Central Object Relation
The process of working through the primitive structures of the animal soul and the soul child requires that all three object relations be understood all the way to the clear, embodied experience and understanding of essential aspects related to them. We have not discussed the process of working through the central object relation, but this is the main structure that the inner work of the Diamond Approach addresses. To work through it means to render transparent its constituent self-images, which entails dealing with all the major ego structures. This involves working through the (normal) ego structure of being an autonomous individual with a unique identity. The autonomy structure is the subject matter of our book The Pearl Beyond Price, and the identity structure is the subject matter of The Point of Existence. Working through these ego structures leads to the self-realization of true nature and its individuation in personal life.7 The two primitive object relations become clarified, and then are integrated into the clarified central object relation. More accurately, the soul develops into a mature and full soul, who experiences and recognizes essential presence as her nature and identity, but can also embody this realization in life, with her essential power and her rich, overflowing heart in harmony.
Inner Journey Home, p. 210 • discuss »
Inner Journey Home, p. 210 • discuss »
So let's further explore this central object relation. The central object relation is a relationship between the central ego, the core, or the central part of the soul to what is called the ideal object or the ideal other. The object here is ideal in the sense that the object, the parent or the teacher or the teaching or the school or the breast, whatever it may be, is comforting, satisfying, fulfilling, nourishing, supporting, and giving. The ideal object is not absolutely idealized. We need not think the ideal object is perfect. The ideal object is simply good, in a normal, everyday kind of way.
For a long time, the student relates to the teaching, the school, or the teacher as the ideal object. They relate to that ideal object through the central object relation. That object relation will have to be exposed because it is not reality. You are still living through an internalized object relation. You are still living through a mental structure. You are still living through images, through a projection. You are still imagining reality as something that is not the way it actually is. Because you are living your life from a false perspective, there will never be true realization. Realization will not take hold. Transformation will not be effected in a fundamental way. Any experience you have will be a part of that object relation, which will make you forever dependent on that object relation.
Diamond Heart Book V, p. 262 • discuss »
Diamond Heart Book V, p. 262 • discuss »
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- Castration
- Cathedral
- Cathexis
- Central Narcissism
- Cessation
- Chakras
- Change
- Child
- Child Identity
- Christian Virtues
- Citadel
- Clarification
- Clear Essence
- Clear Light
- Cognition
- Cognitive Process
- Commanding Self
- Commitment
- Compassion
- Completeness
- Compulsion
- Concepts
- Conceptualizing
- Conditioning
- Consciousness
- Contact
- Contentment
- Contraction
- Conventional Self
- Cosmic Consciousness
- Cosmic Hole
- Creation
- Creativity
- Creator of Form
- Curiosity
- Central Object Relation
- Crystal Dimension
- Courage
