wisdom tradition recognizes that as we live our daily experience, what must be in focus is our praxis in the now that leads to the slow but inevitable evolution of the soul's journey into fullness of being and consciousness.

The Completed Human is one in whom that work has been done, and the soul is "saved" (or restored), vertical and horizontal axes held together in dynamic equilibrium. The contemporary sages who assist us on this pilgrimage are such writers and teachers as Pema Chodron, Kabir Helminski, Cynthia Bourgeault, and Eckhart Tolle. Each in his or her own way point to this essential and unremitting task giving us windows of insight into our own interior work. We are blessed to have their guidance.