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ALTERNATE
SELVES
A fascinating and unusual subject that unraveled for me! I am told the Ashtavkra Gita touches on this subject.
This too is part of my earliest writings which arose from within in response to
my questioning and introspection. These
are transcribes of what I would access internally without words, and thus
‘written’ in a staccato manner – long and somewhat winded as its a self dialogue - or self teaching self - go beyond the words!
‘Seth’ a channeled entity through an American
woman called Jane Roberts and ‘whom’ I had been reading a few
years ago, spoke a lot about ‘probable selves’ or ‘alternate selves’.
1) From my understanding on this concept (largely through Seth and then
whatever I picked up through the last few years) we each have a myriad of
alternative selves, who sort of live out all the choices we do not make or take
in what we view as our this current life. B) Thereby for example if ‘me divyaa’
is experiencing being married to mk then another probable divyaa is trying out
not being married to mk or being married to some other whom I might have thought
of marrying in this life, but didn’t! If ‘me divyaa’ is choosing to write, then
other probable/alternate divyaa’s are trying out her other ‘qualities/aspects’
such as perhaps art, acting, continuing ceramics etc etc. C) So from ‘me
divyaa’s’ point of view: whatever ‘me divyaa’ may have at some point been
drawn towards but did not ‘do’ or choose to materialize in this life is being
tried out by alternate divyaa’s. Alternate selves so to say, are
experiencing/living out me-divyaa’s every ‘thought’, in some dimension!! That’s
is why it is said that thoughts are real! D) From the alternate divyaas’ points
of view the alternates are trying out experiencing all their ‘thoughts/choices/qualities
E) In the larger frame, each incarnating personality’s’ alternate selves will
be living out versions of each other as they are all trying out what
their combined higher soul has, so to say, ‘set’/planned to experience through
the ‘one divyaa incarnating personality’.
2) So what this means to me is that we
each have all these infinite probable/alternate selves who are trying
out/ living out ….all the ‘probabilities and possibilities’ that we as higher souls had sort of
‘set’ for ourselves to experience through our current incarnating self.
As all possibilities naturally cannot be experienced by one physical ‘me
divyaa’ (for example how can I in my dimension have and thus contribute the
experience of being married to mk and not be married to mk in the same
time!) They are thereby experienced through all my alternate selves in
different dimensions!!! Alternate/probable selves therefore ‘exist’ so that
each incarnating personality can experience (and thereby contribute) ALL its
possible and probable qualities and choices to our higher self and not
only limit it to those that we materialize in this life/dimension as the ‘me
divyaa’.
3)This sort of ties up with the concepts that a) Godhead/spirit to
experience ALL that IT is… individuates into infinite ‘selves’ or individual
consciousnesses towards experiencing each and every nuance within it.
b) Then … our monadic self also further individuates into higher
selves to experience all that it (the monad) chose to experience and contribute
towards godhead c) The higher self then- Again- further individuates as soul
extensions/ personalities for the same reason! d) These ‘soul extensions’ then
further have individual experiences as incarnations, which we view as our past
present and future selves. SOOOOOO if as above so below, then the
incarnating ‘present’ self (though it would be more accurate I think to refer
to me- as the present divyaa-experience; instead of divyaa-self)
then further individuates into these alternate selves/experiences for the same
‘reason’: which is to experience and contribute ALL THAT ‘I’ CAN BE at each stage of individuation…every nuance!
4 Only those aspects will be tried that our higher-soul
stage/progress/evolution (for want of better words) still needs to clear, align
and understand through our incarnating personality.
