Ascended Masters, Shangra-la Mission, Psychology, the Mind and Consciousness, Part II

Psychology, the Mind and Consciousness

Obstructions to Being Part II

by Lorraine Michaels

September 24, 2005

Over the course of history, humankind have lost touch with their true Being. As man comes into Being, golden ages have sprung up. And when man loses contact with that Being, he sinks down into the ego-centered and controlled living. As we come into the age of Aquarius, we are learning again what it means to Be who we are and take back control from our human ego creation.

We have been given four lower bodies that are vehicles for the soul to evolve through time and space. We also have spiritual centers, or chakras, for bringing God power, wisdom and love into Being, which is discussed in length in the article Seven Major Chakras. Our mental and emotional bodies have been severely compromised by social, religious and parental control and programming, as discussed in Part I. If we are going to bring in the long awaited Golden Age, the Age of Aquarius, we must heal our four lower bodies, and take back control and put it in the control of our God Selves.

In Part II, we’ll look at the history of treating mental health and what has evolved in the field of psychiatry (mental health) – as well as what is missing – and then conclude with the understanding of what is the true reason behind mental disease and what takes us from Being I AM.

The Field of Psychiatry
Psychiatry as a separate specialty of medicine, came into being in the last several hundred years. Although mentally insane individuals have been noted in history as far back as recorded history goes, the treatment of insane individuals was archaic and brutal. It was not until the 18th and 19th century with the age of reason, did some individuals develop a means to treat the mind, but not necessarily heal the mental body or know its relationship to the emotional and physical bodies.

The field of psychiatry basically started around the time of the late 18th century with psychiatrist Benjamin Rush, the first American psychiatrist. He had been in charge of the mentally ill patients for 30 years, and was in an excellent position to study and explain the role of heredity, traumatic injuries, malformation of the brain, the effect of drugs, etc., in the causation of mental diseases. Later, Joseph Breuer, using hypnosis techniques, treated a female patient for hysteria, with good results. Sigmund Freud, a friend of Breuer, and the father of psychoanalysis, followed Breuer's work and began his reasoning that the mental health of individuals was related to desire, mainly sexual desires.

Traditional psychoanalysis generally treats only on an intellectual level - not on the emotional healing level - not at the soul level - and except for some spiritual counselors, not at a spiritual level. Unless the four lower bodies are taken into consideration, along with the soul that is surrounded by these bodies, healing can be at best, a hit and miss situation. In the last hundred years, the medical field has become tightly knit together, with written and unwritten laws that will not allow unorthodox or new methods, often inspired from the Ascended Hosts, to be practiced or accepted in the medical field. Emotionally dishonest and dysfunctional cultures produce dysfunctional healing systems and ostracize, judge and condemn those who break out of the mold in the medical and mind analysis fields that are holistic - that treat the whole person. We must take back our own healing and not seek to find it in the traditional fields of Health today.

The later years of the 18th century saw a huge increase in the number of quack medicines being internationally marketed. And in 1906 the U.S. saw the passage into law of the Pure Food and Drug Act to prevent quackery. About that same time chiropractic healing came about developed by Daniel Palmer. Breaking through the barriers of the already established American Medical Association (1857) and its beginning control of what they would allow in the Health field was already showing. It was a long, uphill battle to get chiropractic care accepted as a viable healing practice and Palmer was arrested for practicing medicine against the law. Many of his students were arrested on various charges over the years, as well.

The Swinging Manipulative Associations
Understandably, there were and have been quacks in the Health field. But the pendulum has swung to the point where in America, control for your own families health care may be taken away from you by court order, if you are judged to be putting a minor in danger of not receiving traditional medical care. If you want to treat yourself or family member for non-traditional cancer cures you may have to travel outside of the United States. And you will be court-ordered to treat your minor with traditional chemotherapy if diagnosed by the medical profession if you seek to do otherwise.

Likewise, in the field of mental health, we have seen the pendulum swing to a drug-controlled society. American Psychiatric Association was founded in 1844 and is responsible for setting the standards of education and acceptable practices in the field. Psychiatry is the study of mental disorders and their diagnosis, management and prevention. Psychiatrists are medical doctors who have qualified in Psychiatry and can administer drugs. While Psychology is the study of people: how they think, how they act, react and interact. Psychology is concerned with all aspects of behavior and the thoughts, feelings and motivation underlying such behavior. Psychologists are not usually medically qualified and only a small proportion of people studying psychology degrees will go on to work with patients or administer drug therapy.

