Start with standard opening. Call forward ascended master Hilarion and ask him to bilocate your group in his group merkabah to his inner-plane ashram during the reading and discussion period. Ask him to over-light and guide the entire session. Read chapter 5, "Soul Psychology as Compared to Traditional Psychology," in Soul Psychology. Have a discussion and questions.

Take a break. Continue the discussion during the second half on the value of the two forms of psychology to the whole, and how each is a sliver of truth. Listen to the audio tape, "Ultimate Ascension Activation Meditation," or read Ascension Meditation and Treatment starting on page 45. Ask that Master Hilarion help with all the activations and meditations. Take time for sharing. Do standard closing. Social time.

Soul Psychology
Chapter 5
Soul Psychology as Compared to Traditional Psychology

Matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence, and soul is the vehicle on a higher plane for the manifestation of spirit
Djwhal Khul
through Alice A Bailey

I went through traditional psychology training while immersing myself in my spiritual studies. Both my parents, my stepmother, and my sister are also in the field of psychology. I grew up with it and have lived it, breathed it, made my living at it, and been surrounded by it my entire life. Because of this, I have a lot of very strong opinions about the entire field.

Even though I practice soul psychology, which also might be called spiritual or transpersonal psychology, I have a lot of respect for traditional psychology. I learned a lot in my traditional training and am glad I have the foundation it provided. The problem is that the field of traditional psychology is very limiting. The way I look at it, it is like a horizontal graph that goes from one to one hundred. Zero might be considered the lowest level of consciousness and one hundred that of an ascended master. Traditional psychology might take you up to level thirty; however, it will never take you any further, even with five sessions a week for the next fifty years. The reason for this is that traditional psychology is 98% devoid of spirituality.

When I went through my B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. programs, the way psychology was taught was that they presented you with hundreds of different psychology theories with absolutely no guidance as to which ones were correct and which ones false. That was because no one teaching the classes knew. Every professor had his or her favorite. Your job as a student was to develop some understanding of all of them and independently choose the one you happened to like best. That is how you ended up practising therapy.

The problem lies in the fact that none of them is true, really. They are all what I would call slivers of truth. Maybe if you put them all together, you would have a half-truth. The problem is compounded because each theorist thinks he or she has the whole truth.

In my first book, I spoke of the three levels of self-actualization. There is the personality level, the soul level, and the monadic level. Psychology, at its absolute best (and even this is debatable) will help you to achieve personality-level self-actualization. That is the 30% I spoke of. Traditional psychology cannot help you to gain soul self-actualization or monadic (spiritual) self-actualization because it doesn't even recognize the existence of soul or spirit.

Of the hundreds of different theories I studied in school, I can think of only three that had a spiritual orientation. Those three were the theories of Carl Jung, Abraham Maslow, and Robert Assagioli. I will start with the last one first.

Robert Assagioli was an Italian psychologist who developed psychosynthesis. This is one of the few forms of traditional psychology I think is really worth studying, yet he was never mentioned in all the books I studied throughout my formal education. He is basically unheard of in the field of psychology in terms of college and postgraduate education, except in the transpersonal schools.

Abraham Maslow, although mentioning the value of a spiritual life, wrote very little on the subject. He was well-known for studying healthy people instead of sick people -which was a major breakthrough in the field.

Carl Jung was the only famous traditional psychologist who integrated a spiritual aspect. He was truly a great catalyst in the field. He recognized the ideal of the self, and he broke away from Freud's fixation on sexuality. He was a master of dreams and believed in reincarnation, although he didn't really advertise the fact.

I greatly respect his work and recommend reading it. The problem is that although Jung was a great catalyst for the field, even his work was quite limited when you compare it to the fuller understanding of spiritual psychology that we know of today.

One of the basics of soul psychology is that there are two ways of thinking in the world. You can think from your negative ego mind or you can think from your soul or spiritual mind. Traditional psychology tries to heal within the web of the negative ego. However, true healing cannot occur unless the negative ego is fully transcended. Was it not Sai Baba who said, "God equals man minus ego."

