Other side
Afterlife
Here, we are continuing by exploring the teachings about the afterlife. In Christianity, there is a concept of Last Judgment, in which souls are judged by the Son of Man, the Messiah with the help of his court and are distributed to different levels of paradise or hell based on their deeds. Dante went in much detail describing these levels and these descriptions are much respected in Western culture. Some Christian traditions consider that Last Judgment will happen at the end of times, other Christian traditions render it taking place after the death of each individual, but it always is thought to be decided by some sour of court of Jesus with apostles or Farther God with His Court. In Monotheism, this event of Last Judgment is never a self-service.
In the New Paradigm175, the soul after departing the body, is going to the light with a greater. After a life review and recovery phase it is sent to an appropriate level by some sort of automatic system. Tony Stubbs describes these levels in some ways being similar to Dante's levels.
"The lower first two levels are cold and dark, they are for killers, abusers and other people you don't want to associate with. This layer has a very low vibration."
Level 4 is pretty happy level, it may be considered a tourist Attraction. Tony Stubbs locates these layers at different levels of atmosphere. He uses an elevator analogy o describe the process of automated sorting the souls to corresponding levels. Imagine an elevator that goes up and down. When the vibration of the soul is matching a vibration of the level, the door opens and the soul is let out. Notice that this model has very much of the idea of self service store and very little of Judgment by heavenly court.
The evidence
Q: Why should we believe new prophets and not the old ones? What is the difference? The old prophesies are sanctified by tradition while new seem only better because they are told by our contemporaries.
A: (1) First reason to believe in new teachers is that the new teachers are not only our contemporaries but many of them have been educated in modern system where is a great respect for evidence. They do go in great lengths to verify the validity of a channel. This is an example of Ra material and many other channels. The New Paradigm researchers compare multiple channels and pay much attention to their independence.
(2) They release the information to public only because it is important and in spite of the fact that these messages bring the channelers many difficulties. When a channel is providing the information testifying against its interests, this information is trusted more.
(3) Our times are characterized by great improvement of accessibility of information. We have access to many more sources than our predecessors and there is many more people working on the understanding and comparing information. Availability of books on Amazon and internet is of great help in discovering the truth. If these tools were available in the past, the great distortions of truth and lies would not become possible. Even the UFO cover-up would not happen, if access to internet was as good as it is now in earlier times. So we are getting closer to the truth because we have got better access to information and because the communication between much larger groups of enthusiasts is taking place.
(4) Another factor of course is that extraterrestrials and discarnate teachers are providing new information. This is in part also helped by the fact that this information is welcome, has a substantial impact and is distributed via various ways of communication.
Souls are keen to learn
It seems that the main goal of the souls is to perform the work of learning and perfecting themselves to the point at which they achieve the level suitable for re-joining back to the Source.
Englightenment
Enlightenment in Buddhism
According to Blavatsky, Westerners misinterpret and trivialize the goals of Buddhists. The trivialized goal of Buddhism according to Westerners is that since life is full of suffering, a Buddhist aims to withdraw from the world through meditation and to achieve nirvana as an ultimate state of withdrawal. For Westerners this trivialized meaning is equivalent to suicide through meditation. Blavatsky explains that for the Buddhists the withdrawal is only one of the ways to achieve Holiness, Enlightenment and it is the raise of vibration that the Buddhists are after, not the withdrawal from life. 176
Enlightenment in daily Jewish practices
Interestingly, this prospective is very much inline with daily Jewish practices. Daily rituals of Jews, eating holy food, celebrating Shabbat and Jewish holidays, weekly Torah portions are also aimed in purifying the soul and in connecting with the Source. As we see now, even confusions of many Jews about the humanized nature of the Prime Creator helps them to relate better to it and to aim at achieving better integration with it. A modern rabbinic parable teaches:
"One scientist was very diligent in researching the nature of reality. He worked very hard climbing the Mountain of Knowledge. Finally, when the scientist all sweating reached the top of the mountain, he saw a Jew sitting on the top and praying. "How did you get there?" - asked the surprised scientist. The Jew answered: "While you were doing your research down below, I have been sitting here all along and praying from the beginning of times. Since all I believe is One God and I am in covenant with him." Rabbi Vogel of Rochester
Enlightenment in Christianity
The Christianity essentially, in its positive version, aims at the same thing as other religions and beliefs. It teaches that God is within an that God is love.
All spiritual practices are similar on ? fundamental level
Here is a story told by Krishna Das where there the idea of Love becomes more transparent:
"So it was quite a shock when Maharajji began to talk to us about Christ. At first we Westerners thought it was because it was the 'local religion' where we came from, but he spoke with such sweetness and depth of emotion that we decided we should read the Bible ourselves. So one Sunday morning we got together; put on our white holy clothes; sat out on the porch of the Evelyn Hotel, where we were staying; and read the Gospels out loud. They sounded very different up there in the Himalayas. Very different. It was amazing. The love that Jesus was talking about was the same kind of love that our guru was talking about. The same love, the same power of truth, the compassion, and the zero tolerance for bullshit were what we were feeling for the first time in India with Maharajji, and because of him we recognized that it was the same with Jesus. We were with somebody who loved us in a way we couldn't have imagined, much in the same way in which Jesus loved his people.
"One day a Canadian man arrived for his first darshan177. He didn't know much about Maharajji but had heard about him from Ram Dass. Maharajji didn't give lectures or formal teachings; didn't write books; and, as far as I know, didn't formally initiate people. He just kept shining like the sun. Flowers don't need to read a manual on how to bloom in the sunshine. So when Maharajji asked this man why he'd come and what he wanted, he was unsure how to respond. Finally, he replied, 'Can you teach me how to meditate?'
"Maharajji's response was: 'Meditate like Christ. Go. Sit in the back of the temple with the other Westerners.'
"The guy came to the back, and we asked him about his darshan. He told us that Maharajji had said to meditate like Christ. At first we were surprised. 'What! Meditate like Christ! What does that mean?' But then we thought about it. We were always trying to get Maharajji to tell us what practice to do, but he'd never give us any specific instructions about yoga or meditation. Now he'd said this. If he said it, he must know how Jesus meditated. We decided to ask him about it. We were so excited — we were going to get the secret teachings at last!
"Later in the day, when Maharajji came to the back of the temple to hang out with us, Ram Dass broached the subject that had us all buzzing. 'You said to meditate like Christ. How did he meditate?'
"It seemed as if Maharajji was about to answer, but instead his eyes closed and he sat there completely still, completely silent. It felt like he'd totally disappeared. In all the time I'd been with him, I'd only seen him sitting motionless like this a couple of times before. It was extraordinarily powerful, as if the whole universe had become silent. Then a tear came down his cheek. We were in awe. After a couple of minutes, his eyes half opened and, with great emotion, he quietly said, 'He lost himself in love, that's how he meditated. He was one with all beings. He loved everyone, even the people who crucified him. He never died. He is the atman [soul]. He lives in the hearts of all. He lost himself in love.'
"Once again, Maharajji had gone right to the heart of it all. I was stunned. There was nothing I wanted more than to be able to lose myself in love, but there was nothing that seemed farther away.
It is easy to bear the heat of fire and likewise, it is possible to tread the edge of the sword. But to sustain an unchanging love is a most difficult business." Krishna Das 178
This story wonderfully illustrates the spiritual unity between different religions. The mainstream belief otherwise is erroneous, Buddhism and Christianity have much in common and there has been much said and written about this commonality. Same relates to the fundamental unity among all spiritual practices.
On the nature of Second Coming
"Q: Who were and are Jesus, Mohamed, Krishna, Buddha and why does it seem that they have been carjacked?