The National Mental Health Association (NMHA) was founded in the early 1900's because of the tremendous abuse mental patients incurred in mental hospitals. The National Committee played a major role in formulating what would become the core of mental health policy in the 20th century.

At the turn of the century, these individuals were called the Progressive movement. They challenged the foundations of the criminal law system, which is based on the view that every person is an autonomous, responsible moral agent who should be rewarded for right choices and punished for wrong ones. This view ran contrary to two conclusions that developed among the Progressives. First, their study of the conditions in which people lived, especially in the crowded cities, suggested that poverty and the environment had an undeniable effect, producing criminal behavior. And second, that the source of deviant behavior was internalized and located in the psychology of an individual. The Progressives also doubted the effectiveness of punishment as a general deterrent, and they opposed the theory of retribution as the basis of a criminal justice system.

Thus began the era for over 50 years of the insanity plea to get criminals off the hook, until President Reagan was shot by John Hinckley and because of the high profile case, the laws were eventually changed. Hinckley was found "not guilty by reason of insanity." As a result, the progressive insanity defense was nearly abolished, and psychiatrists and psychologists were barred from testifying on the ultimate legal issue of the insanity defense—whether or not a person was able to cognize the quality of his or her act.

The pendulum had swung the other way. Neither view is entirely correct. And we see this societal control in these organizations that create laws for the people due to emotional responses and not necessarily based on sound judgment, even in the medical field. And these organizations wield a lot of power due to their financial wealth leading to control through money. We cannot depend on them to safeguard our health, or necessarily practice preventative medicine, which would hurt their pockets.

The laws are tight and strict, to keep out quacks from treating mental and emotional health. But in the name of protection we are often abused in our rights as American citizens. President Bush signed a New Freedom Commission on Mental Health in April 2002 to conduct a "comprehensive study of the United States mental health service delivery system." Schools, the commission has stated, are in a "key position" to screen the 52 million students and 6 million adults who work at the schools, who will then be mandated to receive "treatment." What treatment do they have in mind? The commission recommended the treatment and support to include "state-of-the-art treatments" using "specific medications for specific conditions." One of the state-of-the-art treatments, and most expensive, is an implanted capsule . The capsule delivers medication into a child's body without the child having to swallow a pill or the need for parental permission for dispensation. There is no talk of treating the emotions, physical causes, or mental health counseling. The method of choice is to treat with medications first - antipsychotic drugs, traditionally used for schizophrenia.

Mental Health Statistics

As stated in Part I, standard drug use is high for treatment today. Mental disorders are common in the United States and abroad. An estimated* 22.1 percent of Americans ages 18 and older--about 1 in 5 adults--suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year. When applied to the U.S. Census residential population estimate, this figure translates to 44.3 million people. In addition, 4 of the 10 leading causes of disability in the U.S. and other developed countries are mental disorders. About 20 percent of children are estimated to have mental disorders.

The list of mental disorders is staggering:

major depression
dysthymic disorder
bipolar disorder
schizophrenia
suicide
anxiety disorders
panic disorders
post-traumatic stress disorder
anxiety disorder
social phobia
eating disorders
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
autism, and
obsessive-compulsive disorder.
And in children they have created a new disease: serious emotional disturbance, (SED) which they estimate is in 5 to 9% of children 9 to 17 years old.

Other Mental Health Statistics (Based on various Mental Health studies and might not bare truth in reality - but a means of building their case to control society with drugs:

