What is soul consciousness?

What is soul consciousness?

"You are a holistic being with both nondualistic energy and the energy of the physical plane as a part of your being at your disposal."

-- Wayne Dyer

Andrew Schneider helps us understand our human experience of being soul. He says, "Soul consciousness arises when we stand facing in opposite directions at the same time - toward eternity and toward time, toward infinity and toward space, toward unity and toward complexity. We stand in that dualism without being dualistic, for in consciousness we can accommodate the opposites. We do this by identifying with both. This identification results in the experience of being an individual while at the same time being the whole, and finding no contradiction in this experience."

"Give your difference, welcome my difference, unify all difference in the larger whole -- such is the law of growth. The unifying of difference is the eternal process of life -- the creative synthesis, the highest act of creation."

-- M. P. Follett

Hmmm, an interesting concept. I think though that 'soul awareness' happens when we simply step back from 'surface consciousness.' What we need to obtain this is a psychological trick, a symbolic trigger or inspiration of some kind. I've read that sometimes a man who seeks a spiritual awakening may be led by a shaman to a waterfall, which is of course cold and very forceful. The man will be told to close his eyes and relax. Suddenly he will be pulled under the force of the water, and BAM--his consciousness is shot away from his body, to a deeper realm! That is a rather harsh method and not one I'd ever want to do. Meditation works too. Focusing on opposites may also help, because it is bending your perception (thus opening yourself to the soul's perspective.) Simply, whenever the surface consciousness is pulled away, distracted or dissolved, the soul consciousness awakes through your mind.