(12-06-2020, 02:43 PM)Diana Wrote: I have a couple of thoughts.
1. Letting go of the attachment to the drama here. Or maybe just loosening it. When things are held rigidly—like beliefs—there is no chance of opposing or larger views to be perceived or accepted as possibilities. When the focus is on the human drama (which must be handled but ideally in a balanced fashion with processing) there is no (or less) room for reception of all that which is beyond the Earthly stage we play upon at present.
Thanks Diana, I tend to agree here, "self and higher self and higher higher self" is merely a 'finite focus'.
I found another person who prefer to name 'higher self' as 'over self'.
Which I tend to agree as "over" implies inclusion while "higher" implies hierarchy like master and slave, separated.
Enlarge the focus and a 'self' shall arrive at the focus of it's over self.. enlarge the focus again and it shall arrive at it's over-over self and so on...
What intrigues me most is an 'over self' could have a mixed of 'self' who took STS and STO path, the path of unity and path of separation.
Similar to playing Star War video games and having an avatar who took the Jedi path, and another avatar who took the Sith path. Just to experience how the game flow on both path.
Quote:3. As Flofrog said, meditation is a good way to detach from this pressing reality and access a bigger picture. I would avoid having preconceived ideas about what meditation will achieve, and just let it unfold how it will.
Agree, meditation could be used as an exercise to 'detach' the self from it's physical identification (body, mind / thoughts). Once detached, the self can either (temporarily) assume another physical identities (another human, animals, plants or even rock) or enlarge the scope of identification to multiple physical identities. Gaining memory of it's "past" lives is a good example. The self now has enlarge it's scope of identification to also includes another character / avatar of it's "past" life.
I deliberately put "past" with quote, as usually that's how it started, afterwards when the 'self' is ready, it might also gain memory of it's "future" lives. The memory of life experience of it's avatar who lived in the future time frame as if it has already happened in the "past".
Physical Death is also another event that act as a stimulus or catalyst for the self to 'detached' itself from it's physical identification. It then can either:
1. Enlarge the focus to realize that it is actually also many other self / avatar, thus gaining the focus of it's over self. Sometimes people call this as ascending to the 'mental' plane.
2. Assume / identify itself with another new physical body, people often call this as 'reincarnation'.
3. Find it so hard to 'detached' itself from it's physical identification, from it's physical body and it's identification attributes while the body has become dysfunctional and somehow get 'stucked' in the in-between physical realm. People often call this turning into a 'ghost', 'spirit', 'astral' existence.