Very thoughtful and interesting question, Albert. I am curious for a reply.

I, too, see my higher self, oversoul, or what you would like to call it, as impersonal. I generally consider it to be a kind of collective, which can bring whatever kind of influence into my life which is helpful, and which looks after and appreciates my existence in a profound way which merits further exploration.  I consider it to be a greater intelligence, which is the result of an expanded awareness, due to the complexity of its components, and its position in a realm beyond time and space.  Of course, Bruce has been of immeasurable assistance to helping me to view possibility quite this way, as he has done for many others who have helped me here. Although impersonal, I view this higher self as a beacon of love and understanding to me, which I reflect as often as I feel my connection to it. Without this connection, I would say my existence is death; however, with this feeling of connection, I would say that I am completely alive. However, I see myself as connected at all times, in all places, with or without my awareness. It is truly a miracle.

love, blink

recoverer wrote on Sep 13^th, 2006 at 3:06pm:


Recover; i'm sure he as spoken to Bruce more than once.
You talk about guidance...Your HS IS YOUR GUIDANCE.Who could guard you better than the real you? IMPO only your HS has a vested interest in all you do. I also believe that when your HS wishes to commune with you directly ..he/she or whatever you think you are THERE, will take on the guise of one of your other incarnations (maybe)...YOU may be told your guide is  ex: Two Feathers, or a Native American of the Mohawk tribe or someone from the 1700's era, or a Knight Templar; but what you probaly won't realize is that all of those  souls are YOU in another incarnation/past/present/future.
As an example when i was doing Guidance at TMI, in F27 ...was net by 2 of my guides and during that encounter, they both merge together and then with myself, ...bingo.. then i realized we were the same person.

Wtih love, Romain

Hi,
I resonate with you all.
As for recoverer's question, I remember Bruce wrote that when he started his TMI sessions he heard a choir of voices, saying: We love you. At other times I remember he was always talking with members of his higher self ("Disk members").
My contacts also started with meeting helpers, which I know they're members of my "big I". I guess there is also a different approach to the higher self, I think I had some glimpses of this, but it's more difficult because it it is to such a high degree different to human-human conversation.

Spooky

Yes, I'm sure that Bruce communicates with his higher self just as we all do although some people are not conscious of this fact.

Love, Mairlyn

Hi there Gordon!   first I missed you and so glad u stopped in, even if it's just today your higher self we used to call Henry. now don't know what to call him, but I got the name from you. so pardon me if I'm amiss as names I suppose don't matter much, but energy signatures are better to understand.
he might have been like your disc member. I think of him as a stand in for you as there are many occassions we simply dont remember until later.

he wore glasses at first, then I didn't notice glasses later. light brown hair I think. the lighting is different when I'm out, often dim, like a higher astral plane I'm thinking, I don't get much color when I'm out. 5'7, I'm thinking as slightly taller than me and I'm 5'6" and I measured myself to you that way I'm thinking unconsciously. weight was proportionate to height, stood straight, sharp dresser, or neatly dressed, manners, nice face, regular. the thing I remember the most was not physical traits but the energy signature, your behavior and the way that you communicated and that you liked me   or I should say, you had PUL. I think we all do, but in your retrieval work I would expect to observe PUL as an active thing in you and easily observable. I wasn't dissappointed.

what is interesting is this other part of you took your cues from me while you reflected my belief systems back to me in your behavior.  in other words, it appears more often to me that in partnered exploration or astral traveling, we reflect each other and I used this info as guidance because its a rote to follow to my own inner being. so early on I said you taught me something, therefore you had been my teacher. I am sorry I probably confused you to say that. to me we are all teachers and all students at the same time.

later, I saw you out there as you look right now in a picture I once received.
oh yes! while you or your other self was out there you caused books to be stacked up around your shoulders while I pondered how you did that! it was fun! I've read we can create images around us out there, build houses, etc. so I'm used to it now.
I can never thank you enough, or Henry, or whoever, for this experience. love, alysia

