Need to get to my higher self... now!

[Bad Moon Rising]

Good Hope,
Have you read the thread ........"AND THE TRUTH SHALL BE KNOWN - You'll see !"
http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5116
You just might find the answers you are looking for there. It is a very long thread but well worth the time to read it.  You WILL be able to get in touch with your 'higher self'.

[Bad Moon Rising]

Good Hope,
also try reading  ......... http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5318

[Lemming]

One tech i always use to get in touch with my higher self, is to create a ball of energy in your head, and have on the end of this energy a 'connection cable', then send the ball to your higher self, with the message for it to send it back. I'm not sure if this is anything but just simply tricking myself, but it works for me.

Hope that helps,
Derek

[Mirador]

Dear Good Hope,

First, let me advise you that your 'Higher Self' is not like a friend that you can call in the middle of the night to talk your heart's content, and you'll never be able to contact your 'Higher Self' out of desperation. First things first, take hold of yourself, get your act together, and talk first to your lower and middle selves, and when you're calm, with faith and intent, your 'Higher Self' will contact you.

Mirador

[Ensoñador]

Hello!!!

There is no higher self, no higher you. There is no self at all. There is nothing to hold on, you are going to die, listend to your death, she is the onlyone wich can make you love things just the way they are. Look right now around you,what problems do you have? What problems can someone have if he/her is going to die? You have already lost that battle(we all have), nothing is more bad than what already happened. Do not look for higher places, you better highlite every single moment you have, cause life is short. Make every single moment count, and you will feel power all the time in every act. With death chasing you you only have two options: be afraid and run to your highself ideal, or use your time right know living it. To get contacted with what we really are is to be more present right here and now. No matter what you decide or what your problems are you are not important for time, make then time important for you, and enjoy the oportunity of yor last breath every single time. Close your eyes and listen to your death listening your breath. Higher self is just a gnostic term used to describe a state with no self importance, it has more to do with what life wants from you ratter than what you wnat it to be. []
                         
                                 Ensoñador

MIRADOR: you know there is no higher self, you know there is just impersonality, a river flows and wind blows... thats all. lol.
Controlled folly, right?... Tu mismo sabes que solo hay un plano, que todo existe en un solo ahora, ya sea el mas alla o el mas aquí

[Mirador]

Ensoñador,

Por supuesto, tienes toda la razón, nuestro mejor consejero es la muerte, pero no se lo digas a estos gringos, se pueden espantar .

[goingslow]

Ill practice my spanish speaking skills which aren't good to translate at least some of that hot air filled post.

Ensonador,

Of course, you have a lot of sense (reason).  the greatest comfort is death, but dont tell that to these white people (gringos) because it will scare (frighten) them.  

[Mirador]

GoingSlow, now you're going to fast, your translation is totally inacurate. Mine was a private message for Ensoñador, because we share a common culture and native language. First, the use of 'gringo' has no derogatory or racial connotation, actually it's an endearment, and the purpose of its use is to point out that Ensoñador and myself share a culture which we cannot easily carry over in our explanations.
The correct translation of my posting is:
"Surely, you are totally correct, death is our best advisor, but don't tell this to our (friends, brothers) the gringos, because they might spook ."

See you later, going to take my afternoon siesta.

Mirador

[goingslow]

Another example of your double talk and bending of the truth.  I realized its futile to point it out at this point.

[FlybyNight]

Good Hope:

Meditation and prayer are the avenues for opening to the Higher Self.

Let go of the desperation. You can't receive guidance when holding on tight like that. Good Luck.

[beavis]

People are much more in contact with "higher self" than they think. It usually doesnt talk in words! A lot of your fun thoughts are directly from it.

[Ensoñador]

Beavis

Higher self is a useless concept when its still just a word to describe somewhere else than now. Including my toughts into yours to prove yourself you are right and feel important, lol, that is just a way you use to never betray your beliefs. You are just finding the way to justify the higher self existence, but no one will ever find the true of it if he/she is  still having all aranged to never contradict their dreams. To find God you will have to stop beliefing in everything (even in him), only then we can be fluid enough to understand. So, if you want to keep talking as if you already knew something ,go ahead.

                 With love, Ensoñador

[beavis]

Ensoñador "Higher self is a useless concept when its still just a word to describe somewhere else than now."

Higher self, soul, spirit (whatever you want to call it) does exist! I have some direct communication with mine.

"You are just finding the way to justify the higher self existence"

I used to be an atheist. It took very good proof (not a book!) to change my mind.

