The Human Soul: Logic, Emotions & Truth

By Jesus (AJ Miller)

Jesus describes how to use our intellect and our emotions together to discover God’s, or absolute, Truth.
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This ebook is a transcript of a seminar delivered by Jesus (AJ Miller) on 12th May 2012 in Melbourne, Australia, as part of the Human Soul series.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Divine Truth Pty Ltd
• Release date: Oct 2, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301724925

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The Human Soul:

Logic, Emotions and Truth

By

Jesus (AJ Miller)

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This ebook is a transcript of a seminar delivered on 12th May 2012 in Melbourne, Australia, by Jesus (also known as AJ Miller) as part of the Human Soul series, describing on how to use our intellect and our emotions together to discover God’s, or absolute, truth.

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Table of Contents

Logic, Emotions and Truth: Part 1

1. Introduction

2. Overview of the human being

2.1. Being mind dominant

2.2. Determining truth

2.3. Humility opens the doorway to receiving truth and love

2.4. Our emotions drive our thoughts

3. How to determine truth using logical reasoning

3.1. Any intellectual reasoning that we are unsure of the answer requires experimentation

3.1.1. The experimentation basket

3.1.2. The origin of thoughts

3.2. Intellectual thoughts that are harmonious with love must always be retained as truth

3.3. Intellectual thoughts that are disharmonious with love must be discarded as error

3.4. Using prayer and observation to help us discover truth

3.5. Experimenting to discover truth

3.6. Allowing ourselves to make mistakes to discover truth

4. How to determine truth using emotions

4.1. Emotions that we are unsure of the answer to require experimentation

4.2. Emotions that are harmonious with love must always be felt as truth

4.3. Emotions that are disharmonious with love must be released as error

5. Learning how to experiment

5.1. Emotional impediments to experimentation

5.2. The childlike approach to experimentation

6. Discovering truth using both the intellect and emotions

6.1. If something is emotionally and intellectually harmonious with love and truth then it is certain to be God’s Truth

6.2. Self honesty is essential for discovering truth

6.3. Examples of using this approach to discover truth

6.3.1. Discovering whether there is a Law of Attraction with regards to money

6.3.2. Dealing with emotions about money

6.4. Attaining a childlike state

6.5. Having no investment in the outcome: an example of AJ and Mary’s experience with the media

6.5.1. We feel pain when we have an investment in the outcome

6.5.2. Engaging interactions with love exposes our error

6.6. Discovering Absolute Truth emotionally through experimentation

6.7. Using our intellect to recognise emotions out of harmony with love

6.7.1. Whenever we leave a childlike state we are in error

6.7.2. We need to recognise the extent of our fear and anger in order to change

7. How emotions get created

7.1. Learning to feel as children feel

7.1.1. An example of disciplining a disruptive child

7.2. We have to confront our addictions and feel our fears to become loving

7.3. Working through addictions intellectually and emotionally

Logic, Emotions and Truth: Part 2

8. Emotional effects of living in addictions

8.1. Removing people from our lives indicates we’re in addiction

8.2. Reasons to give up our addictions: love of God, love of self and love of truth

8.2.1. Anger indicates our addiction is not being met

8.2.2. Gender differences in processing emotions

9. An example of learning the truth: dealing with loneliness emotions

9.1. Feeling the error-based emotion and feeling the truth-based emotion

9.2. Experimenting to discover the truth about loneliness

9.2.1. Learning to love and embrace our grief

10. Fears of developing relationships

10.1. Developing a relationship with God

10.1.1. Doubt is an addiction that helps us avoid our fears

11. God’s definition of normal versus our definition of normal

11.1. Fear keeps us from becoming God’s definition of normal

11.2. Changing our concept of normal

12. Experimenting to get from an intellectual understanding to an emotional understanding of truth

12.1. Speaking the truth experiment

12.2. Desire experiment

12.3. Experiments to address our fears

12.4. The purpose of experimenting is to become more loving, more happy and to determine truth

12.5. An example of breast cancer and mammograms

13. Closing Words

Logic, Emotions and Truth: Part 1

1. Introduction

Well what I'd like to talk with you about today is a continuation of a subject that I've been speaking with people about quite frequently. It's more to do with reminders about how to actually work your way through emotions and also how to work your way through truth. So it's a combination of both subjects; emotions and truth. [00:04:03.20]

