Supersoul

In a series of books, Ian Lawton has been working out what he calls a rational spirituality on the business of great deal of reading in consciousness studies and parapsychology. In some respects, his method resembles that of former SMN member Robert Crookall in the 1960s and 70s when he correlated many sources of post-mortem communications to build up a consensus picture of the likely sequence of events. He defines a supersoul at the beginning as a grouping of hundreds of souls projecting aspects of themselves into many realities as holographic representations; accessing this brings wisdom and creative power, and what we regard as guides maybe higher aspects of ourselves.

The general idea has been familiar since Emerson with his concept of the Oversoul, and has been developed by many others, including Frederic Myers. Some of the sources like Seth and Robert Monroe will be familiar, others less so, but they all contribute to the emergence of an overall understanding of a supersoul matrix. It seems that our individuality is much more embedded in a collective or unitive consciousness than we realise. One important implication of the book is that we need to reconfigure our understanding of time in terms of 'an eternal now that encompasses everything that we perceive as past and future'. Challenging the serial reincarnation model means combining ideas of survival of consciousness where previous identities can be accessed with the idea that each new personality draws on a much wider threads of identity. Single lives are lived on behalf of the group mind. Ian compares a number of versions of his hypothesis, and must be commended for tackling some of the most difficult and indeed perplexing metaphysical issues. He ends by asking if we are ready to become superconsciously aware of our supersoul origins. It is a bold and far reaching discussion.