Journey to The Soul: Simple Skills and Transformational Techniques To Reconnect With Your Inner Being: Metaphysics Explained Series, #2

By Jimmy Henderson

What would it be like to become soul-conscious and soar and break through your present boundaries?

 

Using powerful metaphysical techniques such as mindfulness, meditation and visualisation, cognitive scientist, author and spiritual teacher, Dr Jimmy Henderson takes you on an inner journey to break free from the limits of everyday thinking and discover the depths of your own mind. Reconnect to your authentic selves and beyond that, your very essence or innermost being, your soul.

 

With an extensive background in both science and psychology, the author uses simple language and real-life examples and experiences to guide you every step of the way along your own personal journey to soul.  

Book 2 of the Explaining Metaphysics series unpacks insights that promise to radically enhance your mental and psychic abilities, transforming your present consciousness into a fully awakened soul-conscious state. Becoming soul-conscious brings with it exciting new levels of self-insight, inner peace and a deep understanding of truth, life and reality.

This book is an invitation from the author to fully discover and explore your full potential. Are you ready?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Neo-world Consultants
• Release date: May 24, 2023
• ISBN: 9780639757919

Jimmy Henderson

Jimmy has an Honours degree in Philosophy (metaphysics), a post-graduate certificate in Trauma Counselling and a Ph.D in Psychology from the University of South Africa. Jimmy has studied mind and spirit for over thirty years as a member of the Rosicrucian Order (AMORC) and is the published author of a number of books, e-books and many articles on the power of the mind, counselling and relationships. He and has spoken many times on local SA radio stations as a guest speaker on his books, as well as emotional/psychological issues, parenting and relationships. In his books and articles he combines psychological research with metaphysics and spirituality and it is this grounding that makes them unique. He is regarded as a specialist in human thinking and behaviour,having previously being an HR director and a service delivery programme-manager until his retirement. He has since worked part-time as a trauma counsellor for a large South African bank and also lectured at a local management school. He is presently also a distance (e-tutor) for the University of South Africa in psychology and has also been a volunteer Lifeline counsellor and trainer for many years. He believes that his purpose at this time is to help persons who are sincere in their striving for self-improvement and development to find their way along their particular path. In this way he also sees himself also as a teacher, having the ability to explain truth in a simple and practical way. He is available to give talks to groups in South Africa

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Dedication

To Brother Ralph who given me such useful guidance throughout this process

Disclaimer

You are welcome to ignore anything which does not resonate with you, but please consider and take up those ideas that make you curious, that excite you, and you may find that they may answer your deepest questions about yourself, your life and your true purpose.

Credits

I wish to thank my editor and publisher David Henderson of

www.myebook.online for assistance in the completion, publication and marketing of this book.

Contents

Introduction

My aim

My method

My approach

A summary of the process

An invitation

Chapter 1: The Start of Your Journey to Soul

Are you just a body?

Overcoming evolutionary drives

The limits of our present consciousness

A metaphysical approach to self-development

A new view of consciousness

The development of consciousness today

Chapter 2: Prepare Your Mind

Schemas

Change your self-schema

Clean out your mind

The challenge

Cultivate a readiness for the journey

Chapter 3: Skills you need for the journey

Enhanced states of consciousness

Meditation

Visualisation or conscious imagery

Contemplation

Chapter 4: Your subconscious mind

Know Yourself

The metaphor of the cave

Explore your subconscious mind

Build a relationship with your subconscious mind

Know the powers of your subconscious mind

Chapter 5: Connect with your authentic self

Transcend your ego

Upgrade your brain and neural system

Contact with the authentic self

Reach though to your authentic self

The ‘I’ meditation

An Introduction to your soul

Chapter 6: Advanced inner work

Learn to manage your own archetypes

Deal with your shadow self

Chapter 7: Novel inner experiences

Universal archetypes

The Collective Mind or Universal Intelligence

The shadow-realm

Chapter 8: Completing your journey to soul-consciousness

The hidden mystery of the soul

The analogy of the lake

The template of humankind

The expression of soul

Steps along the way

Forming the soul-connection

Soul-connection

Soul meditations

A three-step meditation to reach through to your soul

Advanced soul meditation

Case studies of soul-connection

Adjusting to soul-consciousness

Channelling your soul

The soul as collective

Chapter 9: The gifts of soul-connection

The gift of soul-energies

Grounding the powerful energy of your soul

Chapter 10: Beyond soul-consciousness

The metaphor of the ‘divine child’

The Christ Consciousness

Chapter 11: World-service

The requirements for world service

Types of world service

Working with universal archetypes

Interacting with ascended masters

Working with lost souls

Conclusion

Sources

Also by the author

Books

Short guides

About the Author

Introduction

My aim

In this second book of the series, ‘Explaining metaphysics’ I help you to reach your full potential with new exercises in self-exploration and self-discovery.

My approach highlights metaphysical practices which will radically enhance your mental and psychic abilities and transform your present consciousness into a fully awakened state, enabling you to find your authentic selves, but also to journey beyond that, to your very essence, your soul, and become soul-conscious.

So, if I have your attention, please read on.

My method

I try to keep my thinking and ideas as close as possible to everyday knowledge as well as science and psychology to make them easier to understand. In doing this, I focus especially on the idea of energy and its different modes and characteristics.