"if you want to keep talking as if you already knew something"

Why do you think I know NOTHING? I learned some things from OBE and telekinesis. If you think nothing can be learned, you have no reason to be here.

[Ensoñador]

Too bad you think you know something, now you probably cant enjoy everything  as new and fresh? Your limits are your beliefs. I think higher self is just a concept to describe what has no words or names, and there is no way to learn anything at all about the unnamed. We cannot reduce the unknown to words, if we try so we would invent some descriptions and miss interpretations, and then we would start to confuse the words we said with the facts. And then we could make a whole religion and start to beleive in it, so on straight to fanatism. For me a man who cant question his own beliefs has no freedom. Athiest and believers are both slaves of their own way of thinking.

For exapmle you can change your believes about the existence of spirit without saying yes or no. If you read what comes next youl see spirit does not exist and exist a the same time:

Spirit exists you said. Existence is a word that means etimology "to be outside", and anything that its outside means to have a time and space. Does spirit have these, a location and a time? Also spirit should have a shape, cause nothing that exists does not have it. See, you cant talk about spirit, it has no time, space or shape. sO IT DOES NOT EXIST. Spirit "is" what is far away of existence. Buddist tried to explain things saying spirit is what does not exist, THE NOT BEING!!! If you say spirit exist, then you mean three things if you hold on to your cosmovision compared to buddhist: That spirit is an objet that can be seen, that it is changing and will die someday for it. Saying God exist to  buddhist for expamle, is a like saying he is not real. What exist tends to disapear. For me, higher self does not exist cause real spirit is beyond what there can ever be!!


Outside what? thats something we wont know as "an I", so I dont know anything and cant learn anything, cause there is nothing to know. ¡God is not an objet we will someday discover!!! If you truly had comunication with the great spirit then you know you cant be sure of anything, cause spirit is not a he, she, or it.

You can move objets and OBe, but you are as ignorant as always, so do I. You dont know a thing cause you are not the one who projets or telek, its the whole universe using what you believe is yourself to complete its IDEA who does it. You wont become God, cause this who I,m talking to is going to die. We confuse our personality with God for instaneces, and particullary these happends with "the higher Me Idea." Higher self its just an idea to escape from time, to think about us as permanent. The truth is we dont have a higher being, "he" has us as an expression in time and space. I dont have anything,only this moment.

We believe in things and ideas to overcome death, we dont want to think us as mortals, we hate the idea of dying and hate life for being not comfortable.
                        With love,Ensoñador

[goingslow]

That's your belief system showing nothing more.  To think you understand death so perfectly is really just your ego.. its a nice theory, but you dont know there isn't a higherself anymore than anyone else who doesn't believe in the concept.

Its all about what you've read and your outlook at life at this time.  

BTW Mirador I think we can handle something as earth shattering and deep as "death is the greatest advisor".   Give me a break already with this preaching.

[beavis]

Ensoñador "Too bad you think you know something, now you probably cant enjoy everything as new and fresh? Your limits are your beliefs."

Nothing I believe is set in stone. A single piece of new information of sufficient quality can cause me to change something I've believed for years. You'd have to have some very good evidence to make me stop believing spirits exist because I communicate with what I think is my spirit.

"there is no way to learn anything at all about the unnamed."

I dont have to name something to know what it is. My learning about astral started with seemingly random inputs into my brain  not similar to anything else I knew, so I couldnt compare or name it, but I did learn that if I do X I get Y. Now I know how to get lots of Ys, but not exactly what to call them, and that is learning.

"We cannot reduce the unknown to words, if we try so we would invent some descriptions and miss interpretations, and then we would start to confuse the words"

words are approximations. A lot of astral things cant be described in detail well with words, so I summarize.

"For me a man who cant question his own beliefs has no freedom."

has low intelligence. Intelligence is the ability to adapt consistently to new information.

"Spirit exists you said. Existence is a word that means etimology "to be outside", and anything that its outside means to have a time and space."

Outside means not inside. Time and space are a subset of all "locations". Outside could be any any of those "locations", even those without time.

"Also spirit should have a shape, cause nothing that exists does not have it."

Unless you've seen everything that exists, you dont know enough to say that. My interpretation of my spirit when I "saw" it is an oval.

"If you truly had comunication with the great spirit then you know you cant be sure of anything, cause spirit is not a he, he, or it."

I didnt say communcation with the GREAT spirit. I said MY spirit.

"You dont know a thing cause you are not the one who projets or telekinesis, its the whole universe using what you believe is yourself to complete its IDEA who does it."