(What comes to me about this above ‘point’ is that) perhaps any wish,
thought, idea, and inclination i have… however small or what i may call
‘passing’…is perhaps tried out as an alternative self. So… even any what
me-divyaa may feel as a remote doubt,
fear; mis-alignment in belief pattern will be tried or experienced through
these alternative selves!!! If that thought just isn’t there, anywhere,
within my larger divyaa personality… then there is no alternative self to try
it out in some dimension!! How can there be?? But if it is there and
is being experienced in another dimension by an alternative, its fine, I don’t
need to fret!! By its very experience in another dimension by an alternate
self, it is being worked on so to say!! But it will probably reflect somewhere
in some minor or not so minor way within me-divyaa too.
One can view this from the opposite perspective if it makes you uneasy
to think that you have, for example,a murderer- alternative-self out
there because you have murder somewhere on your mind!!! If murder is one of the
experiences that my personality has chosen to experience for higher self, and
if it is being experienced through an alternate self then you can perhaps say
this is why the thought crossed/crosses my me-divyaa mind in what I may call
“temporary anger and not really meaning it!!” (But yes from my personal
point of view this interpretation maybe somewhat trying to avoid the
reality of looking deep within me; as I think it would mean that if murder is
something my personality has chosen to work out, then that it is at some level
even within ‘me-divyaa’ as ultimately me-divyaa is not different from her
personality or alternate selves. But yes the very fact that me-divyaa is not
trying it out means it is really not my problem in that sense, and that another
team member is doing it and its thus left best to ‘her’; but if I really look
deep within me I will find traces around the issue of murder, as mentioned
above, perhaps as an passing temporary anger fit or more!!)
So
higher soul ‘allows’/creates many alternates for its incarnating personality;
in our example in the divyaa personality, so that the issues to be worked out
through her are not handled by one me-divyaa alone!!! It’s like having a team
of ‘me’s’ working out the issues, which I- divyaa- the- personality chose to
work out for higher soul!!!
(This personality is our larger self, as different from current self or
higher soul). Wow what a plan spirit came up with!!! Making it
easier, giving each of its individuations, teams of helpers, at every step!!
(Just to relate this in our current scenario try and imagine the
mother divyaa being able to work in one dimension, the wife-divyaa in another,
the student-divyaa in another, the writer-divyaa in another, the
trainee-channel divyaa in another, ……and so on…we would then do full
justice to each of these roles!!! Which we always complain we cannot
because there is no time or energy!!! So that is what we are doing in a larger
picture through alternative selves!!)
5)Back to Seth: who then explains that each alternate self exists in its own
dimension (as different from realm). Each considers ‘itself’ as the real self,
with the ‘others’ as his/her probable self!! (If it comes across the concept!!)
Each operates from its own free will.
An analogy an help explain this confusing
point beautifully: through the example of a current self choosing to go going
for the purpose of FUN; and doing various activities such as eating ice
cream, movie, restaurant, friend’s house etc etc towards that purpose. In this
example it would be like the ice-cream eating Divyaa- thinking that ice cream
eating episode as her whole existence/life and with her free-will choosing
whether to eat the ice cream and which flavor at which parlor, and
thinking/identifying her self as a ‘separate’ individual from the movie going
divyaa who thus chooses her movie and time of show with ‘her’ free will…or
restaurant fight divyaa who chooses to fight it out or speak politely with then
‘her’ free will…etc et. So, just as these are all experiences my current self
is having, all our alternate selves are varied experiences the higher
soul is having and we begin to identify with one, the particular
experience/life of me-divyaa as ‘me’!!!
6)It’s good to know about these selves as we can then tune into them and share
our strengths or iron our weaknesses so to say. Seth does give an interesting
‘exercise’ as a start-up to how one can start to connect with these probable
selves incase any one wants it! I have tried it and found it mind-blowing and
for many many months included them all in my meditations.
Seth expounds that there are what he called
‘bleed- through’s’ when we inexplicably yearn or daydream or feel like doing
something out of our usual pattern. Now when we are aware of something like
this popping up, we can use it, to connect to an alternate self if we so wish!
