[Maphpseurse]

I heard that sometimes our higher self makes itself known in the form of angels, people, children (little people) even animals. Sometimes when it is there to help us along it uses a form that we will feel comfortable or safe with.

I agree that this is another way to see it: it may be the higher self. I wondered about this lately, whether I was working with spirit guides, or my higher self, or self aspects or my subconscious mind, or…I’ll stop here because there may be no end to this list.

Spirit guides and the higher self are concepts, and concepts are no absolutes. Robert Bruce has his own concept of what a guide is and what the higher self is, but you’ll also find other authors, whose views and concepts, quite different from Robert Bruce’s, are still as valid as his own, according to their experiences. Concepts can only render an imperfect and filtered view of the «whole» to which I doubt we have access as human beings.

Sometimes I wonder if we are simply arguing over words… If we were to look further than the words, would we actually find out that we are all talking about the same thing in the end?
It’s as if we were all in a museum watching the same sculpture from a different point of view. Obviously, we see it differently. For instance, one standing in front of the sculpture doesn’t see it the same way as one who is looking at it from behind. They both can’t see the whole, they only see parts of it, and different parts of it that is, and they argue over what they both see, even tough what they both see is valid, according to their own experience…

In the end, I came to the conclusion that there are many valid possibilities and if I chose to talk about a «guide» here, this is because from my point of view, it is what resonates the most in me, though I am perfectly aware that this is a belief I chose and that I may just as well come to think otherwise at some point. Susan shall also be free to see her experience as such, if this belief suits her, and someone else shall be free to believe in the higher self or whatever else feels closer to his/her personal «truth».

I’m starting to believe that words and concepts you will choose to describe your experience won’t change the core experience in itself anyway, just like the sculpture doesn’t change because you have started looking at it from a different angle. So I guess the important is to appreciate the experience in itself: how did if feel to you? What does it tell you? How does it relate to you? And here, the best person to answer these questions… is you. Books and other people will certainly help to enlarge and enrich your own views, and will help you see things from different angles, but in the end, such answers lie deep within each of us.

Well, I think I got carried again!
Don't get me wrong though, I was not aiming at anyone in particular here... I simply wanted to share something I found out lately