You are History

This is the third volume in the eternal life trilogy and subtitled 'the soul, the higher self and our state of divinity'. The content shifts between Gordon and the perspective of his Higher Self or Monad, which expresses itself through a number of partly parallel lifetimes in different time periods - so there is a sense of group identity over time. Hence the title and the phrase 'you are everybody, everybody is you. You are history.' In this view, we are all fundamentally expressions of the one light and are capable of bridging personality with the Higher Self when we remember to do so. The Monad is the Soul of which we are an evolving aspect subject most closely to influences within our own group. A key practice is that of witnessing - the observer consciousness, which can help bring about a more harmonious relationship between the personality and the Soul. Towards the end of the book, there are some interesting quotations from other authors also writing about the Monad, including Blavatsky, Leadbeater, Bailey and more recently Chris Bache and Jane Roberts. The term used by Emerson, oversoul, is a popular one and encourages the reader to identify more with the core oneness that underlies our individual expressions. In this sense, the One is present in the many and it is the task of the many to realise their oneness with the One.