*The Self*



Q:  I want to go back to Guardians Angels or Higher Self for a second.

B:  All right, have a good time. (Audience laughter)

Q:  Why does the Higher Self send down the lower self to learn a lesson
that the Higher Self already knows?  What is my misperception here?

B:  Oh, thank you.  The Higher Self does not send down a /lower/ self.  The
idea is that the Self creates an idea and the idea automatically determines
that it will be split into components that can experience what it wants to
experience.  Only in a universe of limitation, of forgetfulness, can you
experience many ideas you cannot experience in a universe in which you do
not forget who you are. Thus, to experience certain ideas of limitation,
you must create a portion of your consciousness to extend itself into the
universe in which you can forget who you are.

Thus, the idea of a /lower self/ is created instantaneously upon the desire
to have a certain type of experience.  It is not that the Higher Self
/sends/ a lower self, it is simply, by definition, according to the
experience that is desired, that these ideas of separations are created.
You follow me?

Q:  So I'm now in the realm of limitation and I've cut myself off from the
true knowingness because I'm limiting myself so that I can experience...

B:  But you are still within true knowingness, for what you want to learn
you are learning.  And in this way, you have not cut yourself off for the
conduit is always there.  Now this is the transformational life, in your
terms, you are at the ending of a multi-thousand year cycle in which you
have been forgetting, and now you are remembering.  So you are re-
integrating and becoming aware that you even have such a thing as a Higher
Self.

Q:  Do we use human aberration to learn these lessons?

B:  Yes.

Q:  And so is it pointless to try and get rid of human aberration?

B:  You cannot get rid of it.  By accepting and learning the lesson you
simply no longer need that tool, and then it will integrate and smooth out.
 It is all of the fighting against what you have chosen to learn that
continues what you are calling aberration.  The acceptance of it will be
the integration of it, the learning of it and the smoothing out of it.

Q:  What does acceptance actually mean though?  Let's say I have something
that was socially unacceptable...

B:  /Socially/?

Q:  ...and embarrassing to me.

B:  Then in this way you are learning the idea of judgement and that if it
is something in this way that you can still learn from, then it is a lesson
just as valuable and equal to any other lesson that you could learn.  And
you can also learn and have the opportunity from that, in terms of knowing
how to express yourself in terms that you prefer to.  But do not judge any
portion of yourself, for to judge it is to create it to remain.

Q:  I understand the judgement, but what does one practically do... just go
with the flow and just do whatever ones feels like doing?

B:  Within your integrity, yes.  Recognize that the idea of flowing within
your integrity is simply recognizing that you are as powerful as you need
to be to learn and create and do and be anything you want without having to
hurt anyone else to do it.  So there is no need for forcing; going with
your flow does not mean the violation of others' rights.

Q:  But what if my mother wouldn't like me climbing trees all day long
because its socially unacceptable?

B:  So what?

Q:  And I feel like climbing trees?

B:  Then climb them.

Q:  But how does that not tread on her toes?

B:  In this way, you simply recognize the opportunity to share with her the
idea of what you are learning from it in that way, and offer her the
opportunity to recognize that it is not interfering, in your terms, it is
not forcing an idea upon someone.  It is simply her choice to judge that
the idea is something that she does not want to experience in that way.
But obviously she has chosen to be with you, and if you are the type of
being that wants to do that then, by definition, it is something she wants
to be shown.

Q:  Okay.

B:  You follow me?

Q:  Thanks.

B:  You can work it out to an equality by granting each other self-
empowerment and validity in each others points of view.  Then you may
simply find that you may not always want to climb a tree as often  as you
think you do if it is simply out of spite.  You follow me?

Q:  Yes.

B:  When you come to equal terms you will climb your tree when it is
exactly all right, from her point of view, for you to do so.  And that will
be the only time you feel like climbing the tree and vice versa.  Whenever
you choose to climb it will be the time that she feels it is all right for
you to do so.   You follow me?

Q:  Yes, thank you.

B:  That is the synchronous harmony that your entire civilization can
become.  Thank you.