So if I feel this inexplicable urge to fly a plane…maybe there is an
alternate-self doing that in some dimension and instead of passing it off as a
crazy anomaly I use this to tune into some pilot aspect of mine!!! Also if I
say want to be a writer I can try and connect to an alternate that perhaps
already is already writing, maybe on another topic, and tap into those skills!!
Or if I am impatient I can try and tap into my patient self and gather that
into my present!! Or reverse if I feel that at some time I took a ‘better’ choice
here in this dimension of marrying for example a ‘nice’ man, which then
created say an alternative self married to an alcoholic whom I might have
thought of marrying in this dimension, but ‘didn’t,’… I can then send ‘her’ my
strength and light… and ‘help’ with any trauma she maybe going through and
thereby help our larger personality fears/ lessons whatever they maybe …
7) We can sometimes ‘switch’ probabilities. Seth in fact says we do it all
the time without realizing. And now that we are alert to this
concept, we can perhaps get glimmers or become more aware of having
done so!! A good clue Seth expounds is when you strongly feel
that you are somehow a new you!! Where you somehow on retrospect look back
and wonder where for example the old divyaa has ‘gone’. When you feel the
‘past’ somehow is so vague and non-existent in certain areas where it seemed so
strong in memory and feeling before…yes you may have switched probabilities!
8) It reminds me of a channeling where it was mentioned that we have like
billion chakric threads going here there everywhere!!!!!! Now we know where
some are going;-))))
We should not confuse this with karma as we view
it, as each alternative self lives in its own dimension with its own ‘rules’!
Seth explains that each dimension has its own version of what we call karma;
some don’t even have what we call a ‘past’ as the alternate self is sometimes
‘born’ when one of us makes a difficult choice while yearning to do something
else: Then hey presto an alternative self can be ‘born’ trying the other
option!!! Seth refers to each dimension as being a camouflage reality and while
it may be only few feet from us, due to its different ‘systems’ we don’t see it
even when its present all around us and going thru my room technically
speaking!!!! (Like the camouflage a soldier wears to appear invisible in an
environment!)
9)One last point which I will add though I see its getting too long: Seth further
explains that probable selves can sometimes also exist in the same time and
space dimension as us!!!!!!!!!!! He calls them ‘counterparts’.
Actual physical people whom we may or may not come across in our
lifetime!!!
Ps: imp note:
- It is important to grasp that each self has its own soul purpose/agenda…so if
it is trying- what we view a negative aspect- it doesn’t make that self
negative as in fact for that self it is its purpose… and thus makes it in our
terms…‘good’ for him! So we should not fret about our ‘bad’ alternate self’s,
as they are doing for our higher self that part of the
journey/that lesson!! We are doing ours!! The ‘results/experiences’ are
both going to higher self for a complete picture!! (If we multiply this to all
alternate selves, then all ‘results/experiences’ are going to higher self
for its composite and integrated view/experience!!)
-Infact perhaps we should be thankful to them for doing what we consider ‘bad’
(as they perhaps will be to us, for doing what seems bad to them!!!)…. Because
we then don’t need to rob that bank in this life!! Its being done by another
‘team member who prefers that chore!!! It’s like teamwork with each self,
contributing in their own way what’s best for them…!
-In the same manner we should not fret about our weaknesses for me must be
aware that chose
to come with it as an experience or quality for my whole soul group!!! And that
infact by running from it, feeling guilty etc etc I will indeed do self/
selves/ higher self/ my whole soul group disservice so to say! So I
must accept it, look at it, observe, become aware and learn from it, and then
when we as a group soul, through this me, have learnt all we can from that
quality! For example ‘impatience’ -when our belief pattern has become aware of
all that impatience stands for, it will then ‘go’ or be aligned so to say … so
if light is indeed ‘knowing’, then even when a murderer murders, he is
increasing his and his soul groups light/ knowing through it, as murder is part
of what he came to ‘know’ for all… We need to each ‘be’ whatever we have chosen
to be, and in doing so we best serve our higher self so to say...
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