We hear all the time that some of life's greatest lessons are hiding in plain sight. You can see as a spiritual being when you close your eyes and try to see with something else. This is the vision of the human heart. It’s a perspective that allows us to feel our way through something versus grope in the dark. The ego automatically thinks it needs to have some sort of intellectual engagement with life. Is life right or wrong, fair or unfair. Meanwhile, the heart is simply looking for true and false.

We witnessed this past weekend what happens when the human spirit provokes us into passion and purpose. During the peaceful demonstration of healing and saying 'enough is enough' many are realizing (some for the first time) that this is what it means to have an inner life. *It was/is a spiritual moment! (*Though my cohost Irma Francis sounds telephonic in this recording the content was too good not to post.)

There is no bigger confusion in our culture than the difference between a spiritual and psychological wound. In fact, there is a tendency to merge the two as if they are the same. A spiritual wound is an event that happens outside of time that impacts your relationship with the source, God, or Universe. A psychological wound happens in real time and affects the relationship you're having with yourself and others. This means human suffering occurs in two ways: (1) separation from the source and (2) divided against ourselves and others. One is the human condition the other is something that happens to us. In this way, suffering does not equal victimazation.

The soul orchestrates life for us to see on the outside what is happening internally. It turns out, this is the only way the ego can see to change. Most think it is the other way around. If I can just get my life in order 'out here' everything will fall in place on the inside.  Few reaize it is an inside-out process to evolve, not the reverse.

From the soul's perspective you are whole and more than enough. Its only desire is to BE in this moment fully without restriction. The ego is more concerned about whether it is deserving, worthy, or normal. You can see that in one reality you are free to love and exude authenticity. In the other, you are suffering for no apparent reason except guilt or shame. Which reality is true and which is false? The soul knows the answer.

When we are born there is a sense that we are a clean slate. Not much unlike a piece of clay that can be shaped and formed by its experience. Few remember that the contents of this vessel that is us is our essence- the soul. Psychology calls this container personality. People think it is who they are. This works until the container is cracked then everything that we thought we were is spilled out onto the ground. What are we to do? First, if the pottery wheel is life then we are both the potter and the pot.

We've all heard the dichotomy: “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” – Teilhard de Chardin - Such phrases are important as we seek a valid context for our lives. New wisdom on human suffering suggests: "We are spiritual beings having psychological experiences." -Vecchio-

Most people believe that it is good to have a healthy ego but there is nothing healthy about ego in the spiritual sense until it has been suffered awake. The ego tries to convince us that it is there to serve and protect us. It says, ‘Where would you be without me? I am the fire in your belly.’ *This show discusses the ego’s real ambition which is to separate and imprison us from other people and keep us away from our soul's intent.

The human spirit is designed to provoke the ego awake. This means our feeling re-action to the 'fated break’ is self-correcting. It can take a lifetime if we never realize that the Soul's Path is something we must choose. *This show reminds us of the panaramic view that is our lives.

Spiritual psychology defines soul as the essence of our human potentials, latent within us capable of being actualized and manifested in our daily lives. *This show discusses the personality or ego as a composite container of our expressed self as: mental, emotional, and physical.