Working with the Animal Soul

In Spacecruiser Inquiry you refer to the libidinal soul as "the primary barrier to spiritual development."  The spiritual traditions I have studied offer very little practical teaching about this critical barrier, and the consequences can be disastrous. Can you say more about the actual process of transforming the animal soul? More specifically, how do we confront our most primal and powerful drives, which are usually distorted and damaged by inner and outer coercion, and hold the ground of truth? What are the dynamics of this transformation? How is this different from sublimation?

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If We Are Inauthentic, What Price Do We Pay?

Coming from a Roman Catholic background, I still differentiate between good and bad. I somehow feel that if I do not manage to live life to my True Nature (fast!) I will have failed and then what...?

If we do not learn to live the life of our true nature then it is some kind of waste. We would have wasted a precious opportunity to be real, authentic, to actually develop our potential and be real and mature human beings.

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My Hopes and Dream for Pearly Place

In 1983, my brother, Craig, gave me an Apple computer. Ever since, computer, technology and the Internet (after Al Gore created it) have drawn me deeper and deepr into their world of wonder.

Having spent quite a bit of time in the Ridhwan School as a wandering dervish or orphaned group, I have a deep passion for helping to develop resources to make the Work more accessible to students, teachers and the world. My first venture into this area involving the school was helping to bring the Diamond Dust online so groups around the world would have immediate access to it.

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