Preliminary studies indicate that 1 in 5 children/adolescents may have a diagnosable mental disorder.
An estimated 7.7 to 12.8 million children suffer from mental disorders (Center for Mental Health Services, 1993). These youth are estimated to have severe emotional or behavioral problems that significantly interfere with their daily functioning.
Nearly one-third of the nation's estimated 600,000 homeless individuals are believed to be adults with severe mental illnesses (CMHS, 1992).
More than 1 in 14 jail inmates has a mental illness.
Twenty-nine percent of the nation's jails routinely hold people with a mental illness without any criminal charges (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill and Public Citizens' Health Research Group).
More than 51 million Americans have a mental disorder in a single year (National Institute of Mental Health and CMHS, 1994).
During the course of any given year, while more than 40 million adult Americans are affected by one or more mental disorders, 5.5 million Americans are disabled by severe mental illnesses (NIMH, 1990).
An estimated 19.9 million Americans, 8.8 percent of the population, experience phobias. About 9.1 million, 5.1 percent of the population, live with major depression. Some 3.9 million have obsessive compulsive disorder; 2 million have schizophrenia; 2.4 million have panic disorder; 2 million experience bipolar disorders (NIMH, 1990).
At least two-thirds of elderly nursing home residents have a diagnosis of a mental disorder such as major depression (NIMH, 1990).
One in four women and one in 10 men can expect to develop depression during their lifetime.
Bipolar Disorder (manic-depressive illness) Usually strikes before the age of 35 and will affect nearly 1 in 100 people. Among the most treatable of the psychiatric illnesses and with the correct medication the number and intensity of episodes can be decreased for 70 percent of the people in treatment.
Panic Disorder (anxiety disorder class) Will affect 1.3 percent of American adults each year. Treatment consists of different medications and therapies with a 75 percent to 90 percent effectiveness.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Will affect 2.1 percent of Americans and is one of the most complex of all mental disorders. Although 75 percent of patients respond initially to treatment, most have a return of symptoms. However, nearly 80 percent of patients on a drug known as clomipramine showed some positive response and 60 percent experienced moderate response.

The U.S. government reported that more than four in 10 Americans take at least one prescription drug and one-in-six takes at least three. Nearly half of all women were taking prescription drugs – 49 percent – compared to 39 percent of men. How many of these diseases are caused by issues directly stemming from an imbalanced emotional body or mental body?

The History of developing Fields of Psychology
The idea that our emotions have effects that cause physical and mental problems is a recent development in the field of medicine. But it is not widely promulgated, but repressed. The drug companies rule the medical field, and there is no money to be made from healing unseen bodies of the people on earth.

Let us look at the field of the mental health profession and its history, with an eye on some esoteric terms in relationship to the profession, and see what has developed to help us heal our four lower bodies and souls.

In the schools of psychology on earth, man’s mind has been boxed in as comprised of a consciousness of questionable layers. In psychoanalysis, it is just the conscious. In Esoteric circles, the consciousness is divided into the lower consciousness and the higher consciousness, with several layers in each.

The consciousness is part of ourselves that gives us the sense of identity, including the attitudes, beliefs, and sensitivities held by or considered characteristic of an individual or group. In the esoteric circles the consciousness is seen as that which we expand and refine in response to the challenges and opportunities we meet in day to day life over a series of many lifetimes. The goal being to rise upward in consciousness from a self-centered identity (inherent in infants) to the exalted heights of universal love and compassion (seen in saints and sages).

We have heard from the visions and experiences of saints – and from those who have died and returned to their bodies in near-death experiences – that the expansion of God’s consciousness ensouls entire galaxies and beyond. For these individuals, the self awareness is expanded through this consciousness to become aware of themselves as part of this vast Mind of God—as part of a greater Self. Once in this greater awareness of self as Self, the mind can never go back to the ignorance of the belief as the self separate or apart from God.

Upon returning to the limited consciousness while in physical form, they were able to retain the understanding of themselves as more, and tried to live as that more. Understanding of ourselves as more is what is lacking in most of society. The awareness of self as more is rarely taken into consideration in psychoanalysis because God is generally left out as a social learned behavior that has no foundation.

Psychology in general, up until the last few decades, has been humanistic in nature. Humanism at its core says that man is the center, and there is nothing beyond him. Psychology has been active ethically and philosophically in focusing on human solutions to human issues through rational arguments without recourse to a god, gods, sacred texts or religious creeds. Psychology is man's way of trying to understand and repair the spiritual side of man without being spiritual, removing God and spiritual things from the picture.

Psychoanalytic Therapy
The well known psychiatrist, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is known as the father of psychoanalysis. Both Freud and Carl Jung (1875-1961) were major contributors to this school, which looks to traumatic events in childhood as the causes of psychological problems.

From Freud’s work also came what is known as the term "mental illness." Once a person's problems are deemed to be an illness, they were no longer held accountable and helped fuel the Progressive Movement. Psychiatry has let mankind off the hook—he is no longer responsible.

