THE PSYCHIC BEING
(The Personal Evolving Soul)

by Roy Posner


 Connecting with One's Personal Evolving Soul
 What is the soul? A commonly accepted definition is that the soul is a portion of, a "spark" of the Divine that each person has within him at birth. This soul is in the noblest person, as well as the most wretched. In one sense we can say that the very reason we are born is because we have manifest a spark of the universal spirit within us. Just as the universe exists as an extension of a Divine reality, so too we each exist because we have a soul spark of this Divine reality within us.

Now consider the fact that each of us actually has two souls! As an individual begins to live a life of progress, or lives an inner life, or connects to the spiritual Divine reality, something interesting starts to occur deep within. The spark of the Divine, this soul within us, starts taking on a new companion aspect that has an individualized, personal character. The Indian sage and seer Sri Aurobindo calls this personalized soul the "Psychic Being." (Not to be confused with having "psychic experiences.") When we grow as individuals, when we touch the inner consciousness in the depths of our being, when we connect to the Divine reality in our lives, we begin to manifest a new personalized soul space, the Psychic Being.

Next to the unchanging soul spark of the Divine, the personal evolving soul, the Psychic Being is dynamic. It is dynamic because it reflects each person's individuality, including changes in growth and development of the individual; whereas the "first" soul, the universal soul, the soul spark of the Divine is the same in essence in everyone; a part of, an eddy of the changeless, infinite, timeless, spaceless, unfathomable Divine. The Psychic Being is also dynamic because it is an evolving entity. It evolves through the accumulated positive experiences of the individual it inhabits. This individualized personal soul at any point has a certain level of spiritual substance, essence, and Wisdom; and seeks to enhance these through the growth and progress of the individual human it inhabits. As the individual in the course of his life grows, develops, and evolves his capacities, attitudes, habits, opinions, sentiments, values,and other aspects of his being, the Psychic Being absorbs those essences from the individual's experiences and realizations that are useful for its own further evolution. In other words, when you evolve, it can evolve!

If the individual stops growing relative to the needs of an evolving Psychic Being, It will begin to withdraw from that person, searching for new opportunities for greater sustenance for its further development. It normally withdraws by leaving the individual, and merging with the higher realms of consciousness not of this world. If the right vehicle is found, the Psychic Being then enters that new individual in its quest for further nourishment of consciousness, i.e. to further evolve. This is what we mean by the term "rebirth."

If we are able to help the Psychic Being evolve, how can it help us? If we learn to connect with the Psychic Being that is there in the depths of our being within, then life will move in a decidedly different direction for us. The first major effect that the evolving personal soul can have on us is that it helps us live our lives in the best possible way. It does this by "watching over us," insuring that we act in the right way, do the right things, and take the right actions in life. For example, when we do certain things or take certain actions, it subtlely lets us know if it is the right or wrong thing to do. It also watches over the movements of our emotions, reactions, thoughts, habits, attitudes; and subtly suggests, intimates which movements are good and which are deleterious and harmful to us, to be avoided in the future. In this way our personal evolving soul, this Psychic Being becomes our Inner Guide in life.

A second result of our connection to our evolving soul is that we start experiencing everything around us from a very different perspective. By living in the deepest depths we start to move away from and are less influenced by the surface activities around us. We are no longer overwhelmed by the input of the surface life, absorbed through our five senses, which deleteriously affects our feelings, our thinking processes, and our actions. As we withdraw from the surface of life, we are less likely to act from our ego-sense, from our intense and over-wrought individuality and separateness. As a result we see all of life around us in a new light. We open to the greater possibilities that are always there in the atmosphere around us. We open to wider the influences and possibilities that are emerging at every moment. We withdraw our own will and needs and desires in favor of the will and needs and requirements of others. We sense what the truth of the moment is; what is right, what is the correct action to take (or not to take). In this way we enable a greater harmony, unity, and oneness of purpose with all and everything around us.

