In the Northeast of the US there's a classic response to a stranger's request for directions: "You can't get there from here." It's generally meant to convey how far off course the person is, and that the directions needed are too complex.
In this day and age, the wise person is regularly asking for "directions," but from whom? It seems clearer than ever that the best answer to that query is: from ourselves. But, of course, not just from our brain, but from the whole symphony of our human life: our senses and feeling life, our intuitions, and our mind-brain combination. It's Peter writing here today, and I've been caused to have this ponder because we've just published on the site Chapter 3 of Aviv Shahar's unfolding work Portals Into the Soul, entitled Symphonic Sevenfold Soul Work.
The whole of the Soul odyssey we have been on thus far has been a journey nudging us back into ourselves, back to the core of what we are as humans with a soul. Learning to slow down and listen better to the messaging of our inner lives, and the guidance that is always a part of our narrative - if we allow it the space it needs to communicate with us. Aviv has framed this odyssey by saying, "Humanity needs to reclaim the soul."
Yet for most of us, we are strangers to our soul. Chapter 3 addresses this conundrum by taking us on a mind-expanding exploration into ever deeper questions, because, honestly, we can't get where we need to be from where we are.
In this Aviv introduces us to Loom work, a methodology and practice he developed and honed through years of strategy consulting to senior executives in Fortune 100 companies, which is applicable to any inquiry we may want to pursue. Through it, we expand our frame of reference by making a trace of our own knowledge, insights, and considerations. This is a process that Aviv calls a form of courting: “Let’s cultivate an ecology of inquiry and contemplation so we become conductive for remedies and solutions to find us."
This is also the beginning of creating a mental map of where we are and where we want to go; in doing this, we learn to navigate the terrain we find ourselves in while opening ourselves to new possibilities.
Says Aviv, “Navigating begins with knowing where you are on the map.” He then adds this question: “Is it possible humanity has lost touch with reality and is now at a place where we cannot begin to recognize who we are?”
This is the odyssey we are on, to re-discover where we are on the map, and to re-integrate with our natural design and capacities. And from there, we can get everywhere.
Symphonic Sevenfold Soul Work
Inchapter 2we described the nature of separation events and the compensatory act of the soul — the ghost. Before developing ways to recover the sense of connection and explore pathways to reengage and liberate the greater potential of the soul, this chapter begins to reflect on a whole loom of considerations, including the experience of showing up in a human model, which is governed by a seven-fold process.
This is the first in a series of installments that will be seeking to place this soul odyssey inside the context of this moment in the unfolding epoch transition. It will open the way to prod the soul’s interface with the full orchestra of inner lives of a human, including in a later installment the brain and the mind.
