Unified Field

The ground true nature is one unified field that underlies and constitutes all existence. In itself true nature has no dimensions, no spatial or temporal extensions. Yet because all forms manifest within true nature, we will experience it as a boundless, infinite field of coemergent presence. We perceive the presence of true nature as an infinite field of awareness or consciousness, unbounded and unlimited. True nature in manifestation appears, then, to be omnipresent. It is everywhere, as the indivisible field of presence forming the ground and substance of everything. In self-realization, the soul will experience that she is everywhere, she is everything, she is infinite, she is boundless. (Inner Journey Home, pg 262)

Unified field of the soul

The field of the soul is not physical, electromagnetic, or gravitational; rather, it is related to awareness and consciousness. When we recognize the soul we find it to be a locus of consciousness, where this locus is an extended field. The field normally extends through the body, and is often experienced as coextensive with it. However, the field of the soul has no particular shape or size. It is completely formless and amorphous, and can take any shape or form. Depending on the particular state of the soul, this field of consciousness can easily be perceived as bigger, even much bigger than the body, or it can be perceived to be condensed or contracted into a field smaller than the body. The felt sense of the field of the soul usually takes the shape of the body, largely because the soul identifies herself with the body. (Inner Journey Home, pg 28)

All the properties of the soul are pervasive throughout the field, and her functions can be active at any region of this field. In other words, the soul is holographic -- each region, regardless how small, possesses all the properties and capacities characteristic of the soul as a whole. It is not easy to recognize this, but when we do we are on our way to true inner liberation. The liberation of the self or soul involves recognizing the true nature of the self. This can take place not only through recognition of the most fundamental nature of the soul, such as realization of pure awareness, for instance, but can also be approached by paying attention to and recognizing much more direct and immediate experiential phenomena than are typical of egoic experience. (Inner Journey Home, pg 29)

The field of the soul is subjectively and psychologically consciousness, but phenomenologically this consciousness is presence. (Inner Journey Home, pg 36)

Since the soul is the site and agency of experience then everything that arises in the soul can be seen as part of the soul. Thoughts, images, emotions, feelings, sensations, perceptions, insights, knowledge, and states of consciousness are all the soul. They all arise in the soul as waves in a field, as particular manifestations within it. (Inner Journey Home, pg 23)

We have described the medium or field of the soul as the presence of pure consciousness. In labeling the field "presence" we point to the significant fact that this field constitutes the ontological dimension of the soul. In other words, the existence of the soul turns out not to be only an abstract concept of being, but the direct experiential truth, a palpable presence. This is the reason we frequently refer to this truth as Being, for it is the beingness of the soul. This truth is actually the basic spiritual insight of the inner journey and, in one form or another, common to all major schools of inner work. (Inner Journey Home, pg 131)