Marcus T. Anthony - Discover your soul template: 14 steps for awakening integrated intelligence

Discover Your
Soul Template

Marcus T. Anthonys new book moves with a wisdom and confidence that has the feeling of being channeled from that higher being within us so few of us ever manage to tap in to consciously.... It illuminates and demystifies the mystical. I heartily endorse this book and have no hesitation in recommending it highly.

DAVID LOYE, PH.D., SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGIST, FUTURIST, SYSTEMS THEORIST, AND AUTHOR OF DARWIN IN LOVE AND DARWINS LOST THEORY

An easy-to-read and inspiring book on transmodern spirituality... deepens our understanding of spirituality and the nature of intelligence.

SOHAIL INAYATULLAH, PROFESSOR AT TAMKANG UNIVERSITY, TAIWAN, AND THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST, AND AUTHOR OF YOUTH FUTURES AND TRANSFORMING COMMUNICATION

... very personal and contemporary examination of synchronicity as it visits our personal lives and enlivens our destinies.

ALLAN COMBS, AUTHOR OF THE RADIANCE OF BEING AND CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED BETTER

Anthony not only describes in some detail the emotional and karmic obstacles that we bring to the struggle [of liberating ourselves] but also describes many practical tools that we can use to tune in to our own and the Universes wisdom.

SIMON BUCKLAND, DIRECTOR OF CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, WALL STREET INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL

Discover Your Soul Template

14 Steps for Awakening Integrated Intelligence

Marcus T. Anthony, Ph.D.

Inner Traditions

Rochester, Vermont Toronto, Canada

For my teacher, Jessica
You know who you are

Acknowledgments

All writers know how lonely the art of prose can be at times. Fortunately, I have had some great help in bringing together the ideas you see in Discover Your Soul Template.

First, to all the spiritual teachers who have helped me over the years, I give a big thanks. I have had the good fortune to learn from some of the best. My good friend Simon Buckland read the whole manuscript, and gave tremendous support and encouragement to me. His guidance has been invaluable. Thanks too, to David Loye, for being an ongoing supporter, and for believing in what I do. A big thank you to Marisa Cohen, Steve Sims, and Nina Wegner for helping with the editing of the book at difference stages of its production.

This book is about Integrated Intelligence, and I cannot possibly conclude without thanking Spirit and the universe itself, for without their input, this book would never have been written. I have been constantly inspired and guided at every step of the journey, and I feel deeply blessed.

Contents

Foreword

Ervin Laszlo, Ph.D.

Marcus T. Anthony writes that we live in a crucial time in human history, one where we stand at the edge of possible catastrophe. I can only concur. In thermodynamics there is a concept known as a bifurcation point, where a linear process breaks down and becomes nonlinear. This is true for both human and natural systems. Up to a certain point a system may run smoothly, but then it reaches a crucial stage. Many different outcomes are then possible, but change is inevitable. The system can completely break down. However, the system can continue in a new form. The process is inherently chaotic, not predictable, and a period of rapid change occurs. It is in this critical period that the future unfolds.

If we view the early twenty-first century as a bifurcation point, then we have to admit the absolute importance of our choices. Human beings are living beings with the possibility of conscious choice. Yet to choose consciously means to be informed; and to be informed requires access to information. In Discover Your Soul Template, Marcus T. Anthony shows us that we have at our disposal a potentially infinite source of information, and that we can apply that data through our innate Integrated Intelligence.

In my own writings I have talked about how nations, organizations, and groups can help bring about a WorldShift, a global breakthrough, which permits a more sustainable development of the planet we live on. Discover Your Soul Template is perfectly compatible with the idea of sustainable futures. Its author comes from a slightly different angle than I do, however. He writes from personal experience, telling of the way that each of us can consciously tap in to the greater intelligence of the cosmos, and create lives of bliss.

Most importantly from my perspective, is that his understanding of bliss entails a broader dimension than the mere needs of the individual. In chapter two of this book he refers to a human oversoul template, a body of data that encodes the required lessons of the human species. As he puts it, the idea of love lies at the heart of human choice, human consciousness, and human evolution. As David Loye has pointed out in his many books on Charles Darwins lost theory of love, even the greatest evolutionary theorist of them all understood this well. Somehow mainstream science has forgotten such a vital understanding.

Even the most skeptical of us must admit that at times he feels somehow connected to others, the world, perhaps even the cosmos. This sense of connectedness is something that transcends culture and ideology.

More often than not, it features an integral part of the worldview of societies both past and present. Indigenous societies have always lived with this awareness of mundane and subtle connection, and their lives are typically lived within a world that features a transpersonal connection with the land, the biosphere, and to the spirit world, including their ancestors. The ancient Greeks and their deep thinkers such as Socrates, Plato, and even Aristotlefar from being the adamant logicians they are sometimes erroneously depicted to be by some modern scholarsbelieved that mind and cosmos are intimately intertwined.

Further, the monotheistic religions have strong mystical traditions (though they have typically been suppressed because their direct connection to the divine often threatened the power hierarchies within their institutions). Despite the increasing societal influence and power of the detached scientist, in recent centuries the Romantics and the modern alternative spirituality movement have continued to burn this spiritual flame.

In my own research and publications, I have constantly referred to the connection between mind and cosmos by its ancient Hindu terminology: the Akashic Field. This subtle body of all-knowing information is what connects the individual with collective, lower with higher knowledge, and the mundane with the divine. Such statements are not mere philosophy, but increasingly vindicated by science.