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Soulmaking Dyad Practice - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 72 mentions

• in practicing in soulmaking diets in pairs just to say a little bit about that it's
• performs a basis for soulmaking for imaginal practice for sensing the soul
• of preliminary in a way to soulmaking and to imaginal practice in diet
• and ignited sometimes and very very beautiful soulmaking perceptions and sometimes really difficult reactions or
• this whole endeavor of imaginal practice and sensing of soul and soulmaking dharma
• um it keeps uh the initials of spark that feels soulmaking can actually keep sustain its generativity sustain its
• part of the way problems can arise and the soulmaking dynamic that you're a psychological dynamic can get disrupted
• could say to um for retire on sustainable soulmaking in relationship with other human beings
• and as i said that for many people a good proportion of soulmaking happens in berlin really so it feels important
• um to uh share and put to share in this way with others the soulmaking diet um to share one psychological history or
• and picture skills needed to sustain it and to enable it to be soulmaking because we will need in these kind of
• of skills involved that's why we put a lot of emphasis in soulmaking drama on emotional awareness emotional skill
• kind of it's not really a soulmaking practice in the sense
• relationship so important for a soulmaking diet so important for imaginal practice
• um and for some people it would it will be soulmaking it won't necessarily be imaginal but it will be soulmaking just
• be soulmaking it won't necessarily be imaginal but it will be soulmaking just to be in relationship in dyadic
• relationship or triadic relationship it's not imaginal but it's soulmaking in the sense that
• um remember the imaginal is if you like a subset of soulmaking so it might be soulmaking in the sense of it's
• a subset of soulmaking so it might be soulmaking in the sense of it's stretching one's soul's capacity and
• intimate if you if you like will be will feel soulmaking and that's great and and uh and so once you you know not
• really important stuff and may may itself feel soulmaking and it's not imaginal yet
• a strong and soulmaking terminals um but the posture if we go back to
• as time goes on that those who are you know deeply interested in soulmaking dharma
• they add potentially to soulmaking dharma how they can extend it how they can make
• deeply touched in in a uh in a soulmaking diet or sharing images together that that touch the soul deeply
• share a conceptual framework in order for a soulmaking diet to be really fertile and soulmaking and not
• in order for a soulmaking diet to be really fertile and soulmaking and not frustrating or limited or limiting
• share share the conceptual framework actually support soulmaking uh
• what's not to be dismissed because you try soulmaking with someone who just considers imagination a kind of
• be shared enough for um soulmaking relationship to really flourish
• did this diet with someone it was wonderful and so soulmaking so i take it to another friend
• conceptual framework or concept that's from the soulmaking point of view limited or limiting
• caution um in in trying to engage in soulmaking diets with people who don't really share
• made from that what does it need maybe it doesn't need soulmaking maybe some other kind of
• possibilities here what matters is it soulmaking um so see
• um there may be a much greater sense of the soulmaking of an image that originally didn't feel so
• image that originally didn't feel so soulmaking felt a little bit
• and recommunicated it make it allows much more soulmaking with the same image
• age as part of their you know part of the soulmaking process um b as we've pointed out probably very
• and that you want to bring into the field for potential soulmaking potential soulmaking
• field for potential soulmaking potential soulmaking um it might be the um temenos as theme
• so again the power of the uh soulmaking in relationship where there's terminals something happens
• some alchemy happens to an image that is possible for the soulmaking associated with that image and even how imaginal it
• helpful to uh to the soulmaking in ways that kind of can can end up shutting down the soul
• and then then she was doing uh a diet soulmaking diet with her current um partner i can't love her and
• the example i gave before where something didn't feel that soulmaking and then then uh one shared it and and
• and then then uh one shared it and and it suddenly just was soulmaking up and touching a whole other level this fell
• and like i've pointed out several times your soulmaking just doesn't doesn't just happen by itself we have to really
• analogy we want to use um it's really uh soulmaking is really very sensitive business and the dyad or
• in dyads and triads and larger groups with the soulmaking you're going to notice all kinds of uh
• being dominated in in ways that may be fine in in some respects in soulmaking even but maybe in other
• um a habit it's unconscious it's not desired and it's not very soulmaking maybe that you know you start to notice
• um in other words because there's the natural expansion of the soulmaking dynamic of the euro psychologus dynamic
• um uh the question as always is is it soulmaking does it feel soulmaking not did i make this happen or did it happen
• what matters what's relevant is does this feel soulmaking right now um
• so even though i'm sitting down to do a soulmaking dyad that level of perception that level and and
• just even because i my intention is a soulmaking diet that doesn't leave that out as a possibility it doesn't shut the
• to talk through together or negotiate so i'm sitting in a soulmaking diet and it might be that actually for our whole
• third possibility is the um uh is soulmaking imaginal perception the sensing with the soul of self and
• etc all of it's with the fullness of intention for soulmaking etc but again there's all these
• feels right here what feels um the most soulmaking um maybe at times what feels the most
• definitely got some eros in it because it's soulmaking um and and as always letting that be the
• um if i'm interested in the soulmaking diet careful about the intention
• physical actual sexual contact may be soulmaking or you may find if if this is your
• um in a soulmaking diet or or kind of a song making diet leading in into that
• contact to be sensed with soul to actually could be soulmaking so remember soulmaking is more than heart
• actually could be soulmaking so remember soulmaking is more than heart we can have our lovely heartful making
• um you know could be or has a whole range but soulmaking means more than heart and more than a lot of other
• um actual physical sexual intimacy then what and we want it to be uh soulmaking and what supports that
• we're going to have sex and i assume that the soulmaking sense continues maybe but often not it will it needs a
• whatever that was that you decided to devote to soulmaking diet practice you keep that formal time for practice and
• it's a key and uh a galvanizer of the whole soulmaking dynamic and therefore the sensing the soul and what that can

Eros and Equanimity in the Movements of Soul - (Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire) 64 mentions