Traditional theories of psychology include absolutely no reference to the idea that thought creates reality. They do not see that there are two diametrically opposed ways of interpreting reality. By definition, it is impossible for this to be seen because there is no integration of the soul aspect. Thus, traditional psychology sees life through a set of glasses worn by the negative ego.

Traditional psychology might be able to help you see better through those glasses; however, you will never truly be able to see unless you take off those glasses and put on your Christ consciousness glasses. The negative ego has infiltrated every aspect of society - religion, traditional medicine, the prison system, and all institutions on the planet - including psychology.

Now here comes the major problem. There are tens of thousands of people graduating from college and doing postgraduate work, getting degrees and licenses, who are ill-qualified to be doing therapy or teaching psychology in our schools. They have, for the most part, not even stepped onto the path of initiation, and you can't truly understand psychology unless you have integrated the soul.

Traditional psychology believes that negative emotions are unavoidable and a normal part of living. It teaches victim consciousness. It has no understanding of the chakras, the soul, the spirit, the negative ego, intuition, higher mind, abstract mind, or the real purpose of life. It doesn't, for the most part, even understand how the subconscious mind really works or how to reprogram it.

I am not saying that traditional psychology has no value. It does have some initial value. If it can lead a person to personality-level self-actualization, that is a great thing and nothing to shrug off. The problem is that very few forms of traditional psychology lead even to this point.

The real problem arises because many people seeking help stay stuck in traditional psychology for endless years and don't really move that far beyond their first year's work. They can't because it is not within the theory they are working with or within the consciousness of the therapist to take them any further. How can a therapist lead a person to enlightenment and self-realization when he or she hasn't even taken the first initiation?

The problem for the average person is that there are not that many spiritual counselors around. The average person who has a religious orientation might consider going to his church or temple to receive counseling. That would probably be even worse than traditional counseling, as traditional religion is as filled with the contamination of negative ego is the field of psychology.

The truth of the matter is that we need more New Age spiritual counselors. A lot of them are unlicensed; in other words, they haven't gone through the traditional schooling. The average person finds this unacceptable and, in fact, is often warned against such therapists. However, I think they are, for the most part, better qualified to do counseling than traditional professional psychologists who have no relationship to soul. This goes completely counter to the views of the average materialistic person who cannot imagine such a possibility. Spiritual people who take the traditional route are, in my opinion, extremely contaminated intellectually by the time they get out.

There are very few people who do not become overwhelmed and confused by all the theories of psychology that are thrown at them. I will briefly go through some of the main ones and compare them to soul psychology.

In summary, there is nothing wrong with going to a traditional therapist for a time. It can be of great value in getting your personality under your control, if you find the right therapist. But at some point you need to get out and find a spiritual teacher to take you the rest of the way or you will never get beyond that 30%.

Traditional psychology, ideally, can be looked at as a pie, each form of psychology being a slice of the pie carrying some small morsel of truth. I suggest being eclectic and integrating all of them. Add to that soul psychology, which is the other 70%, and then you will have a truer understanding of what Djwhal Khul has called esoteric psychology.

This is the true future of psychology. Psychology, as it is now being practised, is still in its infantile stages, or what might be called the dark ages. Twenty to thirty years from now there will be a complete revolution in the field.

Just as the soul is not integrated into the study of psychology in college and postgraduate work, the same is the case in all forms of education - politics, sociology, sports - and in every aspect of society. Humankind has sought to create a world that separates the spiritual realities of life and holds them apart from the everyday world. A good example of this was Communism. It was a political theory devoid of God; that is why it had to fail.

In truth, our political system is only a little bit better than that. Politicians speak of God; however, politics is completely run by the negative ego. Look at the corruption, the negative campaigning, the legalized bribery, the total and complete bipartisanship of the members of the Democratic and Republican parties. Their God is what is right for the party, not what is right for the world and all people.

