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Our Spirit Mind—Chayah (the “living one”)—is beyond anything earthly. It relates to the first flash of consciousness and the Giver of the gift of consciousness. Here is our spiritual mind, the womb of individual creativity, from which we use our very own free will to conceive. This level of our being can give life, can return life after illness or even death, and can “quicken” us, as is often said of the Spirit.

This is the glassblower. This is our divine consciousness. The glassblower’s breath (Soul Being), its expressed breath (Soul Mind), and its encased breath (Living Being) journey out to experience the universe and the freedom of individual life.

This Spirit Mind maintains contact with the perfection of the Creator and the Creator’s consciousness. It is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

We can lift up lower portions of ourselves (soul mind and soul being) into this portion, but Spirit Mind does not normally descend to our level. And when it does, it is profoundly overwhelming to our soul mind and barely perceivable by our conscious mind.

Though it rarely descends, we can lift up our soul and Soul Mind to it. Once the connection is made, we gain access to and help from the powerful Spirit Mind. But it is important to remember that the Spirit Mind has nothing earthly or worldly in it. Soul Mind is the savior, understanding the weaknesses of the Living Being. Spirit Mind is absolute truth with no room for vagaries.

When in the Spirit Mind, we would not perceive activity as we do in a dream of the Soul Mind. In the Spirit Mind, the imagery is more like a vision. It would be images like those the prophets described when seeing heavenly things, wondrous features, and dynamic energies.

Cayce identifies this level of consciousness as the “superconscious,” as does Hinduism. Here’s an example:

Q: Explain and illustrate the difference in the faculties of Mind, Subconscious and Superconscious.

A: The superconscious mind being that of the spiritual entity, and in action only when the subconscious is become the conscious mind [meaning deep sleep, deep meditation, or death]. The subconscious being the superconscious of the physical entity, partaking then of the soul forces and of the material plane.”

EC 900–31

Notice that our subconscious mind is as the superconsciousness to our outer, conscious mind. But when the outer, conscious mind is subdued or absorbed into the higher mind, the subconscious becomes the active consciousness and the superconscious is as the subconscious is to us today in our present condition.

This may seem unnecessarily confusing, but it is really helpful when one is attempting to make passage through dimensions of consciousness. For example, when meditating, we must still the conscious mind and personality and all the concerns of the earthly portion of our being. As we do this, our soul mind and soul being become our natural condition of beingness—we are a soul. If we stay with the meditation, then we may move even deeper by subduing our soul self and awakening to our spirit mind, which is connected to God’s mind. Now we are entering the deepest levels of meditation. This process also occurs in deepest sleep when visions rather than dreams come.

When asked to illustrate this level of consciousness, Cayce gave two examples. The first is the biblical scene in which Saul is on the road to Damascus, is suddenly surrounded by a brilliant light, and hears a voice speaking to him from the light. (Acts 9) In this instance, Cayce says that Jesus’ superconscious mind was attempting to communicate with Saul’s subconscious and, to a degree, his conscious mind. But the presence of such a high level of consciousness overwhelmed Saul, who fell to the ground and struggled to comprehend the experience and capture the message in the voice. His traveling companions could not comprehend the experience, only seeing the light but not hearing the voice.

The second example is in Revelation 19, when John, deep into his ecstasy, sees an angel in heaven. The angel gives him information, after which John falls down to worship the angel, believing it to be God’s projection. The angel balks at this, saying, “You must not do that! I am your fellow servant and your brother . . . Worship God.” (Revelation 19:10) Cayce explains that, when Peter and John were arrested, Peter was to be executed and John exiled to the Isle of Patmos. As they parted, Peter told John that he would endeavor to come to him after his death. Cayce says that this angel was Peter in the higher, superconscious quality of being, and as such, he appeared to John as an angelic expression of the Lord (remember, a portion of us was made in the image of God). The angelic aspect of his former colleague and brother in the cause corrects his mistake and directs him to the God of all the godlings.