What is your higher self?

[Enterprise87]

Sorry I just want a quick answer on this.

[Selski]

Everyone will tell you something different.

Here's a similar thread

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=21388

However, if you want a quick answer (although it may not be the "right" answer), but it's the one I like.

Your higher self is You.

Sarah

[jilola]

Second Selski.
You are you. The only difference is a difference in the perspective you see reality.

2cents & L&L
Jouni

[Tayesin]

Higher self is the big spirit that you really are, it exists in and beyond all the astral planes.  There is a lot written about it, much is incorrect.  Best thing to do is find how you connect with your higher self and work with it to get your answers.

[MindFreak]

Your higher self is your real self.

[Sorlac]

Your higher self is your real self.

I would agree with this, but take it further.  I would say that the higher self is the collective intelligence created from combining all your lives' knowledge and experiences together.

I would also add that there is (I believe) a higher self to your higher self (a higher, higher self) and so on and so on.

[jilola]

I would say that the higher self is the collective intelligence created from combining all your lives' knowledge and experiences together.

And the rabbithole keeps on going deeper.
Not only those of your personal lives but those of others and then those that don't seem to have a life and then those that don't even seem.
The higher self seems to be consistent with an individual perception of oneself from a perspective that appears to be different from one's usual position of perception. In other words, the higher self perceives reality from an apparently wider point of view thus seeming to possess  knowledge and understanding we, in our usual perception , don't seem to have.
The concept is intimately tied with the much touted enlightenment and realisation experiences which are to a degree aspects of the same, that being the perception of the reality from no point of view. A vatage point that is not any single and yet all different points of perception leading to the realisation that all that seems to be out there and all that appears to be within us is just a wave in the ocean, with all the beauty, harshess, calm and destruction a wave inherently posesses. It appears as the ocean moves, interacts with other waves and disappears but all that time it's nothing but the ocean itself.
Oh and for the inquiring mind, the realisation comes near when one stops insisting

2cents & L&L
Jouni