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Teachings from the Western Mystery Traditions:
The Esoteric "Paths of Return"
Self-Knowledge
There are No Outer
Experts on You
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by Jacquelyn Small
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I say these powers will be given to you, but more correctly, you give them to yourself, for you even now possess them though you know it not; nothingcan be added from without, all comes from within.
- Will Garver
On a path of Self-knowledge, there can be no outer experts. Your Self is the only true authority on your own nature. Now, isn’t that logical when you think about it? All that outer seeking we do eventually leads us right back to where we started - into our own minds and hearts. There’s no place to go; there’s simply someone to be. In The Myth of Meaning, depth psychologist Aniela Jaffe says "God creates the Self and then realized Himself through encountering His own creation." So, to say the Self is our teacher is not a profane statement coming from ego; Self-knowledge is a sacred process, coming straight from our Creator.
The further along we go in our awakening, the more we realize that the journey itself is our home. And as we travel it, the Self teaches in only one way: through the wisdom gained from our direct experiences. Not through textbooks, not through listening to others, but going within and finding the treasures buried in your own psyche - this is how you gain Self-knowledge. All those outer forms of learning can serve to validate what you discover. And it’s Self-empowering to hear or read about things that you’ve experienced and know them to be true.
The human/divine Self is designed to reweave the threads that link human thought with soul and spirit - which is what we are doing right now as you read this. Your true Self, as your sacred blueprint, reminds you that you are here to live creatively from center, guided by your own inborn soul wisdom and sense of Self - rather than driven by the dictates and expectations of others. We all have mentors and teachers, of course - people who have gained an education in areas we1ve not focused on or studied. Yet, these teachers only have bodies of information to offer us, which can be very helpful. But it’s beyond their expertise or jurisdiction to know anything about your true Self. Becoming your own inner "expert" turns you in the right direction to really get to know yourself. All else is rumor - or someone else’s idea of who you ought to be. Even what you are reading in this article needs to be filtered through your own inner "truth detector." Then, if what’s being said rings true, by all means, take it in. If not, let it pass on by.
Following the path of direct experience is a fascinating adventure in consciousness that removes the need for outer experts. Traveling upon your inner landscape thrills your heart and preoccupies your mind so much, you forget to be always seeking answers somewhere "out there." While delving into your true Self’s nature, you’ll be witnessing and experiencing the deeper meaning of all your feelings, attitudes, and beliefs, and you’ll see the sacred purpose of all your relationships and the events you undergo as you travel your road.
The path of Self-knowledge leads to the "world of meaning," where a more in-depth, broader understanding of life is seen. From your inner work, there will be spontaneous openings within your heart or your mind into a level of reality beyond the externals - and you’ll be bathed in the light of meaning. From this inner world that resides closer to our source, we gain a bird’s- eye view, rather than the myopic vision we have when we’re standing in the middle of our own picture. Meaning is curative in nature, for it gives us a sense of wholeness and sacred purpose to our lives.
Without a sense of meaning to your life, your ordinary reality unfolds along a crooked, unpredictable line of chance events. You can’t see how everything is connected. From the symbolic world of meaning, all your apparently unrelated outer conditions and your accompanying inner feelings group into meaningful clusters and make their sacred purpose known. Expanding into the symbolic world of meaning is a movement back to your source, where all patterns of wholeness, including that of your own true Self, are starkly revealed. Through meditation or times of deep contemplation, you can go there anytime you need more understanding of something that’s happening to you. In this wider realm of consciousness, your realized Self is both "in the world and not of it." It knows the ways of both this human world and the world of Spirit.
MAKING YOUR LIFE A SACRED RITUAL
The world around you is alive with synchronistic markers, metaphors, potent symbols, and powerful lessons, all of which can teach you something about the fullness of who you are and help you awaken on your sacred journey. Your soul speaks in symbols. Metaphors, parables, images, geometric patterns, numbers, color, sounds, signs, and synchronicity are the language of your soul, your inner Self.
You can walk through your daily life as a sacred ritual, bowing in gratitude to the symbols you receive, recognizing them as messengers from the soul’s dimension. They work like "enzymes" that stir your psyche with deeper meanings than you can know with your intellect alone. You learn to have the eyes to see and the ears to hear as your reality unfolds. And you will feel a magnifying of your self-esteem like a subtle shift in the earth’s gravitational field.
Your incarnated soul -- the Self -- directs you in mysterious ways that often puzzle the intellect -- through flashes of insight, scenes and images that burst upon your consciousness -- all pregnant with meaning. A scrap of paper dancing in the wind becomes a transcendent symbol of beauty that pulls you out of some current despair. The scent in the air triggers a memory that fills in a gap in your current understanding. You read about someone whose life strikingly parallels your own, and you suddenly remember a missing piece of your own story. An owl lands right outside your window and looks in at you right at the precise moment you need to be reminded of your own ability to soar.
"Why did this happen just now?" you ask. "This is a profound metaphor that’s showing me the way." Everything that appears in your outer life is a reflection of something in your inner world. Once you understand how this flawless mirroring works, whatever comes upon your path can give your awakening Self a powerful push. You’ll see that it’s the inner life that is determining your outer conditions, and not the other way around. As you wake up to all the ways your true Self is unveiling, you begin to see the extraordinary in the ordinary everywhere you look.
Because your personality is already linked to the greater Self at the heart of all things, you have the innate ability to view the world from this transcendent perspective. The archetypal Self of Humanity lives in the "world of meaning," a reality closer to our Source than our intellects can normally reach. Therefore, the Self can communicate with this higher way of knowing by reading the symbols, metaphors, and signs and by training your personality to look for the deep spiritual root of every life situation that touches you and everything you do.
SPAWNING SELF-KNOWLEDGE
Now, don't despair if you feel you have no experience working with images or interpreting symbols. I've found that you rarely need a professional or a symbol dictionary to help you understand your inner images when they appear. Dream and symbol dictionaries that provide universal symbol interpretations , or other sources of formal instruction, can even get in the way of your own fresh understanding of your unique inner life. Working with symbols spawns Self-knowledge. The experience of relating to these symbols is itself the teacher. Here are "the three M’s" of symbol work, to help you along:
1) Whenever a symbol comes into your conscious mind, you meet it. By this, I mean you notice it , how it looks, its shape or design, its ways of behaving, and describe it to yourself.
2) Next, you meditate on the symbol. Go within and reflect of what it means to you, what its message is. Then, enter into the symbol and become it. Take on its qualities, be its design, speak as though you are it, and behave in your imagination as though you and it are one.
3) Once understood, you can now mediate the symbol. You bring its qualities into being by behaving as one who now has an understanding of its message.
Symbols are actual psychic entities from your inner life, messengers from a higher world. Just making the commitment to communicate in the more wholistic "world of meaning" whether it’s through journaling, meditation, group or individual therapy, musical soul journeying, or dream interpretation will bring you great results.
Once you enter the path of Self-knowledge, it’s nearly impossible to any longer lose yourself in others. You become disinterested in dogma, or in allowing other people to decide what you are to believe, or what makes you healthy or spiritual. As you unveil your true Self, you will be less dependent upon others’ expertise or validation because you’ll gain a whole new sense of self-confidence in your own way of knowing truth. You’ll become a free thinker.
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Jacquelin Small,
Spiritualist, Clairvoyant Psychologist
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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.
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