Also, as our field of awareness, insight, and consciousness expands beyond our own selves, we begin to sense that we are not only an individual self, but that we are also a universal self and being. We begin to sense that the universe and its forces and powers are really an extension of our own individual self. We sense that the consciousness of the universe is intimately connected to our own consciousness. At that point we begin to develop a cosmic consciousness within us, as we sense that all the forces, powers, and subtleties of the universe are there at our disposal.

Then there is the effect o touching the Psychic Being on one's knowledge in life. Normally we know things through our senses, mixed with the thinking faculties of mind. When we want to know something we might need to undertake an investigation, or learn something new, or find it out from others, or simply think deeply on it. The process is long-winding and time consuming. However, there are greater powers of mind higher that one can utilize in one's life; where answers come directly and instantly, without having to go through a long process of investigation, learning, or even thinking. In this way knowledge simply comes, descends into our minds as sudden flashes of light or illumination, as visions or revelations, or as great descents of the object of knowledge and inquiry, complete, in toto, into our minds as intuitions. As a result of our connection to the universal consciousness and mind through our association with the Psychic Being, these experiences of light, illumination, vision, and intuition begin to happen more frequently.

This descent from the universal is greatest when we have descents of complete intuitions of knowledge. If, for example, we wanted to know the solution to a difficult problem that would normally take weeks if not months of inquiry, it would simply descend into our minds, without any thought, giving us future knowledge today; e.g. abridging months of hard fought mental inquiry into literally a few moment of time. Needless to say this can totally change our effectivity and efficiency in life. We become the masters of time and space; we bring the infinite future into the finite present.

As we touch the evolving soul within we not only develop experience illuminations and intuitions of future knowledge in the present, but we also start developing a most astounding new perception of the world; a unitarian consciousness. What does that mean? Well normally we perceive the world in terms of conflicting opposites; good and evil, pleasure and pain, and other divisions, dualities, and opposites of life. In the unitarian consciousness we no longer view these conflicting opposites, but as necessary complements to one another needed in order for life to progress. The good cannot get better without the bad; I cannot improve myself except through my rival or the conflicts, challenges that life presents to me; the nation cannot progress except through its conflict with others. In this unitarian consciousness, we begin to perceive that the contradictory and conflicting parties are necessary to one another to enable higher harmonies to emerge. Pairs of opposites is Nature's way of progress. Moreover, as we see the complementary nature of opposites that need one another for each to progress to a higher harmony, we actually become instruments and enablers of that higher harmony. By seeing the complementary nature of related conflicting pairs, we sense where they are moving towards, and thus have a glimpse of their future direction. From that point we can develop strategies that help them get there without conflict! Connecting with the evolving personal soul enables us to extend out to have a glimpse of this unitarian truth consciousness.

Perhaps most rewarding in connecting to the Psychic Being within is when we experience the Delight of existence; the joy of being and living in life. Perhaps the single great reason this universe emerged from a Divine Reality was so that we who dwell here could experience the delight of the Divine spirit. The divine created the universe for delight, and when we touch our evolving soul being, our Psychic Being, we uncover that hidden delight in creation. In the Psychic Being of the individual is buried the great hidden Delight that emerged from the Creator in creation.

When we connect to the Psychic Being we experience our inner personal guide, experience great awareness of the environment around us, open the doorway to the universal consciousness and its forces and powers, open to descents of light, vision, and intuitions of complete knowledge and integral knowledge, experience the oneness, purpose, and emerging harmonies of life beyond the dualities and conflicts of existence that we see on the surface, and enter the pathway of bliss and delight. To experience the Psychic being even  once in our life is one of the greatest experiences a human being can have. To make it a permanent realization is to open the portal to the infinite potentials and delight of existence.
 

Related Topics:
-To read about the makeup and nature of the depths within, click here.

-For more on the various parts of the being including the vertical scale of consciousness that goes from the physical body to the vital to the mind and beyond to spirit; and the horizontal scale of consciousness that goes into the depths of the being where one encounters the inner being, of which the psychic being, the personal evolving soul is contained, click here.

-To learn about how we evolve to our ultimate possibility by going through a three stage evolution that begins with the psychic transformation (i.e. connecting permanently to our personal evolving soul), click here.

 For additional Growth Online thoughts and references to the psychic being, click here.

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