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This is a chapter from Marcus T. Anthony’s book The 60


Second Sage, which is available at www.mindfutures.com
, or email Marcus at mindfutures@yahoo.com .
Chapter Two
The Soul Template
And what it means for your journey
The secret, they say in the New Age, is that you can
have whatever you want, be whatever you want, if you
just believe it enough. What they don't usually tell you is
that each human being has a Soul Template which has
very specific needs.
For the soul, any old goal will not do. It has to be
something which is aligned with your aptitudes, and your
unique spiritual “issues”. What’s more, the big picture is
that you are part of a greater context - the evolution of
There is no humanity and cosmos. You need to work within a
destiny, but framework which is not just about freedom, but about
there is a responsibility to the greater dynamic within which your
general life plan. ego exists.
Your goals need In this chapter you are going to learn about the Soul
to be aligned Template and how to identify its nature. And you are going
with your soul’s
to learn about that cosmic context.
unique aptitudes
and spiritual
As I will explain in more detail in Chapter 6, your calling
issues; and they is a not a job. It is a creative expression which meets the
need to be in deep needs of your soul. And because each soul is
accordance with different, that calling varies from person to person. There
the greater is no destiny, and no life plan in any more than a general
sense.
Imagine being on a ship in rough seas. You can’t see
much but the blackness of midnight. Suddenly the captain
tells you to get out and start swimming for Jamaica, ‘cos
the weather’s nice there. You ask him where Jamaica is,
and how far. He says, “I’m the one who asks questions
around here, now get moving!” He gives you a good kick
in the butt and overboard you go.
So there you are sucking in water in the dark in the
middle of the ocean, clueless about where you are, and
swimming round and round in circles, getting real tired.
You start thinking all is lost, and begin fiddling round in
your trousers, because that’s what an awful lot of people
do when they have too much time on their hands. That’s
when you find that the captain has kindly strapped a little
guidance device round your waist, which responds to your
input. It’s a bit hard to work out at first, but because your
life depends on it, you soon get the hang of it. You tap in
the coordinates, and it gives you information about
direction and weather conditions - although at times they
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seem a little annoyingly cryptic. Before you know it you


are making good speed towards the Caribbean.
Your Soul Life is a bit like that. You arrive clueless and have to
Template is the start swimming real quick. The guidance device is
body of integrated intelligence. It’s time to stop fiddling around in
information your trousers and start using it.
encoded at the
core of your
being, including
its essential The Soul Template
energy patterns. Your Soul Template is the body of information encoded
It includes Soul
at the core of your soul, including its essential energy
Issues, the
Karmic Record patterns. The Soul Template consists of three aspects.
and Soul Soul Issues. These are belief structures, ingrained
patterns of behavior and attitudes which you tend to carry
with you from life to life. They emerge from the biography
of all the lives you have lived.
Karmic Record. This is the record of your past lives,
and the actions you have taken in them. In particular it
relates to relationships with other souls. You will tend to
incarnate with the same souls you have developed your
Soul Issues with. Therefore karma is directly related to
your Soul Issues.
Soul Aptitudes. These are the key physical, mental
and creative abilities you are capable of expressing. To
some degree they may change from lifetime to lifetime,
but will tend to remain fixed around a core theme – such
as music, writing, physical expression and so forth. It is
possible that they may change radically, if that is deemed
necessary to achieve your soul purpose: to heal and grow
in your capacity to create and love.
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Figure 2.1: Your vision in the context of cosmic


evolution

As Figure 1.2 indicates, beyond the Soul Template there


is Group OverSoul Template and the Human OverSoul
Template. These consist of the psychological and spiritual
issues contained within collective energies of your soul
group, and of humanity itself.
Each of us has a soul group, which consists of several
hundred souls. These souls have long-standing
relationships with each other, and tend to share a lot of
karma. When you meet someone from your soul group,
you will automatically be attracted to them if you are
attuned to your intuition. This is Integrated Recognition,
one of the core mental functions of INI. When Paul Potts,
the winner of Britain’s Got Talent, first saw his wife-to-be
in a crowded restaurant (it was an internet date), he knew
who she was straight away, even though he had never
seen a photo of her. There was a soul connection.
In general terms, the primary issue of Human Oversoul
Template can be summed up in one word: love. The
movement of all souls and soul groups is towards the
integration of the alienated mind, and in particular the
shadow. This is non-integrated consciousness, centered in
judgment, fear, blame and anger. The collective Karmic
Issue is a tendency to cut ourselves off from the light, and
then to go into fear, control, and separation. From this
come the innumerable expressions of the abuse of power
which define so much of human history. Dark energy (low-
density consciousness fields) attempts to keep us in
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ignorance of the soul and its purpose. It holds us back


from the light of Spirit.

