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Teachings from the Western Mystery Traditions:
The Esoteric "Paths of Return"
Coming Whole
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by Jacquelyn Small
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At the final stages of our journey into spiritual maturity, all our illusions must die. We must discover that living in wholeness encompasses both light and dark, creation and destruction, love and death. Should we retreat into innocence and deny either the light or the dark sides of ourselves, we will never be whole. In order to grow into our full humanity, we must each in our own way undergo the descent into the underworld to retrieve all in us that is still unconscious and unredeemed. These can be some negative aspects we’ve denied because we’re ashamed of them. Or, conversely, they can be certain talents or gifts of the spirit we’ve not been willing to own and take responsibility for.
To learn this lesson, we will undoubtedly venture into the deep, inward places where the extremes of beauty and ugliness, joy and sorrow, swim together in paradoxical chaos. And from out depths we can realize that only when we face both the luminous and shadowed aspects of our human existence will it be grounded in reality. To grow in spiritual stature, the idealistic innocence that once sustained us has to die. Glamour, superficial gratifications, fear, self-doubt, loss of faith – all the fragmented parts of ourselves must be reclaimed consciously in love.
In myth, the descent into the underworld comes in many forms: the hero or heroine is dismembered, or swallowed by a monster or whale, or passes through dark tunnels or caves, or journeys to the bottom of the sea. In your psychic life, the descent may come as a period of depression or loss of interest in life, following the death of a relationship, the ending of a career, an encounter with a life-threatening illness, or hitting bottom in a devastating addiction. However it manifests, the descent is always fraught with peril, but it can bring about a complete reorganization of your personality.
To go up, we must first go down. To grow, those parts of ourselves that no longer serve us must die. And some really die hard! But if you skip this harrowing step, you’ll risk being trapped in a state that might feel like transcendence, but is, in fact, premature. Undertaken consciously, the downward journey teaches us to see love and beauty everywhere, even in suffering and decay. Descent, sacrifice and transformation are the sacred triad that make any initiation purifying and life changing.
Once your journey to the underworld is complete, you will have gained the wisdom of knowing that nature moves in cycles and that winter always gives way at some point to spring. You will be able to rise above the vicissitudes of life’s fortunes and struggles and cope with its inevitable ups and downs without bitterness at your fate. There is a tranquility that comes from mirroring the natural rhythms of earth. The mature soul is able to stay present even in the midst of paradox and ride life’s changes with serenity and grace.
In the teachings about initiation from every spiritual tradition, we’re told that in order to be transformed, we cannot be attached to anything at all, even to our own salvation. All must be sacrificed for a higher good. The childish youth in us must be sacrificed before the hoped-for mature wisdom can take place. Death will always precede rebirth into new and greater forms. And though we would certainly prefer it, and no matter how clever we are, we cannot avoid the death part of any transformation. Our new life depends on it.
The word sacrifice comes from the Latin word sacer, which means “to make holy.” When we make a sacrifice, we offer up something that we hold dear, not knowing what, if anything, we will gain by our deed. We simply wait, as though dead, until some act of grace or new vision arrives. In our work at Eupsychia, our national healing and training program in soul-based psychology, we call this in=between place “hanging in the dangle.” It’s as though we hang suspended in space, like a trapeze artist who has let go of one bar and turned in midair to await the arriving bar, with nothing to sustain us but faith. The old way is finished, but the new way has not yet arrived. And that’s just how it is! No act of will can get us past this place. All we can do is make our suffering or fear conscious, examine our faith, and remain steady in the nothingness.
Yet, our sacrifice of youthful innocence to spiritual maturity has another meaning as well. In the light of our search for self-knowledge, we are asserting our right to seize our divine/human wholeness as well. In effect, we are saying, “This higher identity belongs to me.” And claiming this for ourselves is not an act of vanity or selfishness; it is pure love – healthy self-love that becomes selfless by its very way of knowing that we are not these little separate egos anyhow, and never have been; we are all the one and only earthly/divine Soul of Humanity. In our spiritual maturity, we can sense how we are all interconnected as part of a single system. We live in a state of mutual love, sharing, wholeness, and eternity. Once this shift from fragmentaton to wholeness is realized, we are home, or whole. And our beauty shines as love made visible.
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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.
Eupsychia Institute
PO Box 151960
Austin, TX 78715-1960
(800) 546-2795
Local (512) 327-2795
Fax (512) 327-6043
eupsychia1@aol.com
Contact Webmistress
www.eupsychia.com
New Event!
Healing Into Wholeness:10 Day Wellness retreat For Emotional Healing and Spiritual Awakening with Jacquelyn Small
June 16- 26
Central Texas Hill Country (near Austin)
Contact:
Eupsychia 800-546-2795
eupsychia.com/well.html
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