• define soulmaking or soul completely to really fully capture
• completely to really fully capture what soulmaking is for example to pin it down
• science if you like all right of this of what soulmaking is and what these concepts are there we
• want to understand mechanisms processes dynamics what's involved in soulmaking how it works but there's also an
• this before something in the nature of soul and soulmaking makes them actually appropriately
• movement in ways that are helpful what for to serve soulmaking so the definitions that we come up with are in
• definitions that we come up with are in the service of soulmaking and for that reason they need to be
• but uh let's say what is this what is soulmaking when we um use that term
• relatively abstract definition of soul making and say that soulmaking is um a certain relationship with
• relating to experience it's a soulmaking is this expansion of my sensing my conceiving my perceiving
• kind of general principle something fundamental to soulmaking if you have a little less experience it
• but you will recognize soulmaking in and from your own experience in in your own life you will
• recognize uh the the experience if you like of soulmaking when there is for us a sense of
• um beauty this is also characteristic of soulmaking has a sense of beauty wide range of possible kinds of beauty
• reverence is also characteristic of the the experience of soulmaking reverence is from the word the english
• and this has something to do with the sense when there are soulmaking opening to something bigger than us
• different kinds of love are also present in soulmaking so soulmaking usually uh or i'd say always has quality of some
• shortly um i would include that soulmaking involves eros
• um we could say soul is a perspective that brings soulmaking that um gives a feeling and supports and
• perspectives that supports and opens and gives rise to ignite soulmaking the sense of soulfulness
• central in this process of soulmaking in the movement of soulmaking it's a fundamental
• process of soulmaking in the movement of soulmaking it's a fundamental indispensable
• explain something about the process or the dynamic of soulmaking because it hinges if you like or it's driven by
• inseminate fertilize ignite each other um in what we call the soulmaking dynamic and a big part of what that does
• now this what we call in this era psychologos dynamic or this soulmaking dynamic
• dynamic soulmaking process or i just described uh
• it that way so it cannot feed back into this whole soulmaking enrichment process
• will happen of the whole soulmaking dynamic and a tendency to expand will happen
• in the way that it kind of opens up this soulmaking dynamic and is immensely powerful when we can understand that you
• and fertilize stimulate inseminate ignite that soulmaking dynamic that soulmaking process and expansion and
• ignite that soulmaking dynamic that soulmaking process and expansion and opening and complication
• with it it involves with it already um soulmaking and so and thus the imaginal and soul so if you like there's
• definition of the whole eros as it is in the soulmaking dynamic in the era psychology logos
• um i would say that eros it's similar to when we said soulmaking always involves love some kind of love it might not be
• um eros because it is involved with soul making involves soulmaking eros always includes some kind of love
• implications of what we've just said of the way eros operates in the soulmaking dynamic
• discovery of more and more otherness and if as i said this soulmaking dynamic is just potentially infinite it will just
• extent that it's allowed to fertilize the whole soulmaking dynamic and be involved in the whole soul economy is
• etc and that's part of the whole package of soulmaking part of the whole constellation of eros and what eros
• the logos in fact be um really fertile for you for the soulmaking process if we
• things this soulmaking dynamic has as i said it it
• now that uh process of expansion that soulmaking expansion
• be not sexual whatever and the soulmaking process the era psycholog starts to as i said to
• and it this this soulmaking dynamic also wants to again naturally to include the
• imaginal erotic gaze it's it's subsumed and drawn into the soulmaking dynamic and the fertilization by aero
• fire wants to wants to spread in all those directions the fire of soulmaking the fire of uh the eros and the erotic
• time i'm given dimensionality just through the soulmaking process happening
• is image and there's something blocked there in the whole soulmaking dynamic it wants to flow into the self it wants
• remains unenchanted because unimpregnated by the soulmaking movement the soulmaking dynamic
• unimpregnated by the soulmaking movement the soulmaking dynamic the eros hasn't reached there to bring
• we're often don't realize that this is uh that the soulmaking dynamic can open and wants to open in all these different
• experience can have more potency the whole soulmaking can be more potent so intensity is actually neither here
• between intensity and potency we want the potency we want the soulmaking to fertilize the soul and open it otherwise
• thing and inseminate the whole soulmaking move and inseminate psycheon logos and re-insemina eros and spread
• um erotic imaginal process the whole soulmaking process and the opening of the imaginal perception
• characteristic if you can understand of the whole soulmaking dynamic or the whole movement of eros when it's allowed
• um is not based on realism so it's this magical beautiful skillful soulmaking fabrication and contradistinction to
• um the kind of image or fantasy when it really is rarefied it's not soulmaking it's taken as real and it's kind of
• um i in defining soulmaking you may remember from talks from another retreat
• i actually included in the definition of soulmaking and awareness that of seeing images image
• not real including that in my definition of what is soulmaking and what it means to have an imaginal perception
• experience that's why i wanted to include it in what i call soulmaking or imaginal experience by definition
• that in time we begin just to trust the imaginal soulmaking process itself more and more so no matter how bizarre how
• that we can trust we start to trust the imaginal and trust soulmaking trust where it leads us and what it what it

Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 7) - (The Mirrored Gates) 62 mentions

