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“THE SOUL:

Is at the center of human consciousness

Is the drive to create and preserve life

Is the awareness of oneself

Is our intellectual power–that which thinks, reasons, and
understands

Gives us our ethical sensibilities

Is our will, our individual volition

Is our aesthetic sensibility

Is the part of us that loves and seeks intimacy

Is the seat of the imagination

Is the great cry of I AM awakened in the individual, and finally

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.

Every function of the soul has a shadow.”

Edward Tick, Ph.D.
War and the Soul