Figure 2.2: The prime issues of the Human


Oversoul Template

The Prime Issues of the Human Overoul


It is helpful to understand what the Prime Issues of the
Human Oversoul are, because it will help you to
understand the big picture in which you are embedded.
Once you begin to get a sense of your Soul Template,
and honor it, you will unavoidably assist in the
transformation of the human race. This is because your
Soul Template is contained within the Human Oversoul
consciousness field.
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Being told you can manifest a Ferrari by imagining it


hard enough doesn’t tell you much about the evolution of
humanity. Certain New Age, spiritual and religious
philosophies do not address these aspects of living your
Bliss. The spiritual journey is not simply about what you
as a personality (ego) wants, nor how you can get it fast
and at a bargain price. It is about being part of a greater
purpose. Once you understand the Soul Template and the
Human Oversoul, then you can begin to create the
specific life you want with full integrity. Living you Bliss is
so much easier when you know who you really are, who
Begin by we really are.
listening to Spirit First ,know thyself.
and developing a Many people go about life the opposite way. They step
basic off onto life’s journey and wait for life to show them who
understanding ofthey are, while all the time trying to impose the ego’s
your Soul view of things on circumstances. Besides being more
Template. Then
honoring to yourself and our species, it is more efficient
you can step off
on the right foot,
to begin by listening to Spirit and developing a basic
and avoid a lot ofunderstanding of your Soul Template. Then you can step
wasted time off on the right foot, and avoid an awful lot of wasted
trying to figure time trying to figure out who you are and where you are
out who you are going. Because you will be listening to your Sage,

In Practice. Listening to Spirit First


The Sage begins by listening, not by demanding. The
following exercise will particularly benefit those who are just
beginning to work through the ideas in this book, and wanting
to get a greater sense of their inner world and INI. Each
morning make time for a short meditation of five minutes. For
the first four minutes or so (there is no need to make it
mathematically precise) relax, focusing upon your breath and
allowing yourself to let go. In this space you are releasing the
ego and its desires, for these create a tension within the
mind which feeds the ego and shuts off the voice of the Sage.
Use some short affirmations, and release whatever wants and
expectations that have been clouding your mind. Affirm, “I
now release my desire for (goal/expectation)”,; and “I
surrender to the will of Spirit”. At the end of the four minutes
make a single minute of time for listening to Spirit. Simply
allow your mind to become quiet, and pay attention. You can
use a small affirmation or prayer such as “I allow this moment
for the voice of Spirit”. Note any words, feelings or images
that come to mind during that time, and simply allow them to
be, without judgment or attachment. If you receive no
intuition, then give thanks, for a silent mind is a great gift in
life will teach you infinitely more, and your capacity for
wisdom will be so much greater. Your actions will be
aligned with Spirit, not with your inner tosser. In short,
you will be able to live your Bliss much more easily.
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The existence of the Soul Template brings to attention


something crucial. If you get nothing else from this book,
please get this. If you choose goals which are non-aligned
with your Soul Template, you will become spiritually
disorientated. This will set up an internal conflict as the
ego struggles to enforce its will, while the inner Sage is
telling you to go another way.
If you choose Secondly, a person with internal contradiction is
goals which are unlikely to put out the positive creative energy which will
non-aligned withsustain the path to those goals. Internal contradiction is
your Soul inevitable if you do not acknowledge your Soul Aptitudes,
Template, you nor address your Soul Issues.
will set up an You can get away with not having first-hand knowledge
internal conflict of your karmic record because karma is directly related to
between your your Soul Issues: your Soul Issues tend to emerge from
ego and Spirit.
the karma of past lives. They are mostly a result of
recurring bad habits. In the greater scheme of things,
Spirit is more concerned with addressing Soul Issues than
getting even for karmic impropriety. For the main purpose
of karma is merely for you to learn as a soul, not for Big
Daddy in the Sky to punish you for your misdeeds.
The upshot is this. No matter how positive and
determined you are at a conscious level as you try to live
your Dream; no matter how many “manifestation”
visualizations you do, or how much “love ‘n light” you put
out into the universe, if you are unaware of your Soul
Template your deep mind may contradict your conscious
intention. The affirmative action you take and the “good
vibes” you put out at a conscious level will be negated by
the chaos within your psyche. You have to work with your
inner world at a deep level even as you create your Bliss.

