Comparing Soul Spirit and Your Higher Self
You and I are spiritual souls, clothed in both a physical body and identity. It is soul that is supposed to incarnate from one so-called lifetime to another, but the words we use to describe this tend to create a false picture. The suggested image is that we die, then through rebirth, we incarnate into Earth once again. In other words, the image is birth, death and rebirth, over and over. This image is false and misleading.
Body dies, identity clings, and soul continues forever. Our life is actually - the continuity of soul - using one body/identity after another to continue our journey of soul growth, of expanding consciousness, of Self awareness. I mostly describe this process as a movie, The Continuity of Self.
Who we are never dies, thus is never reborn, but continues on in a greater frame of timeless time. Soul/Self has no linear measure of time as we have in a physical and material world. Body/identity measures the passing of linear time by the ageing of the body, for physically we live in a linear reality. This gives us “cause and effect” and “polarity”, both wonderful tools for the growth and expansion of our human consciousness. And also, two of the immutable Laws of The Universe.
Unfortunately, however, it has also caused us to believe in our mortality, to believe and accept that we actually die. For many people, death means the absolute end ... while others think that we lay in a grave waiting for a trumpet call to rise again from the dead. Yet others think that we live in heaven … or hell … all according to the way we conducted our single life. And, oh so many people believe in a judgement day by some vengeful God. "Boy, are they gonna get theirs" is what we say.
In a Greater Reality all time occupies the same space. I call this Spherical time. It means we live in the eternal moment. Both soul and Higher-Self know this, but soul moves in and out of linear time as part of its growth process. And during this growth process, which in linear terms can span many thousands of years – while in a greater reality occupies the eternal moment – the soul forgets its Truth.
Soul forgets, so it depends on identity to give name and meaning to life. But as soul grows, so it gradually – or suddenly – connects with its greater Truth, and soul knows itself as "Self." In this process, identity/ego no longer has any true meaning, no longer serves us the daily fear and illusions of separation, for Self knows its Oneness ... with all life.
It can be confusing using the terms ‘Higher’ Self and Lower-Self. Higher Self implies that the identity – I/me – is a lower self, and this is not true. You and I are soul/Self on a journey to discover the ‘I Am’ (Divine) Self through the experiences of the identity/soul self.
This is why we are here. There is no other reason. Ambition, goal setting, and all the "trappings of success" are exactly that ... subtle traps that feed the fears of identity/ego while further trapping the identity/ego in illusion.
Fear is always based in falsity, in illusion. So anything that makes fear appear to go away is actually feeding and nourishing fear even more so.
Fear is like a baby screaming for it's bottle. Once the bottle is given to the child, it will remain quiet ... that is, until the peace is broken again by the next mealtime and the desire for the next bottle. This is how fear is.
You use the meal ticket to stop fear from screaming, but the moment you can no longer buy the next meal ticket, the screaming begins again. And during this whole process the appetite of the child gets bigger and bigger. You can see where this leads.
It leads to lifetimes of conditioned reaction to doing anything to stop the screams of fear that echo through your very Being. This is the journey of soul when the going gets tough. Remember also, in "The Silence of The Lambs" Dr. Lector was very much interested in the screaming of the lambs still persistent in the mind of Clarice. That which you resist, is that which will persist.
And now, we get to the Difference Between Soul, Spirit and Higher Self. Remember, “Body dies, identity clings, and soul continues forever.”
I look at some of the people who consider themselves very successful, and I am aware that in their self-delusion/illusion they have no idea of the process of soul/life. They are driven to make more money, to create more financial security for their ego/identity driven fears that many of them do not even recognize. This condition keeps the hospitals full and busy ... which is exactly the goal of Bog Pharma.
Blind faith can also be a temporary fix, but it offers no permanent solution. There is nothing empowering to it. Nothing at all. To make matters even worse, most people in this situation – and they number in the billions – have no idea of what the real situation truly is. Their whole focus is the illusion/problem, rather than the Truth/solution.
An intellectual approach will offer nothing, for it is the intellect that believes in and creates the self-deceit of illusion. Intellect is a long-established isolationist, while intelligence expresses through and from wholeness.
When, or if, we use intelligence to deal with fear, we quickly find that fear has no foundation within itself; it has to be created. Wholistic intelligence never gives any valid reason to create fear ... isolated intellect creates fear by following a negative “what if” set of worst possible scenarios. Most of which will never, ever come to fruition.
Before I leave this subject, I would like to offer the way out of fear ... and that is to simply trust. Trust in Self. Trust that despite all possible evidence to the contrary, you are both adequate and capable. You are an eternal spark of the I AM, the Almighty Source/God.
Trust that the immortal Being you truly are has the intelligence and intuition to deal with anything that comes into your life. After all, you are the author of the book of your life. You even play many of the roles. The word "person" is Latin for "persona" and means the mask or role of an Actor. Your life is projecting upon the screen of life from the light in the back of the theatre.
Trust that you truly are a magnificent, metaphysical, multidimensional Being of Love and Light. This is your Truth. Trust it. You are the I AM. You even introduce yourself as I AM ____.
In all life there is Spirit. You are a spiritual Being. The soul that you truly are is the growth of the individualization of spirit. In every moment of your life you are expressing spirit … and ALL Spirit is One. One essence, one consciousness, ONE.
Spiritually, you are One with ALL life ... with every person. You are they and they are you. Technically, there is no "other." Positively accepting or negatively critical, the way you think is the way you will treat yourself and other people, and it is the way, and what you will create for your life to deal with you ... and the rest of humanity. Every life form in Nature is an expression of Source/Spirit, the same Spirit that expresses within you.
Through spirit you are connected to everything. Nothing is outside of Self, for Self is a boundless and measureless expression of Spirit. When soul withdraws from the body, Spirit remains with soul, for just as soul is an expression of Spirit, so is body an expression of soul.
Spirit cannot die. Energy cannot be destroyed. life cannot die. All that happens at so-called human death is that consciousness or Spirit/soul, withdraws from the physical body, continuing on as a metaphysical Being of Love and Light on a non-physical level of expression. In the ether, the heavens of consciousness.
You are an eternal Being of Love with the freedom to express your "Self" in whatever way you care to imagine. Just do not harm anyone or anything in the process. Your imagination is creation; whatever you continually imagine you will eventually experience. All thoughts become things. This is immutable Universal Law.
Be careful with your imagination ... your thoughts. Look on imagination as meaning; the inner images you create will invariably be part of your life. Imagine yourself as a Being of Love and Light. Knowledge is know what to say, Wisdom is knowing when and how to say it.
Just a thought ...
~Justin Taylor, ORDM., OCP., DM.
My thanks to Michael Roads.
