Hi Pauli,

Aspects are I think thought forms.  They  are like holograms of us, completely like us yet only a part. They split off when some issue, possibly trauma or dramatic, is unresolved.

Google found this:
Explorer Series #4 Multidimensional Aspects of the Self | Digital ...
Feb 21, 2009 ... The Multi-dimensional aspects of the self; how thought forms limit us; the importance of recognizing the limitlessness of the soul.
www.monroeinstitute.org/downloads/explorer-series-4/

According to Wikitionary, a tryst is a secret, so' (I) am a tryst' would fit with what an aspect of self is.    Puns are popular with this level of thinking 

What her specific meaning for you is is still for you to figure out 

Betson

Bardo, Aspect of Self retrievals can be scary.

I've read Moen's books, which have more limited definitions of
Aspects of Self in my opinion. I got some answers today, but
I'm not sure I want to post them as they were very unclear.

Wow..crossbow;
That's quite an Analogie, had to re-read it a few time until it sink in...
Is this something you came up with or is it something you found on the website; if so would love to read the webpage where you got this.Thanks
PUL


crossbow wrote on Jun 21^st, 2011 at 12:05am:

Hi PauliEffect,

Crossbows analogy points at aspects of our selves which are subordinated under an encompassing whole. We can imagine a hierarchy of many levels, coming to a hierarchy of "higher selves" and "lower selves"/ "aspects".

What it makes tricky is, we can't be so certain how solid or "whole" our conscious self really is. When we do a little introspection and think about how we act in different situations, with different people involved, we'll find that we take on quite different roles. Now, this is common and natural, and shows the flexibility of our conscious self. When we take this a little further, we can imagine that we can take on roles which are incompatible with each other. And from this, it's not difficult to imagine that there are roles which don't make it to our conscious self because they are in such degree incompatible with our personality, as we like to see it, and to the circumstances we live in, that these roles remain subconscious. When these are, for whatever reason, quite strong and substantial, they can start to begin a life of it's own, not really, but almost, as if they were actually different persons, but still connected to us. Then things can happen like feeling incomplete, permantly exhausted or disturbed, fuzzy, up to hearing voices and such.

I think it is a permanent process of building up, and reintegrating aspects of our own, while finally the process should go in the direction of integrating and becoming more conscious of incongruencies within ourselves.

It might even be possible that a person breaks apart into several of it's aspects.

A "thought form", in my vocabulary, is not necessarily to be called an "aspect" of our own. If I, for example, in a lonely hour, would vividly imagine my dream-partner, then a decent psychic maybe could confuse this thought-form with an aspect, or even a real person, while it's just a fantasy of mine with no degree of independence. Although I've heard if one invests much energy, one can produce thought forms which to some degree can become independent from it's creator; and if one overdoes it with fantasizing and gets lost in it, chances are that thought forms become aspects and the personality more and more fractioned.

Spooky

Romain,

Re: "Is this something you came up with or is it something you found on the website;...(?)"

I am unaware of any websites, books or articles where such an "analogy" is described. Neither did I "come up with it" myself, that is if you mean did I come up with it like someone might come up with a theory or an idea of some sort.

I can leave the body, and have been doing so for several decades. My excursions are generally purposeful and productive, not wasted; that is, I use the excursions to find out how things are - and why they are. Over the years I have investigated most of the common questions we humans have about life and found out the answers for myself, and have found out much more than I ever imagined I would find out. So much that I feel embarrassed about it. I don't like to believe; I want to know. And that is what drove me, and enabled me. I have also been fortunate to have had some pivotal learning experiences in my past which have helped me immensely and which I am very thankful for. I am aware of most of my previous lives over the last three and a half thousand years or so - that ability, amongst others, was learnt along the way. What I wrote is of my knowledge. But for those who do not know it, I do not present it as a truth, but only as information, an analogy, a theory, an idea, that may be stored, examined, correlated with, and possibly verified or eliminated through individual experience. I posted it for others to think about, and do with it what they can. 

One more thing: I am just a normal man. Certainly not what people would call a good man or a "spiritual" man. I mess up just like every other man. But I pray and meditate, worship truth, account for myself, and try to live by love to others. And along the way, made lots of mistakes, but tried to learn from them. That is basically it. If I can do what I can do, then I think others can do it to. 

Heisenberg,

You stated my thought perfectly.  I find retrieving aspects of self to be a troubling concept.  Essentially, you can splinter off many different experiences and possibly lifetimes, and then go on an endless search and recover mission, with the idea being that in the end, you will be able to progress and be at peace after integrating these "lost" aspects of your personality.

Yet in some ways, much misery comes from the misunderstanding - a fundamental misunderstanding - that we are all isolated and apart from everything else.  This great experiment in individuality and polarity is, at times the main cause of spiritual angst and stagnation. 

To my mind, the path toward evolution in the direction of love involves maintaining your own individual awareness, but giving up on egotistical thinking and behaviour.  The idea that we would spend our time retrieving fragments of ourselves that are "out there" somewhere and have to gather up these fragments before moving on in spirit seems to be an impossible task, reminiscent of Sysiphus (a character from greek mythology who, as punishment for his trickery was sentenced by the gods to roll a huge boulder up a hill with great effort, only to watch it roll back down and have to start all over again - for eternity).  It also seems quite opposite toward turning away from egotistical behaviour.  Those who go after countless aspects of self appear to me to be cultivating the exact ego-oriented thinking that caused the misery in the first place.

For me, spiritual evolution is related to our conscious mind moving toward love in thought and action.  It is an emotional state.  It is our state of mind.  For myself, my deepest instincts tell me that to overanalyze the past or dwell in it is not necessary, though it may give insight to some people and help others break through blocks and barriers.

Matthew

The use of the body in analogy to other things is a time-honored tradition and certainly dates from the time of the ancient Greeks if not earlier. It's a good analogy.

Bob Monroe in the video "Wednesday with Bob" spoke of having many lifetimes over a much longer time period than is usually given. But then he said go find out for yourself.

What woul dbe interesting would be to experience one's self as the way one is now, then experience the higher self, then have an experience of another lifetime.