Soul Issues
Soul Issues reflect Karmic Issues. They are the habits of
the soul. Inevitably they centre upon the appropriate
expression of power, because this is a prime theme of the
Human Oversoul. When the soul is balanced, and the
Sage has come to the fore of the personality, power is
expressed in ways which enhance the development of self
and humanity. The individual learns to align its personal
intention with the higher self and cosmic intention. The
need to go into power and control over others and life
situations is greatly reduced.
There are three common positions which people tend to
take when they feel disempowered, and I call this
archetypal situation the Karmic Triangle. These positions
are the victim, rescuer, and the persecutor. Although it
may not appear so at first glance, all are attempts at
gaining power and control, albeit misguided attempts. The
victim feels powerless to direct his life, or is too frightened
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to act, so gains a sense of control by ensuring he gets a


regular supply of Nazi boots to the face, just to make him
feel at home. He then proceeds to weep (attention
seeking as a substitute for love), or just moans and
groans a lot. He gets a great deal of satisfaction out of
knowing that he has been done wrong, and that it is not
his fault.
The rescuer is happy to join in this game. She also feels
lost and out of control, can’t deal with her own stuff, or
get what she wants. Instead, she seeks to make herself
feel good by saving the world, and especially its victims.
Before you know it, she has a tribe of orphans in tow. On
the surface the rescuer looks all nice and kind, but she is
a possessor of souls. She needs to control others and
keep them down, so that she is not left alone to look at
her own stuff. If she ever ran out of a steady supply of
victims, she’d be completely lost.
The final player in the Karmic Triangle is the persecutor.
He’s the one who gets all the bad press, because he’s
dressed in a Nazi uniform with nice shiny steel-capped
boots. He’s a bully, likes nothing better than crushing
skulls, but deep down he’s a wimp. Typically, the
The key to persecutor was a victim of bullying in his childhood, and
transcending his deep anger and rage at his own powerlessness is
Soul Issues is projected out onto the world.
recognizing the We all play each role at different times, but many
patterns, people have a tendency to gravitate towards one. My Soul
healing the pain Issues resonate at about seventy per cent victim, twenty
and false beliefs per cent rescuer, and ten per cent persecutor. When I am
that lie behind confronted with difficult passages in my life, I tend to
them, and then revert back to that kind of pattern.
taking right
Soul Issues are not a life sentence. They tend to reflect
actions which
show newfound karmic habits, and can be effectively managed, and even
wisdom. broken. The Sage is aware of these patterns, and luckily
she has a little bag of tricks she can use to return to a
position of genuine power.
For you, the reader, the key INI Tools which will help
you identify and transcend Soul Issues are Connecting
with the Ego/Wounded Child/Karmic Child. The key is
recognizing the patterns, healing the pain and false
beliefs that lie behind them, then taking the correct
actions which demonstrate your newfound wisdom.
You will learn more about the Triangle of Power and
Control in Chapter 8, when we discuss relationships in
greater depth.

