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In 1968, 40 years ago (in July 2008), I was introduced to the book "You Forever", a simplistic book about Reality authored by Tuesday Lobsang Rampa and if I could convey one image to you in one sentence of just what stands out to me from this intervening period it is the knowledge or Knowledge that the overself, maybe Overself would be a more appropriate expression, is REAL.

Your overself is just as real as anyone else's. The fact that it seems not to exist is perhaps one of THE most astonishing and wonderful facts of life. How come? Imagine it were otherwise, that is stood in the very forefront of our everyday awareness. How long would it be before we lost all sense of who and where we are in the world? No thanks.

In other words to spend your life barely knowing or suspecting this absolutely wonderful knowledge is a GIFT that the overself bestows upon us.

It can and does sometimes intervene and when that happens, boy, do we just be inclined to stand back, figuratively, and issue forth a silent (or loud) "Wow!".

The overself is the intermediary that features in many or most NDE accounts wherein there is a Jesus like or Superman like figure that acts as welcoming host and guide.

This aspect of Reality is the most amazing thing to realize. Furthermore, this Knowledge implies other aspects of the Greater Reality. So much so that I daren't venture down that winding lane without fear of getting totally lost...

If you already Know this yourself then you know what I mean, I am sure, but if you don't then you probably feel frustrated by this kind of writing - talking about stuff that is easy to fake.

There is a line between rejecting everything because it is odd and doesn't fit it with the conventional view of the world and reality and being a total believer without any sceptism at all. Where these two more or less opposites meet is that fine line.

That line is more of an attitude to life than anything else.

Our true attitude to life should be more of awe and wonder more than the cliche tiredness or routine rejection that typifies the 'western' mind as a kind of automated reaction to anything strange.

The ability to handle information is what intelligence is. The failure to cope with strange, challenging information is frequently exhibited by blanket rejection on the basis of a kind of automatic cliche sentence or thought.

If your response is like that to the strange idea of the Overself then consider some of the very strange findings that can be discovered that exist in the records of strict scientific enquiry.

I don't want to give examples. It's the attitude that's more important than the facts.

40 years is nothing, 400 years is little more, 4000 years... There is a small book I came across and read about fifteen years ago. It's written by a Japanese Zen budhist priest and I think the title was something like "Reincarnation, spirituality and kharma". Anyway in that book the author mentions that man, humans, hasn't changed much in 10,000 years and he based that observation on his experience in the astral realm (he called it by another name) in which he encountered earth plane locked spirits that were dressed in the style of thousands of years ago and still locked in habits from that lifetime.

One of the biggest mistakes we make is to get swept up with the 'noise' all around us. It doesn't aid our sanity, that's for sure, but moreover, it serves to blinker us to Reality.

Who, after all, has any real interest in teaching anyone about the overself? Why would the religions care to off load their authority so willingly, for example? So first there is the noisy distraction and secondly there is almost no one around who knows anything and of those who do almost none would bother to mention it to anyone.

But it is Real.

Man, people, tends to 'sell-out', to systems, institutions and so on but that is not his destiny to limit his world which is essentially what he (/she) usually does in so doing. We are now in a new nazi type of age and this is basically why. We tend to sell out when we should always strive. The most important striving isn't to climb a mountain or westle with a crocodile but more in the mind where we are meant to strive for better thinking. Better thinking is easy, no, not easy, simple. It just means steering our thinking or rather being the driver who steers our own thinking. Not being driven or steered or heavily or substantially steered by some other influence. The big mistake is to believe what is commonly believed because it is commonly believed and to reject what is commonly rejected because it is commonly rejected. We are much better than that but if we don't wish to exercise that betterment, if we choose instead to be a flock, herd or bunch member then we encourage that in our selves and in others to take advantage of that in us. I even think of university education (which I never experienced but I have seen plenty of) as homogenizing of the intellect. There are common ideas that permeate our culture and even professors fall into them and repeat and uphold them and yet they are often nonsense and based on other nonsense. This failure is basically the individual's choice to take the easy route. But it's a totally false philosophy and that is why we are now in this new brutal era, in essence, that is why.

Man is big, he is astonishing and amazing. But it is his spirit which makes him this not his body. It is his mind not his brain, it is his Consciousness not his ego that makes him great.

It's easy to write stuff like that. How can anyone challenge it logically? But I write it not because I want to impress or fool anyone but because I know, Know, it to be the case. If I were wrong, what does it matter? If I am right isn't that just THE most amazing thing?

How come I know then, but you don't? One factor in my own case is my curiosity that was never satisfied with 'pat' answers and the religious answers and I never took easily to the many 'rejectionist' stances (intellectual stances) either. A thing that is important to grasp is the way the overself doesn't in fact, as it usually seems, just ignore us. This can be obvious to you as it is to me. Whenever I have had a question - which is very often - I may need to sleep on it or 'hatch' it, dwell and ruminate on it. Inevitably I am led to the answer. This has repeatedly happened, and on reliable record too, to many excellent scientists who have moved our world forward (knowledgewise) as the result of an answer given in a dream (or should that be """""dream""""").

Do you begin to see how obvious what I am trying to say really is? It is ONLY because of herd mentality and our easy willingness to be part of that (which has it's benefits too so fine, adopt it at least nominally by all means but just don't overdo it, that's all) that we end up being so blind to the Greater Reality.

This, then, is my feeble attempt to share with you one of the many many benefits that have come into my life and my awareness from that time four decades ago when a friend loaned me his "You Forever" book.

By Paul E. Coughlin
SaneThinking.com
10 May 2008

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