2023-06-04, 10:12 PM
I probably posted this video from Bob Olson a long time ago already.
Attending the Matt Fraser group reading, along with watching and reading about a lot of readings clips from other mediums, it struck me again how what's presented to the sitter is the personality as they know them, uncle Chuck or whoever, who still has the same interests, may have undergone changes in their perspectives, and watches out and even worries about the sitter or friends. They still belong to the same "family".
So we're very much in the domain of what Bob Olson calls a "spirit" as opposed to the higher self, which he calls the "soul".
Vocabulary decisions apart, I think Bob's elucidation of the two and their relationship, based on his research, makes some sense to me, and I wish other researchers or mediums or what have you would have address this question more. Of course it still leaves me with questions.
Different experiencers (through meditation or NDEs, depending on how you interpret them) claim to access something of the higher self, which is different from Bob Olson relates here. According to Bob, you, Charlie, will still be Charlie in the afterlife. You'll know more that you're connected to your Soul (or higher self) than on the earth plane, but you will still be forever Charlie. What "reincarnates" is not you, Charlie, but Bob or Suzanne, another creation of your Soul.
Again, I don't know if this is so, other experiences suggest something else, as do a lot of Asian spiritual practices. But again straight mediumship pretty much gives you this portrait.
Does anybody have thoughts about this, or how they wrap their heads about those questions? Bob says it was the most popular question he answered in his afterlife book, and I agree. To me it's the question with the most fundamental importance.
It has great implications also, in my mind, for what perspective and maybe practices one engages in one's life. Should I just continue being my personality, or should I strive to gain distance from my personality and identify and realize the higher Self?
Queued up (he reads from his book, so it's quite clear):
https://youtu.be/y-JNwIaLyDw?t=144
Attending the Matt Fraser group reading, along with watching and reading about a lot of readings clips from other mediums, it struck me again how what's presented to the sitter is the personality as they know them, uncle Chuck or whoever, who still has the same interests, may have undergone changes in their perspectives, and watches out and even worries about the sitter or friends. They still belong to the same "family".
So we're very much in the domain of what Bob Olson calls a "spirit" as opposed to the higher self, which he calls the "soul".
Vocabulary decisions apart, I think Bob's elucidation of the two and their relationship, based on his research, makes some sense to me, and I wish other researchers or mediums or what have you would have address this question more. Of course it still leaves me with questions.
Different experiencers (through meditation or NDEs, depending on how you interpret them) claim to access something of the higher self, which is different from Bob Olson relates here. According to Bob, you, Charlie, will still be Charlie in the afterlife. You'll know more that you're connected to your Soul (or higher self) than on the earth plane, but you will still be forever Charlie. What "reincarnates" is not you, Charlie, but Bob or Suzanne, another creation of your Soul.
Again, I don't know if this is so, other experiences suggest something else, as do a lot of Asian spiritual practices. But again straight mediumship pretty much gives you this portrait.
Does anybody have thoughts about this, or how they wrap their heads about those questions? Bob says it was the most popular question he answered in his afterlife book, and I agree. To me it's the question with the most fundamental importance.
It has great implications also, in my mind, for what perspective and maybe practices one engages in one's life. Should I just continue being my personality, or should I strive to gain distance from my personality and identify and realize the higher Self?
Queued up (he reads from his book, so it's quite clear):
https://youtu.be/y-JNwIaLyDw?t=144