Andrew Schneider

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Andrew Schneider Quick Facts

Main Areas: Personal Growth, Soul Consciousness, Esoteric Studies and Philosophical Counseling
Career Focus: Teacher, Author, Counselor, Speaker, Business Owner
Affiliation: The Soul Journey

Andrew was born in 1942 in Kelowna, B.C., Canada. He entered a seminary to study for the Roman Catholic priesthood with the Benedictine monks at the age of 14. He trained with them for five years, gaining a solid academic grounding for his later studies, developing a deep spirituality and learning to live in a disciplined way. He then joined an Italian religious order. He took his philosophical studies in Connecticut before spending three years in Italy where he took a year’s novitiate and two years of theology in Rome.

After 11 years in the religious life, he left to pursue studies in psychology at the University of British Columbia. This was followed by a professional development year at Simon Fraser University in B.C. to qualify for a teaching certificate. For five years, he worked as a teacher and school counselor in the B.C. school system.

His studies resulted in degrees in Theology, Philosophy, Psychology and Education. Since 1974, Andrew has worked full time in the metaphysical field. He has created and taught many programs for personal growth, soul consciousness, esoteric studies and philosophical counselling in Canada and Europe. He has also taught over 5000 classes, seminars and workshops. He and his wife, Bonnie, have also conducted 15 international retreats in various countries. Andrew has been described as “a teacher of teachers and a healer of healers.” He has authored many books and manuals for developing soul consciousness and understanding the world in which we live.

The scope of his teachings is extremely broad and eclectic. He combines psychology and spirituality in such a way that he facilitates integration of the whole person: body, soul and spirit. Andrew is very skilled in the way he combines universal spiritual principles, esoteric philosophy, soul psychology, the latest brain research and the findings of quantum physics. The theme that runs through all his teaching and writing is on developing soul consciousness and gaining soul perspectives on practical realities of daily life. People who participate in his courses and programs find that they go through significant transformations in their personal lives, giving them a greater sense of purpose and well-being.

Andrew and Bonnie’s service in recent years has taken them to many countries besides their native Canada: U.S.A., Mexico, Greece, Cyprus, Panama, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland.

Andrew’s sensitivity and warmth, his deep interest in people’s well-being, his vast knowledge combined with intuitive perception, and his outstanding ability to express complex ideas in clear, simple language make him a very respected teacher.

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Awareness of the Negatives

Archetypes are soul energies that constantly seek expression. Every single event, behaviour, feeling or thought has an archetypal energy as its cause or its foundation. Inner and outer realities are not separated in fact, only in awareness or consciousness. It is this awareness and consciousness that we are interested in changing and expanding. When you reject or resist any outer aspects of life you simultaneously reject or resist the positive expression of an archetype within yourself.

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A New Spirituality

There is a new spirituality unfolding, dictated by universal need and the cycles of necessity. Evidenced by its absence as destruction and disregard for human life and environmental sensitivity, this new Spirit of the times is enticing our consciousness to become increasingly inclusive and responsible.

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Suffering

The most basic experience that all human beings have, which begins in the birth canal if not before, is that of pain and suffering or affliction. The fact of suffering, and how to deal with it and its effects, prompted the Buddha to present the Four Noble Truths. I like to refer to these as the facts of life. These are not dogmatic teachings, but excellent psychology that supports the spiritual journey. The first Noble Truth is that existence is painful because "all things arise and pass away." The issue here is called dukkha in Sanskrit, meaning affliction.

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Overcoming Fear and Healing Wounds

We cannot escape childhood without being wounded. Every time we made demands of others and they refused us, we were diminished in our self-worth. Each time we asked for love and it was withheld, our self-value decreased. Whenever we attempted to prove ourselves and we failed, we lost some of our power.

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Who Am I?

When the early Greeks went to the Oracle in Delphi to ask questions about life and the future, the Oracle often gave enigmatic answers. But behind all the answers was the ages old dictum, ‘Man, Know Thyself,’ for which the Oracle is remembered. All questions that we may have about life arise from one fundamental question: Who Am I? All problems begin with not knowing this answer. The answer changes with time and with changes in consciousness. Our joy comes from an insight into this question.

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Life Purpose

There are three fundamental purposes to everyone’s life. One general purpose is on the personality level. The other is on the soul level. And the third is on the level of spirit. No matter how one’s specific purpose is described or expressed, it must come down to one of these. On the personality level our purpose is to learn. On the soul level our purpose is to express love and thereby to serve. Our third purpose is at present very elusive - to be.

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Transforming The Negative

Verbalizing our feelings makes our sadness, anger and pain less intense, according to a new brain imaging study by UCLA psychologists. We know from experience that this is true, and now we know why. Virtually all negative emotions are fear-based, despite what we might otherwise try to justify. This puts these emotions under the influence of the amygdala – a region of the brain which serves as an alarm to activate a cascade of biological systems to protect the body in times of perceived danger. This alarm goes off whenever we experience anything negative.

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Cooperation - The Driving Force of Evolution

Everyone has heard that survival of the fittest is what drives evolution. We have not only heard it but believed it. We now know this is not true, but will have a hard time letting go of the original idea that was nothing more than a disproven theory. We will probably hang on to it not only because it is an accepted idea that most people believe, but also because it supports a self-serving attitude and egocentric orientation to life. It implies that it is more important to excel and to dominate others than to be cooperative.

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Soul - A Work in Progress

Life can be very confusing at times because we live in a multi- dimensional world. Even we ourselves have many dimensions to our own individuality.

