The Spiritual Journey: The Great Homecoming

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The Spiritual Journey The Great Homecoming

• Thomas E. Legere, Ph.D.

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The ego (or self) is divine and, therefore,
perfect.
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Synonyms for the Ego and Soul

• Little Self

Ego
Big Self Soul Self Higher Self
True Self
Primal Self
Authentic Self
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Primal Wound (exile)
Divine Core Garden of Eden
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Some wounding to the soul, most typically by its
primary caregivers, causes the child to lose its
sense of innocence.
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Parts of the Ego Banished into Our Personal
Unconscious
Unconscious
Ego
Unconscious
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The Survival Personality Emerges from the Primal
Wound
Survival Personality (arrogance, greed, etc.)
Primal Wound (mistreatment or abandonment)
Little Self (Ego)
Big Self (Soul)
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Arrogance
Self Destruction
Greed
Survival Personality
Self Deprecation
Impatience
Stubborness
Martyrdom
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Money, Sex, Power
4 We use money, sex, power to take away our pain
3 Creating psychological pain
2 Obscured by fear-based survivor personality
1 Divine essence
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Addiction
4 Substances Take away the pain (temporarily)
3 Creating psychological pain
2 Obscured by survival based personality
1 Divine Presence
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Depression
5 Sorrow and regret lead to spiritual depression
4 Awakening leads to sorrow and regret at
mistakes made
3 Gradual awakening to divine essence
2 Obscured by survival based personality
1 Divine presence
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The Body Never Lies
4 Leading to physical symptoms of distress
3 Creating psychological pain
2 Obscured by survival based personality
1 Divine presence
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Suicide
4 Leads to unconscious desire to kill the
survival personality
3 Gradual awakening to divine essence
2 Obscured by survival based personality
1 Divine presence
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The Breakdown Leading to a Breakthrough
5 Which can lead to an awakening to the divine
essence
4 Causes a breakdown of the survival personality
3 Creating Psychological pain
2 Obscured by survival personality
1 Divine presence
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Forgiveness
4 Judgments dismissed-Person seen as whole
3 Generates judgments that are held
2 Fear based survival personality
1 Divine presence
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The Shadow Knows
3 Shadow Parts unknown to or repugnant to
survival personality
2 Survival personality
1 Divine child
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Anger and Sexuality
Survival Personality
Memories
Guardians of the threshold of divine consciousness
Anger Sexuality
Shadow
Divine Consciousness
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Expanded Sense of Self
Work
Family
Friends
Life/God
Me
Rest of the world