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“The soul is:
o At the center of human consciousness
o The drive to create and preserve life
o The awareness of oneself
o Our intellectual power–that which thinks, reasons, and understands
o Gives us our ethical sensibilities
o Our will, our individual volition
o Our aesthetic sensibility
o The part of us that loves and seeks intimacy
o The seat of the imagination
o The great cry of I AM awakened in the individual, and finally
o The soul contains what depth psychologists call the shadow. The contents of the shadow
are those aspects of us judged unacceptable by society, religion, and ourselves. We
cannot get rid of these aspects, so instead, we carry them with us below our conscious
awareness, often on an instinctual level.
o Every function of the soul has a shadow.”
Edward Tick, Ph.D.
War, and the Soul
