While I do not think Timothy Leary's 8 circuits of consciousness model has aged well, there are other ideas in this chapter that continue to stand out to me.

"Each time an internal or external trigger causes us to quantum jump from one "self" to another, the whole world around us appears to change also." (Page 157).

I am reminded of RAW's example that the person who goes to work and clocks in "is" not the same person who goes home and makes love to their partner. Although it may be the same body in both situations, there are very different mind states that accompany these activities. These mind states affect which behaviors are open and available to the body in both situations. These mind states also think and communicate very differently from each other.

Depending on the personality constellation of the individual, these states might be "closer" or "further" away from each other in the individual's psychic territory. If one could imagine a circle that contains all of the possible selves an individual can embody, then some might be closer to the center and closer to the boundary. Depending on where one self might be located in relation to another, this could be an easy jump, or a jump that requires a lot of energy because it seems "further" away from the current embodied self.

I have brought this idea up to someone else in the Order once who told me that they disagreed. They believed that we are the same person in all situations, and I interpreted what they were saying to mean that you aren't living in alignment if you aren't the same person throughout all situations. Having typed this out, I think that there may have been some confusion of the planes in that conversation, because it occurred to me that the greater circle encapsulating the constellation of selves can be likened to the Self, and from that plane, yes, you are only Self. The change of selves in Assiah seem to be the waxing and waning of Yesod, where change is constant.

With that in mind, it occurred to me that by integrating the Tree of Life into our aura, we form a new personality constellation and develop efficient pathways. For example, someone may have a bunch of selves located all over their circle of Self. The connections between these selves have varying levels of movement (with some connections that are unavoidable and fast like in knee jerk reactions, and others that are more slow and difficult to tread on towards the self in mind). One could theoretically have a ball of spaghetti as their paths between these selves in their circle of Self, but I imagine this could cause lots of confusion and difficulty in knowing how to "show up" in each situation. The paths on the Tree of Life function like these connections, and the Sephiroth hold those forces that cause different selves to manifest in different situations. If that analogy is somewhat accurate, then theoretically the Tree of Life creates a more efficient system for the personality to constellate. There are clearly a lot of benefits to this aside from efficiency (such as the freedom to show up as you choose in any given situation and access to new selves in situations that one otherwise only reacted to with a particular set).