The extraction of soul from the field of psychology is not unique. There is not one field of study or one institution on the planet in which this has not been done in the exact same way, including religion. The human kingdom has separated itself from the kingdom of God. There will never be any true sense of happiness, inner peace, enlightenment, or understanding until these two kingdoms merge.

This chapter is an attempt to combine the psychology of the kingdom of God with the psychology of humanity. When this is achieved, people can heal themselves completely in months, rather than the years required by traditional psychology.

The Limitations of Traditional Forms of Therapy

Most readers of this text are fairly advanced, so I don't see any need to go into each form of traditional therapy in depth and explain its position. What I am going to do here is go into the different forms of therapy with what I would call the "sword of discernment," from the perspective of the soul, and attempt to elucidate each method's strengths and limitations. I will try to go right to the core of the essential teaching and not waste time with nonessential information.

Psychiatry

Let us begin our discussion with the different modes of therapy now available and contrast them with soul psychology. Psychiatry is a nightmare. I hate to be so blunt and don't mean to be critical; however, if I am going to wield the sword of discernment, I must speak the truth.

The psychiatrist is a medical doctor who receives, in fact, very little training in psychology. The average psychiatrist's form of therapy is a Valium. "Take two of these and see me three times a week for $200 a session." The ordinary psychiatrist has been trained in Freudian therapy, which will take three to five sessions a week for the next twenty years. It might sound as if I am being humorous, and I am, but there is much truth to what I am saying.

The only form of therapy worse than this is when the medical doctors get hold of someone and give him electroshock therapy to snap him out of his depression. To say this is barbaric is the understatement of the universe, and it is still being done, my friends.

In the average psychiatric ward, the patients are so filled with drugs that it would take years just to cleanse their physical bodies, let alone their minds. Their care is custodial at best. Many of these patients are having valid spiritual experiences which the doctors interpret as hallucinations. In truth, it is the doctors who are having hallucinations, while the patients are often tuning into genuine spiritual realities. The care of the mentally ill in our society is a travesty of the highest order. Medical sense is so unclear that doctors actually think they are going to heal the mind, psyche, and soul with a drug. They have no concept of the inner realities of life.

Behaviorism

Behaviorism is the second worst form of therapy. It represents the complete worship of material science. It sees people as nothing more than laboratory rats. There is no such thing as free choice. It states that you are totally shaped by your environment. Positive and negative reinforcement govern all. Of all the slivers of the pie, behaviorism holds only the faintest taste of truth.

It is true that the environment affects people, especially in early stages of evolution. To fail to see any aspect of inner reality and to say humans are no different from the animal kingdom is quite disturbing, to say the least. I am sorry to say, this is the main form of psychology in all the schools in the United States.

It is only the clinical departments, those that deal with counseling, that break away from this mold. All the research departments are governed by behaviorism. The psychologist who invented it, B. F. Skinner, actually kept his child in a box and tried to raise him like that. Can you imagine!

Humanistic Psychology

I would intuitively guess that 70% of the clinicians practice this form of therapy. Humanistic psychology is the "worship" of feelings. You go to therapy to "get out your feelings." You get out the batacas and smash the pillow which represents a spouse or parent, express your anger, and have a good cry.

The therapist is so proud of you for letting your emotions out! The key word is "catharsis." If you will excuse my coarse metaphor, it is like emotional throwing up. Now, the amazing thing about this form of therapy is that you do feel better when you leave the session; this is a fact. The only problem is that since there is no understanding that it is your thoughts that create your reality, your mind builds it all back the next day. It is a feminine type of psychological theory which ultimately makes you a victim of your subconscious mind and emotional body. I speak from personal experience on this one.

There is nothing wrong with having a catharsis, and I am the first to admit the value of such a process. You cannot, however, base your entire therapy on it, as Humanistic psychology does. You also need training as to how your thoughts are creating your feelings and emotions and there must be an integration of the spiritual aspect of life.

