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Our highest level of being is Spirit Being—Yechidah (meaning the “single one”). Here is the ultimate unity of the individual in God, as an individual spirit within and one with the Great Spirit. The Spirit Being is the highest of the five levels of being. It is the one made in the image of God. (Genesis 1:26) Here we also find that the superconscious mind is one with the Universal Consciousness of the Creator.

Cayce viewed the spirit entity as a thing apart from anything earthly. Here’s one example:

Q: Does the spirit entity have a separate consciousness apart from the physical, and is it as the consciousness of [Mr. 900] when he dreams, or has visions, while asleep?

A: The spirit entity is a thing apart from any earthly connection in sleep, yet connected. For the earthly or material consciousness is ever tempered with material conditions . . . [the spirit entity] partakes of the spiritual forces principally. In consciousness we find only projections of subconscious and superconscious, which conditions project themselves in dreams, visions, unless entered into the superconscious forces. In the consciousness of earthly or material forces there enters all the attributes of the physical, fleshly body. In the subconscious there enters the attributes of soul forces, and of the conscious forces. In the superconscious there enters the subconscious forces, and spiritual discernment and development.

EC 900–16

We have three basic levels of mind: physical consciousness, soul subconsciousness, and spirit superconsciousness. The physical is far from the spiritual, but the soul bridges this gap, connecting all of our parts—from the highest to the lowest and back again. There are also three distinct qualities of being: our outer projected self, our inner soul self, and our infinite spiritual self.