HUMAN ENERGIES

The Soul - you as your essential nature plus

experience
Soul is coherent, intentional system, fulfilling
its nature. It is God individualized as you and
carries your real ideals and commitments, and
gives character to your conscience. This divine
energy is formless, timeless, and eternal. Soul
is the essence as a fulfilling holiness.

The Personality - composed of the high self,

conscious self, and basic self
The High Self is a spiritual consciousness that
is our higher nature as personality. From a
practical standpoint, it can function as our
guides, soul, and connection to God. It is the
energy of life and form. It is creative and noninflictive. The High Self exists as a spiritual
form in our personal consciousness, which is
always in contact with spirit. When I use the
word spirit, it is the Holy Spirit and refers to
forces beyond our personal domain. High Self
is within our personal domain. Sometimes
people use the term higher power. That may
refer to anything higher than the conscious
awareness of self and may lump High
Self/spirit/etc. all into one thing, which for all
practical purposes is fine. As a spiritual
expression it follows the same procedures as
any spiritual agent, in that it responds to
requests. It guides us in our destiny. You might
say it is an agent of our soul. It is not soul, but
soul-like. It works closely with the Conscious
Self and Basic Self. As the guardian angel, it
links us with our soul, the universe, and the
High Self of others. Because the High Self

exists in a spiritual dimension, it cannot violate

anyone or anything. Even if the High Self has
better wisdom, it will not supersede our
conscious choice unless we ask it to.
The Conscious Self is our waking life and
creates new awareness. It is creative and
innocent until a choice is placed into action. Its
function is to be the vanguard of new
experience and here we make choices and gain
skill. As we grow in awareness and spiritual
illumination, we extend the Conscious Self and
become increasingly able to live in the
awareness of the High Self and be conscious of
the dynamics of the Basic Self. It mediates all
three selves.
The Basic Self is our survival instinct and
provides energy according to how we structure
our beliefs and make our choices. It is loyal
though non-creative and contains our family
patterns, social norms and mores, an
archetypal pattern of our destiny, our inner
child, the seat of body intelligence, and the will
to survive. Its job is to maintain the status quo.
In other words, the Basic Self has assimilated
the beliefs developed through our life span and
believes we will die if we change them. The
reality of the Basic Self is habit and its self-will
fights changes in habit. It will, however,
respond to our authority and yield to any
transformation that facilitates the actualization
of our destiny. Many people have more than
one Basic Self - such as male-female, playpersistent, young-old - which give different
perspectives.

"There are grounds for

cautious optimism that we

may now be near the end of

the search for the ultimate
laws of nature." - Stephen W.
Hawking