One extreme example of this type of therapy, to really bring this point home, has to do with a former client of mine. I saw her for about six months and when she "graduated," she was doing very well and feeling very good. This continued for about a year, until one day I received an emergency phone call from her. She was in terrible shape. She came in to see me right away and I asked what was wrong. She told me that she had been doing fantastically well for the past year, until about a week earlier when a friend had asked if she wanted to go to a workshop called a "rage weekend." She decided to go and found that the idea of the weekend was for every person to have a catharsis and express rage.

People were swearing and cursing up a storm when it was finally my client's turn. The "problem" was that she was not feeling any anger or rage; she was feeling very joyful and peaceful. I had trained her to own her power and to cause her own reality. I had trained her in the science of attitudinal healing and in seeing life from her Christ consciousness rather than from her negative ego consciousness. Not being run by her ego, she didn't have a lot of anger. She was happy and even-minded. The people in the group thought this was impossible, so they all kept attacking her until finally she broke down and started to cry. They did not let up until she did get angry.

By the time she got to me, she was a mess. I explained to her what had happened and why it had happened, and I also explained to her that she had to be a little more discriminating about the kinds of workshops she attended in the future, given her spiritual orientation. She quickly got the lesson and we patched her up better than ever, and a little wiser.

The encounter groups of the sixties, which are still going on, are also a product of thin, type of psychology. The idea here is to share your feelings at any cost. It does not matter if you are unloving or if you are attacking or hurting someone. As long as you are getting out your feelings, everything is wonderful. It is most definitely an Atlantean (emotionally based) form of therapy. It might be good for a short period of time for those who are controlled by and polarized in the mental body, if the right person or group is found. Otherwise, its value is quite limited.

Cognitive Psychology

If Humanistic psychology is Atlantean, then Cognitive psychology is based in the Aryan root race because of its mental attunement. Cognitive psychology is unique in that it is the only form of traditional psychology that teaches that it is your thoughts that create your reality. There are many very good ideas and tools in this form of therapy, and it definitely gets some results. The limitation is that the soul is missing from the system; nor does it go all the way in understanding that emotions are caused by thoughts. It does say you cause your reality but it does not go to the point of seeing that you don't have to experience negative emotions if you don't choose to.

This form of psychology is definitely a step in the right direction. It might be especially good for those who are too emotionally polarized and need to develop the mental body. Nevertheless, I would not choose any of the forms of traditional counseling over a spiritual counselor who has a good overall understanding.

In a sense, I make these recommendations for people who might not be open to seeing a spiritual counselor because they are not yet at that level of evolution in life, so must see someone who works only on the personality level and not on the spiritual level.

For a person who is spiritually based but who is feeling victimized by the emotional body, reading some books on Cognitive psychology might be very appropriate. Unfortunately, this is a system that is not often taught in traditional colleges and universities.

Freudian Psychology

Freudian psychology is getting less and less attention as time goes on, although in the past it was very important. A lot of psychiatrists seem to gravitate to it. Sigmund Freud definitely has his place in history, and he came up with some important concepts; however, he was very fixated at the second chakra level.

His theories were also totally cut off from spirit. A person who goes to see a Freudian analyst, in my opinion, is going to get very screwed up. A strong codependence is created between the therapist and patient, and the therapist will place all his Freudian philosophy on the patient's reality. If he didn't go in with sexual problems and problems with his outer and inner parents, he will have them by the time he gets out. He will also have a lot less money in his bank account.

Freudian psychology is not worthless, but in my opinion, it can take a person only from level one to level ten on a scale of one to one hundred. If a person goes five times a week for fifty years, he will never get beyond level ten because it is not within the theory to take him any further.

Jungian Therapy

Jungian therapy, of course, was started by the famous Swiss psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung. He was a contemporary of Freud and a student of his for a while but he broke away because of Freud's fixation on sexuality as the cause of everything.

Of all the forms of traditional psychology I would give this form the highest marks. It can take you higher than the 30% I spoke of earlier because it is spiritually based. Jung had a vague understanding of the Eternal Self, although not as complete an understanding as someone like Djwhal Khul has. But Jung was in the ballpark.

