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Man and the Universe
by Dr. Francisco Coll
"You are a soul with a body, not a body with a soul". Dr Francisco Coll
It began over 50 years ago with this simple message from a man with extraordinary concern for himself and mankind.
Over his lifetime, Dr. Francisco Coll, founder of the Americana Leadership College, refined the message, developed tool and techniques that could be passed on to others, trained educators and designed the programs to help people around the world.
The symbols that came to Dr. Coll as a means of explaining to people who we are, where we come from, and why we are here on earth comprises of the Orientation Lecture Chart.
The next pages contain an abbreviated version of the message that has made life for hundreds of thousands of people a richer experience. You can get the complete story in Dr. Coll's book, Man and the Universe, at our online store.
The Real You
You are hear to learn about yourself and grow spiritually
You are a soul with a body, not a body with a soul.
The stick man figure to the right is a symbol of the real you; a soul with a body. Your body serves as your vehicle while you are here on planet earth.
Above your head is a circle that represents your real life force. This little halo is the symbol of your intelligent part. We can think of it as an intelligent vibration or intelligent energy. Let's call this vibration "light." Science tells us that every human being is equivalent to about four watts of power. This energy is measured in your body by British thermal units, or heat, and it keeps the cells of your body together. When you see a cadaver, or dead person, three things are missing from that body - the heat, the intelligent part, and this power or energy.
The connection between this intelligent part and your physical body is known as the "silver cord." The energy flows from the intelligent part or soul and feeds energy to the body.
The real you is the sum total of every thought and feeling you have gathered together through eons of time. Within you is an amazing reservoir of wisdom waiting to be tapped.
ALC group work is packed full of techniques that will stimulate experiences to re-awaken the part of you that knows who and what you really are.
Your True Home
Your body is made up of the things of planet earth, but the real you, the soul or energy, is part of the Universe, the All, or as described by religion, God (symbolized by the solar system on the chart). Whatever you call it, you can learn to consciously tap into it and use the wisdom to enrich your daily life.
The moment a person finishes their job here on earth, or when a person becomes so confused that they destroy their body, the connection between the soul and the physical body is severed. When you pass on, your body remains here and goes back to dust because it is composed of the things of planet earth.
Your soul, the real you, will leave the earth because the law of gravity cannot keep it here anymore.
The soul or intelligent vibration no longer has a physical body to serve as an anchor, so it moves out and returns to the universe or the All.
The person of science calls it the universe or the cosmos, while the religious person calls it God. No matter what you call it, you are one with it. There is no separation. The only separation we have is the one we think we have.
Once you understand that your physical body cannot exist without oxygen, the rays of the sun, the vegetation, or the pressures of the universe, you'll realize you are the total component of all things. Religion says you are the expression of God, and science says you are the total component of the universe.
The Two Natures of Man
You have two natures - intellect and feeling.
In this symbol the top half of the circle represents your intellect, and the lower half represents your feeling. Your intellectual nature wants to know and understand the world around it, and your feeling nature wants to be part of things.
Your intellectual nature is the analyzing, dissecting, proving part of you. It is like the steering wheel of your car. Its purpose is to provide direction in your life.
Your feeling nature is like the engine of your car. Your feeling nature is where the real power lies. Without power you're not going anywhere. We need both the steering (intellect) and the power (feeling) in order to move with direction.
If you do a lot of thinking, but fail to put your ideas into action, you are just daydreaming. On the other hand, if you act without thinking about what you're doing, you just go in circles. You are without any real direction.
Either way, you're out of balance and no good to yourselves or anyone else. In fact, you may a become problem for other people.
We all need to have balance between the intellect and feelings. In this way we have a thought for every feeling and a feeling for every thought. This brings purpose and balance to our lives.
ALC's community group work, personal profiles and courses enable you to maintain a consistent inner inner calm and stability and from this position you are better equipped to handle life's challenges.
Inner Guidance
We all have a team of angels to guide us. You can learn how to communicate with your guidance and receive answers to help you in your everyday life.
When a person really understands themselves and realises their purpose here on earth, when they pass on they "graduate" from the earth plane.
These highly evolved souls can become helpers of people here on earth.
Because their energy is higher when they come close to you they give your nervous system an extra charge of energy and you will experience chills or goose bumps.
The three halos above the stick figure represent these souls. These spiritual helpers are known by many names; guides, angels, the Comforter, Holy Spirit, archetypes, ascended masters, etc. They are not holy, they are whole. They are one with all things.
The Americana Leadership College trains and certifies consultants to administer the Orientation Profile; a one hour one-on-one consultation that passes on to you the techniques and knowledge you need to clearly communicate with your spiritual guidance. Our weekly group meetings provide a means of refining this ability.
Communication: Our Spiritual Gifts
There are four basic personality types or spiritual gifts. We have all four gifts but we have one primary gift which determines our basic avenue of communication.
Intuition
The intuitive person will pick up a thought and hear it. The intuitive is sometimes considered to be "mental" or "clairaudient." An intuitive person must understand things before he will accept them.
Vision
The visionary who will pick up a thought and see it. This type sees visions, symbols, colors, etc. in the mind's eye transforming the thought into an image. The visionary is sometimes considered to be clairvoyant. A visionary person needs to see something to understand it.
Prophecy
The prophetic person receives a thought as a knowing. This type quickly grasps the "total" concept or idea and has no interest in breaking it down intellectually. The prophetic is usually sensitive to precognition and their hunches, dreams and knowings have much to do not only with the future or the present, but how it affects others.
Feeling
The feeling person will pick up a thought and translates it into a feeling. This individual's whole response to life depends upon how it feels to him. The feeling type's sense of touch is extremely well-developed and he/she can feel (sense) what other people are feeling.
Each of us lives primarily by one of these personality types and partially by the other three. Once we understand this, we can begin to understand ourselves and those around us to a greater extent. There is a considerably expanded explanation of how these primary personality types function in Dr. Coll's book, "Man and the Universe."