betson, thanks for the Explorer Tape link. I 've listened to tape #4 and # 29
about Aspects. At the same time interesting, both tapes are difficult to understand
and get out solid info from. If anyone has a condensation of those tapes
I would be most grateful, as re-listening to the tapes wears me down.

I got the advice to look up Seth material too, which is on my to-do list.

I wonder if anyone else has any other sources for Aspect of Self info.

I start to wonder if my view of Aspects have turned into a belief, which locks me.
It's strange that Monroe never wrote anything about Aspects of Self in his books.
Maybe even TMI doesn't have a definition of what Aspects of Self are?

spooky2 wrote on Jun 26^th, 2011 at 11:13pm:


  I had a somewhat similar experience.  I remembered a very vivid dream wherein i was outside meditating while looking at the Sun.  As i looked at the Sun, but also went deeper inside myself during the meditation, i felt myself merging with the Sun.

   At first it was downright almost scary because i felt myself expand so much that in a way it felt like i was being torn to pieces so to speak.  There was primarily the fear of the loss of self/individual self awareness.

  Rather it was that i was expanding so much and so quickly.  In the dream, i decided to just go with the flow, and to my pleasant surprise realized mentally the above expanding process, and realized i still had a sense of self awareness, but was just a much more expanded awareness than the "previous" self.   With that, there was intense feelings of a lot of joy , at peaceness, and sense of great power (power to co-create i guess).

  (i think the dream was both a learning and preparatory message/experience)

   

From my own experiences, and from much what I've read, to become aware of aspects of one's self is a byproduct of meditation (and every practice similar to meditation). One might view scenes in which there is one person who the viewer suddenly identifies as him/herself (and might call it a past-life), or is engaged in a retrieval with lots of emotions, showing some parallels to his/her own life, or one finds oneself confronted with memories or imaginations of/concerning the own present life, showing typical examples of specific roles. All these are, of course, problematic, as they are a challenge to our ego.
   Curiously, meditation and similar practices do have effects which are seemingly the exact opposite, like the experience Justin told of; I, too, had an experience which started at night with an immense feeling of expansion. I had become free of any worries, concerns, anxieties etc. The next day I saw my surrounding as truely MY surrounding, being a part of me. This experience is one which could be characterized as integrative, while the other is one of explicative, which naturally brings about the possibility of exclusive tendencies.

   The second, integrative experience is traditionally called Samadhi (India) or Satori (Japan) (in my case a minor one); from what I've heard, in these traditions this enhanced awareness of these opposites is known as common during/after every meditational work, until the mystical step has been taken whereafter these opposites are seen through and no longer are recognized as opposites, but appearances of one and the same.

Spooky