Enhanced self . . .

Life is like a jigsaw puzzle . . . only one piece is visible for most. Though there may be a lot of stuff going on around us at any one time. I guess you would see I’m using this as an analogy of the figure/ground. So, lets say we move out of the passive mode: that is, move out of the one figure/ground and refocus. From this position, there is the ability to connect with other stuff, have other views, draw upon those other parts for interpretation . . . higher levels, bigger picture potentials. Using our larger consciousness, and/or connecting with a larger consciousness. I guess one could start using those “we’re a part of the whole systems,” like Carl Jung’s, or Michael Washburn.

• Some may have even been taking this much further:

“ . . . what the denizens of a few-dimensional zones call change is merely a function of their consciousness, which views the external world from various cosmic angles. As the Shapes produced by the cutting of a cone seem to vary with the angles of cutting–being, circle, ellipse, parabola or hyperbola according to the angle, yet without any change to the cone itself–so do the local aspects of an unchanged and endless reality seem to change with the cosmic angle of regarding. To this variety of angles of consciousness the feeble beings of the inner worlds are slaves, since with rare exceptions they cannot learn how to control them. Only a few students of forbidden things have gained inklings of his control, and have thereby conquered time and change. But the entities outside the Gates command all angles, and view the myriad parts of the cosmos in terms of fragmentary change-involving perspective, or of the changeless totality beyond perspective, in accordance with their will.

H. P. Lovecraft: “Through the Gates of the Silver Key” (1934)

Well, that seems a bit exotic, and maybe beyond my level, at the moment. I’ll just have to take what I can get. Seeing stuff in clouds, or interacting with dreams is called the “second attention.”

There was a dream, or an early morning wake-up into another state, in which I could feel my “lower self” complaining and bumbling about, not sure what to do; but I was also discerning this from my higher self simultaneously. Whoa!