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Brunton, Dr Paul - A Hermit in the Himalayas - Waiting for the Overself
Identifier
012711
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Paul borrowed from Ralph Waldo Emerson in naming the Higher Spirit the 'Overself'. He did not bother to split the soul into two as many other cultures did simply because his search from almost the time he met his true guru was to try to find his Overself.
A description of the experience
A Hermit in the Himalayas – Paul Brunton
I sit in rigid repose, the while I let the world drift slowly out of the field of awareness, the while I turn attention inwards. Somewhere within me dwells the Overself, the eternal essence, that divine being where I draw my life force..............