Bashar: I don not believe any of them drove an automobile.
Q: I mean by religion. What we would perceive as a religion.
Bashar: Ah! Yes, yes, yes! They are reflective representation of the collective Consciousness. In a sense, you can say that they are the world's spirit, the world's soul. They are reflections of the world spirit. Your entire planet's oversouls all collected into one expression, each of those are reflections of that idea. Each and every one of them fundamentally were telling you the same message we are telling you now: You are also Christs, Buddhas, Krishnas, Mohameds, Wovokas! You are all the same as them! Every single one of them said that to all of you. But because of compartmentalization that created disconnection and fear, the majority of your planet could not handle seeing that reflection because it only reminded them of how unlike that reflection they were. And when you are reminded of how unlike your true self you are, and you are compartmentalized in that way, the reaction from fear that occurs is called resentment. And when you resent being told that you are not who you really know you are, then the fear grows and the resentment grows and you wind up usually killing the one reminding you of who you are.
And also you create the idea of intermediaries. They say: "Well well-well. I know that is a lot to handle, so I'll filter it for you for a small nominal charge." So you create more dissociation, more inbetweeners and you remove, and remove, and remove, and remove yourselves from the original idea that you are also the same as the messenger. Now in this day and age on your planet, it is all about (again) remembering that none of those beings wanted you to follow them. What they were saying was that you are all like them, so be like them!
When your Jesus said "I am the way", he did not mean "follow him in a religious context", he meant "be the way I am"! Because you are that way!
So the idea also is for all of you to understand that this is what the so-called "Second Coming" actually is. It is the awakening in each and everyone of you of your own Christ Consciousness, your own Buddha Nature, your own Krishna Spirit, your own Holy Wovoka.
All of that is all who you are and you have created the reflections down to the ages to guide you, to remind you, but because of the disconnection in your Consciousness, it didn't always take place. But a few people here and there did get it, until such time as Now, you have arrived at a place where you finally are beginning to understand what was said by all those reflections over the course of your so called history." 179
In other words, Second Coming is awakening of spirituality in every individual, realization by everyone of the fundamental unity and spiritual essence of self and the world.
What is Higher Self
Your Presence has been given many names ~ your God Self, your Higher Self, your Christ Self, your Buddha Nature, Atma or Oversoul. 180
SaLuSa from Sirius
The idea of Higher Self comes from realization that we are separated from our soul by The Veil. This Veil can be penetrated for example under hypnosis, when an individual reaches vast riches of his/her Subconscious Mind. Therefore from understanding of The Veil comes the concept of separation of Higher and Lower Mind. Simply put: Lower Mind is same as Physical Mind, it is the area of mind always accessible to us. Higher Mind or Higher Self is the part of individual's personality which is beyond The Veil.
What is wrong with the prayers?
Q: If the God is out there, or in here, what is wrong then with the prayers? Isn't that natural and sensible to ask God Almighty for help and guidance? Or is it too far and too remote? Isn't it inside and accessible to everyone? Or maybe he or she or it is not interested in helping and promoting Good even more so because it wants us to experience negativity and to learn lessons? Can we trust the idea that God is love if it doesn't want us to be happy, but wants us to go through pain and tribulations? This is very much an image of the vicious God of ancient Hebrews. After all, which image of God is true?
A: Great questions! These questions are eternal and I wish we knew the answers! To approach these answers lets review now what we grasp from celestial channels about the nature of "Higher Self". It seems to shed light on one of your questions and to peek into the celestial mechanics that governs our fate and our luck.
The concept of Higher self is important
We delayed discussing this question for a while since it is one of most confusing concepts of the New Paradigm and since many simpler concepts could have been presented without referring to the idea of Higher Self.
The idea is contained in great many channeled messages and in spite of sounding foreign to us, seems to be really important and it seems that the sources from Beyond The Veil really cherish it. Many sources and great variety of them talk about Higher Self. Not only a certain exopolitical group or any type of entities is speaking about Higher Self but all varieties including physical 4th density beings including Bashar and Adronis, non physical and group entities such as Pleiadians, Sirians, Ra Entity, Cassiopaeans, departed souls and angels (discarnate entities from higher planes) such as channeled Archangel Michael. Angels and souls can speak more relevantly in such complex issues because they have past experience of being humans.
What is Higher Self?
Higher Self is individual's true personality. It is true and absolute "I", purified from the false beliefs and misconceptions. It exists in the immaterial world and is very much integrated in it while keeping individual's individuality. It has access to vast stores of information of the Universe, and to the Source. Higher self is that part of individual's personality which exists before and after its physical incarnation. It is the one that makes the decision to incarnate, the one that is our true identity during the life, it is somewhat overlapped in essence with the idea of Soul and of Unconscious Mind, it is the identity with which we merge during our sleep, it is the identity with which we merge after we leave our body at Near-Death Experiences, Out of Body Experiences and finally after leaving our body. Higher self is our true identity. Moreover it has been our true identity in past lives. In hypnotic regressions we are capable to reconnecting with our Subconscious Mind, a portion of Higher Self that is aware of our past lives. Therefore, our Higher Self is our True Personality that has access to the Source and that goes through many incarnations.
This is not a very familiar concept for us since we are used to think about our soul as a weak subtle ghost that is hanging over our body and leaves when we die. Higher Self is a much more powerful and involved entity than the mainstream idea of soul.
Parasitic tendencies
Q: If Lower Self is our earthly Physical Mind, why would we consider Higher Self to be self, to be "us"? It seems quite remote from us and the name "Self" seems misleading. To me the "Higher self" entity seems more a parasite that thrives for experiences while being safe on the Other Side, it exploits us by sending us into a sailing in the world of suffering. It is we (our Physical Mind) who are the ones who are suffering down below, while the "Higher Self " is enjoying the ride from the safe zone. After all, are you sure Higher Self doesn't have the appearance of a snake?
A: It is certainly a possibility, but it is also certainly not the message that we hear from the Other Side. We are taught that "Higher Self" loves us, and that it loves us unconditionally because it loves itself and we are it, the incarnation of Higher Self. Of course this may be a fairy tale, a trick of propaganda of malevolent negative entities, of course, we should be cautious of this possibility. Especially because this theory of Higher Self is relatively fresh and no well represented in our traditions on Earth. At least not in these proportions. But on other hand, this theory is very consistent between many independent communications from the Other Side, it answers many questions and solves many paradoxes. There are many New Age folks who embraced the teaching of Higher Self and this teaching seems to work fine for many of them. It is a teaching that is applicable to practice, it is the one that give guidance for life. It is a very practical teaching.
Equivalents to Higher Self in spiritual traditions
Q: I can not find an equivalent of Higher Self in teachings other than modern channels such as Bashar and Seth. For example, past life regressions mention reincarnation, lessons for souls, guides and soul groups but never any intelligent entity that would serve the function of Higher Self. My question is: what is the equivalent of Higher Self in human traditional beliefs and why past life regressions and near death experiencers never mention Higher Self or its equivalents?
A: Consider this insight from the discussion:
"In Sufism what Bashar calls the Higher Self I believe is the same as the concept of the True Self, or at least a part of it. The Sufic idea is for the physical mind and the higher mind to sync absolutely and this is then the True Self.
Yet, before this unifying happens, the True Self is somewhat disconnected and occupies a similar place as the Higher Mind.
I would imagine that in past life regression or NDE [near death experience] the form that the experience is coming from is the True Self or perhaps Higher Mind. Oliver"181
In other words, Higher Self is same as True Self and Higher Mind of an individual. Due to the Veil, our Physical Mind (same as Lower Mind) is typically blind to the existence of Higher Mind and can not communicate with it. Nonetheless, wise people, with high Integrity and Coherence, are able to synchronize their Lower and Higher Mind thus becoming less segregated and more coherent in their lives.
