We are using here the word "overlays" as the next level of understanding and consciousness that goes beyond beliefs, thoughts, knowings, attitudes, and patterns. Overlays are just that - a layer of consciousness that is laid over a perceived experience. And through those overlays, the perceived experience is interpreted. An overlay uses thoughts, beliefs, knowings, attitudes and soul memory to determine its interpretation of an experience. This book gives an in-depth explanation on how they work and interact.
An overlay is a layer of consciousness that is laid over a perceived experience.
In the beginning, overlays are a way of understanding your experience as a human being. They give you the opportunity to step back from your beliefs and observe them from a different position. Once having understood this and mastered your unconscious overlays, you then have the opportunity to become a creator. As a creator, you may create overlays as a way to interact with people or other beings with a different level of consciousness and perceptions.
From the creator perspective, overlays are tools because they are used consciously to interface with other levels of consciousness and realities. When the overlays are used unconsciously, you are trapped in patterns of behavior associating with energetic fields of influence.
You will automatically process and perceive that which you experience through these filters or overlays. Using the word "overlays," is an attempt to describe things from a different level of consciousness that may be more easily perceived and understood as you step back and see your creations as something you have placed over an experience. This is the beginning of a new understanding; and, hopefully, a more simple way to understand that which you are experiencing and assist you in moving forward.