Young Souls
From New Age Village
By Joya Pope
Having mastered the Infant and Baby Soul issues of survival, discipline and order, the essence is now looking to see how powerful it can become in the world.
Independence and the ability to get what one wants out of life are the driving force of the Young Soul stage. Seizing what the physical plane has to offer, vying to gain positions of prominence, power and great wealth, causes this to become the most competitive period in the whole cycle of lifetimes. Those who are expressing themselves from a Young Soul perceptivity will tend towards a sort of tape measure mentality that makes them monitor who among them has the hottest investments, the most lavish parties, the most important friends, the greatest weekly aerobic output, the tallest building, fastest motorcycle, broadest shoulders, thinnest hips or heaviest diamonds. The most powerful places in the world--Japan, Hong Kong, Germany, Israel, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Canada and the United States--all express a strong Young Soul perceptivity. Everybody growing up in these places, regardless of soul age, will receive Young Soul imprinting or conditioning about how to act, think, look, and feel in order to be a success. Japan is now the example par excellence of this: an extremely competitive, focused society where even having fun looks competitive. Often, there's no time off on the way up!
Ambition is important with the attitude being, "There is you and there is me, and I am going to win." There is a great drive to get ahead. In the process of getting to the top, it doesn't matter too much what needs to be done or who's stepped on or over. Think of the CIA, John Sununu or Saddam Hussein. A Young Soul typically has little respect for anyone whose ideas are not their own. That's where the difficulty between Nancy Reagan and Raisa Gorbachev began. Reagan is a Young Soul, and though socially polite, offended the quite perceptive Gorbachev who could sense judgments being made against her. Gorbachev would have liked to set politics and opinions aside in order to make a warm, human connection but was not willing to ignore the harsh feeling quality underneath Reagan's polished behavior.
At this consciousness level, if one can make money or gain influence, the long term consequences of any act aren't terribly important. The problem with toxic wastes being dumped all over is one result of being in a Young Soul culture in a hurry to make a buck. While Young Souls are productive, industrious and goal oriented, their vision extends only so far, and they are not likely to question their motives or ethics.
Because they are desirous of making something of themselves and leaving their mark on the world, Young Souls can be tireless workers. We owe them our efficiency, much of our high technology, our military might, and our continual push to make things happen and change. They are the architects of civilization and its builders. However, with a focus on quantity and not necessarily on quality, something like "scientific agriculture" will be valued.
Bumper crops being bumper crops, the fact that this method has destroyed 95% of the huge variety of seed types available just 125 years ago, and that it poisons the earth with nitrates, selenium, pesticides and dastardly ecological problems would likely be little noticed.
Young Souls don't always pursue what they like, which they may see as an indulgence, but what they believe will create success. It is natural for them to learn how the system works early on and use it to their advantage. Driven towards achievement, they flock to large well-known universities to obtain degrees of prominence. Some of these people seem born with the ability to make the economic system jump through hoops of their own design and to turn their hundreds into thousands and their millions into billions with apparent ease.
The essence of a person at the Young Soul stage will actually be pushing him to acquire as much as he can in order to soak in how it feels. He will covet prestigious cars and itch to live in a "better" area inside the most impressive house he can afford. Great silent estates somewhat smaller than Buckingham Palace with twelve foot walls, ornamental hedges or fountains, radio-operated wrought-iron gates, and serious art collections may be obtainable during some lifetimes in the Young Soul phase. If your Young Soul glory days were spent in ancient Egypt, your riches took a slightly different form and no doubt included slaves and plenty of wealth for the afterlife. There is not much laziness to observe in this period. Though you can find Young Souls shoving things in closets or drawers just before people come over, that has to do with priorities being more out in the world, not laziness. Baby Souls tend toward compulsive neatness, while the Young period is concerned with success and appearances.
Because Young Souls are not emotionally open, they tend to make poor parents who don't make strong feeling connections with their children. However they will buy their children everything they can afford. Like the prototype Yuppie baby in an Aprica stroller and exquisite French togs, children become status objects for their parents. These children with expensive toys, haircuts, cars and educations, will be pushed to excel in all they do from nursery school through college, to marriage and career. Those successes will reflect favorably back on the status-seeking parent. Children are not pushed to express their feelings.
