As the twentieth century comes to a close, we human beings find ourselves moving through a significant time of transition. The call grows stronger every day to let go of our old, limited patterns of thinking and behaving so that we can embrace the new, more harmonious ways of living in the world. We are being urged from within to die to the past and be resurrected.

-- Yogi Amrit Desai

The Blending of Our Human/Spiritual Natures: Humanity's Evolutionary Task at the Closing of an Age
You are being called now to come into your highest expression--to rise fully into "the light of your own soul" and to stand for what you know as Truth. Your time of completion is here! If this is your truth, you will resonate with this message. If not, then that's okay, too. You will, however, hear others in-your life speaking of this "call." Perhaps this book help you relate to them. NOW, if this is your truth, the knowledge you require is going to come quite rapidly as you learn to look within: One small moment of accessing this numinous inner wholeness brings you back in touch with your soul's original purpose for incarnation, reminding you once more of your true life's work and spiritual significance.

Your spiritual nature is a psychological fact. It is the real and transformative force that empowers your life. To deny this core nature of yours is to deny your very Self.

A process of "psychospiritual integration" begins to occur naturally when the ego and soul turn to focus upon one another. When this happens, we've landed at the gateway of the heart. A cry goes out from the hungry and fretful ego, having gone to the edge of its own power. It reaches up toward spirit, and a response is heard from the soul, from the subjective world of the vast collective unconsciousness, in touch with the Greater Story. The soul descends to meet its concretized counterpart with a feeling of compassion and love. As we open our hearts in a willing and accepting attitude, our process of purification begins.

So at first, all hell breaks loose! For as we've already seen through our bare beginnings here, the two aspects of our nature are opposite from one another and complement each other: feminine/masculine, earthy/airy, dark/light, personal/ transpersonal, dense/transparent, intense/light-hearted-- in form as in spirit. Obviously, there would be great upheaval at first, as the two consciously enter one body. Many people, in fact, never even make it to this point of their process of individuation, that of becoming an effective psychospiritual human in the world, an undivided "in-dividual."

When you first invoke a spiritual quality, you can learn to be specific concerning the particular "brand" that will best balance your personality. Then, I must warn you: You'll attract to yourself the tests that will best train you for this new skill! Your body/ego will undergo whatever purification it must to become similar to the ideal you've demanded. You'll probably be put through an ordeal of experiencing its opposite at first. Therefore, it can feel worse instead of better at the start. For example, if "patience" is what you name as balancing an overly active impetuous nature, you'll be showered with opportunities that try your patience to the hilt while your impetuousness is refined.

The soul's main task is to aid humanity in dissolving dualism, helping it learn to live within the tension of the complementary opposites within its own nature.