Is Oversoul same thing as Higher Self?
The short answer is no. Higher Self, same as Higher Mind is a true mind of the individual. It is true personality unrestricted by the Veil. Therefore Higher Self is a part of Oversoul, simply a part of it.
On other hand, Bashar once mentioned that the whales is a physical representation of Higher Self of many dolphins.
"Now that you are interested in your Higher Self, be aware that the dolphins have a manifestation of their Higher Selves right on your own planet. It is called the Whales. The idea of the whale is that it is representative of the Oversoul, of many dolphins souls combined into one. And your environment of what you call their ocean makes it possible to manifest their Higher Self in that way…. Whereas your land environment because of your physiological gravity, does not make that kind of manifestation as likely. Therefore it is up to you to learn to accelerate your body upward into a more rarified, less physical state. They can manifest thru a physical state. You can do it thru the acceleration of your physical state that you already have. When you associate with the whale on your planet, you are dealing directly with a form of mass Consciousness and it can trigger many things within each and every one of you about your own personal associations with your Higher Self and your own collective Consciousness on your planet. Then you can begin to function as one unified society." Bashar channeled through Darryl Anka
Here apparently we see a contradiction between understanding of Higher Self as individual Higher Mind and as a collective Higher Mind. We think that the reason of that is that these concepts are new to our language and we have not developed yet proper terminology for these terms. That is why the terms "Individual Higher Mind", "collective Higher Mind", "Individual Soul" and "Oversoul" are used interchangeably. Even more, individual souls combine in oversouls like little creeks combine into small rivers, small rivers combine into bigger rivers and so on. Imagine overlapping dynamic transparent shapes of different colors, like complex living bubbles that occupy same space, but are not identical. These would represent the Higher Mind and related concepts. The more we learn about them, the more we interact with these concepts, the better will be our terminology.
Imagine that this random shape is a schematic representation of overlapping shapes symbolizing relationships between individual Higher Self, collective Higher Self and Oversoul. They overlap and are part of each other. (The picture was created using Chaoscope fractal generator).
Individual souls merge into an Oversoul
Now, we are told that somewhere above different Oversouls merge together into a common Oversoul, just like roots of a tree. We don't know how many levels of branching points are there but we are told that all of us are part of a bigger Oversoul, and all of us and all of them (meaning extraterrestrials) are still part of even bigger Oversoul.
Why so many Cleopatras
We are told that every past live is ours in a sense, we have been everybody in our past lives. It is our vibration and our desire to connect that matters. Just the desire to have say Cleopatra as a past life allows the person to connect to her and her life becomes a past life of an individual. That is why there are so many people who have been Cleopatra or Napoleon in a past life. They connect to this vibration and therefore it becomes true for them. Is therefore the idea of past lives fictional? It is not clear. If an individual can tap in a certain frequency and can get a glimpse at the details of a past life at will, it is not so fictional. Why then some past lives are more prominent, more true than others? Maybe again through vibrations?
Individual vs. Collective Higher Self
Please note that there are multiple levels of Higher Self. There is an individual's Higher Self, collective Higher Self of a soul group, of an Oversoul and it continues to higher levels and raises its vibration until reuniting with the Source. Since an individual is multidimensional and is always a part of a bigger force, the borders between individual's Higher Self and higher level collective Higher Selves are diffuse and all branches are connected via common vibrations.
The power of Collective Higher Self
Interestingly, Bashar mentions that we and dolphins incarnate interchangeably and that whales are physical manifestations of higher selves of dolphins which serve as Higher Self to many dolphin individuals. From here, we may conclude that one Collective Higher Self may influence circumstances of life of many human individuals. This arrangement is likely similar to one in which a single Oversoul is a combination of many thousands of individual souls. (Bashar mentioned that our nearly 7 billion individuals belong to only 300,000 of oversouls.)
Tribal reincarnation
People from certain countries and periods may reincarnate together. Here, Metatron, a very accurate channel specializing on our history, reveals to us that warring Atlanteans reincarnated as warring Romans and later as warring peoples of WW2.
Archangel Metatron via James Tyberonn: "much was done during the advent of your second world war, that undermined the socialist experiment in Russia. The leadership required to win the war, focused more on retention & expansion of power rather than concern for the people after the war ended. You see the planetary leadership, as we interpret it, was largely dominated by those reincarnated from the warring faction that destroyed Atlantis, and indeed in later years became the warring Romans. Reincarnation cycles, you see, are bound in group Consciousness, to a very large degree. Entire continents, countries, entire dramas in time, as you term them, often reincarnate together. They are as such somewhat tied together by past experience, like thinking, like frequency and progress of development as it were." 182
Lets hope that now more peaceful tribes are incarnated. An interesting fact we learn here is that not only friends and families reincarnate together, large groups of people such as countries reincarnate together as well.
Tapping into variety of identities
There is also a possibility that Higher Self and Oversoul concepts are different and a person may have a unique Higher Self that can tap into multiple past lives and resonate with multiple Oversouls.
Take for example our identity in this world: a person can be a mother, a lover, a daughter, a rebel, a professional, a citizen of a country, a dissident, a poet, a muse, a sage, a guru a spirit of a group of friends and the Earth Consciousness at the same time! In our mind, in daydreams, in argument and in work we often lose our personal identity and identify ourselves with an idea, with a group or with a nation. Sometimes people so much identify themselves with a non-human cause that it becomes strange that they occupy human bodies. Therefore there is nothing surprising that Higher Self may tap into different vibrations and associate with different ideas, entities and groups.
The heart and the mind
The interaction our Higher Mind with our Lower Mind is resembles a typical idea in our culture of interplay between the heart and the mind. It not necessarily that they always are in disagreement. Very often they do work in harmony. "Listen to your heart" is a typical spiritual advice which literally means "try to reach up to your own Higher Mind". Indeed, the heart likely is a channel leading to the Higher Mind and the heart vibration is a vibration connecting to the Higher Mind.
The Matrix
The Matrix
Now as we defined Higher Self, it may be time to bring up its weirdest function that really turns our reality upside down and inside out. In fact this theory is an ancient one and in recent time is has surfaced out under the name of solipsism. If you have watched "The Matrix" movie183, that is an excellent illustration of the idea. You possibly have entertained sometimes an idea that you are the only real person in the world and everybody else is not real, that all people are actors that only play for you to trick you into believing that they are real, that life is not real, it is like a computer game, a virtual reality, a dream intended just to give you experience of life, that there is a way to break through this illusion and discover who these people are in reality, to make them recognize that they were only playing roles ,that they were only actors. Have you had such a dream? After all, it might be true, that our reality is an elusion. At least this is a very consistent message from overwhelming majority of sources from Beyond The Veil. We are told precisely that: our reality is an artificial construct that is created to provide the ground for experience to our souls. Our so called Physical Reality is an amusement park, a school and a boot camp. Largely a boot camp or a correction facility with a bit of amusement on the side. Of course we are also a zoo since many entities and creatures are watching our recent evolutions with amazement and feed on our energies of fear, hope and love.
If reality is an elusion, why is it so difficult to manipulate it?
Try punching yourself. It hurts a bit. If our reality is an elusion, why it is so difficult to tweak it? It's very simple: our reality is a very good illusion, it is an illusion of very good quality. We are inside. Not many of us are advanced enough to manipulate this high quality illusion at will (Like Neo in "The Matrix"). More over Bashar cautions us that it may be not in our interest focusing on evading the control of the Matrix. If our main goal in this incarnation is to work through a predetermined set of lessons, it is likely that evading the Matrix may not be to our advantage from a higher prospective.