The Karmic Record


Your Karmic Record is the total of unresolved energies
from previous incarnations. This includes unfinished
business with other souls.
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It can be helpful to get a sense of your Karmic Record,


but it is not necessary to have a full past-life recollection
of all the stuff which has gone on before. That would just
clutter up your mind, and probably leave you with more
guilt, blame and pain than you could possibly deal with.
That is why the memory of these things is erased from our
memories at birth.
You will get a feel for your Karmic Record by paying
attention to your Soul Issues. Pay attention also to your
dreams, as these often contain narratives from past lives.
Occurrences from past lives are usually in symbolic form,
but sometimes they are literal.
Recently I had a dream which contained a symbolic
narrative of past lives. I was walking past a line of dead,
preserved bodies lying on the ground. They were dead
soldiers, and for some reason they had chosen to have
their bodies preserved in grotesque positions, with their
faces contorted and parts of their abdomens extruding, as
if releasing the fetid gases which all corpses do.
This was not a pleasant dream, but touches upon my
past life as a both soldier and warrior in different
incarnations. As a little boy of less than five years old, I
recall having horrifying dreams that army tanks and jeeps
were rolling down the road to come and take me away to
war. There was the sense of fear, horror and helplessness.
I have also had graphic actual past life dreams. In one
past-life recall, which I experienced while I was sleeping
(calling it a “dream” would be a misnomer), I found myself
lying on a hillside amidst some very green vegetation,
screaming in utter agony, having received a mortal wound
through the lower abdomen. I was dying alone and in
excruciating pain. I knew it was a war zone, and I had just
been in some kind of combat. The distinction form an
ordinary dream was the completely realistic emotional
content, experienced as if it was a real-life event.
I saw no actual details of the event, and had no idea
whether it was a bullet wound, bayonet or any other kind
Typically, the of weapon which wounded me. I did sense that it was a
people in your relatively modern war though. In the greater scheme of
present life werethings, the details are not important. What is important is
also involved in the emotional energy of the event. This is what leaves a
your past lives. lasting scar on the Soul Template, and becomes core to
We tend to play your Soul Issues.
out the Karmic The abuse of power expressed via the mass death and
Triangle, with destruction of war is one of the prime themes within the
roles as victim, Human Oversoul. The hundreds of millions of horrifying
rescuer and
war deaths, both civilian and military, throughout history
persecutor in
games of power are part of our collective energy. It is thus part of the
and control. karma of the Human Oversoul. It is something we need to
appreciate and integrate. Just as the abuse of power and
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control are the essence of our Soul Issues at a personal


level, the abuse of power and control is a core theme of
human consciousness evolution, as Figure 2.2 indicates.
Right now this theme is emerging again from the depths
of the collective. A strong fear and sense of powerless,
along with a tendency towards irresponsible expression in
blaming the other, is being triggered by the global
economic crisis.
Typically, the people whom you now live your life were
Karma plays also involved in your past lives. We tend to play out the
out not just at a Karmic Triangle, with roles as victim, rescuer and
physical level. persecutor in games of power and control.
There are We all retain a subtle sense of our past lives and their
battles for
relationships, even if we do not consciously remember
power and
control at an
them. This can create exchanges of psychic energy
energetic level between the individuals involved, and typically such
which are just asexchanges are completely unconscious (although they
crucial to the may spill over into real life “dramas”, as I shall relate in
evolution of Chapters 3 and 4).
humanity, and In one past life I raped and killed a certain relative of
mine, a woman again in this lifetime. I have not seen her
for a dozen or more years, and in fact was not aware of
this karma until about five years ago. What I have been
long aware of aware of is that her psychic energy tends to
follow me around, trying its best to castrate me, which is
quite a logical expression of revenge when you come to
think about it. My male power is a threat to her, and since
she is part of my Group Oversoul, she senses at a certain
level when I am more fully expressing my masculine
power. Unfortunately, she has been deeply hurt again in
this lifetime (she was raped at least one time that I know
of), and her Wounded Child cannot distinguish between
genuine male empowerment, and abusive male power. So
I have a real battle with her energy whenever I want to
step forward in my life. Karma thus plays out not just at a
physical level. There are battles for power and control at
an energetic level which are just as crucial to the
evolution of humanity, and your soul.
This is all quite perfect. You can see that these psychic
dramas centre upon the responsible expression of power,
and in particular of sexuality. The two often go hand in
hand. Remember, the base chakra deals with both
empowerment and sexual expression. When I got shafted
in battle in a past life, through the lower abdomen, I was
the one being penetrated, violated.
When you are about to be re-born into a physical body,
you come to some agreement with your spirit guides
about the overall essence of your journey. It is very likely
that members of your immediate family, and your close
relatives, will have karmic issues with you. Beyond that,
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there is a general life plan of the people you will meet and
interact with over the course of the upcoming lifetime.
The Integrated Recognition of INI informs us, albeit at a
subtle level, when we bump into karmic friends and foes.
The Sage’s greater level of integrated intelligence often
allows him to feel the depth of such connections.
The same stories tend to get repeated in some form
over several lifetimes, until you transcend that energy
pattern. As you transcend your Soul Issues, so you will
tend to alleviate your karma. However there may be some
requirement for you to feel the emotions you helped
generate in others, and energy that you have created
within the human collective energy field. How this is
expressed will vary. Sometimes it may simply occur
through a spontaneous visionary experience of great
intensity. Other times it may require a physical incident,
or even a lifetime or more of experiencing equivalent
situations which allow you to fully experience the energy
involved.

