Essential Development
The process of essential development takes the soul from her initial condition at the completion of ego development, in which she is dissociated from her true nature and living mostly as the animal soul with a civilized veneer of ego structures, to the station of the human soul. In other words, discovery and integration of essence transforms the soul from its condition of being primarily an animal soul to the state of being primarily the human soul, a soul with heart.
Inner Journey Home, p. 222 • discuss »
Inner Journey Home, p. 222 • discuss »
The essential Pearl provides the soul with a sense of individuality and personhood that does not depend on fixed impressions, on spontaneously arising forms of essential presence that structure her experience of herself and give her the capacity to function as a person. The soul matures and transforms into a person of essence. However, the qualities and actions of this person are quite fluid and flexible and are objective responses resonant to the needs and inputs of the environment.
Inner Journey Home, p. 223 • discuss »
Inner Journey Home, p. 223 • discuss »
We see that essential development goes through stages, beginning with the recognition of the dynamic field and medium of the soul. Then essence arises in its various aspects, resolving the soul’s issues and providing her with the real elements necessary for her life and development. Next the diamond vehicles arise, providing the soul with a personal, direct, and objective knowledge and wisdom about true nature and its relationship to the soul and her life. This wisdom transforms the soul further, and she becomes able to transcend the most fundamental structures and limitations, and to open up to the presentation of true nature in its primordial ground, with its formless and boundless dimensions.
Inner Journey Home, p. 226 • discuss »
Inner Journey Home, p. 226 • discuss »
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- Effort
- Ego
- Ego Activity
- Ego Alien
- Ego Death
- Ego Defense
- Ego Deficiency
- Ego Development
- Ego Functions
- Ego "I"
- Ego Ideal
- Ego Identity
- Ego Life
- Ego Metabolism
- Ego Structures
- Embodiment
- Emotional States
- Emotions
- Emptiness
- Energies
- Enlightenment
- Enlightenment Factors
- Essence
- Essential Development
- Essential Experience
- Essential Identity
- Essential Love
- Essential Qualities
- Essential Realization
- Essential Retrieval
- Essential Self
- Essential Truth
- Evil
- Evolutionary Force
- Existence
- Experience
- Entityhood
- Enneagram and the Diamond Approach
- Enneagram of Holy Ideas
- Enneagram of Specific Delusions
- Enneagram of Specific Difficulties
- Enneagram of Specific Reactions