Freud understood from the very beginning that his patients were not getting cured through psychoanalysis. As late as 1906, he wrote to Carl Jung, one of his colleagues, that he had not successfully completed a single psychoanalysis. But yet he drew disciples and is one of the most respected men in the field of psychology today—outside of Carl Jung.

Jung taught that the psyche consists of various systems including the personal unconscious with its complexes, and the collective unconscious shared by all people and therefore universal. Jung's theory of a personal unconscious is quite similar to Freud’s creation of a region containing a person's repressed, forgotten or ignored experiences.

The collective unconscious has what he identified as archetypes, which he believed were innate, unconscious, and generally universal. It could be called our "psychic inheritance." It is the reservoir of our experiences as a species, a kind of knowledge we are all born with. And yet we can never be directly conscious of it. It influences all of our experiences and behaviors, most especially the emotional ones, but we only know about it indirectly, by looking at those influences.

However, since it is unconscious not all people are able to tap into it. Jung saw the collective unconscious as the foundational structure of personality on which the personal unconscious and the ego are built, believing that the foundations of personality are ancestral and universal.

The Ascended Masters have taught that the collective unconscious is actually the mass consciousness. We know that human’s thoughts and feelings fall to low levels in sexual, mental and emotional abuse, as well as in the belief of the acceptable mass murdering of the unborn child. These concepts and beliefs are accepted at the mass level and are passed on to subsequent generations. In order to rise above the mass consciousness, one must tie into the Christ mind which is the Christ consciousness and start making decisions from that Christ mind. This can go contrary to the mass consciousness, such as Mary Fielding Smith did when she went against the Mormon culture that was influencing the men to oppose her and her ability to think and move on her own. This was contrary to the Mormon belief that women needed men to have eternal life in the Celestial Heaven world.

One of the archetypes Jung identified was what he called the “persona.” The persona represents your public image. In reality, the Ascended Masters teach that the persona is the human ego creation. The word is related to the word person and personality, and comes from a Latin word for mask. So the persona is the mask that is between you and the outside world. Begun as an archetype, it becomes the most distant part of ourselves from the collective unconscious, by the time we realize it in full.

The persona can be at its best in showing to the world a "good impression" as we fill the roles society requires of us. On the other hand, at its worst, we can create the persona to be the "false impression" we use to manipulate people's opinions and behaviors. Others, and even ourselves, can begin to believe the persona is our true nature and thus it is the one part of ourselves that stands in the way of Being.

The other well known archetype of the collective unconscious is the anima and animus. The anima or animus is the archetype through which you communicate with the collective unconscious generally. It is the other half of ourselves that we are always looking for in members of the opposite sex. It is also the archetype that is active for much of our love life. When we have the experience of falling in love at first sight, then we have found someone that "fills" our anima or animus archetype.

Awakening from the bondage of ego programming
It was Freud's pioneering use of the term "the I" ("das Ich" in his native German, which was then translated into the Latin "ego") that brought "ego" into common parlance and popular interest to the process of self-consciousness. Our understanding of the "I," the ego, is perhaps the first and closest lens, the first film against the cornea, through which we look at our experience and at what it means to be a human being.

In his more than fifty years of groundbreaking research into the human psyche, Freud elaborated a network of theories about the many currents and crosscurrents below the surface of the human personality – the conscious and unconscious; the ego, id and superego; the defense mechanisms – that have become inextricably interwoven in the fabric of modern thought.

Psychoanalysis – Freud's innovative treatment method in which the patient is fostered in speaking freely about their personal memories, dreams and experiences, which relied on Freud’s analysis of them – was Freud's noble cause, and for awhile Carl Jung’s. But there was a lesser known individual that was in agreement with Freud’s development, Alfred Adler, a medical doctor with a deep interest in psychology. Adler also broke off from Freud as Jung did, for differences of opinion.

Alfred Adler philosophy: Care and love for our fellowmen

Adler formed a school which he called "Individual Psychology," based on the idea of the indivisibility of the personality. His most significant divergence from Freud’s belief that the human being was as a conglomeration of mechanisms, drives or dynamic parts, was his belief that it was crucial to view the human being as a whole. Standing out in contrast to Freud and the psychological thinking of the time, Adler believed that, fundamentally, human beings are self-determined. Central to his therapeutic approach was his belief that people always have control over their lives and make choices that shape them. He said, "No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences –the so-called trauma –but we make out of them just what suits our purposes. We are self-determined by the meaning we give to our experiences."

