Sue Moon’s Blog

(just a note here, these discourses by Alan Seale are meant to stimulate your thinking. I write the blog for myself. As we all are ever evolving on our path, occasionally becoming stuck; the writings, musings, questionings, angst, fill in the blank, help move me into deeper perspectives of who I am and what I am about. I am not “crying in the wilderness”, “religion hopping” or any other scattered form of study you may have a word for. I hope you enjoy these writings. –Sue)

Western traditions teach that ego and soul are separate. Western religions might call ego “the secular self” and soul the “sacred self”, seeing ego only as self-serving and therefore “bad” while soul is “good.” The Law of Correspondence, however, helps us to see that ego and soul are actually one. They are simply different aspects of you, opposite ends of a spectrum. If we look at the bigger picture to see the many layers of reality at once, we see that ego and soul, as well as the Higher Self, all exist with the same large framework.

HIGHER SELF-the aspect of your being that is pure spirit. The Higher self creates soul and ego so that it might experience itself in physical form, and learn the lessons required for its growth and development.

SOUL-the spiritual component of the Higher Self incarnated in a physical body.

EGO- THE PHYSICAL COMPONENT OF THE Higher Self incarnated in a physical body.

Ego awareness holds on tightly-it can only see the options in its immediate outer senses of reality. It lives within a consciousness based on survival and control and only knows life from a moment to moment physical limitations standpoint. However, it is also a strong grounding force, our connection to the physical dimension. It is essential for physical existence, yet limited in its perspective.

Soul awareness is constantly setting itself free. It lives within a thriving free-flight consciousness, embracing what we think of as surrender, giving life over to the flow of Love. But soul doesn’t consider it surrender at all, for soul is already in the flow of Love. Therefore, free flight seems perfectly natural to soul. It is ego that must surrender in order for soul and ego to fulfill their great partnership potential as different aspects of the whole.

QUESTIONS TO PONDER:

Do I live each day from the broad universal perspective and awareness of soul, or from the narrower perspective of ego?

Do I find that I have both the vision and tools with which to manifest my vision, or do I feel that I have one without the other-a great sense of life vision but no tools, or great tools but no vision?

Do I base my decisions only on the moment and what I might want for immediate gratification (ego approach), or do I try to see the larger ramifications and possibilities that will present themselves because of my decisions (soul approach)?