Breaking down the estoeric / new age philosophy

[Antares]

It took me years to figure out what is" wrong" with the common massive "new age" or esoteric believes on how things work and what we are "supposed" to do in a life-time.

They assume that we have subconsciousness and superconsciousness, quietly assuming that the former is "not good enough", and the latter is "perfect", but somehow we are away from this perfectness and cannot benefit from it - too much at least. In other words, this philosophy is based on a judgement, so typical to all the religions, like christianity and buddhism. They justify why we can not do or have what we wanted. But after exploration of this subject this simple division is just an intellectual framework which is basically incorrect, but helps the intellect / ego to set up some working philosophy for a life time. The essential term is spirit and the universe, not a "demands" of incarnation etc.

If one is not ready to abandon this or another philosophy / religion, he or she should keep it. But if is open to new ways of thinking, it is better then to not stick to a limiting philosophy like those, I think.

I am not sure what so called "higher self" is, but what I can say is that it does not work in the way we think, if it exists. I thought before it was some kind of identity, but after recent months I must say it doesn't seem to be so.

My current - maybe temporary - thought is that higher self is that part of ourselves which is basically slumbering. It may be activated, though. It reflects our "higher"-level forces and abilities; in other words, it is a potential that we can develop, or connect to - to be more precise. The connection is how spirit works. There is no time - all the possibilities are there for us to reach. But when mind is not ready, a securing mental "limitations" play the essential role in keeping people who are not ready out from the pathways which could be considered "dangerous" (mind, when not developed, is not prepared to face a vastness of infinity - a synonym for spirit).
Because, after all, all is mind and its creation.

I think Edgar Cayce and taoists were right: the most precious "thing" is "spirit" - it is not a soul or mind. But spirit is not a "thing". It is simply the core from which all the creation / universe / time-lines are manifested and created. It is infinite; Chinese people called it tao. It is just a matter of connecting to that "point" in our mind.
So my conclusion is that we should not spend that much time on our lower selves, as psychiatry do - because this overcomplicates things, focuses on what is bad, and not about the best, concstructive solutions. By psychiatry I also mean esoteric "teachnigs" on lower self or subconsciousness. A typical esoteric belief is that there is something wrong or dark in us which we "should" fix.
I think there is nothing to fix there. There is only a choice to seek out a new ways.

To seek out a new ways means simply exploring spirit and abandoning previously chosen mental limitations.