Question for Adrian re: Mindpower newsletter 5/20/07

[DH]

Hello Adrian,

I appreciate what you wrote in today's Mindpower newsletter about reincarnation.  It's a confusing topic for many us -- there are so many diverse explanations given by various teachers -- but your explanation today was concise and clear.

I understand that the personalities of the Higher Self are all incarnating simultaneously and "sending back" experiential information to the Higher Self.  What I don't understand is, do all of the various personalities have a conscious sense of self as they move on through the astral and mental worlds and back to the Higher Self?  And having returned to the Higher Self, are they still self-aware, or are they just absorbed back into the whole?  I've read some Vedanta philosophy that speaks of the total loss of ego and personal consciousness when the personality is reabsorbed into the whole.  Maybe it's just my ego bristling at the idea, but it sounds depressing to me!  What do you think?

DH

[Adrian]

Hello DH,

Hello Adrian,

I appreciate what you wrote in today's Mindpower newsletter about reincarnation.  It's a confusing topic for many us -- there are so many diverse explanations given by various teachers -- but your explanation today was concise and clear.

I understand that the personalities of the Higher Self are all incarnating simultaneously and "sending back" experiential information to the Higher Self.  What I don't understand is, do all of the various personalities have a conscious sense of self as they move on through the astral and mental worlds and back to the Higher Self?  And having returned to the Higher Self, are they still self-aware, or are they just absorbed back into the whole?  I've read some Vedanta philosophy that speaks of the total loss of ego and personal consciousness when the personality is reabsorbed into the whole.  Maybe it's just my ego bristling at the idea, but it sounds depressing to me!  What do you think?

DH

It is indeed a potentially complex subject.

The first thing that everyone needs to understand is that at no time do we lose our conscious awareness of who we are. There is no question of being "absorbed" into something "higher" in that sense. When we experience our final incarnation the final incarnation assumes becomes the individuality and personality of the Higher Self, effectively over-riding all previous incarnations. But we still experience the other incarnations.

This is true all the way back to The Source where The Source is the Ultimate expression, experiencing everything beyond The Source. This is true all the way back the Source as Higher Selves group together, and hence these advanced channeled communicators are "groups" of Beings acting as one - the further from The Source the more "self-centered" people become - that is clearly observable and why service to others before service to self is a primary pre-requisite of progress along with subjogation of the ego and Unconditional Love for everything.

Kind regards,

Adrian.

[Nick]

Hi Adrian,

That was a particularly wonderful newsletter, as DH wrote. I'm happy that he started this thread, and also for his followup questions to you.

Your lucid descriptions of reincarnation and the Higher Self in your newsletter, and above, were good to read. What you've written certainly rings true with me.

Thanks much,
Nick

[DH]

Your lucid descriptions of reincarnation and the Higher Self in your newsletter, and above, were good to read. What you've written certainly rings true with me.

Ditto.  It's making more and more sense all of the time for me. 

I've always felt like unconditional love was at the heart of the Universe.  I was born into a Christian family, and while I've moved beyond traditional orthodoxy, the basic message of Jesus about love has only been reinforced by what I've learned from other spiritual teachers over the years.

Thanks for taking the time to respond to us, Adrian. I'm sure it must be a hassle to do that and have a life with your family, etc.    I do appreciate it.

Blessings, DH