Lobsang Rampa's take on Oversouls
Post 34 of tread "Dream Entities"
Sorcer wrote
" debrajane,
so, if i'm getting this right .... an 'Oversoul' is like a being greater than ourselves... and we are like it's finger-puppets... in that it has a mask or a face that it is wearing on each finger ?
And so we would share some deeper connection with certain persons because we are manifestations of a larger consciousness ?
does this gentleman predict or posit just how many persons may share in this type of connection under a single Oversoul ?"
Hi Sorcer
There are two gentle men, Lobsang Rampa and Nick Newport.
First, this is what Lobsang wrote:
Post 5 & 6 of my thread in the Newbie Zone, called, I Am Here Dr. Who, Thanx To You.
***The late Lobsang Rampa's take on the overself from his book called Chapters of Life, 1967.
Page 36
As I turned away (from the street puppet show) I thought of the things I had learned in Tibet, I thought of my beloved Guide the Lama Mingyar Roundup, and how he had shown me that man is just a puppet of his Overself.(...)
Man is nine-tenths subconscious and one-tenth conscious.(...)
Remembering that Man is so little 'conscious' does it not occur to you what a shocking waste of time it is for a powerful, powerful Overself, gifted with all manner of abilities and talents, pulsing with the power of a more vibrant world and a different way of life, who comes to This world laden with troubles and obstacles, and then (have) to function at, at most, one-tenth of its ability? (...)
(...) But think of it in terms of human existence; mankind is like a ten-cylinder car only one cylinder of which works, the other nine are 'subconscious'. Wasteful, isn't it?
The Overself of a human--or any other creature either, for that matter--does not waste energy; (...)
(Lobsang Rampa first talks about what an advanced Oversoul might be up to. Then talks about a beginner Oversoul.)
Supposing our Overself is more or less a beginner, then you can say that it is the same as a student in a secondary school. The student has to attend a number of classes instead of having to learn just one subject, often this means that the student has to walk to different classes or to different centres, and that really does waste a lot of time and energy.
The Overself is in a far more satisfactory position.
It is the puppet master. ***
*** 2nd (Lobsang Rampa) post, page 38.
Upon this world which we call Earth there is a puppet which is in the Earth body, and which functions with one-tenth of the Overself's attention. (...)
To get back to our student (...)
(...) Supposing the Overself has been a bit slow or a bit lazy, and has had various setbacks (...) (to catch-up with the other students, it might start cramming...)
The Overself may have a person living one life in Australia, and may have yet another person doing something else in Africa.
Perhaps there will be another one in South America, or Canada, or England;*
There may be more than 3. There may be 5 or 6 or 7.*
These people might never meet on Earth and there would still be very much in affinity with each other, they may have telepathic report without in any way understanding why, but then occasionally they would meet in the astral just as salesmen sometimes meet in the sales manager's office.
(...)
But what is the purpose of all this, you might ask.
Well, that's easy to answer:
By having a number of puppets the Overself can have vast experience and can live ten lives in just one lifetime. ***
Sorcer
I am typing-up what the other gentleman, (Nick Newport) said about Overselves on his Lucidology 103, lesson one. I type slow so it might be a while before I come back.