Author: A. H. Almaas The Inner Journey Home is a book about the soul. Almaas uses the word soul as the best description of what a human being actually is: the individual consciousness that is aware, alive, and dynamic and the embodiment of the potential for awakening, transformation, and liberation. Consistent with its traditional use in the Western Gnostic wisdom, the word soul refers to the totality of our subjective experience, including both our familiar experience and the potential for full realization of our unity with the source.