Your spiritual self

NOTE: This is an excerpt from the book The Least You Should Know About Life.

To make it easier to visualize the relationship between your higher Being and your lower being, the following explanation will refer to the chart shown here.

The core of your spiritual self is also called your I AM Presence to signify that it is your true identity, it is what gives you the ability to know that “I am!” The top figure depicts your I AM Presence as the central, white sphere.

The French philosopher René Descartes said, “I think, therefore I am.” While this is a valid observation from the material universe, the higher reality is that you must have a sense of being before you can think. Thus, your spiritual self gives you a sense of being and the fact that you have consciousness enables you to think. I AM, therefore I can think. The name “I AM” is linked to the name that God gave to Moses on Mount Sinai:

13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?
14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. (Exodus, Chapter 3)

As will be explained later, there is a hierarchy of Beings in the spiritual realm. They extend from the highest God through many levels of vibration, many levels of the spiritual realm. Your lifestream is part of that hierarchy, part of the Chain of Being. In other words, in the material realm most people have a sense of identity as separate beings, and they see themselves as separated from other people, from nature and from God.

In the spiritual realm all conscious Beings realize that all life is one and came from the same source. This does not mean that spiritual Beings don’t have individuality. Yet they see that their individuality is an expression of a higher Being that reaches all the way back to the Creator as the source of all life. This is clearly stated in the Bible, “Without him was not anything made that was made” (John 1:3). In the spiritual realm, all Beings have a sense of oneness without sameness, seeing each other and themselves as unique expressions of the same transcendent reality—what human beings call “God.”

Your lower being is an extension of, an individualization of, your I AM presence, and it was created out of God’s desire to be more—which is unconditional love. Your I AM Presence desired to send a part of itself into the material universe, partly to experience this level of God’s creation from the inside and partly to help co-create God’s kingdom – as a perfectly harmonious society – on Earth.

Your I AM Presence contains the divine blueprint for your individuality, all of the characteristics that make you a unique expression of God’s Being. This blueprint was created by your spiritual parents – spiritual Beings existing in one of the spiritual realms – and it is permanent and immutable. It is, so to speak, the foundation for your efforts as a co-creator.

The very purpose of life is to grow in self-awareness and to expand your creative abilities until you can take dominion over the material universe (the mastery of mind over matter demonstrated by Jesus and the Buddha) and thereby bring God’s kingdom to Earth. When you use your creative abilities wisely, you can build upon the foundation of your divine individuality and can expand it. You thus become more than you were created to be by learning positively from your experiences in the material universe.

Because the I AM Presence resides in a realm of vibration that is above the material universe, it cannot be negatively affected by any mistake you make in this realm. No matter what mistakes you might have made, it has not impacted your true identity. Therefore, regardless of how miserable you might feel, you ALWAYS have the potential to reconnect to your I AM Presence and unlock your true spiritual potential.

This is a safety mechanism built into God’s design of the universe, and you can NEVER lose your ability to establish a sense of oneness with your higher Being. However, the ego works against this connection and seeks to keep you in a state of mind in which you feel separated from God.

Your causal body
On the chart, you will see a number of colored rings around the white sphere that represents your I AM Presence. This represents the attainment you have gathered through your journey in the material world. It is a product of your positive learning experiences—and take note that even what seems like a mistake can be turned into a positive learning experience.

Thus, it is wise to look at life as a scientific experiment. You are here to find out what works and what doesn’t work. As long as you are willing to turn every experience into a positive learning experience, there is no point in feeling guilty for your mistakes. When Thomas Edison was working on inventing the light bulb, he tried 2000 materials that didn’t work before he found one that worked. He didn’t look at this as having made 2,000 mistakes. He said, “I discovered 2,000 ways not to make a light bulb.” You might have discovered 2,000 ways not to make the kind of human being you want to be, but these experiences can still be used to make the kind of human being you do want to be.

The Bible refers to the causal body in these sayings:

19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. (Matthew, Chapter 6)

Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me. (Mark 10:21)

Your causal body can be seen as your cosmic bank account that you can draw on for your spiritual growth and for the fulfillment of your purpose for coming to Earth. Once you reestablish a conscious connection to your higher Being, you will be able to draw upon the positive energy and the experiences stored in your causal body.

The flow of energy