• the flatness leads to depression the soulmaking dynamic is arrested as ground to a halt is inhibited is
• get the taste of all this the taste of soulmaking which means experiencing it for your for yourself
• or whatever but that together the logos is part of the whole soulmaking dynamic so getting the taste and getting the
• um for us of sensing the soul of soulmaking of imagining perceiving perceiving
• those kinds of mode of being we call soulmaking a sensing assault and to add to that
• get more more into this let's say um there will arise when the soulmaking starts to go deep and starts to really
• planted with with seeds in the soul making process and the soulmaking increases and expands and deepens and
• re-enchantment of the dukkah there is with with the soulmaking uh dynamic um sort of taking up the dukkha itself
• organically with inevitably with the deepening of the soulmaking process and so making dynamic
• like goes into the mix is taken up by soulmaking then sparks i kind of imagine or seeing of that very element
• simultaneously we're only talking about one organic movement of soulmaking that affects the perception and the
• whole thing the very difficulty and then the soulmaking with respect to that uh took out difficulty and then what we do
• destruction the fragmentation the difficulty the soulmaking process in regard to that and what emerges what is
• the fruit or the issue of that soulmaking process whether it emerges in concretized action and voice or just
• movement of uh soulmaking in relation to the dukkah and then what comes out of that that
• of both actually um with a degree of soulmaking when we can relate to our duke in the
• dimensionality and our very process of soulmaking all these are dukkar eros or soulmaking they all become re-enchanted
• soulmaking all these are dukkar eros or soulmaking they all become re-enchanted they're all sensed with soul and in that
• our dukkah through our ears and through our soulmaking we are participating in and through the particulars of our life
• rigid ultimate truths their perspectives their soulmaking perceptions their conceptions that one can
• in kind of what he was trying to get at and in what's emerged in the soulmaking of us
• creating and discovering as a soulmaking logos and some of the way hegel was thinking
• rather alternative alternatively this view or concept support soulmaking so that the way we are uh
• um or it's supportive of soulmaking and it introduces the possibility of seeing and
• valuable in other words because the idea supports soulmaking or can support soul making
• gifts of um of of the soulmaking movement and paradigm
• so god needed for if you like god's own soulmaking uh to create uh the world what seemed to be outside the divine
• pulled towards this fullness of soulmaking but in our paradigm unlike hegel's soulmaking has
• this fullness of soulmaking but in our paradigm unlike hegel's soulmaking has no end
• it doesn't it potentially has no end so the point of all this is soulmaking and that can be regarded as the soul
• and that can be regarded as the soul making of the divine the soulmaking that
• creates discoveries is uh is a part of the soulmaking of the divine
• in in this uh what we could call a path of soulmaking or um the
• etc in in a sort of buddhist vision uh in the soulmaking paradigm or logos um
• answer to be in the service of soulmaking it should support and stimulate soulmaking
• in the service of soulmaking it should support and stimulate soulmaking in other words we want to adopt
• ways of looking ideas that open support nourish deepen soulmaking increase soul making with respect to an in relation to
• those kind of conceptual frameworks um that might support soulmaking those kind of ideas will involve the
• soul our duka bistuka um will because of the soulmaking dynamic that we explain with the aero
• again it might arise through the practice soulmaking practice or it may be something what would would it be to
• um regarding the uh contextualization of the soulmaking logos if you like
• exactly uh at times in opposition to um soulmaking which enriches gives more dimension gives complexity invites the
• conscious place or a place in the logos for soulmaking there's no place
• in the obvious articulation of either of those for soulmaking i'll come back to that because i want to
• through the understanding of a soulmaking logos at what's going on there and soulmaking and fantasy always
• soulmaking logos at what's going on there and soulmaking and fantasy always creeps in or it's always there actually
• that but actually if they're on fire with that they're soulmaking uh and fantasy crept into the whole thing uh
• person at that time is to a certain extent soulmaking wherever something's really alive where
• really committed to something um soulmaking fancy is already there it's already pervading it's already in
• lot of the beauty and actually a lot of the whatever soulmaking is going on so to me a fuller path a fuller logos
• to acknowledge it acknowledge this thing called soulmaking and this thing called eros that we don't really have words for
• imaginary tree and it might have been in the soulmaking talks there um the talks entitled soulmaking i think
• the soulmaking talks there um the talks entitled soulmaking i think but i'm not sure
• um how we conceive of soulmaking in relation to ending suffering in relation to the four
• one could conceive of um the whole soulmaking paradigm as a movement
• the conception path may itself limit the soulmaking we're emphasizing too much a certain
• that limit um the soulmaking that's then available to us
• arrange things that way so that the soulmaking paradigm that being more important than ending dukkha as one
• then we could say that the movement of soulmaking the engagement of the soulmaking dynamic and that whole
• soulmaking the engagement of the soulmaking dynamic and that whole direction is actually reducing suffering
• that gets healed we can place the whole thing the whole paradigm soulmaking squarely and easily in the four noble
• useless soulmaking beauty the the most worthwhile

