Instant Enlightenment, Awakening Your States of Mind, Summary Part 3 ($)

Containing – Being – Healing – Changing

Here is the third of three parts summarizing my book Instant Enlightenment, Awakening Your States of Mind.

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Chapter 9 – Containing

Your Adorned Self – Your Higher Self

Our ego concerns itself with security in the present. We make practical decisions and weigh risks and rewards. We'll talk about wisdom, but we are most concerned with material welfare and our basic needs. If we don't have a larger purpose, then we live entirely in a material world.

On this flat plane of existence there is no reason to look up, and experiences in the material world gives us little reason to. A material mindset sees all problems from a practical point of view. The power to control their material situation is all that most people attend to.

There is a higher self who appreciates a deeper and wider relationship in all things, but it’s not one of our personalities. The higher self is not limited to words, is not concerned with practical problems, and has a different set of memories. Because of this, we rarely communicate with the higher self, and some people seem to have no connection to their higher selves at all.

I understand the higher self as the soul, and our connection with our higher selves as our source of spiritual understanding, by which I mean wisdom, purpose, and issues larger than our individual lives. Our egos can communicate with our higher selves when both wish to speak, but our egos cannot demand an audience. Communication is not a right.

Some people have lost touch, and others have sold out. They have their reasons, but, as a result, they are locked-in to the egoistic plane. These people can cause a good deal of damage to themselves and others, and that process plays itself out as well.

I describe our higher selves abstractly, therapeutically, and neurologically. You might say our higher selves are not materialistic, or you might say they concern themselves with higher forms of matter. Knowing yourself and managing your perceptions is one thing; connecting to your higher self is quite another.