The Personal Factor is the decision of the self-conscious individual to consciously participate in the evolutionary process. This begins when individuals discover and realize that they are intimately connected with the universal power of God. Through the Personal Factor, the self-conscious individual participates and further specializes the evolutionary process, which culminates when individuals consciously realize their oneness with Spirit at all times. There is a reciprocal relationship between Spirit and the Individual. As individuals open to the universal, the universal seems to pour Itself into the individual, resulting in expanded individualization of consciousness.
Individuals wish to express fully and completely as an individuals.
This desire pushes them into higher states of consciousness. The Universal Spirit, through its reciprocal action, wishes to express through the individual, and therefore meets the individual in universal mind. It is like a plant that is pushing itself up from below towards the sun and, at the same time, the sun is pulling the plant toward its universal rays. This reciprocal action must begin with the individual opening to the possibility of a greater power. Individuals invite the universal into their mind, and the universal accepts and pours forth according to the degree of acceptance of the individual.