Adler came to the conclusion, from his emphasis on the wholeness of the person, that our values inevitably shape our experience. He was led to the strong conviction that, in the end, there is only one true meaning to human life: care and love for our fellowmen.

"There have always been men who understood this fact; who knew that the meaning of life is to be interested in the whole of mankind and who tried to develop social interest and love. In all religions we find this concern for the salvation of man." Adler said.

For Adler, this conscious increasing feeling and care for our fellow man, and for humankind as a whole, was the way to genuine healing of the mental health and happiness of the individual. Adler had the wisdom of God consciousness. But yet Freudian psychology dominated with the id, ego, super-ego, conscious and unconscious theories, for the first half of the century. Adler passed on in 1937, before his ideas could be well accepted. There are a few schools today still teaching his method, but he has largely been forgotten, and his ideas of healing the whole man.

Initially, Western psychology focused on psychodynamics (Freud & the id, ego, super-ego, etc.). The idea of psychodynamics is that inner urges conflict with social constraints – and how we resolve these issues becomes a pattern of response that may be pathological.

Science of behaviorism
In the 1920's there was a philosophical pendulum swing away from inner psychodynamics towards the science of behaviorism, focusing on observable behavior and how it is shaped by the environment. From the 1920s through the 1960s, behaviorism dominated psychology in the United States. This is the idea that human behavior can be understood much as the animals can be understood as a function of inbuilt instincts and behaviors trained through punishment, reward, and modeling, etc.

Major contributors to this school are B.F. Skinner and Ivan Pavlov. Pavlov many have heard about with his experiments with dogs, and conditioned behavior where they salivated upon hearing a bell. They were conditioned by receiving food every time a bell was rung. He discovered that they would salivate even when no food was present upon hearing the bell.

Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective experimental branch of natural science. Its theoretical goal is the prediction and control of behavior. Introspection forms no essential part of its methods, nor is the scientific value of its data dependent upon the readiness with which they lend themselves to interpretation in terms of consciousness. The behaviorist, in his efforts to get a single animal response that represented the whole, recognizes no dividing line between man and brute. The behavior of man, with all of its refinement and complexity, forms only a part of the behaviorist's total scheme of investigation.

Cognitive Psychology
The emerging field of computer science in the early 60's, also provided an information processing analogy that convinced many researchers that it was possible to study the mind and not just behavior. This gave rise to the field of Cognitive Psychology: the study of the mind using the scientific method. Cognitive Psychology studies the mental processes that occur between sensation and behavior. Major themes here are perception, memory, problem solving, language, structure of knowledge, neurolinguistics and even artificial intelligence, the idea that the brain is equivalent to our intelligence. Cognitive psychology is radically different from previous psychological approaches in two key ways.

It accepts the use of the scientific method, and generally rejects introspection as a valid method of investigation, unlike phenomenological methods such as Freudian psychology.
It posits the existence of internal mental states (such as beliefs, desires and motivations) unlike behaviorist psychology.

The pendulum had swung again in the field of psychology – from Behaviorism and treating people like animals, to the robotic study of the mind as a machine that could be programmed and stored memory – man is either an animal or a robot.

Humanistic ("Self" Theorists)
In the late 60's, the human potential or human growth movement emerged with a philosophical emphasis on the idea that people have unique inherent capabilities which can be fully realized when humans are valued, supported, provided with meaningful life activity and share and express emotions. This therapy gave rise to terms such as client-centered therapy, peak experiences, self actualization, and group therapy. This form of psychology has received renewed emphasis under the banner of "positive psychology". There are three notable individuals in this field.

Carl Rogers, is said to be the father of "client-centered therapy". He promoted that the counselor is to be "nondirective" in the sessions—his job is to reflect the counselee's responses back to him and, thus, set up a catalytic atmosphere of acceptance. Such an environment is supposed to allow the client to get in touch with the innate resources within himself for successfully dealing with life and developing self-esteem.
Abraham Maslow developed the term "self-actualization." The underlying assumption is that man is basically good and has within himself all he needs to develop his full potential to be a worthwhile individual; i.e., to self-actualize. Maslow is also noted for developing a hierarchy of motivational needs, including both physiological and psychological ones. The physiological were more primary in his thinking.
Fritz Perls is the man who founded the "Gestalt" therapy. He teaches that conventional morals cut man off from freely experiencing life with his physical senses. He is rather directive in his approach to encouraging clients to get in touch with their "feelings" in the "now" and act according to them.

