' The Overself '...

The Overself does not always play the part of a witness however. Still and unmoving though it be, nevertheless its presence para­doxically makes possible all man’s activities and movements.

In a broad sense it is not only the hidden observer but also, by virtue of its being a function of the World‑Mind, the inner ruler of the person.

Thus it arranges the karma of the coming incarnation before birth, for it contains all his karmic possibilities out of the past, and it is the secret actualizing agent which passes them down into time and space for his ultimate progress.

At critical moments in the personal life it may suddenly and dramatically interfere by engineering unexpected events or by imparting a powerful urge towards a certain decision. This also is an act of grace. In the result the man is super‑rationally guided or miraculously guarded.


- Paul Brunton