Creator has previously discussed five principal selves that make up the human being—the deep subconscious, subconscious, cellular consciousness, primary or conscious self, and the higher self. What about the ego? Can it be, should it be, characterized as a “sixth self?” And if not, why not?

We would say that the ego is a characteristic of a soul attribute that is part of your inherent makeup and serves you in many ways, in many settings, as an aspect of your personality and expression as a physical human being. As such, it is not a separate operating compartment with its own domain separate from other aspects of the mind, it is a soul attribute that can be utilized by multiple levels of the mind in carrying out their duties even while simply thinking about things and pondering possibilities. This makes sense because you must be human at all levels in order for the mind to serve you as a human being. In that regard, there are many soul attributes being expressed that will contribute to thinking, judgment, and the emotional response to all that is coming into awareness. This is not a passive exercise for which you react later, but must respond on the spot as life unfolds for you, even with respect to the interior workings of the mind, the ruminations and reflections on the past, and future projections constructed as a kind of fantasy to try them out, in a sense, as a kind of preview, and then react in ways to serve as useful feedback about what might happen given various alternative scenarios. So for all those functions of the multiple levels of the mind, the ego must be a participant as a resource and a basic component of your makeup, as a sentient being of divine origin, with many, many soul attributes in the mix. Similarly, it would be no more appropriate to say that the desire to love and to be loved is a "sixth self." It is a soul attribute and, as such, can be utilized and acted on and influence, in turn, anything that might happen at any level of the being, and often needs to be a part of what is under consideration because it is a guiding force. As is true of all soul attributes, they represent a worthwhile potential. There are many such soul attributes in play. This is what makes people quite varied, that the mix of soul attributes will be somewhat different. The problem is when soul attributes are underexpressed or suppressed entirely so as to be, in effect, missing. This will cause an inevitable distortion and malfunction in practical ways and impair a person's progress and effectiveness in their life, because all are important, each in their own way, and it is not appropriate to consider them "separate selves," let alone "beings," as they are component parts, attributes that are variously expressed, both in proportion to others that might compete or conflict even in some way, and so are very important and integral to your makeup in defining who you are as an individual. This is designed to be a quite dynamic, fluid, but highly capable interplay under normal circumstances to happen mostly in an automatic fashion. This is often noted and attributed to "instinct," which is a good description of many soul attributes that are a fundamental part of the makeup and will be on display when circumstances call for that to happen, and will just happen naturally without conscious planning and implementation. They are, after all, a kind of imperative because they are an energy of consciousness that will have a certain power and influence, and act as a kind of special fuel unique to each attribute and what it is designed to support. This all creates a varied and fascinating tapestry in the variety of human beings and what they do in their lives to express the yearnings of their soul.