If Life is a dream, who is running the show?
We are told that as we dream at night, our reality is a dream and we wake up when we die. (In "The Matrix" movie this would correspond to the process of unplugging a person from the virtual reality.) Moreover, in this model, our main question is, who is running the show, which entity is controlling the lessons and feeding us some luck to our lives? Who is in control of our fate, our destiny? Is that God? Is that Prime Creator? Or a part of God who is responsible for our Earth? Or the Sun, the Moon or the Earth Goddesses? If all people are illusions, are our loved ones illusions as well? We may be willing to give up our reality, since it is not so friendly, but giving up our loved ones is not what we can do, love is stronger in us than our attachment to our reality.
The Higher Self Teaching has a simple and straightforward answer to the question: It is Higher Self that runs the show, that picks lessons for us and feeds our lives with a thin trickle of luck. It is not devil, it is not demons that bring troubles and grief into our lives, it is this mischievous "Higher Self" entity that gets us in trouble and then keeps pulling us out of it at last moment. And it does so to get experience, to feed on our hurt feelings and to raise its vibration while we vibrate of pain!
This is the sad picture of the world given us by the "Higher Self" Teaching.
It is not loving God, not Yahweh, not Jesus, not Saint Mary, not Prime Creator, it is our very own Higher Self, in a way it is us ourselves that are responsible for all the grief in our lives.
This is THE hardest concept
This is THE hardest concept of all concepts of the new reality and if you are not loving it yet, we suggest hate it right away. Let it be foreign to you and don't try to wrap your mind around it. If it doesn't taste good, don't swallow it. Lets keep moving through our learning without embracing a concept that is so foreign to us.
A side step for easier swallowing
Lets revisit the idea of interplay between heart and mind. Which one is creative? Which one has free will?
You can clearly see that it is the Mind that is creative(!) Have you ever heard about the heart being creative? The Mind has free will and is creative. It has the free will because it is ignorant and not so much loving. The Heart can not be creative because it is just the opposite: because it knows it all and because it loves it all. When you know All and when you love All, it is hard to be free and hard to create. Because whatever you do, you know, it will bring suffering to someone. Even if you decide to do nothing you cause suffering to someone by failing to help them in their suffering.
Heart is rarely creative, it is reactive - it reacts to events. Same is likely a property of Higher Self: it has a very limited capacity to create, it reacts to what a limited Physical Mind of the Physical Incarnation decides to do out of its ignorance. We do steps and Higher Self reacts to them. We provide the drive and the Higher Mind gives us a ride. For all what is our drive is worth. It is not that it is not creative, but at least from our point of view it does seem like we have a say in our lives. One certain creative step of the Higher Self is the creation of a material version of self, that is incarnation.
Our reality seems so real!
Q: How then it is illusion, if it seems so real? We believe that it is real because it is predictable more or less. Our world is following the laws of Newtonian mechanics. Once you start daydreaming, you bump into a physical object and it sure hurts. step outside and you will see no doubt that it is real. Even more so, people are predictable and standardized. The world is so standardized, so material, so down to Earth. It is really hard to find the proof of God presence in it. It would be even harder to find the proof of the Higher Self theory.
A: Indeed, it is quite hard to prove the Existence of Higher Self and its power of controlling circumstances in individual's life, that is why we may refer to it as theory, since it hasn't been proven. On other hand it has some predictive capacity although not as strong as the Newtonian mechanics. The point is that there is luck and mischief in our life. There is lots of uncertainty and this is why we are forced to exercise our free will - we have to make choices daily even though we don't have enough information and don't know what will come out.
Higher Self arranges a 'detour' to get us there faster
"Higher Self is just a larger, more aware portion of us that we are in moderate communication due to the nature of physical reality in general, and due to the nature of human brains in particular.
We have free will. But we are more than the physical self we normally identify with. We can drive the bus all we want but when the HS [Higher Self] knows where we are trying to go and the HS arranges a 'detour' to get us there faster, due to our limited perspective we feel like we are being thwarted when exactly the opposite is true.
The HS is not a superior or a controller. It just has a broader more complete perspective. Abe [Abraham Hicks 184] puts it another way. Abe says imagine you are the CEO (chief executive officer) of a big company and the HS (Higher Self) is your chief of operations. You ask him/her for things and he/she gets it done if we can just trust the COO [chief of operations] and let him/her.
Abe says: "go with the flow". Bashar says: "act on your excitement in each moment". When we do, and when we stop trying to control the 'how', things just magically work.
The ego wants to feel in control. It struggles. It believes 'no pain, no gain', so it feels struggle is necessary. It is annoyed to learn that all we have to do is stop paddling upstream. Stop trying to control the 'how'." Daniel 185
Higher Self as a layer
"What is the Higher Self? Thank you, lets address this. So you have some definitions to work with which again are nothing but, what? permission slips. That's all we're delivering here. Everything we say, everything we deliver to you is nothing but another form of permission slip, take which one works for you. The ones that don't work for you, let them be.
Now, lets go into a little bit more detail. Higher self, alright. Most of you are familiar with the idea that you have a physical Consciousness, a personality as a physical being that you relate to as your, self, so to speak. But then there is this mysterious idea of the Higher Self.
Simply put, most of you understand or at least intuit that the so-called Higher Self, well, is relatively nonphysical.
Even more simply put you could say that there is a vibrational frequency just above physical reality, just beyond physical reality, in which resides what you might refer to as a template for physical reality or upon which you construct your physical experience.
It is in that template level, just beyond the physical threshold that the Higher Self exists.
Now, please do not confuse the idea of Higher Self with Oversoul or spirit or what have you Higher self is a specific idea that is like a version of the person you are in physical reality but a version that has a broader perspective, a broader point of view.
Its like having a twin standing on a mountaintop while one is also standing in the valley. And they can communicate with each other. And the Higher Self can say "I see you walking down the road and I see that there is, well, a little bit of a ditch up ahead so if you walk this way and walk that way you'll avoid it."
And the one in the valley going "Oh , thank you very much."
This is, very simply put , the relationship between the two. It is you with a higher perspective, a broader perspective, a bigger picture without the complications that can arise from the personality construct's belief system.
So, the Higher Self is like a guiding principle, a governing principle, so to speak. That is a part of your complex as a person but is the non physical component that acts as a conduit to even higher versions of your soul, of your being, of your spirit. But also acts as the intermediary between those higher levels the physical personality construct and can distill information from the he higher spirit soul, Oversoul levels in a way that the personality can understand
So, the Higher Self functions like a translator taking the information from the higher levels and bringing it down to Earth in a way that can communicate to the personality effectively.
However, because of some of the belief systems that exist within the personality structure on your planet there has been confusion as to how to form clear communication line to the Higher Self." Bashar, channeled by Darryl Anka, June 23, 2007
The ways of God are inscrutable
Now the most interesting ability of Higher Self is the ability to manipulate seemingly random events in our lives. That is the most practically important outcome from this theory or from this teaching.
The way Higher Self controls the events in our life and therefore our destiny is not new. This is the way traditionally ascribed to the way the traditional human God or gods are influencing our life. This is the way which is referred to in saying "The ways of God are inscrutable".
