Higher Self

What it is

The Higher Self is our divine nature. It is the part of us that already lives in truth, love, wisdom, courage, harmony and freedom. It has never been damaged. It has only been covered over.

Why it matters

The goal of the Pathwork is not to create the Higher Self but to uncover it. As we dismantle the Mask Self and transform the Lower Self, the Higher Self naturally shines through. Then our intuition, creativity, spontaneity and capacity to love begin to unfold.

From Bones

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It will be far easier to face our Lower Self if we realize that underneath it lives our Higher Self.

That’s the absolute reality of who we truly are. (Chapter 3)

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One of the subtle bodies that every living being has is called the Higher Self, or divine spark. The frequency of the vibrations of this body is the quickest. For this is the finest and most radiant of all the subtle bodies.

The higher one’s spiritual development, the faster these vibrations will be. (Chapter 3)

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When we can truly feel all our feelings—and here’s the really good part—we can identify with our Higher Self… Wherever we’re not identified with our Higher Self, we’ll find it impossible to get past our senseless negative will. For if a secret identification with the Lower Self exists—even though admittedly it’s only a partial identification—giving up our cruel and destructive ways will seem like self-annihilation.

This unreal Lower Self will seem so real, based largely on our fear of it being killed off. This means the real Higher Self parts must seem unreal—maybe even phony. This seems even more true when we use a phony veneer, or Mask Self, to cover our Lower Self. (Chapter 17)

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Just as our conscious ego-mind can be instructed by our Higher Self, so can our Lower Self be instructed by either our ego-mind or our Higher Self—likely in that order…

After we have gotten some practice, our ego-mind can ask our Higher Self to please offer some instruction to the Lower Self. We then give it some space. Listen to it…

The ego can then align with the Higher Self. Or this might all go on while we are asleep.

Over time, we will become familiar with how this goes. Then the influence of our Higher Self can continue on the involuntary level, without the ego’s help. (Chapter 18)

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The release valve on the dam of our feelings is our commitment to being in truth. What do we really think and feel, right now?

The first answers might not yet come from our Higher Self. We might not get magical revelations or mystical visions. In fact, the first answers might come from our logical ego mind. (Chapter 17)

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