What is Awakening? (Part 4) - (The Mirrored Gates) 61 mentions

• start hearing about um soulmaking and the erotic image but add in at some point or weave in perhaps
• whole exploration of um what we call the soulmaking paradigm or the erotic imaginal
• but this question what you want i don't know with the with the soulmaking side of things and the erotic imaginal side
• because the the eros and the desire is integral to the movement of soulmaking it's indispensable it's fundamentally
• um eros and so that means very little soulmaking so the question of what do you really
• when we can speak kind of more purely of soulmaking it's it's kind of inevitable there
• here remember too that um the paradigm of soulmaking includes um eros
• awakening it will push on this soulmaking movement this expansion of the soulmaking dynamic will push on the
• soulmaking movement this expansion of the soulmaking dynamic will push on the um unquestioned images that we have of
• the sensing was all the erotic imaginal that aspect of soulmaking that will really push on that
• detail on other retreats but we said um when the soulmaking process gets going the soulmaking dynamic it
• um when the soulmaking process gets going the soulmaking dynamic it involves the mutual
• over the last few years eros like the soulmaking dynamic is liberated in other words rather than being stuck in
• um particular circumference or range or way of relating on the soulmaking the iro psychologos dynamic is liberated
• erosakin logos are liberated to some extent in that in that soulmaking dynamic that's another way of saying
• dynamic that's another way of saying what's going on in soulmaking and and as well as images getting pushed
• ideas and logos as one of the elements of soulmaking is exactly that's an element of soulmaking it's involved
• of soulmaking is exactly that's an element of soulmaking it's involved it's worked it's stretched it's relied
• so that part of the soulmate what what a vision of soulmaking uh awakening and path must involve logos must involve
• and in our definition part of their very soulmaking dynamic part of what is liberated and part of what moves in the
• conceptual frameworks and then in the practice of in the soulmaking happens in practice those ideas get stretched or
• using that that's not the way that this soulmaking dynamic engages um it's not the relationship it has with
• skillful fabrication and part of um that can be soulmaking fabrication so
• the sense of what awakening might be in a soulmaking paradigm it includes as i said this
• or if it does that's only that's only temporary because the soulmaking will keep at some point pushing and breaking
• it the so the soulmaking kind of um paradigm of awakening
• in in a way if it's working it wouldn't soulmaking would not allow that inevitably in in the in the uh vortex
• the widening and deepening of the era psychologus dynamics what soulmaking involves
• has um this capacity through the soulmaking through the erotic
• possibility more divinity soulmaking is possible in relation to an icon
• an icon but when soulmaking gets hold of an idol
• with tight rigid boundaries not soft not elastic then the soulmaking will make those boundaries of the idle elastic and
• replace it or whatever till we have an icon soulmaking it icon not idle and there won't be an end to that so an
• divinity and depth soulmaking potential so in questioning kind of typical ideas
• that converts that whole process converts idle into icon soulmaking has gotten hold of the notion of awakening
• what is awakening who awakens if we answer it's so it's soulmaking that awakens that is what is awakening
• awakening that is who is awakening it's the soul and soulmaking then that implies in in our own
• um with the soulmaking dynamic with the involvement fertilization insemination
• they are not directions that um soulmaking awakening will pursue it just won't pursue those directions that
• won't happen in in the possibility of soulmaking that still leaves an infinity of other directions just on
• direction will be viable or uh is open as a direction of soulmaking sometimes when this
• so it can stretch what awakens soul awakens soulmaking awakens what does that mean
• we are in in this soulmaking parent we're really not shunning or disregarding
• delineations and concepts we're using them for the sake of soulmaking and the soulmaking process will actually
• them for the sake of soulmaking and the soulmaking process will actually stimulate more of that as part of its
• buddhist epidermy psychology or whatever what would a soulmaking answer say to that what is the relationship
• and in the soulmate comparison it's exactly the same the soulmaking awakening
• is one self-image and it may be soulmaking for some people to a certain extent
• be in that in a way that includes to include the soulmaking uh process and dynamic and movement
• objects and and they get drawn into the whole soulmaking process and in so doing they get drawn in
• and we can look at that stagnation from the paradigm of the soulmaking logos and we can say either there is not
• to stimulate and push that whole soulmaking dynamic in a way that does open up further territories
• um with regard to awakening but either way the um the soulmaking dynamic the era psychologos dynamic is
• um a soulmaking logos might interpret that passage differently in a soulmaking way
• a soulmaking logos might interpret that passage differently in a soulmaking way go from what get the out of thy country
• from my father's house go from whatever is not soulmaking anymore
• psychologos for soulmaking and this is always a possibility this
• possibility since the possibilities for soulmaking are infinite
• perennials may be a better word again and again the soulmaking dynamics as i said something is not always on the move
• movement this expansion of the soulmaking dynamic and with that the whole territory the whole land that we
• the land that uh eros psychologos open up as the soulmaking dynamic cause so just finish now and you know some

Refractions: Of Body, Sensuality, and Sexuality (Part 3) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma... 58 mentions

• enriching that you're a psychologos um the the dynamic of soulmaking and those three facets kind of do to
• is not to engage don't engage with the the process of soulmaking and the complexities of soulmaking which will
• the process of soulmaking and the complexities of soulmaking which will involve a rob which will sometimes
• lazy buddha dharma then there will not be there cannot be the soulmaking with respect to self
• doorway uh movement and manifestation of soulmaking just cannot happen um no sex no sexuality why because we've
• um expanding elaborating on that is so the soulmaking process the soulmaking dynamic the era psychologos
• so the soulmaking process the soulmaking dynamic the era psychologos dynamic involves and works by in part
• and for the most part for the most part to the soulmaking dynamic and even when one move the carolina said this but even
• not to be bothered really so the soulmaking dine out we need to as involves delineation making all kinds
• picky about that but it includes that and the soulmaking process will include and will affect the sense of self the
• defilement and all that but the soulmaking process will involve delineations and will include an effect
• if that could also be seen as a soulmaking movement it's the movement of eurocycle it's
• relationship to those those areas and those delineations the soulmaking comes into contact with them and it doesn't
• and it can also be a cultural movement so soulmaking can happen on a cultural level as well
• issues there there could be really at heart there a soulmaking movement happening
• conceive of it and this opening up of the body through the soulmaking process is inevitable it must be included and
• um and and there's a spilling over an expansion of the soulmaking sensibilities and inclusion and
• but whether directly or indirectly the the body in the soulmaking being included wrapped up in drawn into
• included wrapped up in drawn into involved in the soulmaking um
• like everything else that is included in the soulmaking um process and gains dimensionality
• this body and through the body are through the soulmaking process through the erotic imaginal ways of knowing are
• again there is not this because of the soulmaking process there's not this contraction of ways of knowing in some
• scene through the erotic image filled with soul and soulmaking and thus sacralized and it's also just one is
• been presenting these teachings soulmaking tends to include and involve more of the
• tends to include and involve more of the body space soulmaking in it against part of the whole era psychologus
• tendency of expansion isn't it yeah but when there is a movement of soulmaking when the soulmaking process it will
• when there is a movement of soulmaking when the soulmaking process it will tend to expand to include to involve
• mindfulness of the whole energy body will include in that in what soulmaking is what imaginal practice is in in the
• that port and and give good ground to the soulmaking process
• were talking about yesterday with regard to soulmaking in insects whether it's actual sex or
• want to support sex that's soulmaking sex that's soulful and are sent to the word then
• soulful and are sent to the word then that soulmaking needs um that it needs for the uh attention
• um that's not going to support soulmaking it needs us not to contract that or it's
• up in all this in the soulmaking process but also the eros the third of our
• like the mechanics of the inevitable mechanics of the soulmaking process as we said as the eros stimulates and opens
• but now we're saying now we're saying soulmaking will open everything
• say is a polymorphous erotic soulmaking polymorphously erotic soulmaking and a polyvalently erotic
• erotic soulmaking polymorphously erotic soulmaking and a polyvalently erotic soulmaking
• soulmaking and a polyvalently erotic soulmaking polymorphous may mean it can change and
• suggesting is quite the reverse that the the soulmaking process the expansion enrichment complications etc etc of euro
• and actually begins to open um the erotic soulmaking of the body and of the psyche and so that there is
• polymorphously and polyvalently erotic soulmaking meaning that the whole sense of eros and
• potentially a theoretically no limit to the soulmaking process because it's the dynamic of your psychologos and the way
• what that implies if there's no limit to the soulmaking process it implies there's no limit to the ways
• ways the sense of the body can open because there's no limit to soulmaking which means that the images perceptions
• because it's infinite because the soulmaking process will make delineations that don't even occur to me
• body can open potentially because there's no limit to soulmaking included in that is is a kind of um
• the soul are different things um but as as the soulmaking dynamic opens up more and more what it does is
• that's just another view so with the soulmaking and with the reflection and the intelligence and the
• of plug in expand with the soulmaking with the practice and we're not believing in one
• knowing as the soulmaking processes the era psychologos dynamic meets and subsumes a
• um what matters really is is what's the next step for the soulmaking you know the intelligence of the
• you know the intelligence of the movement of soulmaking where does it want to go next and and is there a block
• so we can ask that for the individual where does the soulmaking want to go next what does it want to do if it's
• culturally what is the next step what is the next step for the soulmaking where does it want to move what does it want
• body becomes what it becomes through the soulmaking process also of course what the self becomes what the other what
• what plants what cause what the cosmos becomes through the soulmaking process and can become what matter becomes what
• the interest is in what does a soulmaking want what what does the eros want

