If you give it a second thought, you will realize that the very term ’soul’ is quite difficult to comprehend. Although we are using it often, there isn’t a realistic context for it in our lives. I believe there was more reason for its presence in the past. But as moral values got reorganized, the soul got lost somehow. What is left of it is the palette of sayings that we still like to use sometimes. Selling your soul is one of those. Maybe the most popular one.
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What would you sell your soul for?
Discerning achievements from self transformation is vital
Self development is not about what you can achieve. It is about what you can become. If you are considering a development framework or system, you should keep this in front of you. By applying any of the methods presented there, you will undergo some changes. You yourself will be transformed. You will become a different person. And that will give you further perspectives.
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Today we are going to do magick
In a previous statement I said that actualization is the key skill in any creative self development quest. Now it is time to show you a real example. And my choice for today is actualizing the four laws of magick. Grab your magick wands, here we go.
Is it all just natural growth?
We all like happy endings. It is comforting to picture for ourselves that eventually everything will turn into something good. There is nothing more human than keeping our hopes alive. In every field of our lives. We, ourselves are always is a process of growing into something more promising then where we are right now. Aren’t we?
The sobering effect of realism
Whether we realize it or not, our mind is calibrated through causal thinking. From early childhood we are thought that there are consequences. Every action has an effect. We are born into a cultural milieu impregnated to its roots by the cause and effect way of thinking. Then, we grow up and realize that something is missing. The formula is working at its best when we became adults, still we are not happy or not feel complete. Then we start looking for further answers.
See what happens if you refuse to grow up
According to all signs, being an adult is about doing useful things, instead of what you would enjoy. Nonetheless, the choice of never growing up is tempting and looks like it’s available. The option of attaching ourselves to the freedom and informality of childhood is there. Being convulsively linked to the idea of no bondages, total freedom and acting accordingly, like a forever true rebel is a scene available to you if you just take a look around. It might be there if you look attentively at yourself. Should this attitude be considered wrong by all means? Is adulthood doomed to bone-dry rationality? Is it worthed at all to grow up?
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What makes us grown-ups?
I am defining ‘reaching the soul’ as the essential goal of any kind of personal development system. Not of the spiritual development, but of the personal one. The very word ’soul’ is so overused in so many unfitting contexts, that it is proper to find different phrasings for it. Let’s not consider for now the mixture and confusion between ’soul’ and ’spirit’. Let’s just stay on the field of personal development. In my top of synonyms for ‘reaching the soul’, on one of the first places stands ‘maturity’. Here’s why.
Why still so many open questions?
The actual abundance of personal development systems and methods gives room to lots of possibilities but also lots of criticism. Besides these obvious good and bad sides of the phenomenon, there is only one conclusion that can be drawn as a certainty: there is a social pressure for filling up the void created by modern traumas like separation, distress, lack of communication etc.
Why I came to prefer ‘development’ instead of ‘evolution’?
Recently I had an interesting discussion with a friend regarding the term ’spiritual evolution’. He stood strongly by the solipsist argument that in fact there is no such thing as spiritual evolution. I have to admit that the arguments were impeccable. Still, a part of me wants to believe in it. Then it occurred to me how to find a way out of this dilemma.
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Where personal development should lead you?
Abundance is truly present in personal development choices. The marketing orientation is our actual major social motif. This is also true when it comes to personal development methods and systems. They all try to show themselves as unique deliverers from personal and/or social misery. Which is good. Still, the number of them gives food for thought. There must be something that is not unique, something common in them. Let’s try to find it.
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