Many years ago, before I came across these Law of Attraction "reality creation" ideas and entities such as Bashar, Abraham and many others who promote them, I read a book that altered my way of looking at the world in many ways.

It was a book about the teachings of George Gurdieff, a remarkable character, and not just because of his impressive moustache. As for how he could affect the ladies with his eyes...well, that's another story :)

I already quote him endlessly on IQ about Good vs Evil and it might be time to pull out another life-changing (for me, at the time) quote of his...

"Man such as we know him, the 'man­machine,' the man who cannot 'do,' and with whom and through whom everything 'happens,' cannot have a permanent and single I. His I changes as quickly as his thoughts, feelings, and moods, and he makes a profound mistake in considering himself always one and the same person; in reality he is always a different person, not the one he was a moment ago.

"Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation, says 'I.' And in each case it seems to be taken for granted that this I belongs to the Whole, to the whole man, and that a thought, a desire, or an aversion is expressed by this Whole. In actual fact there is no foundation whatever for this assumption. Man's every thought and desire appears and lives quite separately and independently of the Whole. And the Whole never expresses itself, for the simple reason that it exists, as such, only physically as a thing, and in the abstract as a concept. Man has no individual I.

But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small I's, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming into contact, or, on the contrary, hostile to each other, mutually exclusive and incompatible. Each minute, each moment, man is saying or thinking 'I.' And each time his I is different. Just now it was a thought, now it is a desire, now a sensation, now another thought, and so on, endlessly. Man is a plurality. Man's name is legion.

P D Ouspensky (quoting G I Gurdieff) from "In Search Of The Miraculous"

The reason I quote this is that I still today find it useful to think in terms of "Man is a plurality" rather than an individual. Even though our modern day terminology, thanks to various non-physical entities, relates to parallel universes, differing vibrational setpoints etc., I find thinking of yourself as completely different "I"'s from one moment to the next is still a handy analogy.

When you write an answer or ask a question, it is the I of that moment that wrote the answer or asked the question. Later on, when you are a different I, you can read the same material and wonder who wrote it.

I've mentioned previously on IQ (can't find the link at the moment) the phenomenon whereby I'll read an answer sometimes and think "Hmmm...not bad. That makes a lot of sense" and then discover I wrote it myself some time ago :)

It can happen the other way too whereby people (including myself) can forget what they wrote from another I...for example.

Because we are ever-evolving beings, it shouldn't be a surprise that when we try to revisit where another I has already been, it can often seem like a different experience.

So what's the value in understanding in this idea?

It's this...don't ever think you've understood something just because you've looked at it before :) You've only previously looked at it from the I of that previous moment, not the I of the present moment. The I of the present moment may see and experience different things from the same information.

I've said before that I think Life Moves In Spirals and I think that's because the I's, though different, often share common themes and rotating through the different I's while focused on those themes can give us different insights to them...like walking around a sculpture in a room to see different views of it.

So now, coming back to your question...

Do you ever come across your own older Q and As here and feel surprised to read them?

...yes, all the time. Some of my own I's are smarter than others, and I enjoy reading what they have to say sometimes :)

As for my dumber I's, they should just focus less on writing and more on growing an impressive moustache :)