I remember Bruce wrote that when he started his TMI sessions he heard a choir of voices, saying: We love you.
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Hi Spooky and Recoverer: I've found this above in Bruce's books is something that struck me as revealing the oneness or connectiveness of all humanity and perhaps not just the disc, which can be thousands Bruce said once. some things I forgot that I read..other things, like the above stay with me all the time. I thought that maybe we were the choir of voices which called out we love you because here we are, talking about PUL and so its possible anyone drawn here is part of the larger disc idea because we drawn to afterlife exploration methods and ideas here as opposed to say other kinds of focus'es and explorations. I know I learn from all of you. always have. this board is like a spot of sanity for me. like a calm river I can watch flowing whether I truly "belong" to a specific disc of Monroe or Bruce or not, I like being here and I like Monroe's and Bruce's books because they just say go and find out for yourself.




"Just as you found inconsistencies in the dream, find inconsistencies in the waking state."
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I like the above Spooky. I can see a whole rote in that. an entire 2 hour meditation for sure. would you be saying the inconsistencies are like doubts?
for one of my homework plans, I got the idea from Bruce to put doubts in a make believe basket beside me when I meditate, then if I want, when I come back I can pick up my doubts again. however sometimes when I come back there a few less doubts in my basket, thats cool. or hows this: I got this idea same place. have a conversation with your conflicting belief system, your I/there. I'll make one up right now. the way it works for newbies if you're reading is to be gentle with doubts; not be as in blind faith to explore, but eyes wide open to see if your belief system serves you well or not. if it doesn't serve you, you tell it "thank you for serving me so well, and now I have to lay you off work, you've done a great job, now I believe something else that will serve me better. its sorta pick and choose your belief system that way.
heres a conversation between I/there. and Spooky and some others do this already it seems to me:

I: I'm going to hell.
There: ah, is this soon or after you croak?
I: wait. this is hell right now!
There: very observant of you: so are you expecting us to help u from hell?
I: hows about a little slack...
There: hey, you know we can't interfere with your experience of hell.
I: c'mon. I'll let you!
There: Look, it is an appearance of hell. Hell only exists in your mind. its not a place.
what do you want to believe?
I: that I'm not in hell?
There: wow! thats a good starting point!
I: starting point? starting makes me think of finishing.
There: yes?
I: duh....
There: weren't you going to "finish" that thought..?
I: sure. everytime I sink lower than a tadpole in a swamp, I look back later and see how fast the hellish condition changed so that I wonder how I could have felt that way, that hell was the truth of myself. then I never sink that low again, but I can still go into a lot of doubts which cause me hell, but for shorter durations of time. so I guess the point is to figure out what you believe, and what you want to believe and see if there is a conflict in that and if theres is, work with the conflict by taking some action to reduce it. reducing the size of hell, he he he he. do u think I'm funny?
There: we've been putting up with your bad jokes for many lifetimes. but yes, you are funny. there. feel better?
I: I really think I'm funny and apparently you don't!
There: we love you whether you repeat the same jokes or not. don't worry, whatever it is dear, this too shall pass. ta ta...we are always here.

love you guys....always...this board too. alysia

thank you Spooky. we are pals till the end. speaking about the inconsistencies in I/there, I find life is a blinking on and off of what is real to me. much of my childhood I was blinked off, some of my early adult years I was blinked off. if I'm waiting in a line I blink off to a lake scene but ready to ground quickly.

anyway thats how I think of inconsistencies here or there while in a physical body. I believe when we cross over finally, it is very consistent and blinking off is optional but not necessary. but of course I can always be amiss here if I realize how little of the big picture I can grasp.
I too utilize dream language to the max. but many remain unremembered unless I make efforts. I do consider dreams a form of guidance and remain excited with symbology of my dreams and/or obes and imagination doorways which point to a more unlimited capability of self expression.  I have a 5 year dream log pointing to tips I've gotten about what on the menu for me coming up in the next 8 to 16 months for example. just little hints and images. they call this dreaming true, yes, some part of our greater being knows everything that will happen, while we here in C1 continue to act suprised when it does happen. go figure! its still fun though.
and our greater being can include our own disc members we've been talking about, or our own lives peopled by our own selves which continue on...

sometimes u want to forget so you can be somebody else..and if we can, why not then?