05-13-2012, 12:00 AM
I was tempted to call this paragraph 'The higher self' but this term already has connotations which would not help make my point and also, it gives the impression that other selves are lower which I wanted to avoid. Then I found the following quote so I decided to call it the sublime self:
"Don Juan said that to enter into total freedom, a human being must call on his or her sublime side, which, he said, human beings have, but which it never occurs to them to use."
More or less the idea is what while working towards the totality of ourselves, we are still multi-dimensional beings and not yet aware of all the different parts.
How do we function when we are only seeing one part of the picture and not remembering the rest?
I started to think about this because I experienced cycles during which I was not lucid in dreaming and yet, I always had quite magical dreams and got the most of out them.
Even when it was a challenging or nightmarish situation, I would be as impeccable as I could be and I would solve situations, learn, grow, even if I had no idea it was a dream.
In a way, I could see the benefit of not being lucid...if I had been, I would have ben tempted to do totally different things which would not have brought the growth needed in that reality.
How does this happen? The Sublime self or Higher self is what I have intended: being the highest version of myself, my true potential.
When you intend this and meditate on it, or stay in silence into this intent, you flood your multi dimensional selves with it.
Then you can trust that even when you do not remember (and it does not have to be during dreams only) there is this part of you that has sent you back into whichever reality,
and you intuitively know what to do to function at your highest.
So the idea behind all this is that you do not need to control constantly everything and be aware of everything; you can do your best and connect to this sublime side.... trust that while you are advancing and gaining a better awareness, continuity and unity, your multiple emanations are following the impulse of this higher self.
"Don Juan said that to enter into total freedom, a human being must call on his or her sublime side, which, he said, human beings have, but which it never occurs to them to use."
More or less the idea is what while working towards the totality of ourselves, we are still multi-dimensional beings and not yet aware of all the different parts.
How do we function when we are only seeing one part of the picture and not remembering the rest?
I started to think about this because I experienced cycles during which I was not lucid in dreaming and yet, I always had quite magical dreams and got the most of out them.
Even when it was a challenging or nightmarish situation, I would be as impeccable as I could be and I would solve situations, learn, grow, even if I had no idea it was a dream.
In a way, I could see the benefit of not being lucid...if I had been, I would have ben tempted to do totally different things which would not have brought the growth needed in that reality.
How does this happen? The Sublime self or Higher self is what I have intended: being the highest version of myself, my true potential.
When you intend this and meditate on it, or stay in silence into this intent, you flood your multi dimensional selves with it.
Then you can trust that even when you do not remember (and it does not have to be during dreams only) there is this part of you that has sent you back into whichever reality,
and you intuitively know what to do to function at your highest.
So the idea behind all this is that you do not need to control constantly everything and be aware of everything; you can do your best and connect to this sublime side.... trust that while you are advancing and gaining a better awareness, continuity and unity, your multiple emanations are following the impulse of this higher self.