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The Soul and Harmony Within

Each of us is really like three people in one: the soul, the subconscious, and the conscious self. Every thought, feeling, word and action is an expression of one or more of these ‘selves.’ We need to become increasing aware of each of these, and then develop the discrimination to be able to consciously choose which to express in each situation. Just to give an idea of what these three levels of our being include, consider these characteristics:

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The Soul as our Centre

A basic principle in nature is that everything has a center from which it obtains its source energy, intelligence and pattern which is continually self-renewing. Each center is connected to every other center and to the one center from which all life is vitalized. In more philosophical language, the center of anything is its essence, or soul. Every soul is connected to every other soul and to the one soul of humanity, the planet and universe. This center appears to us to be paradoxical because it is at one and the same time both individual and universal.

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Are you ready to understand the fundamentals of who you are?

Some people think that to be soul conscious or spiritual, there’s no need to know the personality. While this perspective fits with the old Spirit-based spirituality, it is totally inadequate for the new soul-based spirituality.

Soul uses the personality for its expression. Knowing the personality is like developing the technical or artistic skills of a craftsman or artist. Without this knowledge, inspiration is badly expressed, and cannot be communicated in a way that is sensitive to others.

All questions that we may have about life arise from this one fundamental question: Who Am I? All problems begin with not knowing this answer. The answer changes with time and with changes in consciousness. Our joy comes from insights into this question. Get your own insights here.

Contacting Andrew Schneider

Other Dimensions Services and The Soul Journey

#5 - 2395 Pleasant Valley Rd., Armstrong, BC, Canada V0E 1B2

Web site: http://www.thesouljou ey.com

Andrew can be contacted at andrew@thesouljou ey.com

How to get started

Do you yearn to make sense of your life and the world around you?

Whether we realize it or not, each of us takes the soul journey. It initially starts as instinct and is unconscious to us. At some point, however, we are ready to find more meaning and purpose. It’s then that we awaken to the inner need to express the love that is the soul within.

The soul journey is not about information and knowledge, positive mental attitude or basic awareness. Instead it is about trust, intuition, self-healing, creativity, expression, purpose and universal laws. We need to know how to become and express our essence.

Imagine ...

having a strong, confident sense of who you are and how you live life
knowing your purpose and why you are here
experiencing how you can help others and yourself feel more joy, peace of mind, personal power and meaning
understanding your unconscious motives so you can choose more wisely.

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Traditional counselling, coaching and therapy, regardless of the orientation involved, is centered around the personality and aims to deal with personality issues from a personality perspective. This has been necessary, and still is, for people who have not consciously started to develop soul consciousness. Once soul consciousness begins to have more influence in a person’s life it becomes absolutely necessary to address personality issues, challenges, difficulties, etc. from a soul perspective. This is because once soul awakens, it functions more strongly as a powerful cause of transformation. The changes then needed in personality life must be made to facilitate soul expression. Soul awakening demands soul expression, and this expression can only occur through a personality that is not resistant and is open to soul. This takes special awareness and training, which the soul-based counselling program teaches. The psychology involved in this program integrates personality psychology with soul psychology. This is the most effective approach to making significant and lasting changes in one’s life.

The Soul Journey provides 4 levels of focus, each with its own e-book and basic email coaching service:

Know Yourself with 8 weeks of email support
• Find your power, and know how and when to use it
• Increase your love and improve relationships
• Free yourself from unconscious self-imposed traps and negative programming
• Develop a sense of competence and confidence.
Explore and Heal the Personality with 12 weeks of email support
• Discover the meaning and purpose of negative experiences
• Overcome the control that victimhood and fear have on your life
• Heal past suffering and conflicted relationships
• Discover your personality type with its natural gifts and challenges
Develop and Express Soul Consciousness with 12 weeks of email support
• Learn to use higher consciousness to transform limitations and weaknesses.
• Develop the skill of attuning to things and people for deeply fulfilling and compassionate connections
• Develop discrimination to know what is true and what is illusion
• Become the cause of all you experience, no longer the victim of anyone or anything
Discover Soul Purpose with 8 weeks of email support
• Know why you have inca ated in this life so that you can fulfill your purpose
• Gain the ability to empower others and support them in fulfilling their purpose
• Find the three most basic reasons for living your unique life
• Become the cause of all you experience and no longer be the victim of anyone or anything

Interactive Soul Email Coaching - Guides you for 26 weeks as you take The Soul Journey and keeps you focused on developing soul consciousness. The emails progressively support enhancing your awareness, deepening meditation, enriching understanding of who you are, healing your personality, using your imagination effectively to develop soul consciousness and soul attunement.

Other Programs

Spiritual Alchemy - How do we practice spiritual alchemy? This email program shows us how - step by step.
Overcoming Life's 9 Major Challenges - All life challenges are initiated by the Soul.
Authentic Living - Liberate yourself from the confines of conformity and explore how to be authentic.
The Years Leading up to 2012 - Align with the energies of the Divine Plan for humanity.

Spiritual Counseling Course - A new approach to fill the needs of others. This online spiritual counseling training course presents a new way of looking at ourselves and life. The basic ingredients of this new view are ages old, but the ways we apply and express them are new. With this program you will learn how to:

Serve the new consciousness.
Support others in soul crisis.
Identify soul needs that underlie the ego’s challenges and desires.
Help clients find meaning and purpose in all of their experiences.
Open to soul energies and qualities.
Support others in using their imagination appropriately for developing soul consciousness.
Empower your clients so they are more self-confident and self-reliant.