Definition of "Higher Self" or "Oversoul" and Its Relationship with Your Physical Self

The Law of One, Book II, Session 36

Questioner: In previous communications you have spoken of the mind/body/spirit complex totality.

Would you please give us a definition of the mind/body/spirit complex totality?

Ra: I am Ra. There is a dimension in which time does not have sway.

In this dimension,
the mind/body/spirit in its eternal dance of the present may be seen in totality, and before the mind/body/spirit complex which then becomes a part of the social memory complex is willingly absorbed into the allness of the one Creator, the entity knows itself in its totality.

This mind/body/spirit complex totality
functions as, shall we say, a resource for what you perhaps would call the higher self.

The higher self,
in turn, is a resource for examining the distillations of third-density experience and programming further experience.

This is also true of densities four, five, and six with the mind/body/spirit complex totality coming into consciousness in the course of seventh density.

Questioner: Then would the mind/body/spirit complex totality be responsible for programming changes in catalyst during a third-density experience of the mind/body/spirit complex so that the proper catalyst would be added, shall we say, as conditions for the complex changed during third-density experience?

Ra: I am Ra. This is incorrect.

The higher self,
as you call it, that is, that self which exists with full understanding of the accumulation of experiences of the entity, aids the entity in achieving healing of the experiences which have not been learned properly and assists as you have indicated in further life experience programming, as you may call it.

The mind/body/spirit complex totality
is that which may be called upon by the higher self aspect just as the mind/body/spirit complex calls upon the higher self.

In the one case you have a structured situation within the space/time continuum with the higher self having available to it the totality of experiences which have been collected by an entity and a very firm grasp of the lessons to be learned in this density.

The mind/body/spirit complex totality is as the shifting sands and is in some part a collection of parallel developments of the same entity.

This information is made available to the higher self aspect.

This aspect may then use these projected probability/possibility vortices in order to better aid in what you would call future life programming.

Questioner: Out of the Seth Material we have a statement in which Seth says that each entity here on Earth is one part of or aspect of a higher self or Oversoul which has many aspects or parts in many dimensions all of which learn lessons which allow the higher self to progress in a balanced manner. 

Am I to understand from this that there are many experiences similar to the one which we experience in the third-density which are governed by a single higher self?

Ra: I am Ra. The correctness of this statement is variable.

The more in balance an entity becomes, the less the possibility/probability vortices may need to be explored in parallel experiences.

Questioner: Do I understand from this then that the higher self or Oversoul may break down into numerous units if the experience is required to what we would call simultaneously experience different types of catalysts and then oversee these experiences?

Ra: I am Ra. This is a statement we cannot say to be correct or incorrect due to the confusions of what you call time.

True simultaneity is available only when all things are seen to be occurring at once.

This overshadows the concept of which you speak.

The concept of various parts of the being living experiences of varying natures simultaneously is not precisely accurate due to your understanding that this would indicate that this was occurring with true simultaneity.

This is not the case.

The case is from universe to universe and parallel existences can then be programmed by the higher self, given the information available from the mind/body/spirit complex totality regarding the probability/possibility vortices at any crux.

Questioner: Could you give an example of how this programming by the higher self would then bring about education through parallel experiences?

Ra: I am Ra.

Perhaps the simplest example of this apparent simultaneity of existence of two selves, which are in truth one self at the same time/space, is this:

the Oversoul, as you call it, or higher self,
seems to exist simultaneously with the mind/body/spirit complex which it aids.

This is not actually simultaneous, for the higher self is moving to the mind/body/spirit complex as needed from a position in development of the entity which would be considered in the future of this entity.

Questioner: Then the higher self operates from the future as we understand things.

In other words my higher self would operate from what I consider to be my future? Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. From the standpoint of your space/time, this is correct.

Questioner: In that case my higher self would have a very large advantage in knowing what was needed since it would know, as far as I am concerned, what was going to happen. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is incorrect, in that this would be an abrogation of free will.

The higher self aspect
is aware of the lessons learned through the sixth-density.
The progress rate is fairly well understood.

The choices which must be made to achieve the higher self as it is are in the provenance of the mind/body/spirit complex itself.

Thus the higher self is like
the map in which the destination is known;
the roads are very well known,
these roads being designed by intelligent infinity working through intelligent energy.

However, the higher self aspect can program only for the lessons and certain predisposing limitations if it wishes.

The remainder is completely the free choice of each entity.

There is the perfect balance between the known and the unknown. 