Manipulating randomness
The influence of Higher Self on our life may start from circumstances that take place even before our birth, then by choosing our parents, combinations of gene variants in our genome (which is thought to be randomly chosen from gene variants of our parents) then combination of positions celestial bodies at the time of birth (an astrological chart), then it comes to myriad of events in our life that we consider random and ascribe to good or bad luck. There also is a big set of agreements that our Higher Selves made prior to lives. For example lovers are choosing each other prior to the incarnation or even prior to a series of incarnations. It is a common theme in past lives research through psychic readings or through hypnotic regressions: that people go through many lifetimes as a group - the Higher Selves therefore keep company in many lifetimes - they interact with each other by exploring different roles: husband and wife, a parent and a child, friends, business partners and such. Even enemies come from one life to another due to prior agreements, and best friends, best soulmates may dive in this incarnational cycle as enemies to play out a new drama. It sounds bizarre, but Bashar says that an individual can never meet anyone without a prior agreement, yes, yes, this sounds a little bit too much for our model of life, but maybe our Higher Selves are involved in perpetual brokerage up there?
Brokerage
It looks like our Higher Selves are chess players and we are their chess figures. They constantly set us up for interactions, situations, circumstances, problems, tests and lessons through the agreements they make between each other. We were taught that nonetheless we continue to have the Free Will. That means that we are presented with a new lesson by our Higher Self/Higher Mind entity but what we do with the lesson is our decision - that is it is a business of our Physical Mind/Lower Mind. The fact (that it is the Higher Self who sets us up for a test) is hidden from us to make an illusion that we are in control and to push us towards exercising of our free will, this is a free choice exercise.
We still have free choice.
For example: Higher Selves of two people who went together as close friends, couples, and family members through past lives may have an agreement to meet in current life or to be constantly pushed together, but it is up to them (to us, to our incarnations, to our Physical/Lower/Real Minds, real people) to choose whether we want to go into a relationship or not. We seem to have free choice in most of such situations.
Little order in seeming randomness
The lessons are picked up by the Higher Self entity prior to the incarnation (as we are told). So to say, the curriculum for the life is chosen by the Higher Self with the help of advisers and the major setup of life is arranged accordingly. The Higher Selves don't seem to create new material objects, they just seem to play existing cards: they combine existing circumstances and set up our lessons by bringing a little order to seeming randomness of events in life. Have you noticed, how luck is often presented to us? By seeming coincidences. In the Paradigm, they are called synchronicities - because a coincidence is a single event, a synchronicity is a trend, a series of coincidences, when many seemingly random events combine together to bring a desired (by the Higher Self) result.
Higher Self often benefits from the suffering of the Lower Self
A very important spiritual truth is that suffering is good for the Soul. It might not be obvious for a person going through life drama, because the person is inside the drama, because his/her soul is the one that is doing the labor of suffering, but from a distance it is often possible to see that the spiritual pain and suffering bring up a formation of new vortexes, new pieces of spiritual knowledge within the Soul. For example, it often happens that a Soul of an individual remains in a somewhat immature state long after individual grows up and moves away from his parents. Even love or even marriage often fail to make the his Soul independent: due to its immaturity it often remains dissolved in people surrounding him, and the contours of his soul remain undefined unlike the contours of the body. Only later, a death of a parent, or a divorce, or a event of similar tragic magnitude produces a deep, almost unbearable, spiritual pain, and when years later her gets over the pain, rebuilds himself, he and his friends discover that his Soul finally matures and obtains true firmness, true independence. If before the suffering he was spiritually weak and overly flexible, after the experience, others discover that his soul has become firm and he might be now relied upon. What would be the meaning for such an experience? Was the suffering good or bad in such a case? The answer, as usual changes much depending on the point of view. From the point of view of the individual at the time of the trial, in no way it is good, but from the distance of time or from the higher prospective, it may be considered the most soul-forming event in the life of the individual. Based on the above example, you can see how Higher Self improves its own integrity and strength by feeding mischief in the life of its Lower Self.
Higher Self judges from the higher prospective
Note also an important point that in the spiritual plane of Higher Self. our time doesn't exist and their time has very different properties. Therefore Higher Self looks at these events not from a specific time point but always from the Eternity. For example, imagine that you are an excellent chess player and that you are looking at the list of all steps in a chess party that you finished playing. You may associate yourself with a specific development in the party but you already know how it developed and what was the result. You may remember the feelings that you were feeing why loosing a party and suffering of the chess Queen that was your incarnation in the game, but you know it was only a game, only an illusion and you also know that only the feelings and lessons are what is left after the party is over. Was the suffering of the Queen worth playing the game?
If life is a movie, Higher Self is a producer
Consider another example: you are a movie producer, you have the movie done and you know the script by heart. You may still be moved by certain passages of heroes, you might even had played the main hero and the playing of his suffering was a particularly challenging experience for you but you know very well the higher purpose behind the plot and you know that the movie came out well for that very reason that you played the suffering part well. Was then the suffering good or bad? The answer is different for you and Higher Self, that is for you in the role (Lower Self) in the time of suffering or you as a producer (Higher Self) after the movie came out well.
The future is always uncertain but this is all right
Understand now that for every now there is large number of versions of the future. Because at many points, the Lower Mind is making free will decisions. Therefore, Higher Self is to deal not with a single line of life but with an infinite number of life lines. This is difficult concept for us but this uncertainty is natural and easy for the higher realm. This is why Bashar says that Lower Mind is not capable, is not designed to predict the circumstances. It is only designed for the operation in the now, in the current circumstances. It is the function of Higher Mind/Higher Self to take care of the future, so the Lower Mind is better to relax, stop worrying and enjoy the ride.
The Ego Mind Mechanism
Q: Is there a difference between Ego Mind and Physical Mind? Ego Mind seems to have hidden mysterious powers which Physical Mind may not have.
A: Let me note that I follow the subtle tradition which trivializes the function of the brain to just an interface between the body and the supernatural mind. It is a complex interface, expression of hormones and neurotransmitters strongly affects this interface and can shift the vibrations between different realities, but it is still considered an interface, just a physical receiver-transmitter. McTaggart in "the Field", Wilcock in "the source field", Browne in her talks and, I believe, Bashar tend towards this notion of brain being only an interface.
Most illustrative to the point is an observation that transplant recipients gain some of the character traits and memories of the donor. Thus organs are apparently also sharing this interface function with the brain by tuning in to the real mind which is of a non-material nature.
Since Higher Mind is the closest layer of our mind in non-material (ethereal) space, there is a little room left for our Physical Mind. I may define it as a part of our total mind which is located within the Veil. It actually doesn't have to be physical, it is likely as ethereal as the Higher Mind, only it is the one we normally use in our 3D reality and it is the one we have direct access to at will. Whatever is beyond the Veil, the Higher Mind is accessible only with certain level of sophistication, in dream state and under hypnosis.
What relates to the Ego, it doesn't seem to be a real mind, it is more like a mechanism of focusing. According to Bashar it has a Mind of itself, so it can be referred to Ego Mind, but it is more of a smart mechanism than an independent entity with a fully developed Mind. Bashar answered once a question, whether Sassani have Ego Mind, and he said that they use it as a mechanism to stay focused in their physicality and to remain individual beings, but since it is transparent to them, it doesn't have as much control over them as in humans. Talking non-judgmentally about mainstream public, a typical human gives an Ego-Mind-Mechanism much control, while remaining barely aware of his/her Higher Mind and Multidimensional Soul. Again, the Veil is strong in a mainstream Westerner and hence it is referred as a high degree of separation. Not that it is not natural for us, but it is what makes us different from other races such as cetaceans and many extraterrestrials and this separation is what is expiring at this age of transformation.
