Higher Self/Magical Personality as Analog

[rva_jeremy]

I mean, at face value I can make sense of it: the Higher Self somewhat extends outward from its sixth-density abode and dips a finger into the third-density illusion, getting the sensation of the third-density waters on its metaphysical nervous system.

I'm just speculating, but we're invoking a (future) version of ourselves that has the capability to make much better use of catalyst than we typically can. We as third density entities almost never make perfectly efficient use of catalyst, but I wonder if the analog, through the medium of the magical personality, can.

BUT . . . the higher self is me. The higher self has the full memory of my first day of school, and that bad break-up, and my favorite food, and all that feeling I had when I had a panic attack, or the elation I felt when I completed the project, etc. In other words, the higher self has already lived it.

Perhaps that is what allows for catalyst to be so efficiently used: it is not new and unknown, but instead a known quantity that can be fully appreciated as catalyst qua catalyst.

To respond some of your other comments: what is our third density sense of identity? It is tied up in memory; that we are the same "thing" from moment to moment to moment, and we can verify this by using our memories to construct a narrative that allows us to conceive of a constant identity through all this (Tyman discusses this in detail in A Fool's Phenomenology). But I'm sure it wouldn't surprise anybody reading this to consider that concept of self as largely a slippery, indistinct figment of our imagination. The thing that is constant is deeper, and it isn't something you need to remember and think into existence.

What I'm suggesting is that invoking the magical personality, by putting us more in a sense of identity that is tied to the eternal now, wouldn't address the concerns you're bringing up because it isn't the kind of third density experience in the first place that prioritizes such concerns. It would be more concerned with the essence of catalysis, not the particular forms it takes in our experience.