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3.1 PERSONAL, YET UNIVERSAL
The Soularium recognizes both the personal (individual) and the universal (collective). Each has its role in our world. The personal journey for individualization and attainment of self-actualization is part of the overall evolvement of our grand universe. The Soularium affrms the human heart, the glory of the human soul, human dignity, the empowerment of the individual, and the importance of fnding inward completion, your bliss.
“If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.”
- Joseph Campbell, American Mythologist
The Solarium is designed to transcend the physical and mental realms—to provide meaning, engagement, and transformation for the individual soul and therefore ultimately the collective. H.P. Blavatsky wrote, “no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting the whole body of which he is an integral part. Similarly, no one can sin nor suffer its effects alone. There is no such thing as separateness” (Blavatsky 203).
The underlying concept of the Soularium is understanding that we are all connected, that the only thing that separates us from each other is the duality of the ego-mind which negates the basic principle that “We are all one.”
“When we begin to loosen up those barriers and understand that we're all connected, there's a new level of understanding - there's a new poignancy of feeling because we start to actually have an ability to love ourselves and others from a much deeper place.”
- Aaron Doughty
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