Young Souls tend to be conventional, but less adamant than Baby Souls in their religious beliefs. At church, you'll more likely find them networking and promoting their businesses than pushing dogma or being critical about some other member's behavior or lack of attendance.
Because Young Souls are heavily identified with their bodies and really not sure that consciousness survives it, we have cryogenic suspension; plastic surgery for noses and elbows, thighs and chins, breasts and waists; a booming multi-billion dollar industry devoted to beauty products for men and women; and an incredibly huge and costly (Young Soul, high-tech) medical system which intends on keeping everyone alive as long as possible regardless of desires, costs, pain, or quality of life.
As superb manipulators of the environment, humans are unequivocally good at the Young Soul phase. Winning out over rivals, gaining acclaim, power and money make them feel on top of the world. In spite of incredible stress--and fears about losing--this is an essentially exciting, fulfilling time. Because the earth just now completing its Young Soul phase, acknowledgement for Young Souls, who are already outgoing go-getters, comes along quite easily. Towards the end of the Young set of lifetimes, people will start to experiment more with food and sex. They'll likely become adventurous with extensive travel, both to experience the world, their oyster, and to gain status among peers.
Creativity begins opening up during this phase, although it comes to a fuller fruition in the Mature phase. Many, many people rise to fame and prominence during this period; we find movie stars, TV anchors, singers, comedians, politicians, executives, religious leaders, Nobel prize-winners, Hollywood producers, authors, and people like Donald Trump and J. Paul Getty, who get so rich they get famous.
Clarence Thomas, Ed Meese, Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker are examples of men at the very beginning of their Young Soul adventures and growth. They've pulled in power but are not great judges of people, events or ethical strictures.
Two famously avaricious couples exemplify in extreme what can be the Young Soul grasp for wealth and power at any price. They are Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, formerly of the Philippines, and Jean-Claude and Michele Duvalier, formerly of Haiti. Neither pair experienced regret for their actions nor have the slightest suspicion of the extensive karmas they've created. Like George Bush and Ronald Reagan, most recent U.S. Presidents are Mature Souls. John Kennedy, a Young Soul, nearly had to be that in order to have the ambition and energy required to break down significant barriers against Catholics. Similarly, Geraldine Ferraro used her energy and drive as a Young Soul to loosen the obstructions against women entering the White House. Being mid-Young helped Margaret Thatcher have the spine and ambition to hold on her position for so long. Professors at prestigious universities come primarily from this soul age, as do corporate executives.
When Mikhail Gorbachev first gained international attention, he was acting primarily from Young Soul consciousness, no doubt an important factor in his coming into power in the first place. When Gorbachev consolidated his position and felt confident, he began acting out of his true soul perceptivity, mid-Mature. He started shaking his country out of stagnation almost single-handedly. Note the difference between Gorbachev's sharp-witted Mature Soul statesmanship and the Young Soul diplomacy of Henry Kissinger which tended to interpret Soviet-American relations in terms of confrontation where one side's gain is automatically the other side's loss.
Rose Kennedy, the decades-long driving force behind the Kennedy clan, is a Young Soul with a will of iron. Mohammed Ali, who viewed life as a contest, is a grand Young Soul sports personality, as is Leon Spinks. Mick Jagger is the quintessential Young Soul rock personality, and Billy Graham, a quite powerful Young Soul religious leader. Young Soul Ralph Lauren pulled himself into a high income range by designing clothes he thought looked like what "old money" would wear. Joan and Jackie Collins have both made themselves famous as Young Soul characters, to the bone.
Johnny Carson, Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Dean Martin, Bob Hope and, yes, Joan Rivers and Vanna White, are perfect embodiments of Young Soul show biz personalities. Whitney Houston, Diahann Carroll, Sean Young, Don Johnson, Bruce Willis, Robin Givens, John Wayne, Charles Bronson, Chuck Norris are Hollywood stars who typify Young Soul consciousness. And then there are the visionary reformist crusaders, Richard Simmons, Ayn Rand and William F. Buckley.
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