Soul Aptitudes
Soul Aptitudes are the particular physical and mental
abilities that we have an ability and passion for
expressing. These are our gifts. They are determined, in
part, by physical attributes, including genetics. However
they are also influenced by general abilities and habits
acquired in past lifetimes. If you have played a stringed
instrument in a previous life, then you will tend to pick it
up more easily in this lifetime.
I believe that we all have a brilliance which we are
meant to express. However, simply because you are really
good at something, does not mean that you should turn it
into a career. It would be a mistake to think that simply
because you are good at playing cards that you should
become a professional gambler. Sometimes it is simply
not practical to turn an aptitude into a job. The key to
distinguishing Soul Aptitudes from simple skills and
abilities is to follow your excitement. It is The Feeling
Sense that will alert you. Your aptitudes behind your soul
calling will generate an excitement within you. That’s the
note to listen for.
Remember my story from the prelude, where my
excitement hit high fever in a lecture by Ron Laura at the
University of Newcastle? I never forgot that moment, and I
let it direct me forward. Because I didn’t have the
understanding that I have now, I slipped off the path a
few times, but I always returned.

The Soul Template and life purpose


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Before each life there are certain goals that your soul
seeks to achieve. Mostly, these are related to Soul Issues
and karma, while your Soul Aptitudes come into play as
you express your brilliance. Ultimately all this comes
down to the expression of power: its use, abuse, and the
Spirit’s requirement that we learn to use it responsibly.
There is no such thing as a concrete life purpose, as in
the idea of destiny. Once you get that out of your system,
you are free to go about expressing your life in a way that
resonates with your Spirit, and is in alignment with your
Soul Template. To that extent, you are free – within the
bounds of the evolution of the Human Oversoul and the
cosmos we live within.
The Sages always said that the soul speaks to you if
only you will listen. It will set you on the right path, tell
you when to leave and correct you when you get off-track.
The Sages were right, as they most always were. Yet how
The soul
can we make the Soul’s voice clearer? How can we invite
speaks to you if
only you will the soul to be with us whenever we need its guidance?
listen. It will set And what actions can we take to honor its voice? In short,
you on the right how can we exercise real power in this world? In the next
path, tell you two chapters, I will show you how.
when to leave,
and correct you
when you get
off-track.

In practice: Remembering Your Excitement


Before you go any further in this book, stop and do this
short fifteen minute exercise. Discovering the essence of
your calling is simple, and this exercise will help clarify
things for you. Take a pen and paper and sit quietly
somewhere alone. Now, going back as far as you can
remember in your life, quickly list all the events that deeply
moved you, or excited your soul. These could be movies and
books that really moved you, speeches that rocked your
socks off, songs that made you weep or soar, people you
met who deeply inspired you, images and pictures that
jumped out at you from a shop window or a TV screen, or
anything else that comes to mind. They could even be
dreams and synchronicities, amazing and deeply meaningful
coincides. The events could be as big or small as you like.
Sometimes the tiniest, most transient thing has the deepest
meaning for us.
When you have finished, sit back and look over your list.
What are the common themes and ideas?
The dominant feelings?
The recurring activities?
What skills and aptitudes run through these seminal life
events?
What does it all mean to you?
What is your excitement telling you?
Write down the answers to these questions.
Reflect on this experience over the coming days and
weeks. Your innate capacity for Integrated Recognition will
automatically go to work to join the dots. The patterns and

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