So let's write on the board what it's about. It’s part of The Human Soul series of talks that I've been doing and this one I was just thinking of calling it something like Emotions Extended or something like that but it's actually an Overview of Emotions is what I would like to raise with you today. [00:04:41.17]

Now the reason why I'd like to raise that with you today is that what I'm finding in my visits with people face to face is that a lot of people are still finding it very, very difficult to get their head out of the way of what's going on inside of themselves emotionally and to actually recognise fully what's going on inside of themselves emotionally. And we find that what's happening many times is that we get to a point where we thought we knew a lot of information and then after a while through our emotional work, we get to a point where we realise that all of that stuff we thought we knew it was only a thought and it wasn't yet a feeling. [00:05:23.26]

So what I would like to do first is describe to you how to look at yourself in terms of your emotional work, in terms of getting closer to God and also getting closer to yourself. So remember that this process, the process of receiving God's Love, is not just about getting closer to God but it's also about coming to know yourself fully and it's one of the only ways in fact that you can ever come to know yourself fully. [00:05:52.14]

2. Overview of the human being

So let's do a bit of an overview first shall we? So what are we made up of? We've got our physical body, our spiritual body and our soul. Let's just draw it as the half of the soul that we actually are and in this case it's the man, so it's just half of the soul, the male half. The feminine part of the soul obviously is the other half and the physical body, the spirit body.

The mind is located within the spirit body (SB) and not the physical body (PB)

Where is our mind? Okay, so our mind is in the spirit body's mind. The brain in the physical body is just used as a tool for the mind to exercise. So there's the mind but you notice that it's not the soul. It's not the real you; the real you is the soul.

2.1. Being mind dominant

If you consider that as the general thing, the mind is in the spirit body, and when you use your intellectual reasoning, that's what you're using. Now the problem that we have on Earth is that we get so used to using our mind to do everything that we start at a very, very young age tuning out of our real emotions and the feelings that are in our soul. So what finishes up happening is during the time we're growing up eventually our mind overcomes our feelings and emotions, so much that in the end we don't feel our emotions very well by the time we become adults. And a lot of the times we have no idea what we're really feeling and we've got to sit and let ourselves feel before we even can discover what we're really feeling, because our mind has been used so much, it's so dominant, that to actually connect back to our feelings is a difficult process. [00:08:10.23]

2.2. Determining truth

So what I would like to do today is to talk more about how emotions work, why this is all very important for us to work through if we want to have a relationship with God and a relationship with ourselves. And also we want to speak about how we determine the truth of an emotion or the truth in any form. How do we recognise truth as a part of this process? Because, a part of this process of course, is understanding truth. [00:08:41.18]

Now the reason why we're discussing the emotions, if we can talk about that first, is because the emotions are the beginning of understanding humility and remember in the process that we've been describing, you've got humility as your number one quality that we really need to develop if we're going to ever know ourselves and if we're ever going to know God. We need to have humility. [00:09:09.12]

2.3. Humility opens the doorway to receiving truth and love

Humility opens the doorway to our reception of truth. So truth is the next step; understanding the truth, now that's not just understanding the truth with our mind, that's actually feeling the truth with our heart, that's a part of the process. So we need to do that. And then once we do that, we can now unblock ourselves to the reception of love. So once we've opened our heart, which is the process of humility opening our heart, and then we've opened our heart now we have the ability to receive truth into our heart and once we can receive truth into our heart, the truth helps us come to terms with what