The Discovery of Our True Being
From the author of Soul Work: A Daybook of Encouragement and
Guidance for the Spiritual Journey comes a book that offers a
systematic approach to spirituality based on contemporary
understanding of the human condition. It combines eastern spiritual
practices and western psychology in a systematic process of
uncovering our True Self. We need only look at small children to see
that when we come into this world, our birthright is pure Goodness.
Toddlers radiate love, joy, curiosity, compassion, will, creativity,
and more. But as we grow, we develop an ego that then accumulates
layers and layers of rigid conditioning. We become a false self that
is inauthentic and often neurotic. We become what society wants us
to be, and are not anchored in anything real that provides ultimate
meaning. While this ego development is necessary in order to learn
how to survive in the world, we pay a heavy price for this—we are
cut off from our Divine attributes by these layers of conditioning.
The spiritual path outlined in this book is a way to realize our
connection to our Divine endowment and live a life of joy, love,
compassion, authenticity, clarity, wisdom, and meaning. It entails
the use of western psychodynamic knowledge to support eastern
meditative practices in a process of working through our layers of
contraction to recover our Essential Being—our True Self. The
melding of these methods results in a unique approach to spiritual
work that has been found to be helpful to many people. It is offered
to spiritual seekers as a sound path to learning how to be what we
truly are—Divinely endowed.