"This is a subject of interest in Sufism, the definition of Ego and the differences therein. As I understand it, the Physical Mind is neutral, simply the number counter, with no apparent ax to grind. The Ego on the other hand is the quality of the mind which forces the possible threads into a single perspective. So in an interaction between you and someone else you could focus all attention on the other person's feelings and perspective but the Ego doesn't want that. It creates the impetus that you are good, right, and smarter than the other and hence need to win. On a moral emotional level it defends the self, which makes me think that there is an awareness of the effect emotional states have on the Self and the Ego tries to maintain whatever balance that has been stipulated between the Physical and Higher Mind. Someone might be very negative but the Ego keeps them at that level of negativity without much fluctuation. So this job of maintaining a particular vibrational level means that a higher level is not necessarily good, only staying at the same place, so it fights for that. So that's a very important function, to maintain the chosen state and keep focus on the self mainly. Another distinction made by the Sufis is the character of the Old Villain. Bashar's explanation is the easiest. When the Ego believes that it is alone it starts to reinforce itself, to create an independent existence which seems to actively plot against any movement towards the light. The light is a movement towards embracing difference and hence the relaxation of rigid structures. The Old Villain could be seen as the malignant Ego. So in Sufism the first step towards moving towards the light is to release the hold of the Old Villain. This is frequently accomplished by demonstrating contradictions within the patterns of belief structures. Oliver" 186
In other words, the Ego Mechanism has a mind of its own and with the help of Personality, often takes over the control fighting any intention of reunion between the Lower and the Eternal Higher Mind, that is the Ego Mechanism with the help of Personality/Lower/Physical mind reinforces The Veil. Re-balancing the Personality structure, re-synchronizing the Lower and Higher Minds, dissolving The Veil is the goal and the tool of spiritual practices.
What is the difference between Father God and Higher Self?
The main difference is in understanding their characters and goals.
Father God of the Monotheism is very humanized. He is referred to as a King of Heaven. The Monotheism ascribes masculine gender and many humanized emotions to Father God. Since Monotheism also defines Father God as the God of all beings, it seems illogical for the God to be a male human. Now, as we learned that there are infinite fold more of beings in the Universe than our 7 billions, and that the majority of them are not human, the idea of fatherly human figure of God becomes even more remote. Monotheism also ascribes a role to Father God in struggle of good and evil. This is an old paradox in Christianity which logically questions whether God is benevolent and all powerful at the same time. Logically he cannot be both at once since there is so much evil and suffering in our world. No matter what the theologians say, the people's understanding is that Father God is good but not without a bit of negativity; and powerful, but again with limitations, just like the King of Haven might be.
"The term theodicy was coined in 1710 by the German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz." "Theodicy (from Greek theos - "god" + dike - "justice") is a theological and philosophical study which attempts to prove God's intrinsic or foundational nature of omnibenevolence (all-loving), omniscience (all-knowing), and omnipotence (all-powerful). Theodicy is usually concerned with the God of the Abrahamic religions Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, due to the relevant assertions of their respective holy texts. The fundamental dilemma of theodicy is the problem of evil: its continuing existence and God's apparent inability or unwillingness to eradicate it. The most common theodician argument that maintains God's three 'omni' qualities is that evil does not in fact exist as we define it, and that even what seems to us to be uttermost evil will somehow result in good as God has supposedly foreseen and ensured. Some sources use the term as meaning an explanation or justification of God's behavior in general." 187 Wiki
Traditional goals of Father God are believed to be the good of humanity and the punishment of sin. For the end of times, it is traditionally believed that Farther God will to judge the sinners and take good doers to the Paradise.
These primitivistic ideas on humanized Father God are substantially transformed in the emerging Celestial Paradigm.
A celestial point of view
The Higher Self entity is way more ethereal. It doesn't have a gender, it doesn't have a shape unlike its incarnations which do have a gender and a form. We don't know whether different incarnations of the same Higher Self show any resemblance to each other: there are suggestions that they might. The mere character of Higher Self is also an enigma. On one hand, it is individual's heart, individual's soul, it is "I". Again, we are told by Bashar that Higher Self is loving its incarnation unconditionally. Imagine a chess player that identifies herself with a chess queen. And loves it as self. That would be Higher Self controlling circumstances of its own incarnation and guiding its incarnation through the chess game of life. We may suppose that the character of Higher Self resembles the character of its Lower Self. At least this is what is suggested by results of the past life hypnotic regressions: the souls seem to keep the character during their incarnations. (The concepts of Higher Self and Soul overlap: Higher Self is the part of the Soul which is Self, and which manages the circumstances of life of its incarnation.) As Higher Self goes through lifetimes its, character becomes more and more sophisticated but it might remain the same soul, the same general personality. That is why it takes from 50 to 150 lifetimes to get it polished, sophisticated and balanced enough to get to the next level.
Evil doers
Michael Newton, a researcher using hypnotic regressions to learn about the world beyond the Veil writes:
"Those souls who have been associated with evil are taken to special centers which some clients call "intensive care units." Here, I am told, their energy is remodeled to make it whole again. Depending upon the nature of their transgressions, these souls could be rather quickly returned to Earth. They might well choose to serve as the victims of other's evil acts in the next life. Still, if their actions were prolonged and especially cruel over a number of lives, this would denote a pattern of wrongful behavior. Such souls could spend a long while in a solitary spiritual existence, possibly over a thousand Earth years. A guiding principle in the spirit world is that wrongdoing, intentional or unintentional, on the part of all souls will need to be redressed in some form in a future life. This is not considered punishment or even penance as much as an opportunity for karmic growth. There is no hell for souls, except perhaps on Earth." 188
Suicide is still not welcome
Michael Newton quotes amazing passage revealing the attitude of the Heavens to the idea of suicide:
"I worked with a young client who had tried to commit suicide a year before I saw him. During our hypnosis session we found evidence of a pattern of self- destruction in former lives. Facing his master teachers at a council meeting following his last life, this client was told by an Elder: "Once again you are here early and we are disappointed. Have you not learned the same test grows more difficult with each new life you terminate? Your behavior is selfish for many reasons, not the least of which is the sorrow you caused to those left behind who loved you. How much longer will you continue to just throw away the perfectly good bodies we give you? Tell us when you are ready to stop engaging in self-pity and underestimating your capabilities." 189
The Source is feeding on our experiences
A minor problem with this idea is that it is somewhat difficult to imagine that an entity with our character would have a nerve to give us the lessons, pain, grief, negativity that we have to go through. Does the Higher Self have a choice? It seems that it does. It seems that it is very creative in creating the situations and in setting us up for the lessons. It is typically making sure that we have tasks, problems, lessons that we can handle and that we are faced with the situations where we don't have any option other than to exercise the free will.
Summing up, the differences between the Father God and Higher Self is in quantity (single God vs. many Higher Selves), shape (human figure of Father God vs. ethereal Higher Self) and character (quite human and fatherly Father God vs. quite uninvolved tutor that is mostly concerned to put us in manageable level of trouble). What about their goals? The Father God, as we said, is concerned with humans worshiping him (The First Commandment), making humans better members of the society (other commandments), overthrowing evil (at least this is a common misconception about the purpose of Father God), fair Judgment and a sort of a Shift at which the Paradise will descent onto the Earth for nice people and nice souls. Maybe it is not a precisely theological plan of Father God, but it is pretty much the mainstream consensus of it. What are the goals of Higher Self? The main goal of Higher Self is to ascend to the next level, then even higher levels until becoming perfect to reunite with the Source (God). Higher Self does that by incarnating and by tutoring its every incarnation via subtle and invisible manipulation of luck and mischief in the incarnation's life. In the Emerging Celestial Paradigm, the goal of the Source is to experience everything that can be experienced and to learn itself in al possible ways. The Source is feeding on the experiences of its components, brunches and sprouts.
