The Latent Potential of the Soul and the Actual Implementation of the Psychic Being

0:00 An individual walks into a train station without a particular destination in mind. He is confronted with dozens, if not hundreds of possible destinations. He is surrounded by the latent potential to take a particular direction. Each possible destination holds opportunities and further decision points for him which he cannot yet see or comprehend. Once he makes his choice and boards a particular train, all of the unknown possibilities that existed in those other directions collapse and he is now following a particular line of development come what may.

0:45 Every day we are confronted by choices, opportunities, and decisions. Depending on those choices, our lives develop and we create before us the chain of cause and effect which leads us forward on the chosen path. In the field of quantum mechanics, there is a particular thought experiment that helps us frame our understanding of the latent versus the actual. A theoretical physicist Schrodinger proposed that there is a cat in a box. We cannot observe the status of the cat. There is also a vial that if broken, will release a deadly poison gas and kill the cat. Until such time as we actually open the box and observe the actual status of the cat, we have to treat the cat as being in two potential states at the same time, alive and dead. This represents the potentiality, whereas the observation upon opening of the box collapses one of these two options and we recognize the one that was turned into an actuality.

2:00 Another experiment has light passing through 2 slits in a screen. As long as it is unobserved, the light passes through both of these slits, but once observed and measured, it creates a specific resulting pattern. The potential result of the unobserved phenomenon becomes an actual result through the process of observation. The relationship between the latent potentiality and the actual reality is represented in the soul and the psychic being as well. The soul, as a divine element within each being, contains the potentiality of the entire divine intention through its expression of the psychic being.

2:47 Particular directions are chosen for each lifetime to carry out a specific line of that divine intention in a particular individual incarnation. The psychic being games the essence of the experience of the mind, life and body, and over time it works to increase its direct influence over these parts to ensure they are carrying out the divine will in an ever clearer and more direct manner. It does so generally unobtrusively and allows the external parts to grow and exercise their native powers and directions until they are ready on their own to accept the deeper aspiration and guidance that the psychic being embodies.

3:35 Srioro Bindo writes quote The psychic has two aspects. There is the sole principle itself, which contains all soul possibilities, and there is the psychic personality, which represents whatever soul power is developed from life to life or put forward for action in our present life formation. The psychic being usually expresses itself through its instruments, mental, vital and physical. It tries to put as much of its stamp on them as possible, but it can seldom put on them the full psychic stamp unless it comes fully out from its rather secluded and overshadowed position, and takes into its hands the direct government of the nature. It can then receive and express all spiritual realization in its own way and manner.

4:30 For the turn of the psychic is different from that of the overhead planes. It has less of greatness, power, wideness, more of a smaller sweetness, delicate beauty. There is an intense beauty of emotion, a fine subtlety of true perception and intimate language. The expression sweetness and light can very well be applied to the psychic as the kernel of its nature. The spiritual plane, when it takes up these things, gives them a wider utterance, a greater splendor of light, a stronger sweetness, a breath of powerful audacity, strength and space. End Quote.

5:15 Reference Shrioro Window and the Mother. The psychic being, Soul, its nature, mission and evolution. Section 1. Meaning and Nature of the Psychic Being, pages 37 to 38.