Transpersonal psychology
The last development in the field of psychology is called Transpersonal psychology. It has been called the "psychology of the future." It combines knowledge from all of the spiritual traditions world-wide with the study of psychology. Transpersonal psychology considers such issues as self-development, peak experiences, mystical experiences and the possibility of development beyond traditional ego-boundaries. It is said to be the study of humanity’s highest potential, and with the recognition, understanding, and realization of unitive, spiritual, and transcendent states of consciousness. Transpersonal psychology strives to combine insights from modern psychology with insights from the world's contemplative traditions, both East and West.

Transpersonal psychologists have no firm footing in the field of psychology and generally not well respected in the academic field. It has continually failed to achieve recognition by the American Psychological Association. So although there are those who can raise up the field of psychology and bring methods of integration of the body, mind and soul, they have been pegged by the traditionalists as being a social or religious psychology, a specialized field for the Californians.

All transpersonal psychologies, whatever their differences, share one basic theme: they claim that human beings possess a center of consciousness that is irreducible to any known state of empirical, or ordinary consciousness (sleep, waking state, ...). This root of consciousness (and human existence, for some schools) is frequently called "Self" (or "Higher Self"), in order to distinguish it from "self" or "ego", which is equated to the seat of ordinary everyday waking consciousness.They do differ in the crucial traits they ascribe to the Self.

Controlling Being Outside Oneness with I AM
These are the major forces that shaped the field of mental health. There are many more minor offshoots in the field. With so many methods to help individuals, outside of drug usage, why are there so many people diagnosed as needing to be put on drugs? Where is the help for these individuals in all these various methods of healing their minds? Why are drugs used as the first course of action? Who is in control of the medical field?

I mentioned early the drug business has been largely controlling the field of medicine. It is about money, power and control. But beyond that, it is about destroying the potential for individuals to Be. Ultimately, you cannot control individuals who are Being. That is what Being is about, an individual who does what they want from their own inner direction. This does not mean that everything a person does in the state of Being is correct. But Being is the first step to oneness with God, with the I AM Presence.

So we realize that many of us are dysfunctional because we were raised from dysfunctional role models. If we do not have these mental illnesses listed above, we probably fall into the category of “healthy” but nevertheless, we are not healthy because we do not have our minds working together with our heart, which is the place of our soul and emotions. In other words, our mind is meant to be at the level of the Christ consciousness and our souls at the level of the heart. So both the heart, soul and mind, in conjunction with the emotions are meant to work together to be love, wisdom and power in the highest sense, through the seven rays of Being. In the article “Mystery Unveiled” I go into depth on the fall of the soul and how she may be raised up through love, using each attribute of the seven rays, and how to restore the love, wisdom and power into Being.

What separates us from the truth of Being and love is our ego creation. Our egos are programmed by our experiences and our reactions to those experiences. Our egos are built on the poisons of doubt, fear, anger, greed, pride, and ignorance. Because our ego was programmed to react to life from fear, negativity, scarcity, and lack (again due to emotional trauma we experienced, and the messages and role modeling of the adults around us) the ego focuses on and magnifies fear—and then it scrambles around trying to find something to cover up and repress the very fear it is generating. The ego blows the fear way out of proportion and then leads us to addictive and/or compulsive behavior in the various mental illnesses outlined above, as a way of stuffing the fear. Rather than dependency on these psychologists and their drug dispensing as the first line of mental health care, let us look at a way that we may regain our own healing.

Ultimately, the whole goal the Masters have been leading us to for many years is to be our own healers. Not from the level of the soul, or conscious mind, but the from the level of the soul, one with the I AM Presence. But first the soul has to come to some measure of healing herself. And that is the problem. The soul usually is working against the outer consciousness, and the outer consciousness is in battle to wrest back control from the ego, which the soul is not ready to let go of. So let us look at the spiritual cause of this inner battle.