Questioner: I’m sorry for having so much trouble with these concepts, but they are very difficult I am sure to translate into our understanding and language.

Some of my questions may be rather ridiculous, but does this higher self have some type of vehicle like our physical vehicle?

Does it have a bodily complex?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct.

The higher self is of a certain advancement within sixth-density going into the seventh.

After the seventh has been well entered the mind/body/spirit complex becomes so totally a mind/body/spirit complex totality that it begins to gather spiritual mass and approach the octave density.

Thus the looking backwards is finished at that point.

Questioner: Is the higher self of every entity of a sixth-density nature?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct.

This is an honor/duty of self to self as one approaches seventh density.

Questioner: Let me be sure that I understand this then. 

We have spoken of certain particular individuals. 

For instance we were speaking of George Patton in a previous communication. 

Then his higher self at the time of his incarnation here as George Patton about forty years ago was of sixth-density? is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. 

We make note at this time that each entity has several beings upon which to call for inner support. 

Any of these may be taken by an entity to be the mind/body/spirit complex totality. 

However, this is not the case. 

The mind/body/spirit complex totality 
is a nebulous collection of all that may occur held in understanding;

the higher self itself 
a projection or manifestation of mind/body/spirit complex totality which then may communicate with the mind/body/spirit during the discarnate part of a cycle of rebirth or during the incarnation; may communicate if the proper pathways or channels through the roots of mind are opened.

Questioner: These channels would then be opened by meditation and I am assuming that the intense polarization would help in this. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is partially correct. 

Intense polarization does not necessarily develop, in the mind/body/spirit complex, the will or need to contact the Oversoul. 

Each path of life experience is unique. 

However, given the polarization, the will is greatly enhanced and visa-versa.

The Law of One, Book II, Session 37 

Ra: I am Ra. I greet you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator.

We communicate now.

Questioner: You said that each third-density entity has an higher self in the sixth-density which is moving to the mind/body/spirit complex of the entity as needed.

Does this higher self also evolve in growth through the densities beginning with the first-density, and does each higher self have a corresponding higher self advanced in densities beyond it?

Ra: I am Ra.

To simplify this concept is our intent.

The higher self
is a manifestation given to the late sixth-density mind/body/spirit complex as a gift from its future selfness.

The mid-seventh density’s
last action before turning towards the allness of the Creator and gaining spiritual mass is to give this resource to the sixth-density self, moving as you measure time in the stream of time.

This self, the mind/body/spirit complex of late sixth-density,
has then the honor/duty of using both the experiences of its total living bank of memory of experience, thoughts, and actions, and using the resource of the mind/body/spirit complex totality left behind as a type of infinitely complex thought-form.

In this way
you may see your self,
your higher self or Oversoul, and
your mind/body/spirit complex totality as three points in a circle.

The only distinction is that of your time/space continuum.

All are the same being.

The Law of One, Book III, Session 70

Questioner: What I am trying to understand here is more about the higher self and its relationship with the mind/body/spirit complex.

Does the higher self have a sixth-density mind/body/spirit complex that is a separate unit from the mind/body/spirit complex that is, in this case, displaced to negative time/space?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct.

The higher self is the entity of mid-sixth-density which, turning back, offers this service to its self.

Questioner: I think I have an erroneous concept of the mind/body/spirit complex that, for instance, I represent here in this density and my higher self.

This probably comes from my concept of space and time.

I am going to try to unscramble this.

The way I see it right now is that I am existing in two different locations, here and in mid-sixth-density, simultaneously. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. You are existing at all levels simultaneously.

It is specifically correct that your higher self is you in mid-sixth-density and, in your way of measuring what you know of as time, your higher self is your self in your future.

Questioner: Am I correct in assuming that all of the mind/body/spirit complexes that exist below levels of mid-sixth-density have a higher self at the level of mid-sixth-density? Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct.

Questioner: Would an analogy for this situation be that an individual’s higher self is manipulating, to some extent shall I say, the mind/body/spirit complex that is its analog to move it through the lower densities for the purposes of gaining experience and finally transferring that experience or amalgamating it in mid-sixth-density with the higher self?

Ra: I am Ra. This is incorrect.

The higher self does not manipulate its past selves.

It protects when possible and guides when asked, but the force of free will is paramount.

The seeming contradictions of determinism and free will melt when it is accepted that there is such a thing as true simultaneity.

The higher self is the end result of all the development experienced by the mind/body/spirit complex to that point.

