The Rays and Esoteric Psychology

Zachary Lansdowne, author of The Chakras and Esoteric Healing, provides a study of esoteric psychology and how it can be used as a tool for growth and exploration of the soul. Modern clinical psychology is somewhat limited in that it tends to focus on what's abnormal. Here's a positive approach that provides a means of integrating the soul, the body, the personality and the spirit. In esoteric psychology, the soul has a particular quality of energy, known as a "ray." There are seven different rays and each human being is expressive of one or another of these rays. The soul's ray affects our strengths and weaknesses, how we relate to others, and the path we take in life. In order to evolve along the spiritual path, it is necessary to understand the soul's ray and to integrate the four phases of the spiritual path. Drawings from Alice A. Bailey's work with the seven rays, the author devotes a chapter to discovering the characteristics of each ray. Because, as Bailey herself pointed out, her techniques of integration were "couched in symbolic language," Landsdowne focuses his book on interpreting and explaining Bailey's "Techniques of Integration" for each ray, so that the end result is an easy-to-understand guidebook to self-observation, subjective guidance, character building, emotional purification, meditation and service. Here at last is a book for modern readers who want to integrate the energy rays of the personality of the soul. --- from book's back cover