The Core Issue of Division in Being
The greatest enemy to our spiritual being and liberty is the belief that we are apart from God. The belief that has fostered on this planet for a long time, even in spiritual circles, is that you are here and God is there, and somehow you have to reach there where God is—usually in a place called Heaven. But before you can reach “there” where God is, you have to be perfect, saved or do good works. But what is perfection?

If you are a religious person, you are told that God is in heaven and the devil or Satan is in hell. And somehow you are in between. You are neither in hell nor heaven, but hope to get to the place called heaven, because hell is a place where you may burn in fire for an eternity. If you are bad and make mistakes, and make serious mistakes, you will go to hell. If you are good and confess your sins, and love your neighbor and follow the Ten Commandments, you will most assuredly go to that place called heaven. If you are in some Christian circles you can go to heaven if you ask Jesus Christ to come into your life and you accept him as your Savior.

So for some, perfection means following the Ten Commandments. For others it might mean being born again in Christ and Jesus Christ will save you, and all your past sins will be forgiven and God as the Holy Spirit will enter your heart and you will go to heaven. But they are told God can only live in your heart, you are not God, but apart from God. Therefore, these beliefs limit God on earth through you.

But what if God the Creator created you from himself, in the image and likeness of himself, and the object was to extend himself into the world of form to Be God as I AM? And that perfection was not the goal, but Being? For who is perfect but God? And so, in the golden ages, it was that the heart of the Mother, represented in the feminine aspect of Being I AM, carried out the direction of the Father in the Mind of God through the Father aspect of Being, the I AM Presence. The twain were one Being and the goal was to remain one through all the tests of the integration of matter with Spirit, through the four planes of matter in the seven spheres or rays of Being.

The goal was not to be perfect, but to manifest perfection in experimenting with energy. In the process of creating perfection, imperfection, or less than perfect forms were created from the creative feminine half of the one I AM. The I AM Presence cannot create but perfection. But obviously if all was created in perfection to begin with, there would be no growth. So the feminine half was the creative, experimenting portion of Self in Mater under the direction of the masculine Spirit half of I AM.

The problem arose when the feminine half chose to leave off of the directive of the Father aspect of Self in the I AM Presence. She gradually fell further and further away from Being and I AM, until she no longer knew the I AM Presence as the part of herself that was masculine. At that point, the soul vehicle was created that housed the fallen feminine self. In the process of her fall, she created an pseudo self to replace the Real Self of the I AM Presence. That pseudo self is the human ego.

Now the challenge of Being God I AM, is piercing the veil of forgetfulness between the matter sphere and the Spirit sphere, with the goal to unite the mind and heart again and pierce the veil of Maya. The challenge would be that if you could get the heart to agree with the mind and the mind with the heart, through the figure-eight flow, at the nexus of the two, there you would find Being I AM. Once in Being I AM, you would no longer have the veil of illusion of the heart separated from the mind and the mind from heart and you would see that I AM below that which I AM Above.

To put it in another perspective, the goal is to reunite with our God Creator, in the Mind of God through joining of the subconscious mind (soul) with the superconscious mind (I AM Presence), through the (outer mind) conscious will to Be. When the feminine half of the I AM fell and the soul was created, the one mind became two–the duality consciousness. Now there was a soul with a subconscious mind and a conscious mind. The challenge now would be to know yourself as God I AM when your mind is divided, represented in the two halves of the brain.

One half, the subconscious mind, knowing who you are in God, represented in the right brain, the feminine creative half or soul. The other half, the conscious mind, behind the veil of Maya, represented in the left brain, or logical reasoning self, the outer personality. In order to not entirely erase all memory of Self, the subconscious mind retains all memory of Self as God, and the conscious mind is the portion that is on the other side of the veil and has forgotten who Self is.

The Christ self is given to the soul to be the mediator between the duality or two halves of the mind and the I AM Presence. The subconscious mind is the Mother and where the soul resides. She is at the level of the emotional body and must learn to gain mastery over the feelings. In order to facilitate the conscious mind to choose to see itself as God, the soul must reach the conscious mind through Mother and rise up to the heart in love. She must choose to respond in love, not fear or anger.

