Your channeled selves?

Hello Teka,
Thank you very much for those insights. In my own experience, I can confirm the validity of your essential point. Yet... my experiences also seem to suggest that there is something more circumscribed... something more to the nature of identity to the extent that it is not simply where my attention and intention is manifesting...or even the relation of another sentient beings attention and intention on my being into my "interbeing" self. There seems to be a unique entelechal property that includes and excludes... that delimits identity and purpose, however fluid and changing, and however much constructed by the manifest relation of things. I will follow up and contemplate more on what you have shared and see what arises. Thank you again.

In light,

Johannes

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A story of the Soul

My view is that we are channelers of a multitude of mind-styles, thoughts, personalities, memories, beings and life-times. Though we think we are a single personality, all that idea is, is a thought with boundaries.

And who is it that is able to channel hundreds and thousands of personalities and beings who are spread across thousands of years of linear time? It is the eternal soul. That is actually who we are.

Think of the soul as an invisible, limitless, spiritual entity who is inhabiting the physical body. The soul is a God fragment who LOVES exploring the universe in all dimensions ... in a multitude of bodies that are cast across eons of time.

Still, from the physical dimesion perspective the soul is invisible and it uses biological vehicles (bodies) to carry it around on a planet so that it can see and feel the environment ... to know what it is like to be human in all its glory ... and to participate in evolution.

But the soul is what we are. It is the eternal here-and-presence that is hard to put your finger on, and cannot be accurately defined in words.

To most people, "presence" feels like nothing at all and they give it no value. However, in that presence resides a reflection of the whole Universe. And so the presence of soul may be more aligned to spaciousness, rather than solidity ... and that space is in every atom and between the stars. The soul is a quantum field-based being.

The mind, personalities, thoughts, memories, dreams, life-times and environments (both real and imagined) that the consciousness of the soul experiences, are the things the soul focuses on and engages with in its exploration of Creation in the vast multi-dimensional Universe.

One final idea: the soul is a conscious God particle, a limitless quantum field being, an active life force. The soul is so vast that it is not limited to living in one physical body at a time. It is an offspring of God and can have a conscious fragment of itself in a multitude of bodies all at the same time. For the sake of this story, lets say that the soul can be in 1,000 different human forms all at the same time ... and so to the soul there is a collective experience of 1,000 different incarnations that are spread across 100,000 years of linear time, but from the soul's perspective they all are happening at the same time -- NOW -- for the soul lives in the eterma;. timeless moment of Now. The soul's natural time is "quantum field time" ... you might say.

Peace,

-- Teka
http://www.soulconnection.net

Thank you, Bob! I have never heard of Michael Newton. Ian Stevenson and Gary Schwartz I am well familiar with... as I have tried to stay away from anything that I could cross check with my 'eye of mind' epistomological sensibilities. I think reading the works you suggested is just what the doctor ordered...if there are any of his you particulary recommend, please advise. I haven't yet read anything from Hastings, Tart, or Moody on this topic and wonder if you (or anyone reading this) might know if they have written on it. Some of my own recent experiences with "channeling" (on my own) have made this more of a niggling issue for me. As with the work of scholars and scientific investigators around this, it seems not enough for me to feel or meditate my way through this without finding a way to articulate some map of it that will satisfy all my energies. If say, a person named Jon Smith says to this therapist that he in fact was Raul Somebody... and that some of Raul's personality and tempermental diatheses are showing up in Jon... and Jon's 'this life' history and relations conspires to build upon this diathesis toward some intentional actions in the world... and then one day, that links up with, say, Lulu Someone who has it in for Jon and does him in with pitchfork... and then Jon suddenly shows up in a child's memory that happened to walk into Ian Stevenson's office 8 years later or so... would that mean that Jon's bereaved family members would not be able to access Jon readily (via channeling) because he's now working on completing his project through this new being? And then, Jon's bereaved family might actually be picking up Raul anyway, right? But wait, Raul was someone else before that, no? And then that child in Ian's office will go either "graduate" earth school by completing the "purpose" here, or go on to be yet someone else until it is seen through??? And then, the population of the planet is increasing... so perhaps part of Jon will show up in several children, though not all of them will make it to Ian's office. Then... if one of Jon's bereaved pass on themselves, and they fully expect to see Jon there in the beyond waiting for them in the after life... if Jon is active doing something in his new incarnations, would Jon still appear to the bereaved that pass on and expect to him to be there... and would Raul's family also pop in there somewhere? Or if one of Jon's dear family members nearly die, having an NDE, would they see Jon there, or would there be a note that says he's busy in another incarnation? With a growing population of incarnated humans, do they get more dilute... or do they just keep srouting up new ones... all those new ones must relate to the original one? These are an example of how when the mind approaches this seeking some intellectual clarity on that level of being... what I mean by "niggling". My experience and the research shows that our transpersonal self is indeed very 'real'. Tat vam asi also feels natural. The bereaved being able to channel their unique loved ones (e.g. Jon, and not Raul by mistake), or see them on NDE or passing...in otherwords so many transpersonal pieces of information... so many parapsychological things confirmed that are consistent with timeless spiritual principles... but yet the "meaning", direction, and purpose to it all is so mysterious...most days I can just smile and be content in the awe and mysterium of it all... other days or seasons, my own 'selves', my own diatheses, my own network of relations conspire to keep me asking the niggling bits. Will look at the works you recommended...many thanks again! Johannes

Hi, Johannes. Thanks for opening a juicy and delicious thread.
Relevant in my inquiry into these topics has been: Association of consciousness with quantum mechanical field theory, particularly Ed Mitchell's insights around the quantum hologram and phase-conjugate adaptive resonance. A singular identity may be understood as a unique juxtaposition of resonances in a higher dimensional superspace, a "signal" which episodically downloads into a lower dimensional container, like you or I. This clicks with Bruce Lipton's work.
John Haeglin has some very intriguing insights which apply string theory priciples to these notions, also requiring some advanced mental gymnastics, but, hey, that's what gets my mojo working.
Fractal geometry has opened some doors into how this energy/information dynamic might be encoded. The technology of fractal antennas, now in every cell phone, points to a modality of ingression for non-local info into matter; also how incarnate humans might tune in to other identities through resonance.
William Tiller's work with Intention Imprinted Electronic Devices suggests how conscious intent interacts with matter, also involving a multi-dimensional model. More cognitive heavy lifting.
Finally, Terrence McKenna's Novelty Theory, laid out in his book, The Invisible Landscape, articulates an insight into time itself, also incorporating a fractal dimension, and suggesting the fundamental nature of our cosmolgical context. This is the tastiest nugget I've found. JED

Great suggestion Bob! Another, much less scientific, but enjoyable read that offered some insight to me about the nature of the 'self' and past lives, is Jane Roberts "Oversoul 7" books. Jane was the channel of all of the Seth Materials. The Oversoul series fictionalizes some of the concepts channeled by Seth.

Thank you, Angela, will put that one on my list as well!