As I push buttons on my keyboard, a COMPUTER writes the words, but we still say I wrote it. I do have to communicate with other parts of the universe to project or do telekinesis, since the things I interact with are not usually my creation.

"You wont become God, cause this who I,m talking to is going to die."

My astral reflections will still exist. They dont care if I'm alive or dead at one time or another. Being alive at SOME TIME is enough for them to exist.


"We believe in things and ideas to overcome death, we dont want to think us as mortals"

I thought I would rot in a grave and that would be the end until I saw evidence of spirits. What I want to believe is irrelevant.

[chupacabra]

I think what Ensonador (sorry about leaving ot the squiggle above "n") is trying to say is simply: Being so preoccupied with some future moment  that would be better than the present moment because of contact with your higher self is dishonoring the present. all we have is this moment right now. The future doesn't exist and the past doesn't exist. The cause of human suffering is the MIND spending time "living" in the past or a future which doesn't exist, and providing an endless dialogue about both. How wonderful it would be if the mind would simply shut up. Remember how "present" and in the moment you were when you were a kid? Read Eckhart Tolle's "The Power of Now"

[James S]

Good Hope,

Back to your original question -
A calm clear mind is essential if you wish to hear your higher self.
More often than not I have found my higher self tends to get in touch with me, not the other way around. Typically this will happen when I'm in a state of meditation - my mind is calm and clear, and I am detached from all cares and concerns, and detached from my physical surroundings.

To recall a brilliant bit of info given out by Frank some time back -
your higher self is part of your consciousness, part of your thoughts, but on a different level to what your used to.

Picture your thoughts as being like a funnel going from the astral to your surface mind. Your profile does not tell if your male or female, which does make a difference here as the funnel for a female has its widest end up at the astral, whereas a male's is the other way around.
I'll use the male example because, well...I am one.

At the bottom end of the (male) funnel is your surface thoughts, your self talk - the every day commentaries your mind makes about the world around you, and theres a lot of it. As you progress up the funnel, through the layers of noisy surface thoughts, you come into the areas of your thoughts that involve imagination and creativity. As you keep going up, the funnel gets narrower, the thoughts and imagination more focused, until you get to the top of the funnel which is where the very fine line between the higher imagination, and the astral exist. In fact it is more a grey blending area than a line, as at this point, astral and imagination are intermingled.

This is where you higher self resides - and the crossover point into the astral. The wisdom your higher self is able to pass on to you is because it sits with a view of the unlimited knowledge of the astral.

The trick here is getting that information form the top of the funnel back down to your surface mind where your everyday awareness is. This is where a calm, quiet mind is needed. Once all that surface noise is quietened, you are more readily able to recieve the thoughts and images being sent down the layers from your higher self.

Your higher self is always with you, always able to communicate with you. It's just a matter of tuning in. Be prepared also that the information you might recieve from your higher self may not be at all what you expect. At that level of consciousness, our perception is often very different, and far more objective than our day to day thoughts, as our higher self is generally not concerned with our everyday issues. This is why such communication is so valuable - it can help us see our way clear of things that otherwise we would not be able to see.

Consider also that "intuition" is more often than not pieces of info passed down to us by our higher selves when it has an important message, or warning for us.

Hope this helps.
James.

[Rob]

Weeeell, the concept of higher self is a bit confused IMO. I have seen people claiming to "channel" their higher self when it was quite plain that really it was just a part of their own mind they had not fully integrated yet. A lot of people make this mistake (I know I did). Romero had a good article on this on the mother site, not sure if its still there.
I know it might be semantics but the true higher self is God, an exalted spiritual being that reflected off a shard which once upon a "time" became you. So contacting higher self in this regard is contacting God. If you want him to do something, you can ask for it, but big real problems, you might get help with, but it seems like these are mostly left up to man to deal with. We wouldnt learn otherwise! As for prayer and listening, the advice given of doing all this in meditation (deep trance), with sincerity and strength, is right on. But first try and analyse preisely what you want, why, and how you came to be in the situation you are in to begin with!

[James S]

Inguma,

If you consider your higher self to be the point of your consciousness that is in direct contact with the astral then what you say works. The higher self is the part of us that is also part of the Source of all - hence the connection to higher knowledge.

Semantics aside, I agree entirely with what you mention regarding clear intent. It is true no matter what you wish to believe about your higher self.

James.

[Good Hope]

Dear good people,

    I am desperate to have contact with my higher self.  I need to talk to my higher self.  How do I do that?  Anyone whom has helpful information or material I ask this to.