Create an Inner Sunlit Garden of Co-Creation:  You can create this space early in the morning, even for half an hour as you lie in bed half-awake. Invite your different selves within you to be with you in complete seclusion, where they have absolutely nothing to do and nowhere to go. Let them expe­rience the truth that everything they have sought is already given to them through their union with the Essential Self, always, already present. Let the different selves within you have this blessed, uninterrupted time with the Essential Self in safety and bliss.

You will find that throughout the day the Garden resides at the core of your being. Mundane events are infused with the presence of the Essential Self. You realize that life itself is being transformed by you. You become more clearly the cause of your own experience rather than at the effect of it. You are a co-creator.

 Let Ego Guide You to Essence:  Practice the Almaas technique by focusing on your "holes," or deficiencies, presented to you by the local self. Select some aspect of your being that feels pain or is griev­ing, lacking in something. In the Sunlit Garden, take time to focus on the deficiency. Feel it as deeply as possible for as long as needed. Be completely open, with no thoughts of how to "fix it" or make it better.

Just let it be fully, whatever it is, with no resistance whatsoever. Then wait, as Almaas suggests, for ego to guide you precisely to the quality within yourself that you have been seeking. Ego becomes your guide to Essence. Then, contemplate, cultivate, love that quality in your Essential Self that ego has been fruitlessly seeking. Be present as that quality. Let it sink in. In this way, you "metabolize" your ego. Ego is consumed in the alchemical furnace of essence, the great transformer within.

Use your Inner Authority to set up the conditions for ego to bring forth the very qualities of essence that you seek. Even one success in this process will encourage you to do more. For example, when I let the grieving girl guide me to the mother she had sought, I was then convinced that I can heal any aspect of my personality that I can discover. The Essential Self always knows the next step needed for our own healing. We can rest assured that the teacher within truly knows everything we need to know.

Call upon the Great Ones: Most of us at this stage of the "new normalcy" are, at best, junior Essential Selfs. Be humble. We are all at the begin­ning of our emergence as Universal Humans. Call upon your spiritual guides and teachers, whoever inspires you, living or dead, to be guides as Senior Essential Selfs. In their field, we can stabilize, not as devotees, but as younger sis­ters and brothers, replicating their essence as a new norm in the world.

Consciously Call the Mature Inner Parents to Deal with Every Local Self Issue: Feel within yourself the matured mother and father as the Inner Authority. That is your power now. Have no fear of exerting that power fully within yourself, for its purpose is the empowerment of your whole being. When a local self is in pain or distress, take it up to you-do not descend down to its level. Let it feel the bliss of union with you and remind it that its fundamental problem is separation from you. If there is any residue of problem left, have a dialogue between the local and Essential Self to get at the truth of the matter. Remember, the Essential Self teacher within knows everything your local self needs for its healing and whole-ing.

Acknowledge the Good in Most Local Self Motivation: Underneath the stress of local self's efforts to succeed, to win self esteem, to prevail in the world, is a deeper motivation that is found to reside in the Essential Self. That motivation is often good but misguided. Ego is working for your safety and success yin the world. Once it is incorporated into the Essential Self, the ego reappears as the executive capacities of your whole being to bring your essence into form in the world. Thank the different selves within you for their devotion to their purpose of protecting you. Once the Essential Self is actually in charge, the good motivation of the different selves within you has been fulfilled. They are ready to release their illusions and compulsions.

Do unto Others' Different Selves Within Them What You Can Do for Your Own: To the degree that we can guide our own different selves within us, we can be compassionate and helpful to another's egoic personality. When we learn not to judge our own personality/ies, we are far less judgmental to others. As we learn to presence ourselves as the Essential Self, we can transmit the Essential Self to the Essential Self in others. This transmission awak­ens the inner presence in other people, and they begin to access their own inner Essential Self. They are lifted up by your presence.

The miracle is that the ego self feels suddenly fulfilled, like finding within its own essence what it's been seeking in the world.

Surrender of Spirit to Full Incarnation: Spirit has been hovering, suspended in space, because it doesn’t want to come into the flesh the whole way. Spirit is afraid of losing its vision, of being trapped in materiality. Spirit signals to its local selves to do more than they could possibly do. Spirit remains aloof and puts all the responsibility on them for carrying out its signals, which they could only intuit. Spirits sends its motivational signals and guidance, then disappears.  Now, spirit must be willing to take responsibility for the full incarnation in all aspects of its being. Spirit must become flesh, must incarnate and fill the physical body with its radiance.