When we talk about the energy of the Higher Self, we are talking about a pattern, a perfected pattern. It holds a piece of the truth of what you really are. But it is not clothed in a consciousness as you and I would understand a consciousness. It has to use your consciousness as a personality to the degree that contact has been established. What else is it going to use? Now understand your consciousness is every lifetime you've had up to this moment. You are a long line of experiences that have accumulated into the moment. And every one of you has the emotional, mental and physical vehicle that your Higher Self needs to go about its particular work this lifetime. Your Higher Self created you as a manifestation of you right now. You are everything that was deemed appropriate to hold in the permanent atom lifetime after lifetime, it has sculpted and molded you. You've got the right body for what you need right now, you've got the right mind for what you need right now, you've got the right emotions for what you need right now. You've got exactly what you need right now in your personality, and your Higher Self is just waiting for you to integrate your personality and develop the bridge of light, the Antakarana, so it can achieve greater and greater contact and union. It's going to use your frame of reference to communicate with you. Now understand that your frame of reference is a lot larger than you think it is.

The Higher Self is called by some the Inner Self, the Self, or the Soul. The Higher Self is sent down from the Monad, for the Monad is of such a pure vibration that it cannot be held but on a very pure plane. The Monad develops a mechanism to carry some of its consciousness lower and lower into the planes. The Monad's intermediate vehicle for expression is that of the Higher Self which is formless and resides on the Atma, Buddic and Manas planes to express the spiritual intent of the Monad.

The personality, which is in form, eventually reaches that state in which there is a deeper longing for union, for that which is held in the formless. The challenge and the opportunity is, that most of the time our attention is not focused on spirit, on the Higher Self. If my energy is focused on my experience of the form world and my identification is with form and the me that I call my personality then even if there is desire for contact, the capacity is not there. The contact must be strengthened and developed. For the contact to the Higher Self that is in place without development is that of which will sustain the life force. Further abilities must be brought about not only by the desire but also by the focused intent. We bring in to this life experience also a level of development from our other lives.

But the truth is that most of us pour our focus of energy into what we identify with the personality. We run the energy through our personality and this form world To develop the focused intent to have a stream of consciousness with your Higher Self takes a great deal of discipline. That's holding the mind steady in the light. This is a process of which we move our consciousness out of the control of the desire body, from out of the turmoil of the emotional body and out of the distraction of our mind chatter. And it takes an integrated personality, as well as discipline. Many of us may feel that we cannot possibly achieve all of that in a lifetime, and in truth it does take a progression of lives. Yet I remind you, that what is achieved in a lifetime is built upon in the next.

How can you do that? How can you be in the present and not identify? Maybe we start out with the basics and recognize that first of all, what we know in the present is very rarely what it looks like. What we love to do is go to a black or white place of thought. We love to go absolute. I can utilize a chair as a chair, which means I'm in the present, but I accept the fact that it's not what it appears to be. While my senses tell me that this chair is solid, in actuality the chair is mostly space. What I'm saying to you is, be in the present, but recognize that we do not see all that truly is. We identify with the perceptions of what our world tells us and stop our identification with Spirit. We take this identification to the world, it is reflected in how we act, think and respond. We meet our responsibilities and are an active part of the global community. It is no longer appropriate for us to live in temples or isolation. We must be able to be in both worlds. To bring that of which is above to that which is below.