INTRODUCTION
(Buddy Jesus, from the Kevin Smith Movie, Dogma.)
Within religious text, psychology and philosophy, there is a common line of thought that points to three elements that make up our essential selves.
Number one is a self that is all knowing. Aware of everything that has happened to it in this life and beyond. It is linked to a realm we know of as the Spirit or the Etheric. It does not judge right or wrong, good or bad, or have any feelings of retribution. It knows only love.
The second part is the one that is in our here and now. The aspect of our life that gives to us our feelings of pleasure or of sadness. The part that can hide us in illusion and can keep us from knowing peace, on the other hand, it can be the doorway out of that life of illusion and bring to us the realisation that every thing has a purpose and we are aligned to that purpose intrinsically. This is our three dimensional embodiment.
The third aspect of self is the one that works on cause and effect, or at least throws things up at us that we can have trouble understanding the reason for immediately. This ones our ultimate teacher. Though it can bring our lessons to us in the form of suffering, it can also take us to the highest sense of self.
This Triune has been called many things:
HIGHER SELF. SELF. KARMA.
FATHER. SON. HOLY GHOST. Etc.
I have choosen:
I AM.
CHRIST.
LORD.
I use the bible as my guide to the spiritual aspect of self. I was raised a Catholic and understand the bible writtings better than any of the other religions that I have reviewed.
Though I use the term the Father in this text, it is non-generic and does not refer to its sex. This aspect of our self is omnipresent and genderless.
I do see a lot of great stuff written in the bible, but it shares space with lots of long-winded crap.
It is also well documented that the bible has been changed throughout history and is defiantly not the definitive "WORD OF GOD". Don't believe me, do your homework.
I also do not need to believe that a man called Jesus ever existed in the biblical context. Too much in "real" history points to "Him" being of many myths. That does not take away from the message it is trying to impart. Personally, I think it enhances it.
(The image that has been made of Jesus/God/Lord!)
"DO NOT MAKE FOR YOURSELVES IMAGES OF ANYTHING IN HEAVEN OR ON EARTH OR IN THE WATER UNDER THE EARTH. DO NOT BOW DOWN TO ANY IDOL OR WORSHIP IT BECAUSE I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD AND I TOLERATE NO RIVALS."
Exodus:20-4.