He had an excellent understanding of dreams. He intimated a belief in reincarnation in his autobiography, although he didn't advertise this. He strongly believed in God, which was refreshing when I was having to study all the traditional therapies in school.

The best way to describe his contribution is to say that he was a fantastic catalyst for the field. It is very easy to get stuck in Jungian psychology, for the people who are really into it operate a bit like a cult, although I am sure Jung would turn over in his grave at the idea. I speak from experience because my parents were Jungian therapists and I saw what they had to go through in dealing with the Jung Society in Los Angeles.

We all know what happens when people form organizations around a certain set of teachings. This is not a criticism of Jung, but rather a commentary on what has been done with his teachings. This happens to all spiritual teachers, including Jesus and Buddha.

The limitations of Jungian psychology are that even though it is moving in the right direction and is most definitely spiritual in orientation, it is not complete. For example, there is no understanding of the difference between negative ego thinking and spiritual thinking. There is, in fact, the erroneous concept of having to own your shadow. Many people are caught up in this false teaching.

If God created you, then you are made in His image which is Light and love. If you have a negative, or shadow, side it comes from misuse of free choice or from thinking with the ego mind instead of with the Christ mind. The ideal is to not own your shadow, or negative ego, but rather to die to it. As Sai Baba says, God equals man minus ego.

You experience negativity because you think negatively. If you think with your Christ mind you will experience joy, happiness, unconditional love, and inner peace. When you feel negative, you can always trace it back to a negative thought coming from your negative ego. If you die to your negative ego, you die to the creation of a negative reality for yourself.

Other limitations of Jungian psychology are that it doesn't teach affirmations, visualizations, or how to reprogram the subconscious mind. There is no real inner child work and no focus on prayer or meditation. Jung did not teach unconditional love. You will not realize God if you do not realize unconditional love. Again, I do not mean to be critical of Jung, for I have the highest regard for the contributions he made to the field. A person who stays focused in Jungian psychology will progress but will not go all the way. I see many people getting stuck in the school of Jungian teachings and limiting themselves. I would recommend to anyone the reading of his books. I am even supportive of being in Jungian therapy as long as you also study and work with other theories and practices.

If you compare Jung's teachings with the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda, Sai Baba, or Djwal Khul, you can see they are not in the same league. Jung was not a self-realized spiritual master. If your goal is self-realization and ascension, then you must have a teacher who is self-realized or ascended. What I am saying is that you can integrate Jung into your eclectic stew of studies, but you shouldn't totally identify with him.

I see a great many people who are totally identified with him and, in my opinion, they are holding themselves back. On the other side of the coin, this might be what they need for a while at this point in their evolution to take them to the next step. I am just suggesting that when they reach that point they acknowledge it and hold on to the old form, but take the next step, for it will lead to that which Jung couldn't teach - the state of bliss, unceasing joy, unconditional love, enlightenment, and ascension.

Gestalt Psychology

Gestalt is another school of traditional psychology that is quite interesting. I speak from experience because I was in Gestalt therapy for a number of years when I was younger. Fritz Perls, the founder, was quite dynamic and many brilliant minds have built upon his theories. It is a more feminine type of psychology as opposed to a masculine type such as Cognitive psychology. Gestalt psychology sees no inherent structure in the mind. Gestalt therapy is very much into experiencing everything first before dealing with the mind. It tends to be a little bit anti-mind.

This school of thought was probably a needed backlash against the overemphasis on mind in some other theories. My favorite thing about Gestalt psychology is what Fritz Perls said: "When the top dog or underdog come up within your mind, laugh them off the stage." This was quite an astute statement, for without completely understanding what he was saying, he was talking about transcending the negative ego, and no other form of traditional psychology has ever addressed that.

Gestalt therapy uses a lot of roleplaying which can be a very effective tool. When dealing with a dream, instead of talking about it, you are asked to act it out. I once had a dream about a tarantula and made the mistake of telling my Gestalt therapist. He had me climbing around his office like a spider!