However, in order to explain your deeper inner experiences, I have to move outside of the ‘box’ of traditional science into metaphysics, looking at natural laws and principles not yet fully understood by science, but may well become commonplace in the future.

You could call my approach ‘psycho-spirituality’, as I try to explain your deep inner experiences, often called ‘spiritual’, in terms of your mind and how it works. This may sound crazy, but you must remember that all our experiences are processed in our minds. In this book I also look at the mental processes we all use to form our conscious awareness and sense of reality. This research becomes the baseline for our journey.

My approach

I use a multi-dimensional approach when I present my thinking and ideas in this book. This means I use logic and reasoning to examine a colourful mix of science, psychology, philosophy, theology, metaphysics, symbolism and semantics (the meaning of words) until I arrive at satisfactory answers. To me, these fields are simply different ways of explaining the same reality.

This approach may be frowned upon by some thinkers, but I have found that crossing the lines or boundaries of different fields of knowledge and comparing the best ideas from each of them, gives me a far broader perspective and more room to move when it comes to explaining difficult concepts. I believe that, as long as I use the scientific method of discovery as far as possible, my approach is not unreasonable.

The language problem

Our present concepts are limited when it comes to explaining deep and personal inner experiences, so I rely heavily on analogies and metaphors to explain some of the more difficult ideas and truths. For example, I compare our minds to a computer to show how we can program ourselves for certain outcomes and I also use the notion of a computer game (a simulation) and an avatar-figure to explain how the soul expresses through the body. However, if you can see through the symbols, metaphors and analogies to the underlying principles, you will understand what I am trying to say.

Online links

I also provide embedded online links to give you more information on the more difficult claims that I make. Unfortunately, this feature will only be available with the e-book version.

A summary of the process

Welcome to the journey to the soul

In this book I present a process which brings you closer to your soul and allows you to achieve soul-consciousness. The soul is our true essence, the original energy source and template which gives rise to our life, consciousness, minds and bodily energies. I believe that our original soul-realisation and soul-consciousness were lost to us after our coming into being due to an act of independent thought which separated us from the perfection of the creator-source. This may have been a natural process, but the result is that our expression of soul is now limited by the physiology of our bodies and layers of entangled thoughts and conditioning. In other words, our present consciousness is but a shadow of our original soul-consciousness.

The good news is that through dedication and effort, you can recover this lost soul-consciousness and become once again what you were destined to be. A living soul. The bad news is that this is a journey with many obstacles, and you can’t do this by just having an understanding of the process. You need to develop new mental skills such as an enhanced consciousness and be able to move around inside your own subconscious mind at will. In this book I train you in metaphysical practices powerful enough to plough the road for the journey ahead for you. You only need to be ready, willing and committed.

A state of readiness

You have to be quite mature and ready to commit to this long journey, or you will not be successful. The first step is your willingness to make the lifestyle changes that may be necessary, as your soul will not express though a body that is poisoned by a bad diet, living excessively and a mind that is not cleared of blocks, negativity, emotional baggage and self-limiting beliefs and mental programs. Psychotherapy and life-coaching may help but they don’t really work at a subconscious level where the real changes are necessary.

The process

First, you will need the help of your subconscious mind in exploring the depths of your own psyche. In fact, your subconscious mind must be your ally and constant companion on your journey, as there will be challenges to your progress and only it has the power to help you overcome these challenges.

Once you have gained its support, your next step will be to transcend the false sense of self that you know as your ego and reach through to your authentic self, the pure, innocent state of self or ‘I’ consciousness that is untainted by the conditioning of the world. If successful, you will experience, ‘realness’ and ‘authenticity’ and a level of self-insight which puts you on the path to self-actualisation.

Finally, you will learn how to re-connect with the deepest and purest aspects of yourself, your very essence, your soul, the ‘pearl of great value’ that will allow you to feel, to sense and to see deeper into reality than you ever imagined possible.

An invitation

I invite you to journey with me into the depths of your own being, to discover the many dimensions of your consciousness and re-connect with your soul. For those of you who can meditate, visualise or have a degree of inner sight, this will be a powerful experience, as you will see the changes and unfoldment taking place. For those readers who have not yet mastered these skills, I will teach them to you, as they are the foundation for your later inner experiences.

Remember that it is not important to accept everything you read here, only be prepared to open your mind and formulate your own truth using your own insights and personal experiences.

Chapter 1

The Start of Your

Journey to Soul

Every journey has a starting point. And if you wish to take this journey to reconnect with your soul, you will need to make the decision to do so and be clear in your mind as to what awaits you. I can assure you, if you are prepared to make the commitment and put in the effort, things will turn out just fine.

How ready are you to start this journey? What is your starting point in terms of your understanding of yourself and your real potential? Be honest with yourself. Most people have a very small view of themselves drawn only from their past experiences. However, I will be offering you deeper insights which show up your latent faculties, powers and abilities, introducing you to your true self as a being of light.

As an introduction, let us begin by looking at some simple ideas and truths about yourself as a living, breathing, thinking human being, and what it means to be fully human.

Are you just a body?

One of the first obstacles you will face on your journey are your own beliefs on your sense of ‘self’. If you think you are only a body, or can’t, at the very least, acknowledge some higher side to yourself, you already start with