Free IFS Ray Course
- Jan 26
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Seven Rays Companion Series
A free course inside the Everything IFS Academy
The Seven Rays are often introduced as personality labels, color systems, or abstract esoteric lore. Treated this way, they can feel vague, overwhelming, or detached from lived experience.
But the Seven Rays were never meant to be decorative metaphysics. They describe fundamental streams of consciousness forces that shape human psychology, spiritual development, culture, leadership, devotion, creativity, and power.
This free course explores the Seven Rays through their historical origins, core principles, and lived expressions, thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems (IFS). It is not therapy, and it does not replace spiritual tradition, psychology, or esoteric study. It is designed for readers who want to understand how these forces actually move within individuals, relationships, and the world.
What This Course Offers
This course invites you to approach the Seven Rays as living currents rather than abstract ideas — intelligences that express through will, love, thought, conflict, knowledge, devotion, and form.
Inside the course, you’ll explore:
The historical emergence of the Seven Rays across esoteric traditions
Rays as initiating forces rather than personality traits
How different rays shape leadership, devotion, creativity, and conflict
Distortions that arise when a ray is unrefined or misused
The difference between soul-level influence and personality expression
How rays operate psychologically, collectively, and spiritually
Throughout the course, insights from Internal Family Systems (IFS) help illuminate how these rays interact with inner experience — how parts organize around will, control, devotion, clarity, harmony, and identity, and how awareness brings choice rather than compulsion.
This approach does not replace spiritual tradition. It does not turn esotericism into psychology. It offers another lens for noticing what is already there.
Course Outline
Orientation Section — For Beginners
Module 0 — What Are the Seven Rays?
Module 1 — Where the Seven Rays Come From
Module 2 — How the Rays Function in the World
Module 3 — Rays and the Human System
Module 4 — The Seven Rays at a Glance
Core Teaching Section — The Rays Themselves
Module 5 — Ray 1: Will and Power
Module 6 — Ray 2: Love and Wisdom
Module 7 — Ray 3: Active Intelligence and Creativity
Module 8 — Ray 4: Harmony Through Conflict
Module 9 — Ray 5: Concrete Knowledge and Science
Module 10 — Ray 6: Devotion and Idealism
Module 11 — Ray 7: Ceremonial Order and Magic
Integration Module
Module 12 — How to Identify Your Rays
Module 13 — Applying the Seven Rays in Life
How This Course Is Different
You won’t find:
Simplified personality typing or ray “tests”
Over-romanticized descriptions detached from reality
Esoteric language used without grounding or clarity
You will find:
Careful explanation of each ray’s purpose and distortions
Attention to how rays express psychologically and collectively
An emphasis on discernment, responsibility, and lived integration
Each module includes historical context and optional reflective elements, encouraging slow, thoughtful engagement and helping the Seven Rays be encountered as forces to relate to — not identities to cling to.