Soulmaking (Part 1) - (Path of the Imaginal) 55 mentions

• the poet john keats i think originally soulfulness and soulmaking so making your notes is an adjective uh sorry a
• verb we make soul and can make soul or soul is made so to speak soulmaking what does that mean or soulfulness is
• increase a sense of soulfulness so that's what we might say soulmaking is uh that it's the increase the the the
• soulfulness of soul and soulmaking and with all this importance a sense of
• so much so that we could say that what is soulmaking or when there's a sense of softness there is
• um what is soulmaking gives us a sense of a deep importance almost of this thing
• back to this soulfulness also a soulmaking also has to do with seeing images
• um central um characteristic of soulmaking love also we've touched on this and
• degree or other and we can certainly say that is different than soulmaking we really want to get the sense these are
• really want to get the sense these are two different things soulmaking and papancha
• contrast with um soulmaking which does not actually the selfie is not literal
• more kind of see-through um in in soulmaking um in papancha we do not see this is
• of meaningfulness that characterized soulmaking there's quite a
• there's quite a difference between soulmaking and use use of images versus papancha or
• important i want to emphasize it again soulmaking um
• relationship with images or experiences soulmaking is in the relationship or in the conscious working with images and
• includes the conceptual framework so soulmaking is in the relationship is in the conscious working with an image or
• so that's again helpful to to have it as a verb soulmaking it's in the working with rather than it exists inherently
• um but but that we could say then okay it was just so soulmaking is in the relationship in the conscious
• later in the retreat but if that's too much let's just say soulmaking what i said before soulmaking is in
• much let's just say soulmaking what i said before soulmaking is in relationship with images and experiences
• engage us and enchant us that our soul making we need soulmaking and and that involves conceptual frames of fantasies
• seeing them through the lens of what is and isn't soulmaking so so
• experience ways of looking that our soulmaking here and now and over here and now
• nowadays the range of what gives rise to soulfulness what is soulmaking is is enormous in society so for different
• system and to offer the possibility of soulmaking for for each person is is a huge range for some people it would be
• practice of mindfulness and bear attention but the soulmaking actually will come then around practice
• can try to be mindful as much of the time and yet still the soulmaking will come in because it's because it's what
• um less soulmaking it's only in the fabrication of those three broad
• but if we're practicing just mindfulness and the soulmaking comes around around practice path buddha tradition self etc
• uh in terravada buddhism and it still enters the soulmaking still enters in relation to practice and dharma around
• and not and the practice itself is not so soulmaking it will come around it and that is not a problem it's more just
• it's not that we are engaged in soulmaking when we can't handle reality we conjure fantasies and
• mythos it creates souls there's soulmaking there is the nourishing of soulfulness so you
• psyche and the soul need that they need soulmaking they do it through image mythos fantasy
• play and the playing with fabrication to soulmaking so it frees our fabrication including
• now i'd like to add to uh to our sort of meaning of soulmaking or maybe say it's characteristic or let's let's add it
• where everyone includes in their definition of soulmaking people use that word which is not that many but
• um in terms of soulfulness in terms of what is soulmaking the concept part of the conceptual frameworks that we're
• multiplicity is very much a an aspect of soulmaking and soulfulness and soul and also the idea the idos of a certain
• a part and aspect and necessary ingredient of soulmaking so we are not regarding them as factors or essential
• helpful and really opens up the sense of soulmaking and soulfulness is that the human being is in the psyche or in the
• things so we want and we need soulmaking the psyche needs that you could say the soul
• psyche needs that you could say the soul needs soulmaking and james hillman was um i can't
• if you like out of the same material of our lives and different soulmaking can make different soulmaking stories
• our lives and different soulmaking can make different soulmaking stories if you like
• rational explanation it's intended to open the soulmaking in relationship with
• um story in this sense fantasy gives life it is soulmaking actually again um james hillman
• i literal so in all this in in the soulmaking uh or rather with soulmaking through
• so in all this in in the soulmaking uh or rather with soulmaking through images mythoid fantasy whether it's an
• in a way we no longer see ourselves when we see in terms of soulmaking are so isolated
• and in all of this when we use words like soulmaking and think more about that or or regard
• things in that way conceive of things in that way soulmaking that takes the focus and the question
• away from is this true or real the question becomes what is soulmaking how do i recognize that well it feels a
• reality and takes the question away from that into what is soulmaking what nourishes deepens and riches