The conscious mind must choose to be the Christ mind. And through that mind choose to Be the Christ instead of the antichrist of the carnal mind. But if the conscious mind does not like Mother, does not want Mother, the soul is rejected as well. If the soul cannot reach the conscious mind and make it aware of itself as Mother, the veil cannot be pierced and the conscious mind can make decisions that are destructive to the body, mind and soul of itself.

Conversely, the soul can come from fear or anger in the ego creation and obstruct the conscious mind’s efforts to be the Christ.

So where does the conscious mind get the information to make decisions? Either from the Christ mind or from the unconscious mind or carnal mind. Where does the soul gets it intuitive creative knowing of what to do and how to respond? From Mother and Father. Now there can be Mother and Father representatives on earth in physical parents, or it can be Mother and Father representatives in heaven. Or it can be the creative replacements of Father/Mother God in the creation of the ego.

So we see how destructive unhealthy father/mother representatives can be, in programming or influencing the soul to create ego illusions and act from those illusions in fear or anger. The soul’s actions further increase the separation from the outer consciousness. While the outer consciousness is influenced by the carnal minds of the tempters around the soul, causing a vicious cycle of the mind working against the heart. In reality, the soul working against the will to Be. For the will must come from the mind, and then be carried out through the heart or desire to Be. Without this unity, there will be no Being, but conversely, mental and emotional illness of various degrees, depending on the severity of the division of mind and heart.

The reason we see such systemic problems in the culture of Mormonism, reflected in high suicides and prescription drug use, spousal abuse and sexual perversions, is the interference between the soul and the mind of the individual. Wherever interference comes, be it teachers, parents or religious leaders, in whatever part of society, there we see mental health issues.

As a society, we must uncover the true cause of mental and emotional illness and quit the outer dependency on modern day medical quacks who dispense drugs as a band-aid. The majority of psychiatrists/psychologists one can find today are costly and very ineffective to the rejoining of the soul with the mind for the union with the I AM Presence.

So we must first start with ourselves and our wholeness in restoration in I AM. And each one of us who finds that wholeness will hold a key to others finding that wholeness as well. Whether it be through religious practices, new age practitioners in the healing arts, or a combination of things, we can be a testimony to how others may also heal and Be who they are.

Unless the mind/soul connection is addressed in the field of psychology in some, like Alfred Adler as he paved the way to that understanding, true healing will not occur. Even the Transpersonal psychologists will not have success in their utilizing spiritual experiences and various religious techniques, if they do not incorporate the whole body i.e. the four lower bodies and the soul.

Mental Psyche
The Ascended Masters have given me the understanding of the Mind of God through man. They have called it “mental psyche.” It is the Mind of God where all Being is more. Where the Being of God through the mental body of psyche, is "I AM" Being and more.

Psyche is another name for soul. In the field of Psychiatry psyche means the mind functioning as the center of thought, emotion, and behavior and consciously or unconsciously adjusting or mediating the body's responses to the social and physical environment. If we joined the two meanings of psyche, we have the joining together of mind and soul.

So the term “mental psyche” is the description of the end result or goal. When you are in “mental psyche” you are I AM Being and more—Being that I AM. The goal is to Be I AM THAT I AM on earth.

With this knowledge, we cannot stay in ignorance and continue with the archaic forms of mental healing. We must take the knowledge of I AM into the fields of healing. The separation of the one mind into two – typified in the two halves of the brain in the physical body and the mental and emotional body in the four lower bodies, and the subconscious and conscious in the consciousness, in the soul and outer awareness – is at the core of the evil and the enemy of God Being.

The collective unconscious that Carl Jung identified must be transmuted and transcended. As long as that consciousness pervades humankind, the road will be much harder for sincere souls to find the way. Again, we start with ourselves and transmute and transcend our own unconscious, the root of evil within us. Then we go out and multiply our victories by teaching others how to transcend their own unconscious. The way is paved with many obstacles, but those obstacles will be much easier to see and navigate with a little bit of knowledge of who the enemy is. We need look no further than our own doorstep. And when we have cleared our own unconscious substance and creation, we will then Be at that nexus where I AM Being is and from there, God in us will know how to teach and reach others who are still trapped in their unconscious control.

May you have your victory in the Light of Being I AM.

*This estimate comes from two epidemiological surveys: the Epidemiological Catchment Area (ECA) study of the early 1980s and the National Comorbidity Survey (NCS) of the early 1990s.

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