Transformers

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Jacquelyn Small's book, Transformers, The Artists of Self-Creation, is at the heart of Eupsychia's work.

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* SPIRITUAL EMERGENCY OR THE STORMY SEARCH FOR THE SELF, by Stanislav and Christina Grof, is one example.

The distinguishing characteristic of Transformers is their deemphasis of personality. The demote it to their role of a mere instrument for the more important, synthesizing aspect of our nature we call essence, or the true Self. Transformers who are therapists are the alchemists of addiction or neuroses of all kinds, possessing an intuitive understanding of how to transmute the energy constricted in a negative habit pattern into its true nature, the pure, refined quality of the soul, "changing lead into gold."

We don't have to be therapists to be Transformers, though. We can all effect alchemical change on ourselves and on others as parents, teachers, colleagues, people in recovery and as people on journeys of discovering the true Self.

Transformers, working from the highest levels of consciousness, teach us to be less identified with the personality, our little, temporal, fragmented "selves with many faces," and more centered in the awareness of this essence, our soul, moving from ego-dominance to essence-dominance. In the future, with the aid of Transformers, we will search out ways to recognize our soul's purpose, which will flood our life with meaning. We will find a language ith which to describe the soul. And eventually, we will operationally define the soul We will learn the techniques for aligning our "instrument", the personality, with our soul's purpose, so that we no longer experience an uncomfortable split between who we are and what we are doing, that familiar feeling of being "off the mark." This work of alignment is the process of Self-creation. [excerpt fromTRANSFORMERS, pg. 21]

Transformers work with what is about us, not what ought to be by someone else's standards. And by their positive acceptance of us, their total endorsement of our being, they serve as catalysts for lifting us to our highest , most integrated level. They work from above, downware. From the perspective of perfection, they weed out the imperfection, focusing on clearing the way for more and more of the authentic masterpiece to shine through.

Transformers look right through themselves and others, with gentle humor, and ask disconcerting questions before which facades and falsehoods crumble, questions like, "Who are you?" "What are you doing here?" "Where did you come from?" and "Where are you going?" They love themselves and others freely, but are not attached to any one perosn;s current melodrama. And above all, a fire or magnetism emanates from them, giving off a solid sense of their spiritual certainty.

When you are in the presence of a Transformer, you sense that person is who we all can be: rooted in the neverchanging, learning about life from direct perception of truth rather than from others' dogma, fearing nothing and evading no responsibility he or she rightfully owns.

Transformers are tangible proof of the intangible operating in and on the world. They give us a perspective that adds dignity to our human strivings.

And they are with us now! They are growing in number, like a quiet conspiracy steadily working toward humanity's reawakening. We have been hypnotized too long, losing touch with ourselves, getting caught up in our conditions, as though these conditions are who we are. Transformers are here to remind us of our essence, the Self we were intended to be before we lost our way. [excerpt fromTRANSFORMERS, pg. 26]

Tranformers know there is nothing new under the sun, that all truth must be rediscovered individually, as the quest that gives each of our lives meaning. We know that we don't have to evolve, but if we do choose growth, no one else can do it for us; we are Self-evolving organisms. [excerpt fromTRANSFORMERS, pg. 14]

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