Visions of the Beyond - (Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire) 53 mentions

• path and awakening are they soulmaking for you or which ways are soulmaking for you
• are they soulmaking for you or which ways are soulmaking for you that's a difference against related but
• fantasizing and imagining path and awakening are soulmaking for you that's actually quite a
• authenticity or independence it's the soulmaking that's the tested just like when we talked about in imaginal
• this it doesn't matter the test is in the soulmaking so here too the degree or the extent to
• from this point of view the question is is it soulmaking how soulmaking is it is it supportive of soulmaking or not i
• is it soulmaking how soulmaking is it is it supportive of soulmaking or not i understand
• is it healing or is it freeing whatever those words mean but is it soulmaking so that's quite a i would say a radical
• and recalling what we've been saying about the whole soulmaking dynamic where there is a beyond one of the
• comes with it a sense of depth um soulmaking all of that that we've talked about
• what is involved in taking care of the soulmaking and the eros in in my relationship with
• here and which implicit in that means can i take care of the soulmaking which means can i take care of the image in
• so can i take care of the eros and the soulmaking um what does it mean to take care of the
• um what does it mean to take care of the soulmaking in relationship to this this kind of beyond a transcendent beyond or
• badness in the self it's just coming from a limitation of the soulmaking dynamic so it becomes this kind of
• so in this kind of approach the eros and the soulmaking dynamic the eros and the aero psychologos dynamic are limited
• that concept of the path and awakening um is actually soulmaking for them to to the degree that satisfies their soul
• some degree um soulmaking or to the degree that satisfies their soul
• and again the question is is it soul making is it soulmaking is it soul making for you is it soulmaking for me
• making is it soulmaking is it soul making for you is it soulmaking for me or someone else
• or but the question is really why and and is it soulmaking or is there um
• in and blocking the whole thing so it's not actually as soulmaking as it could be or not so to speak genuine authentic
• um this is all a whole other level of um view and story and soulmaking a fantasy that comes in around there
• what we're teaching here what we call imaginal practice or soulmaking that whole movement there's a lot of
• and both are those streams it's just like the tantric it uh this soulmaking directional soul makes the sense of what
• directional soul makes the sense of what the path as a path of soulmaking the sense of awakening as a movement into
• sense of awakening as a movement into soulmaking the movement of soulmaking gives placed and gives a an important
• characteristic of both tantric practice and soulmaking practice of course and that includes the intra-psychic imagine
• just infinite there's no limit on the soulmaking uh creativity there and discovery there
• um uh and and from the soulmaking conception and that in that conception
• open-ended at what point of this soulmaking dynamic am i going to draw a line and say that's awakening now
• that in different ways with the tantric conception and with the soulmaking conception let's just focus on the soul
• radical uh reconstitution there with this soulmaking as i touched on just now
• it's just this infinite possibility of opening of the soulmaking it's endless
• kind of if you like that a path that really places soulmaking quite centrally and or at least has a place
• centrally and or at least has a place for soulmaking would allow and give a place to all that
• the fourth possibility what we call in the tantric or the soulmaking vision um and conception in each of those four
• with respect to the senses in the world in the soulmaking or tantric view um there is a beyond but that beyond
• and that's the um there's an elevation of that whereas in the soulmaking view or the tantric view there's the
• but also the recognition of um skillful or let's say soulmaking fabrication beautiful fabrication one
• consents to allows opens to support that the beauty of the soulmaking fabrication
• impregnate and and uh catalyze the aero psychologos dynamic and soulmaking dynamic the the view of a
• way around and the soulmaking happens for us with the imaginal and the whole world the
• gold dust we cast a path are they soulmaking for you is it soul making for you
• conscious of this and that will probably limit the soulmaking potential if that medical patient fantasy is too
• of your path or how you're teaching soulmaking may then be allowed of course but it's somehow always within or
• the healing of the perception of of this the soulmaking the opening of soul making
• come from can say the soul love soulmaking we said that i think as a kind of axi and
• said that i think as a kind of axi and the soul love soulmaking so the eros is for soulmaking heroes of the soul is
• the soul love soulmaking so the eros is for soulmaking heroes of the soul is for soulmaking the soul of soulmaking
• for soulmaking heroes of the soul is for soulmaking the soul of soulmaking but
• whose eros is it whose soulmaking is it whose soulmaking is it whose soul is
• whose soulmaking is it whose soulmaking is it whose soul is getting made so to speak

Sila and Soul (Part 8) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 52 mentions

