Soul-Making: Co-Creating Personal and Collective Safety with Psyche’s Creative Power

The article discusses the concept that we can engage Psyche’s creative power and devotional heart and make soul during dark and scary times. It provides a real-life example and empowers soul emergence. Please take time to read it and share experiences you have with Psyche’s creative power and devotional heart in the comments section.

There is only one human Psyche—all of us. Psyche is the totality of the human soul, mind, and spirit, conscious and unconscious.

We can co-create safe or destructive inner and outer environments with Psyche’s creative Spirit. Are we grasping what it means that we can engage creative power to divide or to unify Psyche?

When we co-create “others” we blame or shame, we use Psyche’s creative power to divide us.

When we co-create personal and collective safety and devotional spaces for Psyche’s soul to emerge and grow roots on earth through us, we engage Psyche’s creative power to unify our human soul, mind and spirit, conscious and unconscious.

The better angels in us, our devotional hearts, can engage Psyche’s creative power and inspire other people’s devotional hearts to be the medicine our world needs for people’s true nature and the soul of our couples, families, communities to safely emerge and grow roots on earth through all of you.

Our devotional hearts are the medicine we need in dark times, however, bad actors in our inner and outer environments are still using Psyche’s creative power destructively, keeping us from soul realization.

Can we become aware how we keep ourselves from soul realization?

We are engaging Psyche’s creative power destructively when, instead of being better angels, we play roles. “Better people” who are rescuing some and fighting against others. “Smarter people” who are using and controlling others. “Critical Observers” who’ll keep their distance. “Disengaged Bystanders” who don’t really believe in or care about co-creating personal and collective safety.

We don’t need to be engaged in destructive soul theatre plays and play rescuer, victim, villain, bystander. We don’t need to control, defend against, fight against, seek shelter from, feel victimized by and, sometimes, lose our minds, because we fear natural disasters, medical and mental health emergencies and bad actors in our inner and outer environments who use creative power destructively.

We can practice Soulful Relating instead. We can meet our inner and our environments with respect for nature’s soul and the soul of humanity—our devotional hearts—the part of nature’s soul that can make THE difference when disaster strikes and chaos ensues.

Otto Scharmer, PhD, highlights two stories we can be told and tell ourselves in a Sounds True interview. We can think and talk about destruction and death or we can think and talk about rebirth and the emergence and unfolding of soul and soul life on earth.

Here’s where we need to ask ourselves: Are we predominantly engaging creative power destructively, or are we participating in “making soul” by noticing and engaging soul’s creative Spirit and devotional heart in daily life?

Yes, we can engage Psyche’s destructive power and participate in creating and fighting enemies who will then use the same destructive power to fight and destroy us. Without knowing it, parts of self are involved in this dark soul-theatre play. When we play rescuers, villains, victims and bystanders even in some areas of our life, we are unconsciously (if not consciously) serving the indiscriminate destruction and death on all sides.

We can stop playing roles and instead enter conscious relationship with Psyche’s creative Spirit and devotional heart at any moment. We can co-create with Spirit and “make soul” in places where our inner and outer environments feel out of control and destructive. We can also die rescuers, victims, villains and bystanders.

Therese Mary DesCamp, a contemplative sister i’ve been sitting with in a Tuesday morning Contemplative Circle, is experiencing the New Denver wildfires live and somehow managing to engage soul’s devotional heart in the midst of facing the deep grief, anxiety and uncertainty nature’s destructive power triggered in her and her community.

The Village of Slocan, about 30 kilometers south of New Denver, received an evacuation order along with hundreds of surrounding properties as the wildfires threatened to burn everything down… and Therese was able to stay grounded in love and the desire to stay loving without tuning out the fear, confusion, heartbreaking devastation, and powerlessness she and many others were experiencing.

What Therese shared in Tuesday’s Circle and in a recent fire update, illustrates that she is engaging soul’s devotional heart and “making soul” in a place where nature’s power feels destructive and unstoppable. In the midst of devastation and uncertainty, she is reaching for the arms of her “Beloved” to feel that “all is held in… Infinite Love.” She remembers “bare rock, the fallen trees, the ashy ground… and fireweed” in the fire update (she agreed i could share here):

“I don’t know what we are witnessing here, in our environment. I remind myself that witnessing isn’t about the future, but the present. So I try not to worry about what’s next. … And as I witness, to lay back in the arms of the Beloved and trust. Trust doesn’t mean that I expect all will get fixed the way I’d like it, but that all is held in the Infinite Love. Regardless of what the future holds. On the day that the park caught fire, two friends, both wilderness hikers, were horror-struck as they watched, overwhelmed by the probable loss of the back country places they loved. It hit me that we need to learn to love not just the green glade, but the bare rock, the fallen trees, the ashy ground. These too need respect and an open heart (as do the crazy neighbors, the competitive do-gooder, and our overwhelmed selves). I am holding onto the fact that it is in the ashy ground that fireweed grows—beautiful, edible, and assembler of nutrients for the trees that will come in a few years. Fireweed is also the most delicate honey I have ever tasted, which seems fitting. Fireweed is the beauty that arises because of destruction; and yep, that is what is happening here.”

By remembering Infinite Love, Therese is creating a devotional environment, making it feel safer for herself and likely for others in her community to stay connected and present with each other’s fear, grief and, i imagine, powerless rage.

Many of us are overwhelmed with personal and collective grief and rage. We need to gather in community…form Deep Listening and Soul Making Circles…process wounds….feel our collective grief and rage…feel everything in the presence of Deep Listening… engage the creative Spirit of the moment and have fun…celebrate the power of creativity and our soul’s devotional heart.

If you are interested in attending a Soul-Making or Deep Listening Circle, please contact me.