Questioner: Then what we are looking at is a long path of experience through the densities up to mid-sixth-density which is a function totally of free will and results in the awareness of the higher self in mid-sixth-density, but since time is illusory and there is a, shall I say, unification of time and space or an eradication of what we think of as time, then, all of this experience that results in the higher self, the cause of evolution through the densities, is existing while the evolution takes place.

It is all simultaneous. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. We refrain from speaking of correctness due to our understanding of the immense difficulty of absorbing the concepts of metaphysical existence.

In time/space, which is precisely as much of your self as is space/time, all times are simultaneous just as, in your geography, your cities and villages are all functioning, bustling, and alive with entities going about their business at once.

So it is in time/space with the self.

Questioner: The higher self existing in mid-sixth-density seems to be at the point where the negative and positive paths of experience merge into one.

Is there a reason for this?

Ra: I am Ra. We have covered this material previously.

Questioner: Oh yes. Sorry about that.

It slipped my mind.

Now, if a positive entity is displaced to negative time/space I understand that the higher self is reluctant to enter the negative time/space.

For some reason it makes it necessary for the mind/body/spirit complex to incarnate in negative space/time.

Why is it necessary for this incarnation in negative space/time?

Ra: I am Ra. Firstly, let us remove the concept of reluctance from the equation and then secondly, address your query more to the point.

Each time/space is an analog of a particular sort or vibration of space/time.

When a negative time/space is entered by an entity the next experience will be that of the appropriate space/time.

This is normally done by the form-making body of a mind/body/spirit complex which places the entity in the proper time/space for incarnation.

The Law of One, Book III, Session 71

Questioner: As an entity goes through the death process in third-density it finds itself in time/space. 

It finds itself in a different set of circumstances.

Would you please describe the circumstances or properties of time/space and then the process of healing of incarnative experiences that some entities encounter?

Ra: I am Ra. Although this query is difficult to answer adequately, due to the limitations of your space/time sound vibration complexes, we shall respond to the best of our ability.

The hallmark of time/space is the inequity between time and space. 

In your space/time
the spatial orientation of material causes a tangible framework for illusion. 

In time/space 
the inequity is upon the shoulders of that property known to you as time. 
This property renders entities and experiences intangible in a relative sense. 

In your framework each particle or core vibration moves at a velocity which approaches what you call the speed of light from the direction of supraluminal velocities.

Thus the time/space or metaphysical experience is that which is very finely tuned and, although an analog of space/time, lacking in its tangible characteristics. 

In these metaphysical planes 
there is a great deal of what you call time which is used to review and re-review the biases and learn/teachings of a prior, as you would call it, space/time incarnation.

The extreme fluidity of these regions makes it possible for much to be penetrated which must needs be absorbed before the process of healing of an entity may be accomplished. 

Each entity is located in a somewhat immobile state much as you are located in space/time in a somewhat immobile state in time. 

In this immobile space the entity has been placed by the form-maker and higher self so that it may be in the proper configuration for learn/teaching that which it has received in the space/time incarnation.

Depending upon this time/space locus there will be certain helpers which assist in this healing process. 

The process involves 
seeing in full the experience, 
seeing it against the backdrop of the mind/body/spirit complex total experience, 
forgiving the self for all missteps as regards the missed guideposts during the incarnation and, finally, 
the careful assessment of the next necessities for learning. 

This is done entirely by the higher self until an entity has become conscious in space/time of the process and means of spiritual evolution at which time the entity will consciously take part in all decisions.

Questioner: Is the process in positive time/space identical with the process in negative time/space for this healing?

Ra: I am Ra. The process in space/time of the forgiveness and acceptance is much like that in time/space in that the qualities of the process are analogous. 

However, 

while in space/time 
it is not possible to determine the course of events beyond the incarnation but only to correct present imbalances. 

In time/space, upon the other hand, 
it is not possible to correct any unbalanced actions but rather to perceive the imbalances and thusly forgive the self for that which is.

The decisions then are made to set up the possibility/probabilities of correcting these imbalances in what you call future space/time experiences.

The advantage of time/space 
is that of the fluidity of the grand overview.

The advantage of space/time 
is that, working in darkness with a tiny candle, one may correct imbalances.

Questioner: If an entity has chosen the negative polarization are the processes of healing and review similar for the negative path?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct.

Questioner: Are the processes that we are talking about processes that occur on many planets in our Milky Way Galaxy, or do they occur on all planets, or what percentage?

Ra: I am Ra. These processes occur upon all planets which have given birth to sub-Logoi such as yourselves. 

The percentage of inhabited planets is approximately 10%.