Both,
I think of the higher self as like the actor playing the character--always in control and has the character's life entirely pre-planned--the character thinks he's in control (usually completely unaware that the actor even exists)--but unbeknownst to him, the actor is always calling the shots.
Encounters along the way? I'm not sure. Plot elements in the story I guess. I don't want to say there is no room for improvisation or that plot twists can't unexpectedly enter into the picture, but I think the higher self jumps into the roll having one's entire life planned out.
Meno_ wrote:Does the subconscious mind have any connection with our higher powers?
They are one and the same. We tend to think of the subconscious as a closed off compartment of our minds. The image usually brought in to represent this is the egg model (where the top portion of the egg is colored white, representing the conscious mind, and the bottom portion is colored black, representing the unconscious). The image I prefer, however, is the Jungian image: the conscious mind is like a room that you're centered in. The unconscious is the dark side of the room. You see walls on all sides of you except in the darkness. The darkness just fades to black the deeper into it you peer, and beyond a certain depth, you can't see the wall behind it... which is to say you can't even see whether there is a wall or not.
Because the Jungian perspective models the unconscious from the first-person subjective point of view, we lose the right to claim that the unconscious is compartmentalized (closed off). For all we know, what lies in the darkness is unbounded. It may
not end at a wall, but rather be an opening the the vastness of infinite space. If this is the case, we ought not to think of the unconscious as a personal component of one's mind, but rather a passage that leads from the individual's mind to the rest of the universe. The higher self becomes a bridge between the ego and the universe, more closely connected with all the higher powers that determine our lives than the personal ego.
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