When we speak so often of going to the Higher Self to learn your answers, we are speaking of going through several levels of Self to get to that higher level. Beyond the Higher Self there are, indeed, higher levels of understanding. Think of it much like a layer cake. Many of you have ~ and many of you will ~ experienced an infusion of a level from a higher point in your own consciousness into Self at this particular consciousness. And, if all is integrated, as is generally the situation, there is not what you would consider a grouping of these levels of Self into the particular conscious energy level in which you find yourself on the earth plane.

In the case of what is referred to as multiple personalities, there is a lack of integration, that occurs within an entity, of the various components of Self. This occurs most often from an incomplete closure occurring at the end of a particular lifetime, so that what you know as personality does not have complete closure at the end of a particular life and is left in the vibration of a particular level of your awarenesses.

When you move from lifetime to lifetime, you bring in different components of your energy, not always the same component, not always the same level. When an incomplete closure occurs, it leaves what we would call then a loose end to the total Self. Oftentimes going into the very next lifetime, an entity may easily and quickly take that loose end and integrate that personality into the current personality. It generally occurs in the first several years on the plane. When that is in some way hindered, then the lack of integration begins to become part of the personality of the current vibration and the current level of the energy.

Oftentimes on the earth plane, the multiple personality situation is thought to be the result of a traumatic event. It is not. It is the opposite of that ~ it is the cause of there being a traumatic event occurring. The event occurs so that those personalities of Self that have not been integrated will have the opportunity to do so. It may take the entire lifetime, or it may take a very short time on the plane, depending on how many incomplete personality closures there are.

Most entities in their sojourn on the earth plane experience this type of situation. In a particular lifetime, for whatever the reasons, the personality is not fully developed. When it is time to leave that lifetime, the personality still hangs around, if you will, until it is given an opportunity, then, to come into another lifetime and share within the encasement the personality.

It is Self ~ it is nothing external to Self. Multiple personality is not to be confused with what is called possession, which is an external energy coming into the vibration. Multiple personality is Self simply integrating with Self. And when the integration occurs, then the entity, of course, becomes stronger.

The lower the amount of energy coming in the more difficult is the journey on the plane. Many entities choose to only bring in a small percentage of Self for the earth plane sojourn so as to accelerate their learning and make their learning more difficult. It is purposely done and is not something that is required.

The remaining percentages that exist in the Self slowly integrate in very minute ways. It is, however, common in an accelerated training time, such as you all find yourselves in now, that large portions of the Self enter in to your consciousness. It is generally done by those entities who had chosen to have very small amounts of their energy coming onto the earth plane.

So there are situations in which the Higher Self that is integrating the energy has not had experiences on the earth plane, and is bringing in a higher level of awareness from other dimensions and not the earth plane. It creates interesting assimilation. There are many of you who have had a number of infusions into your conscious being during the past few earth plane years that have given you a sense of clarity of what you are here to do and have given you a sense of strength in seeking your own spirituality.

When you begin to see the world around you in a different way, you become more calm and become, in your own way, more aware of your place in the world ~ thus, you can be certain that your higher awarenesses have integrated. Sometimes it can be very dramatic and sometimes it can be very, very subtle. Each layer, if you will, of Self has different gender orientations. You have a dominant gender ~ each energy takes on a dominant gender for its experiences outside of The Universal Consciousness. There will be times, however, when you will bring in a particular level of your energy that is a different gender than what your encasement is ~ and what your dominant energy is. And, it is nothing unusual.

Many of you are rather comfortable with the sense of feeling that you are different from what you appear to be. You may look female yet do not feel female, or you may look male and do not feel male, or there is an integration of the male and female, the opposites within Self. And, you have a clearer understanding of the issues that the opposite gender to which your encasement is, has for its journey on the earth plane. This is a critical and important issue for all on the earth plane to learn ~ the perspective of those who are different from them.

If you are in a female encasement, whether or not your dominant energy is male or female is not the issue. Rather, the issue is how you are able to attune yourself to your issues and the issues of those around you in other genders. You become more understanding and not one sided in thinking that you are the victim because you happen to be male or the victim because you happen to be female ~ you can take either stand, you see.

So it makes for a rather interesting lifetime when large amounts of Self infuse your Conscious Self and that those levels carry different genders ~ one day you are female, the next day you are male, the next day you are back to female again. And all, of course, in the same encasement, unless of course you so choose to change that, which is a common situation in this time frame in this illusion. In many of the other illusions, the desire, as well as the high ability, to change the physical encasement to meet the vibrational gender was a common practice.

There are other lives, however, in which there is a very conscious awareness of a spiritual path, and a very deep need to know what the purpose is for being in the life. When you have that flickering within you that says within Self, “I need to know very much what my purpose is,” that is a trigger within the Soul that is infusing all the levels of Self to begin the search within.

Nothing external to you can give you that information ~ it must come from within through focusing and reflection or whatever other form of communication you find Self able to conduct within. Your Angelic Protector, your Spirit Guides, all those who surround you can help you. There can be guidance given from external sources ~ such as us ~ who can perhaps lead you to the point, to give you guidance to reach the point where you would then find your answer.

We can, if given permission by the Soul, give you your purpose ~ however, it is only if we are given permission to give you that information, and then it is in a restricted manner, for each of you finds your own sense of purpose from within. And, when you feel strongly about that sense of purpose, you then act upon it and nothing else will deter you. Until you feel that strong sense, then you will be searching. Once you feel the strong sense of purpose, you will find yourself positioned in a grouping or in an arena of other entities who will share this with you.

Finding your purpose can be, for some, a lifetime journey. When they finally find their purpose, it is time to leave the earth plane, and they take that purpose with them and bring it into the next lifetime. You may know entities who seem to have a sense of their purpose from the moment they came in. You have met young entities on the plane who seem very independent, very sure of what they are to do at a very early age. Or, as they have matured and they reach what you call the teenage years, there is a strong sense and they follow that. That did not just happen. It was not just luck. It was something that was worked upon in another lifetime ~ searching and searching and searching. Many lifetimes can be spent in the search.

After you have spent many lifetimes in searching, you finally reach a point in a particular series of lessons that you have determined need to be focused on for learning. You come into the next lifetime with a clear sense of purpose that has come from many lifetimes of travel. And once you get into this mode of finding your purpose, then it becomes easier.

Let us say, for example, you have a lifetime now where you have your purpose. You know what you are here to do ~ and, you do it. You leave the life and evaluate it afterward and see that you have done what you planned to do. It is time then to find a new purpose, for there is a new series of lessons, or even one lesson. And you may find then that going into the next lifetime, it is easier to recognize your purpose concretely for you have done it before ~ you have learned how to do it.