• they're pertinent if we're interested in soulmaking and axiomatic to soulmaking is the principle of the uh the the the
• that's part of developing our ourselves part of our soulmaking and this faithfulness to our own souls
• said has has a importance for our considerations of soulmaking so
• values being a part of the intrinsic part of soulmaking as part of the one of the elements of the imaginal and
• and how our relationship with values and virtues can be made soulmaking in that way
• um consider that soulmaking itself is a kind of value so we're valuing
• kind of value so we're valuing um we value soulmaking and as such that might be might be some of these people
• value the value something because it's soulful we value soulmaking we value that whole
• in terms of a new virtue and new value soulmaking itself perhaps i don't know
• but let's let's see if we put this in a soulmaking context or bring bring together shine a light from from the
• together shine a light from from the perspective of soulmaking teachings if there's something that can be
• maybe a really fundamental axiom of the soulmaking dharma is um soul love soulmaking soul wants soul
• soulmaking dharma is um soul love soulmaking soul wants soul making can sound so simple
• making can sound so simple um soul wants soulmaking but in a way it might be possible to use
• a primary drive as human beings is to soulmaking and that gets diverted subverted etc in
• cetera so the soul wants soulmaking which which implies eros because eros is a an
• which implies eros because eros is a an element of soulmaking indispensable element of soulmaking and soulmaking
• element of soulmaking indispensable element of soulmaking and soulmaking also involves with the eros that the
• making soulmaking also asks or involves that
• contest that idea that the basics or drive is to soulmaking but foreign
• and say something like um you know before all this soulmaking stuff and eros for soulmaking which is
• um you know before all this soulmaking stuff and eros for soulmaking which is kind of like an icing on the cake
• a soul what souls want the most fundamentally soulmaking or just entertaining it as a certain idea and it
• human beings choose soulmaking over and before pleasure over and before even health and and
• uh sometimes making choices in the service of something that's soulmaking this
• examples that bear witness to that prioritizing a soulmaking over any of these other
• let's let's let's let's play with this principle soul soul wants soulmaking as a fundamental
• um now sometimes what happens of course is the soulmaking is blocked it's not possible or in some ways it's blocked in
• literalized they're only literalized desired blocks of soulmaking or when soulmaking is blocked in some other way
• desired blocks of soulmaking or when soulmaking is blocked in some other way then the desire is still there sometimes
• and dimensionalized and by the soulmaking process and then a few different things can
• the eros being allowed to instigate the soulmaking dynamic and things to become imaginal have dimensions and have depth
• kind of consumers and that's one option another option when when the soulmaking is blocked and there's still this desire
• but powerlessness in relation to what may be soulmaking um
• where is it where where the the soul wants soulmaking and somehow it's blocked or maybe doesn't even realize
• blocked or maybe doesn't even realize that what it wants to soulmaking so that's partly why i'm saying all this
• power can um go in the soulmaking direction can um
• of soulfulness a lot of disposition towards soulfulness towards soulmaking towards image towards eros that may be
• kind of differential careful differentiations that his soulmaking process made that that his eros and the
• his eros all of it was allowed to to be come into the soulmaking process and even the other then can be a kind of
• obliteration and covering over and loss of what his soulmaking process the differentiations the aspects of divinity
• differentiations the aspects of divinity the aspects of soul that his soulmaking process was revealing and creating and
• literal achievement of what one desires may or may not be soulmaking if they're they don't uh
• um then that that process may not be soulmaking and we talked about in that connection
• boundaries limits actually perform part of the crucible of soulmaking so sometimes as i said getting what one
• what i don't have that can potentially allow more allow soulmaking process so i can end the hatred by getting what
• so i can end the hatred by getting what i want but it might not be soulmaking and what's the fundamental desire there
• is it to get what i want or is it actually the soulmaking and then i've sold it short by just
• actually at their root there's a there's a blocked soulmaking some soulmaking in some direction of eros and
• to do with power and powerlessness and soulmaking and what the what the soul might want there that's getting blocked
• our considerations of both soulmaking and ethics and certainly of the way in which um
• he's written i read that as potentially open-ended as the whole soulmaking process is and perhaps the whole has

Heat and the Material - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 52 mentions

• mostly in the context of the imaginal practice and soulmaking and
• on to consider to work with perhaps um with regard to our soulmaking paradigm but the whole thing has if you
• some of the people who are attracted to the soulmaking dharma and this kind of paradigm are
• some of those people um the the soulmaking dharma will uh be very attractive and um and and make
• soul to to to to to make so to engage in in soulmaking uh that the fertility and the dynamism
• uh that the fertility and the dynamism of soulmaking for the era psychologos dynamic to expand and rich and deepen in
• um they're attracted they recognize something in the soulmaking uh teachings and it's not just a cheap kind
• and of course not everyone that's attracted to the soulmaking dharma is of that kind of
• for a large portion of imaginal practice and soulmaking practice
• that they can ferment the soulmaking process so they can they can fertilize and give rise to
• allowing the contents the material to ferment to undergo the soulmaking dynamic you know then images won't arise
• heating up or galvanizing um of of the whole soulmaking dynamic um in in terms of generating images
• foundational element excuse me of soulmaking practice and dharma
• of um of imaginal practice and soulmaking dharma this britain could have lots of
• such a foundation if it is a foundation of soulmaking practice might be in in the longer term an example of a
• as opposed to just something on which soulmaking is built but
• um to ferment an image that is powerfully soulmaking so we said that
• something more general we've heard this before that the soulmaking dynamic or soulmaking over time let's say so not
• before that the soulmaking dynamic or soulmaking over time let's say so not necessarily
• necessarily from any individuals that could be but soulmaking certainly over time involves
• um in other words yes tremendous beauty in the soulmaking process in the soul making dynamic but also difficulty as
• loveliness from the whole imaginal and soulmaking practices that um it may be that they're missing
• extending what ranges may need extending as as we grow in the soulmaking and again given the caveat that uh
• and so this is often the case with with soulmaking and soulmaking dynamics certainly over
• soulmaking and soulmaking dynamics certainly over time
• breaking of vessels as part of the soulmaking dynamic sometimes now here's what i want to add to this
• just outlined where that's dependent on in this case the soulmaking dynamic the dependency often runs both ways so when
• you see a dependency one way ah dependent on the soulmaking dynamic getting going there's can be sometimes
• soul concerns the soul is stretched the soul is stretched by soulmaking yeah so this organ of soul that we
• can't remember um giving talks on on soulmaking and the imaginal and
• from some people in relation to the soulmaking teachings and imaginal teachings
• dependent origination between a soul stretch and soulmaking as part of what's going on in the soul
• uh in in life stretch the soul in life and there's a soulmaking that happens through that but very probably with
• part of that process um of soulmaking whether soulmaking over time there will be a stretch so
• or supporting images become imaginal and soulmaking the three categories there wrapped up in those three we can also
• the emotions and in so doing it doesn't become uh soulmaking that's just a pacification it doesn't become imaginal
• stays difficult we've talked about this when we talk about dukka and soulmaking stays grief or it stays whatever it is
• their skillful fabrication in this this soulful fabrication soulmaking fabrication of self
• the elements that might be involved in uh a more potentially soulmaking relationship with emotions in this range
• emotion in uh imaginal practice soulmaking dharma on the other hand so these kinds
• where engaging in order for the soulmaking dynamic to to include the emotion
• um being moved being touched that is an element of soulmaking as we said before it's an element of the breaking the
• it's an element of the breaking the vessels of the soulmaking dynamic um
• um or or create something more helpful more beautiful more soulmaking there with regard to the emotion and therefore
• unconsciously that we're not aware of that can actually limit the soulmaking process so this is really good to shine
• possibilities that may be really rich and really soulmaking are are not not possible
• something water skin the waters of soul can start to flow and etc of soulmaking can start to flow and images can uh
• nonlinearity and non-formulaic nature necessarily of i feel of soulmaking work sensing the soul imaginal practice
• um so especially when we were talking about the uh soulmaking and those talks and that catherine and i talked about
• of of the imaginal and the soulmaking um
• consider you know where is the dynamic we say where's the soulmaking out where's the immedially soulful element
• um put into dynamic motion the whole soulmaking imaginal process so then things could move and the whole

Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 6) - (The Mirrored Gates) 52 mentions

• so this way of soulmaking this way of sensing with soul
• intention have to be um for the love of soulmaking and the fullness of soulmaking
• um for the love of soulmaking and the fullness of soulmaking when are we pointed out before that very
• delivers to us the authentically imaginal sensing of soul soulmaking here we're asking does does the fullness
• but my intent the fullness and intention that it's for the love of soulmaking the whole of soulmaking
• that it's for the love of soulmaking the whole of soulmaking and that that soulmaking is more than
• the whole of soulmaking and that that soulmaking is more than just my personal psycho spiritual
• and so the soul is more than my i'm conceiving soulmakings more than my psycho spiritual process and i'm also
• you like of seoul as more than just here in soulmaking it's not just um my soul which is here that gets made
• in the object is also soul so soul making means soulmaking everywhere and in all the time all the aspects of
• and in all the time all the aspects of soulmaking the hero psychologos all of that
• galvanized and dependent enriched and the soulmaking and also to that degree is their release of dukkha
• profound sense um that is soulmaking fruitful when that tragic situation or event or thing
• uh which we quickly get into a kind of unhelpful and non-cell soulmaking relationship with so then we're just
• somehow given to us by soul or in the process of soulmaking so that this image and then everything
• we went through with that is given to us as as part of the soulmaking as as for the sake of and as part of the
• as as for the sake of and as part of the soulmaking so our our history even the painful
• all of that um is somehow part of the soulmaking process and given to us as potential by
• if they prove helpful if they prove soul making or when they prove soulmaking rather than a fixed dogma this is how
• gives us the beautiful and the difficult and at the same time the soulmaking needs my ascent
• the soul gives us what it wants for our soulmaking and at the same time it needs my ascent my will my soulmaking
• soulmaking and at the same time it needs my ascent my will my soulmaking orientation my soulmaking intention my
• needs my ascent my will my soulmaking orientation my soulmaking intention my soulmaking tuning in my participation
• orientation my soulmaking intention my soulmaking tuning in my participation is required
• eros the twoness that's part of soulmaking perception imagine perception sensing the soul not just the
• my autonomy is necessary because i need or the soulmaking needs my autonomy i need to harness my will orient in a
• certain way adopt a certain attitude work towards the soulmaking and there's the grace of what is given to me
• um soulmaking is not possible or or or it's limited the extent and depth and range
• of the stretching that's part of the soulmaking dynamic and the euro psyche logos getting stretched as part of their
• sometimes that stretch is if we don't feel stretched and soulmaking is not happening sometimes being stretched is
• included with soul and out of that can come as part of that then soulmaking unfolding a sense of perfection
• uh the the opening up uh of the soulmaking and to draw one element out of uh what i
• situation what what helps is it soulmaking does it hear and liberate and relieved again in what ways
• or or handing me as as clues for where the soulmaking is but one possibility possible if we call
• it a way of looking um is that in the soulmaking in the sensing the soul of all of that took a
• or the most perhaps the most important thing in soulmaking is the sacralizing making sacred the rendering sacred the
• dimension if you like of the scent of gift of the soulmaking perception of gift of life
• is given to us but it still needs my ascent my will my soulmaking orientation tuning and intention my
• um oh just accept and that's that's the final uh delivery of a soulmaking practice or sensing the soul of sam
• whole question about um acceptance and does so do soulmaking practices to imaginable practice issue
• be seen as part of um as i said the the soulmaking of god god's soulmaking process the the divine
• um as i said the the soulmaking of god god's soulmaking process the the divine or a divinity soulmaking process or the
• god's soulmaking process the the divine or a divinity soulmaking process or the buddha nature's soulmaking
• or a divinity soulmaking process or the buddha nature's soulmaking so we'll always talk about
• difficulty so that in in the pervasion and the expansion of the soulmaking that too is perceived as sacred
• saying is um soulmaking in general and soulmaking
• soulmaking in general and soulmaking with respect or in in relationship to
• sometimes that's the case but oftentimes soulmaking and the soul making response or the soul's response
• discovered here and an image an imaginal image that is soulmaking can this be sensed with soul
• as we said that discovery of creation of an image that is soulmaking in relation to or in the the
• dynamic quality based on everything we say in soulmaking dynamic quality that's possible in the in the last
• relationship to become fully imagined or fully soulmaking in the way that we've been outlining