Soulagogy: to lead the soul with Dobeing: to do my being

From the first days of life and uninterruptedly, until the end, this partnership of growth and development continues. Body (doing) and mind (being) are co-operating as indivisible parts of one whole. The mind is like a motor, dragging with it all the potentialities which it can discover in the body, helping to bring the body into a position of safety and dominance over all difficulties. In every movement of the body, in every expression and symptom, we can see the impression of the mind's purpose. A person moves- There is meaning (being) in his/her movement (doing). The term Dobeing coined by Nir Golan means to realize one's full potential and fulfill it- to do the being. It is a core term according to the Soulagogy approach. Dobeing is a combination between Self-realization and self-actualization. In Goldstein's view, it is the organism's master motive, the only real motive: "The tendency to actualize itself as fully as possible is the basic drive... the drive of self-actualization." The only way to "actualize itself" is by using the passion that you have to do what you do best, and spread your uniqueness all around.

Dobeing is a combination of doing and being.

Golan assumes that Education is all about helping the soul to Dobeing its self. Education is that process, by which thought is opened out of the soul and Dobeing is to express and activate all the passion, capabilities and uniqueness of the organism.

Soulagogy is a brand-new educational perception, coined by Nir Golan, that comes from the Greek words psycho which means “soul” and gogy which means “to lead”, and literally refers to “leading the soul”. It is based on the assumption that Soulagogy: to lead the soul, means educating the soul.    

Soulagogy is about educating the soul. “Education is that process, by which thought is opened out of the soul and, associated with outward things, is reflected back upon itself, and thus made conscious of its reality and shape. It is Self-Realization. As a means, therefore, of educating the soul out of itself, and mirroring forth its ideas, the external world offers the materials."/ Amos Bronson Alcott. Bronson was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. As an educator, Alcott hoped to perfect the human spirit. Soulagogy also refers to the term Psychogogy: a German word that was first coined by the German author of "Psychogeneses und Psychotherapies Korperlicher Symptom" (1925), Oswald Schwartz, who used the term to describe a possible process for helping people to become self-actualized. Psychogogy – the Greek words psycho means ‘mind’ and gogy means ‘to lead’ – literally refers to ‘leading the mind’.

Later, Abraham Maslow borrowed that term Psychogogy for his classic treatise on Eupsychian Management (1965). In one of his short essays "The Farther Reaches of Human Nature" (1971), Maslow defined Psychogogy as the education of the psyche. Whitehurst (2002) has defined it as the “integration of professional wisdom with the best available empirical evidence in making decisions about how to deliver instruction”.

Students are living in challenging times these days because the wo­rld around them is rapidly evolving and transforming. They need many more teachers who will guide them through the maze of change into a world of tomorrow that is better than today. The heart of Soulagogy is the term Dobeing. Plato believed that the human soul possesses latent knowledge, which could be brought out and elucidated by a specific type of discourse which he called dialectic: a bringing to birth from the depths of a person's higher being. The Soulagogy process starts with self-awareness to the being. A higher consciousness is needed in order to do this, and the result will bring forth a literal enlightenment and a furthered understanding of human nature.

"Dialectic is the only philosophical process which seeks for wisdom by anagogically uplifting our Intellectual foundations so that our Higher Self ascends to the Origin."

— Plato, The Commonwealth VII, 533d