I am being funny here, but in truth, I got a lot out of Gestalt therapy, compared to other forms I tried. It is definitely a good methodology for those who are very intellectual and uptight.

The limitations are quite evident, also. It is, in my opinion, too feminine in its approach and needs to find a male/female balance. An example of this is its anti-mind attitude that sees absolutely no structure to the psyche. It has gone to the opposite extreme from the position of other therapies. Maybe it was an appropriate pendulum swing, but ultimately, to achieve self-realization, you need to be fully balanced. Gestalt psychology also does not integrate the spiritual aspect of self.

People have said Perls himself was quite ordinary and even nasty at times. He definitely did not believe in unconditional love; it probably would have been too constricting for his theory. Perls made a great contribution though, and if this type of therapy is used scientifically for the adjustments needed to find personality-level self-actualization, it can be of great value.

All these different therapies lead toward personality-level self-actualization. My complaint is that they don't lead to soul-level self-actualization and then to spiritual-level self-actualization.

Carl Rogers

Carl Rogers was considered one of the great Humanistic psychologists. His form of therapy is called client-centered therapy; it is very nondirective. He believed the client had all the answers and one had simply to give the client unconditional positive regard and practice "active listening."

I like his idea of unconditional positive regard. He was basically practising and teaching unconditional love, and he should be commended, for that was a major breakthrough in the field of psychology.

His idea that the client had all the answers and his letting the client run the sessions, in my opinion, was a serious mistake. Most clients, by definition, are totally run by their emotional bodies, negative egos, and subconscious minds. I believe a therapist is a teacher, and there are definite things that a client needs to learn in order to get his or her life together.

Rogers' practice of active listening meant that he would repeat back whatever the client said. If he said, "I am pissed off at my wife," then Rogers would say, "So you are angry at your wife." It wouldn't be bad if he did this a couple of times in a session, but therapists are taught to do this constantly, which would drive me nuts.

This type of therapy is a pendulum swing away from the other types of therapies in which the therapist talks too much, gives too much advice, and doesn't listen enough. In my opinion, Rogers' original theories went too far to the other extreme. An interesting side note, of which many people are not aware, is the fact that in Rogers' later years he moved into Transpersonal psychology, which is the traditional name for spiritual psychology.

Alfred Adler

Adlerian psychology is practised by those who consider themselves social psychologists. Adler had some good ideas. He saw the purpose of life as being the striving toward mastery and perfection, which is right on. He also saw the purpose of life as moving from the self-centered viewpoint to a more socially useful viewpoint. He felt strongly that you need to own your power and extricate yourself from inferiority and superiority complexes.

Adler was clearly moving out of the negative ego thought system whose core is selfishness and separativeness. I commend him for this. The only problem is that he didn't go quite far enough. In a complete spiritual understanding, the purpose of life is to move from a self-centered viewpoint to a soul-centered viewpoint, not just to a social viewpoint. This is where the theory stays on the humanistic plane and doesn't take the step to the soul level.

Adlerian psychology is not very often taught in schools, and this is unfortunate, for he had a lot of good ideas. All the good theorists don't seem to be taught in schools. In my estimation, traditional school is 90% behaviorism and humanistic psychology - although, in recent times this may be changing.

Family Systems Psychology

Family Systems is a form of psychology that many marriage, family and child counselors are trained in. It is an interesting theory in that the family is viewed as though it were a functioning personality in and of itself. Any change of behavior on the part of a family member causes a repercussion in the entire family system.

Instead of dealing with the individual psyches of each individual, a Family Systems therapist seeks to make adjustments in the family system as a whole. If a child, for example, is having a problem, this kind of therapist might not even deal with the child, but might make adjustments in the parent's marriage. That adjustment might then heal the child.

There is some validity in this. The problem is that it has gone too far to the other extreme again, in not dealing enough with the individual psyches of the people involved.

Each theory brings a sliver of truth from the entire pie, but each one goes too far in one extreme or the other. My suggestion is that you stay in the center of the pie and not go to any extreme, that you integrate all the different points of view. Then you have a more balanced understanding.

