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Teachings from the Western Mystery Traditions:
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For Psyche's Sake
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by Jacquelyn Small
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Psyche is God's bride, the Divine feminine principle in human form. Sophia, she was called by the early Christians, meaning "the Wisdom of God." Her wisdom is spawned from taking on human nature to the fullest -- birthing, dying, and heartfelt involving in all of life's joys and sorrows. This is her gift to God, who, through her, can experience life as well. And psyche is you and me. Every human being has a psyche. The word means "soul" in Greek. But even most psychologists do not realize their discipline was designed and named to be the study of the soul!
The Divine Feminine has tragically been omitted not only from psychology, but from most of our orthodox religions, all the way back to Rome. Ignoring this human side of our God-nature has cut us off from Spirit and created disaster for our beloved Mother Earth. And isn't this the cause of all mental illness -- to be split in two, unable to accept pieces of ourselves as "good" or "godly?" When we can once more respect the human psyche as being God's earthly partner, we will remember we are immortal, here to serve our Maker by fully incarnating here on earth and consciously spiritualizing matter.
Writer and historian Arnold Toynbee knew this: He said that it is the refusal to come down to Earth literally; the refusal to take on the human condition fully -- that is the cause of the bulk of spiritual pathology in our world. He believed this resistance and disrespect of our humanness is the root of disease and ignorance. It is a real blasphemy, he said, a rejection of the work of the Father in Heaven.
Until physical existence in the Universe is willingly accepted and valued, the Initiation of the Nadir cannot take place, which can only happen while embodied here on Earth. The work of Evolution cannot go forward until the work of Involution is completed. In other words, we cannot rise up and out of something we've never yet fully been!
Psyche is our inner life. She is our perceiver or reality, the mirrored reflection of our soul. As both human and divine she can "look both ways" and thereby bridges abstract Spirit and concrete matter. Your psyche is designed to represent God in the world; and conversely, to bring to God the experience of human life. Currently, she is so tangled up in the human condition, she's forgotten she's divine. We need to step out of any old dogma that blocks our vision of our wholeness, so we can become free thinkers. All truth resides within us. We only have to access it to be whole.
An immature masculine principle (in both males and females) has ruled our spiritual lives far too long. We do need the masculine principle; it's the part of us who can be objective and see the bigger picture in an emotionally detached manner. However, to have the masculine be our only guide rips us out of the fabric of physicality and our emotional life. Psyche brings us down into our hearts. And that is her sacred act.
The myth of Psyche and Eros tells our story in archetypal fashion. She had to become conscious by passing through four disastrous, impossible tasks ordered by Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love. Once she made it through all these trials of initiation, she remembered she was divine. And she was reunited with the god of Love, Eros.
Psyche's story took place within the stage of evolution in which the relationship between the Divine and humankind was up to the whimsy of the gods. Once reunited, you might recall that Eros took Psyche back with him to Mt. Olympus, which is the Collective Unconscious Mind. And even now, the Psyche/Eros sacred union of Divine and human love has yet to be realized here on earth. The problem of integrating the masculine and feminine principles within our nature has never been resolved. Rupert Sheldrake's research in morphic resonance theory has shown us that whenever any member of a species does something for the first time, it then becomes a possibility for the rest of that species; it gets into the consciousness of the species all at once.
Psyche and Eros have opened the door to we humans for the marriage of the human and the Divine to become a fact in nature. Now it's up to us to do our homework and learn how to love unconditionally, so we can merge the human and archetypal kingdoms and advance to our next station on the evolutionary ladder. Psyche and Eros' girl child shows us how: On Earth she is called Pleasure and in the archetypal kingdom, her name is Joy. This offspring of the marriage of a human with a god holds the key to the mystery of uniting the mortal and immortal worlds, the feminine and masculine principles in each of us. We come to understand that the purpose of our human incarnation is to allow the soul to shine through our physical being, so that heavenly Joy and earthly Pleasure can be felt as one. Our soul craves this union.
In not understanding that psyche is our incarnated soul, an entity who is both human and divine, we've strayed right off the pages of every school room's history books! While traveling through time, we've lost our way. Rarely does anyone help us know who we are. It's so obvious that we've made a cosmic error. Our psychologies and religions need a psychic overhaul! It's time we know the truth about our human/divine nature... that at the core of our being, we are Love.
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Jacquelin Small,
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JACQUELYN SMALL, LMSW, is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with degrees in human psychology and clinical social work. She is a licensed non-denominational minister and a licensed psychotherapist who works with both spiritual and psychological concerns.
Jacquelyn is a popular presenter and consultant in academic settings, new-thought churches and new paradigm conferences and mental health settings, known for her easy-going, self-disclosing, humorous style of intimate relating with her audiences.
She has a long history in addiction counselor training, consulting and counseling, and trains all kinds of health professionals in the emerging field of spiritual psychology. She is one of the teachers who has been selected by Unity Church for their national TV ministry. She served as the Director of Training for the Texas Commission on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse for nine years, and served on the adjunct faculty of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Stanford, California for four years.
Jacquelyn has authored eight books about soul-based psychology and the process of personal transformation, some of which have become classics in the counseling and consciousness fields. She is represented by the Tom Grady Agency. She has many audio tapes as well through Eupsychia's publishing company, Eupsychian Press.
Her published books are:
* Becoming Naturally
Therapeutic (Bantam)
* Transformers, the
Artists of Self-Creation
(DeVorss & Co.)
* Awakening in Time
(Eupsychian Press)
* Embodying Spirit (HarperSanFrancisco
/Eupsychian)
* Rising to the Call with
co-author Mary Yovino (DeVorss & Co.)
* Becoming a Practical Mystic (Quest Books)
* Psyche's Seeds-The 12 Sacred Principles of Soul-Based Psychology (Tarcher/Putnam
/Penguin)
Jacquelyn is a regular columnist for Science of Mind Magazine and is featured often in other magazines. Among the many conferences and programs for which Jacquelyn has keynoted or presented programs, include:
* The Association for Humanistic Psychology
* Association for Transpersonal Psychology
* Omega Institute
including their Body &
Soul Conferences
* Tracor and Texaco, Inc.
* Church of Religious Science Annual
Conference
* Great Lakes Addiction Conference
* Whole Life Expo
* The College of William & Mary's Annual Addictions Conference
* Most major universities
in the United States
* U.S. Department of Heath, Education and Welfare
* Omega Institute's
Body & Soul Conferences
* New Age Magazine's Bahama Teaching Cruise
The ConferenceWorks!
She has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, America's Talking, Wisdom Television and Radio, New Dimensions Radio, NPR's People's Pharmacy and a CNN's series on Alternative Healing and continues to make regular guest appearances for radio and television.
Jacquelyn Small serves on the Advisory Board of the International Psychosynthesis Association, the National Council on Codependence, and The Holistic Alliance of Professional Practitioners, Entrepreneurs and Networkers, Inc.
She is the Founding Director of Eupsychia (pronounced u-si'-ki-a) Institute which means "good psyche" or "well being" in Greek, a not-for-profit professional training and healing program in Soul-Based Psychology and Integrative Breathwork. With her staff of dedicated, experienced spiritual therapists, she conducts workshop intensives throughout North America on a regular basis.
Eupsychia Institute
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Austin, TX 78715-1960
(800) 546-2795
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www.eupsychia.com
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