Is the Spirit, the Higher Self, and the Soul all the same thing? -- Seth
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Is the Spirit, the Higher Self, and the Soul all the same thing?
In the Seth Material, the short answer is yes and no: fundamentally, they all refer to the same seamless, multidimensional spectrum of your greater identity. 1 & 2 Seth explicitly notes that terms like Soul, Spirit, Entity, Inner Self, and Higher Self are simply different human verbal attempts to express the vaster, nonphysical portions of our own being that we intuitively sense within ourselves. 2 & 3
1. This physical perception in no way alters the native, basic, unfettered perception that is characteristic of the inner self, the inner self being the portion of the soul that is within you. The inner self knows its relationship with the soul. It is a portion of the self that acts, you might say, as a messenger between the soul and the present personality. You must also realize that while I use terms like "soul" or "entity," "inner self," and "present personality," I do so only for the sake of convenience, for one is a part of the other; there is no point where one begins and another ends. SS Part One: Chapter 6: Session 527, May 11, 1970
2. I am not saying that words cannot be used to describe the psyche, but they cannot define it. It is futile to question: "What is the difference between my psyche and my soul, my entity and my greater being?" for all of these are terms used in an effort to express the greater portions of your own experience that you sense within yourself. NotP Chapter 1: Session 755, September 8, 1975
3. Your use of language may make you impatient for definitions, however. Hopefully this book will allow you some intimate awareness, some definite experience, that will acquaint you with the nature of your own psyche, and then you will see that its reality escapes all definitions, defies all categorizing, and shoves aside with exuberant creativity all attempts to wrap it up in a neat package. NotP Chapter 1: Session 755, September 8, 1975
Seth emphasizes that there are no rigid "walls" or artificial boundaries separating these aspects. 1 & 4 However, for functional and operational clarity, Seth makes several subtle distinctions between how these terms express themselves:
4. "You must image that within yourself--for this is the truth--there is a stronger and more powerful self, a larger self. And when the "little" self says, "I am afraid, and I will make excuses," you must imagine the larger self saying, "I am strong. I will not allow the smaller self to make excuses. There is no need for them." You must identify with this larger portion of yourself."
"There are no divisions to the self. Those that you experience are illusions. Yet, those illusions are lovely. They are creative. They are valid experiences of reality." ECS2 ESP Class Session, February 3, 1970
1. The Soul / Entity (The Multidimensional Whole)
- Why Seth prefers "Entity": Seth often uses the term Entity in preference to "Soul" simply because "soul" carries centuries of restrictive, dogmatic religious connotations (such as something static that you can "lose" or must "save"). 5
5. With the little background given so far, we can at least begin to discuss the subject of this book: The eternal validity of the soul. Even when we are exploring other issues, we will be trying to illustrate the multidimensional aspect of this inner self. There are many misconceptions connected with it, and first of all we shall try to dismiss these.
First of all, a soul is not something that you have. It is what you are. I usually use the term "entity" in preference to the term "soul," simply because those particular misconceptions are not so connected with the word “entity.” SS Part One: Chapter 6: Session 526, May 4, 1970
- Not a finished thing, but a state of "Becoming": Seth explains that the soul or entity is not a finished, static object that you possess; rather, it is what you are. 5 & 6 It is an open, ever-expanding "pyramid gestalt of consciousness"—an immortal powerhouse of creative energy. 6, 7, 8
6. The word "entity," and its connotations are less religious in an organizational sense.
The trouble is that you frequently consider the soul or entity as a finished, static "thing" that belongs to you but is not you. The soul or entity -- in other words, your most intimate powerful inner identity -- is and must be forever changing. It is not, therefore, something like a cherished heirloom. It is alive, responsive, curious. It forms the flesh and the world that you know, and it is in a state of becoming. SS Part One: Chapter 6: Session 526, May 4, 1970
7. Resume more slowly at 10:05.)
Now, the soul is never diminished, nor basically are any portions of the self.
The soul can be considered as an electromagnetic energy field, of which you are part. It is a field of concentrated action when you consider it in this light -- a powerhouse of probabilities or probable actions, seeking to be expressed; a grouping of nonphysical consciousnesses that nevertheless knows itself as an identity. Look at it this way: The young woman through whom I speak once stated in a poem, and I quote: "These atoms speak, and call themselves my name." SS Part One: Chapter 6: Session 528, May 13, 1970
8. (Pause at 9:20.) The you that you consider yourself is never annihilated. Your consciousness is not snuffed out, nor is it swallowed, blissfully unaware of itself, in some nirvana.* You are as much a part of a nirvana now as you will ever be. To some extent, we have discussed your body and its composition of cells (in the 632nd session in Chapter Seven, for instance). All of the cells that now make up your physical form obviously exist at once. Imagine that you have many lives enduring in the same fashion. Instead of cells then you have selves. I told you that each cell has its own memory. The self-memory is, of course, of far greater dimension. Think of the greater you—call it the entity if you want to—as forming a psychic structure quite as real as your physical one, but composed of many selves. As each cell of your body has its position within your corporeal space and boundaries, so each self within the entity is aware of its own "time" and dimension of activity. The body is a temporal structure. The cells, however, while a part of this body, are not aware of the entire dimension in which your consciousness dwells. They do not perceive all of the elements that are available even in three-dimensional experience, yet your present consciousness—seemingly so much more sophisticated—physically rests upon cellular awareness. So the entity or "greater" psychic structure of which you are a part is aware of much larger dimensions of activity than you are, yet in the same way its more sophisticated consciousness rests upon your own, and one is necessary to the other. In physical life there is a lapse while messages leap the nerve ends. (See the 625th session in Chapter Five.)In other terms and on other levels, this was represented in that "moment of reflection" that took place as man's consciousness emerged from that of the animals. (Note: I did not say that man emerged from the animals.) NoPR Part One: Chapter 9: Session 637, January 31, 1973
- The Creator of Personalities: The Entity projects multiple focus personalities—including your present daily self, your reincarnational selves, and your probable selves—into physical and nonphysical dimensions of reality to experience value fulfillment and open up new avenues of creation. 9
9. Each reader, being presently ensconced within a physical form, I presume (humorously), knows only a small portion of himself -- as I mentioned earlier. The entity is the overall identity of which his personality is one manifestation -- an independent and eternally valid portion. In these communications, therefore, Ruburt's consciousness expands, and yet focuses in a different dimension, a dimension between his reality and mine, a field relatively free of distraction. Here I impress certain concepts upon him, with his permission and assent. They are not neutral, in that all knowledge or information bears the stamp of the personality who holds it or passes it on. SS Part One: Chapter 1: Session 513, February 5, 1970
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