Transactional Analysis

Transactional Analysis was developed by Erie Berne, M.D. It divides the personality into parent, adult, and child. It is a very simplistic model, but if you are just starting off on the path of personality-level self-actualization it can be a very helpful model for beginning to integrate the personality. I do like this model better than Freud's id, ego, and super-ego, as it is a much clearer understanding.

The False Holistic Theory

The False Holistic theory of psychology is one that I myself have named. I think it is unknown to most people either because they are caught in it or because they have a whole bunch of unintegrated theories in their minds. The False Holistic theory, as I define it, is the belief that you need to balance the light and dark aspects of yourself.

Many of you might be nodding your heads saying, "This sounds all right. I think we are supposed to do that." Well, I am here to say that you are not here to do that. Yes, you are here to balance the feminine and masculine parts of yourself. Yes, are here to balance the Heavenly and Earthly aspects of yourself. You are also here to balance your chakras and four bodies as well as all other aspects of yourself. It is certainly true that you need to balance and integrate the ego and the spirit.

But there is one thing that you are not here to balance, and this is a key point that few people in this world understand: You are not here to balance negative ego consciousness and the Christ consciousness. You are here to get rid of and die to the negative ego. That is why Sai Baba says "God equals man minus [the negative] ego." This is also the essence of A Course in Miracles, Buddha's teachings, and, in truth, all the teachings of all the self-realized masters.

People who are caught in the False Holistic theory think that they have to balance everything and that if they disown anything, it will come back and bite them on some level. This is not true. Remember, it is your thoughts that create your reality, and the negative ego is, in essence, fear, selfishness, and separation.

You are not here to balance fear and love. Does not the Bible say, "Perfect love casts out fear." You are not here to balance separation and oneness. You are here to live in the oneness. You are not here to balance feelings of inferiority with high self-esteem. It is the negative ego that creates hatred, revenge, jealousy, lack of self-worth, false pride, depression, and low self-esteem. God created you, and your true identity is the monad, the Eternal Self, the I Am Presence. Does not the Bible say, "Ye are gods and know it not."

Does God experience hatred, revenge, jealousy, lack of self-worth, false pride or depression? Of course not. Where do these qualities come from if God created you? They come from misthinking on humanity's part. They come from thinking with the separative, fear-based mind instead of with the love-based Christ mind. Does not the Bible say, "Let this mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus."

To realize the Christ consciousness, you have to get rid of the negative ego consciousness. As A Course in Miracles says, "There are no neutral thoughts." You are either egotistical in your thinking or spiritual in your thinking, or a mixture of both. The ideal is, obviously, to be spiritual.

When you achieve this state of thinking you are loving, joyous, happy, even-minded, and peaceful all the time. Did not Buddha say, "All suffering comes from your attachments." God does not suffer so why should you if you are made in His image and likeness? You are here to become the Light, to become the love, to realize God.

As Sai Baba says, you will not achieve God-realization unless you die to the negative ego, which is fearful, separative, and selfish. When you die to the lower self's way of thinking and are reborn to your higher self's way of thinking, then you will realize God.

This is the main curriculum of the spiritual path, regardless of which particular route or teacher you choose to follow. Contrary to what other people might say, you do not need negative emotions. They are created by the mind. They do not come from outside of yourself or from your instincts. They come from your interpretations, perceptions, and beliefs about reality.

Each of you is seeing your own movie. Did not Buddha say, in the four noble truths, that all suffering comes from "wrong points of view." You are to think with your God mind which is Light. That is why it is called enlightenment. It is not called en-dark-enment. We are not here to balance happiness and suffering. We are here to live in happiness and the Light all the time. This is the mastery over what Djwhal Kbul has called "the dweller on the threshold," which is the embodiment of glamour, illusion, maya and the negative ego.

I hope I have provided a glimpse into the future. Transpersonal psychology is the new wave. In the coming years it will completely revolutionize the field of psychology.