"important is not our experience of God, but God's experience of us: "When the word 'experience' finally appears in the writings of the Apostolic Fathers, it is to denote God's experience, not man's: 'We must undergo the "experience" of the living God and be trained in this life so that we may be crowned in the next' (2 Clem 20:2)."" 190
Apparently there exists a universal food chain: our Higher Selves feed on our experiences and so to say, enjoy the ride; then they graduate and apparently after next 4th level (density) don't incarnate anymore since they obtain enough of life experience so their etheric body becomes structured enough and independent enough to keep schooling in higher densities without actual physical incarnation. They keep their good work, service and learning as far as we are told for another 8 levels - densities and likely way farther, until they finally merge back with the Source. It is not clear whether this merge is really happening or whether it may be simply an urban legend , since in a way we are al part of the Source (which in turn is part of "All There Is"), and therefore all our experiences are its experiences. The Source constantly seeds many pieces, worlds and beings into multitude of physical realities and after they collect the experiences they merge back into it. This is the way in which the Source experiences itself.
Summing up, the new concept of schooling is somewhat different from the old concept of Judgment.
Lets acknowledge now that both principles of Schooling (learning) and Judgment are present in both old and new Celestial Paradigms, it is only priorities that have been changed, while the Schooling and Judgment principles were and are present in both Paradigms.
The idea of schooling - teaching - learning was present in old teachings, but typically it wasn't learning per se, it was more of other its components: the humans were told by God that they were "tested" , they were taught a lesson, their behavior was judged, their love for God was tested, strength was tested, ability to obey rules and to overcome fear was tested.
Emergence of the New Celestial Paradigm
The schooling was typically done for programming humans into specific behaviors and for achieving specific goals in the physical world: the God taught humans lessons so to achieve certain goal in physical world; the God's providence, God's ways were taught to improve our physical reality, and not so much to improve our souls. In Old Testament and Torah the lessons were for teaching humans how to behave in physical, not to perfect souls for next incarnations. In the New Testament, indeed, Jesus does bring the idea of perfection of the soul. This is indeed the Emergence of the New Celestial Paradigm. But somehow Jesus' teaching (as it is understood now) doesn't have it central that the evil, the suffering is given to us as lesson for perfection of the soul. The idea is present, but it is skewed in a way that highlights the idea of sin, of Judgment, of Christ's sacrifice and suffering on the cross and hides the idea about primacy of the soul and its reincarnation. It is quite possible and there is much evidence that original Jesus' teaching, essentially the teaching of Essenes was the initial emergence of the New Paradigm, but it was intentionally distorted to make it less spiritual and more of a tool of control in Roman Empire and consequently of Western world by bringing the ideas of hierarchy, punishment, future reward and redemption. As one may see, these ideas are not even the ideas of the Gospels but their interpretations.
Judgment
Lets look now at the idea of Judgment. The idea of Judgment is dominant only in Christianity. It is present in Judaism, but in Judaism it is the return to Jerusalem, rebuilding of the Temple and coming of the Messiah are the main theme. The idea of Judgment is less pronounced in Judaism. In the new Paradigm, the idea of Judgment is replaced by two very different concepts.
Life review
The first substitution of Judgment is simply a life review that the Soul undergoes after death. We know much about the life review from the research of past life regressions191 and reports of near death experience192 (NDE). After the Soul of the individual leaves the body, it travels towards the light typically escorted by a close departed relative. There it is met by departed relatives, friends and goes through a life review. There is no "Judgment" per se, but this life review is reminiscent of life review which is traditionally thought to be coming with the Last Judgment. In the idea of Last Judgment, the Heavenly Judge with the Heavenly Court will review the life of a Christian and, based on the balance of good deeds and sins, will send the soul either to Paradise or to Hell.
"Both Christianity and Judaism believe in some form of judgment. In Jewish liturgy there is significant prayer and talk of a "book of life" that one is written into, indicating that God judges each person each year even after death. This annual judgment process begins on Rosh Hashanah and ends with Yom Kippur. Additionally, God sits daily in judgment concerning a person's daily activities. Upon the anticipated arrival of the Messiah, God will judge the nations for their persecution of Israel during the exile. Later, God will also judge the Jews over their observance of the Torah." Wiki
"The Last Judgment in Christian theology, is the final and eternal judgment by God of every nation. It will purportedly take place after the resurrection of the dead and the Second Coming of Christ." Wiki
"When the Son of Man comes in His glory. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates his sheep from the goats, and He will set the sheep on His right hand but the goats at the left. Then the king will say to those on His right hand, “Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in, I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.” ... “Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My Brethren [fellows], you did it to me.”
"Then He will also say to those on the left hand, “Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry and you gave Me no food, I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.” ... “Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.” And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."(Matthew 25:31-36, 40-43, 45-46 NRSV)
The doctrine is further supported by passages in the Books of Daniel, Isaiah and the Revelation:
"Just as the weeds are collected and burned up with fire, so will it be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will collect out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers, and they will throw them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Let anyone with ears listen!" Matthew 13:40-43
"Belief in the last judgment (often linked with the General judgment) is held firmly inside Catholicism. Immediately upon death each soul undergoes the particular judgment, and depending upon the state of the person's soul, goes to heaven, purgatory, or hell. The last judgment will occur after the resurrection of the dead and the reuniting of a person's soul with own physical body. The Catholic Church teaches that at the time of the last judgment Christ will come in His glory, and all the angels with him, and in his presence the truth of each man's relationship with God will be laid bare, and each person who has ever lived will be judged with perfect justice. Those already in heaven will remain in heaven; those already in hell will remain in hell; and those in purgatory will be released into heaven. Following the last judgment, the bliss of heaven and the pains of hell will be perfected in that those present will also be capable of physical bliss/pain. After the last judgment the universe itself will be renewed with a new heaven and a new earth in the World to Come." Wiki
"In Islam, Yawm al-Qiy?mah (Arabic: ??? ???????? "the Day of Resurrection") or Yawm ad-Din (Arabic: ??? ?????? "the Day of Judgment") is believed to be God's final assessment of humanity as it exists. The sequence of events (according to the most commonly held belief) is the annihilation of all creatures allowable, resurrection of the body, and the judgment of all sentient creatures. The exact time when these events are to occur is not specified, however there are said to be major and minor signs which are to occur near the time of Qiyamah (End time). Wiki
The life review of the New Paradigm is quite different
The adherents of the New Paradigm find the Christian concept of Judgment somewhat outdated and distorted. A typical concept of the New Paradigm is that the Messiah coming is going to happen by So-called Christ Consciousness waking up in each individual. The idea of life review in the New Paradigm is different in a way that the Soul reviews its life just for the Soul's own education and this review is quite different from what we could imagine with our physical mind.
Even time is different in the celestial world
The concept of time in the celestial world is quite different than here. The time in the celestial world seems to be more transparent and less flowing forward. It is certainly not our time, it is a different reality and the celestial time has no relationship to our time. Some say that there is no time over there but this doesn't seem to have much sense since there clearly are some events and some developments in there. So they have some sort of time measure, but different.
Dimension of the World of Dead
It is not clear what is the dimensional location for the World of Dead. Cassiopaeans say it is 5th density, certainly not 4th, where the beings are still largely physicalized. Traditions that study life after death assign a physical location to the world of dead to the different levels in the Earth's atmosphere and somewhat above. I am not aware of any confirmations to these claims.
The life review
An interesting property of life review that the Soul is shown its life not only through its own eyes but also from the point of view of other people who interacted with it. This way it can experience the results of free will not only from its own perspective but also from people who were affected by it one way or another. Te review we are told is assisted by loving nonjudgmental advisers and not judges. It is soul itself who is to judge its own deeds, not something outside.
