Part III mentioned that Good Soil is needed in order for the Seed to germinate and grow. One starts with what one already has: personal moral principles and understandings, together with some knowledge of the system.

This is a start, but it is all mixed up with bad habits, laziness, useless reactions, misunderstandings and basically, lies that one tells oneself about oneself (for example, being a good person, always wanting the best for others, or alternatively, always standing up for one’s rights, being a ‘hard’ person to beat in an argument, and so on).

Something to understand about human psychology: One can never get rid of anything that is already in one’s psychology. It remains. This is not like a computer, where if the database is corrupted, just copy it into an empty container, throwing away all the bad parts that one finds.

No, everything that enters one’s being, bad or good memories, past mistakes, stupid decisions, beautiful events, this all remains. This is what one has to create “good soil” in, willy nilly.

The system has a name for all these things that are wrong. Lumped together, they form what is called False Personality. False personality does not wish to awaken, is lazy, only wants to impress or control others, or at least hold their attention, and has a selfish motive for everything. But we are not going to talk about false personality here.  That is for another article.

It turns out that the system has a clever way to create something higher that does not actually exist yet.  In fact it is genius.

What the system does, if one works at it, is to form a new set of memories and good actions on the same level as the old ones, using existing mechanisms. These are added to one’s psychology.  Nothing is taken away.

At the same time the system reduces the time spent in false personality. In fact, the ideal time to spend in false personality is zero. This is good, as long as it is remembered that false personality has not actually disappeared.

So now it is clear why one works against inner considering, negative emotions and so on.  One is creating new habits, new pathways in the nerves of one’s brain.  All these together form what is called True Personality.

True personality is made up of groups of I’s that are designed to Work on various (small) areas, called work-I’s. For example, one group of I’s prevent one from expressing anger at another person, by (for example) reminding one that the negativity is purely within oneself and not created externally. Another group might remind one that inner considering is useless, because the other person(s) are almost certainly not thinking about one (and more likely, inner considering someone else!).

It is true personality that makes all the efforts and this is going to take one to the next level. True personality supports efforts to remember oneself. And it is each of these efforts that creates a spark of the soul that one wishes to create.

At the same time. True personality is much more under one’s control than attempts at self-remembering.  True personality makes aims, checks them, reinforces them, and maybe adapts them, according to self observations.

One day, the sparks of self-remembering are sufficiently collected that one starts to experience spontaneous moments of this presence. Such an event is a very joyful event, but beware: it is easily extinguished by a rush of elated emotions that may come as a result. One must keep one’s aim to remain calm and observant.

For, at that point, one has the beginning of a soul.

John Stubbs is the author of “Inner Connections”, available on Amazon.