Everything is very personal
Please note that the main innovation of the New Paradigm is that everything there is done by the individual herself or its individual Higher Self like in a self-service store, self-service checkout or self-service laundry. There is no universal Messiah, no universal judge, not even a universal Father God figure. Everything is being done by the individual on an individual's level. Its individualized Higher Self is incarnating in a physical being, guiding it through life (like a personal coach), assigning him/her individual lessons, then the individual's soul is doing its own life review and is left at sort of a paradise community to live an eternal life. Even a Messiah that comes any day now is waking in us internally. In the New Paradigm's version of life review there is nothing giant, everything is very small, very personal, not unlike a personal pizza.
Further steps
The life review allows the Soul integrate the life experience with the unlimited knowledge that it can access in the spiritual plane. After the life review, the Soul is said to go to rehabilitation to heal the wounds of life. This rehabilitation process is mentioned in various sources. After rehabilitation the souls choose to get involved into service, teaching and further learning. Contrary to common misconception it is not these souls that reincarnate again it is their Higher Self entity that goes into further or parallel incarnations. The discarnate souls remain in the shape of their former incarnations forever.
The Shift
Another process or event in new cosmology that is reminiscent of Last Judgment of the Christianity is the Shift. The Shift or the New Age Ascension is a very consistent concept conveyed by a large number and variety of sources from the Other Side. Since we touch upon the idea of the Shift in other chapters, we will focus here on the comparison of the idea of the Shift and the idea of Judgment.
Shift vs. Judgment
The most striking are two similarities between the idea of the Shift and the idea of Last Judgment: that they both are to happen at the End of Times and that people will depart this reality one way or another.
"And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works." (Rev 20:11-12)
In the Last Judgment, a Son of Man resides on a white throne and judges living and dead souls based on their sins and good deeds. The sinners are be sent to hell and good folks are sent go into Paradise, which is the Kingdom of Light on Earth.
The idea of the Shift is partly similar and partly different from the idea of the Last Judgment.
As in previously discussed peculiarities of the New Paradigm, the main difference is in much more individual, personal, person-centered quality of the Shift.
Shifting smoothly
In the New Paradigm, there is no judge, no personalized God, no single Son of Man or any other entity. It is not clear whether extraterrestrials are to be involved physically in the Shift. Nonphysically, they certainly are since (as we are told by many various sources), we are in overwhelming extent incantations of the ETs that created us. We are their souls who incarnated in large numbers on the Planet to take part in the Shift.
As we discussed, the Shift does not promise to become the end of time but only the Shift of frequencies which is also a significant change, but not terminal. We observe that that channeled "updates" and predictions much more optimistic after critical period of approximately 1999 - 2009. We are being told that extraterrestrial agreements and commitments allowed the ETs to unravel a program of smoothing out geological activities of the Shift and therefore our transition. We are told that major time points of likely catastrophes have passed with minimal damage and the following ride has good chances to be smoother than could have been.
Shifting not so smoothly
We are told that by Ra group and Cassiopaeans that not all people will survive the Shift. Interestingly, they also divide people in two general categories related to the idea of sinners and nice people. The difference is that Ra and Cassiopaeans explain that there is no good or bad people, everybody loves someone and devotes self to a sort of service. The main difference according to them is that egotistic folks devote their lives to Service To Self (abbreviated STS, which we will call for clarity egotists) and altruistic folks devote their lives to Service To Others (abbreviated as STO, we refer to them as altruists). Average people, due to their culture and properties of their souls, are living the lives by mixing both Service To Self And Service To Others in intermediate proportions. Back in 80s, Ra and Cassiopaeans predicted that approximately 5% of egotists and 50% of altruists will survive the Shift. The reason for that was that only individuals with pure vibration, be that egotistic or altruistic, can survive the difficulties that take place during the Shift.
According to Bashar and few other channels, the Shift has already been going on for quite a while and will go on for quite a while. We estimate based on multiple channels that the waves of new energy representing the Shift started in 60s, became more consistent in 80s , will culminate in 2012 - 2014 , will continue strongly to maybe till 2020s when the main Shift will be over and will continue on and off until 50s. According to Bashar, people with vibrations not strong enough and not clean enough will simply die off from seemingly natural causes during this period and this is the meaning behind the idea that only pure egotist and most altruistic half of altruists will survive the Shift.
It is also possible that the numbers were too pessimistic and that since the time of predictions, the overall health of the system improved and the percentages of survivors will increase. Also, it may very much be that the percentages were given for the fast Shift, the Shift that would happen in a very short period of time as it appears from many predictions. It is possible that the scheme for the Shift changed and now it will span about 50 - 70 years centering around 2012. If this is so, then gradual dying off of less shiftable individuals may not be that noticeable since it will spread over a period of time (50-70 years) comparable to a life time.
Homo Galacticus to replace Homo Sapiens
Naturally, dying off of old-style Homo Sapiens is accomplished with the birth of new generations which are more suitable for the new vibrations of the Earth. Large variety of sources are predicting this influx that comes under names of Indigo Children, Crystal Children And Starseeds. The new breed of humans demonstrates waves of new qualities such as heightened psychic, telepathic and telekinetic abilities. These might be accompanied with changes in genetic makeup. Unfortunately the mainstream science is not studying these new changes yet. How may these new Indigo Children have received the new genetic qualities? What could be biological mechanisms that would allow the change on such a large scale? The suspect mechanisms are usual. They may have been genetically engineered: 1. Via alien abductions; 2. Via virus infections that swipe through the globe. 3. Via nonphysical ethereal manipulations of our genomes by the Celestial Chaperons. Note that all of these can affect people of any age, not only children, but the modification of the genome is accomplished easier on the level of a single cell, or an embryo than of an adult organism.
The Harvest and self-service
Ra material and Cassiopaean transmissions are referring to the so called mysterious "harvest" that will happen during the Shift. Bashar explains that this harvest they are referring to is simply a process of individuals harvesting themselves into a new vibration. You an see again that the spirit of New Paradigm is very much of self-service quality, the Shift happening from within and is not directly mediated by the celestial beings.
A technologically-assisted Shift
In addition to the idea of a natural Shift, there is also an idea of the Shift that will be helped technologically by extraterrestrials primarily from Sirius culture. As we mentioned previously, Sheldan Nidle and other channeled Sirian sources predict the mass landing and mass appearance of human-looking extraterrestrials who will assist us in the Shift using special transformation chambers. This Shift was said to take a short period of time. As we mentioned, there is a problem with these predictions since they were predicted for the time of 1993 and apparently didn't come true on the first round. Next round is now predicted for 2012 and so far, the signs of coming mass landing and technological transformation are minimal, suggesting that this 2012 time point predicted by the Sirians may be overly optimistic.
Will the religion fall apart?
As you see, there are similarities between the Judgment and the Shift, but the differences are obvious as well.
Q: Would religion fall apart when the truth about extraterrestrials will be uncovered?
A: It is only from the first glance that the new cosmology endangers the religion. After thinking. Much about this question, and looking at it from all angles, it appears that the new cosmology agrees with the religion much better than the atheistic materialism of industrial age. It appears that materialism challenged the religion much more during the 20th century than the New Paradigm of the 21st century. In the 20th century, many people lived double lives: in church and in private they prayed to immaterial God, while in public they complied with the materialistic system of life. For humans, it is quite natural to live double lives and to harbor incompatible thought systems. The New Paradigm is actually in much agreement with the religions. All embrace immortal soul, primacy of higher Consciousness and its involvement of in human life. The New Paradigm aligns best with Hinduism and Buddhism. These three teachings are based on the ideas of reincarnation cycle and that the soul incarnates on Earth to learn lessons. The commonality between the New Paradigm and all religions is in Spirituality. The primary difference from many religious practices is that is that the spiritual work in the New Paradigm is done within and though self-service, without the help and control of intermediaries, there is no respect for fear and no concept of sin. All is love, all are part of the Source and everyone is loved no matter what.