here we go with waht I think
The consciousness may be broken down into 3 layers.
I'll call them:
Talking Self (Ego)
Child Self (Id)
Divine Self (SuperEgo)
Starting from the "bottom"
Divine Self: I won't go too much into this as you've al heard it from me before. The Divine Self is that Quantum aspect of our infinite identity. It goes far deeper than anyone can ever comprehend. It is the "God" inside of us. It is our connection to the "HUB" which is the Timeless/Spaceless quantum universe. THerefore it knows everything about you. It is your next step away from a total collective. Being that it is a quantum state, it could be rationalized that EVERYTHING has a "Divine Self". Everything starts quantum and everything ends quantum.. and being timelss, that is Alpha/Omega, it is infinity.. it is the circle... Begining is End and vise versa..
Child Self: This is a buffer. Wehn we are born, this is waht is at the surface of our consciousness. This is the primary receptor for the consciousness for Babies and Animals. This does not regard logical concepts. This does not regard Word and Language. THis is strictly emotional. These are the thoughts that you have that have no words or language. This is based totally on imagery and the emotional reation to those images. It is through the Child Self that the Divine my be observed because is is without the restrictions of words and other such logical concepts. As humans grow older, this Child Self become enshrouded and pushed to the background by everything logical that we learn. FOr example, the more words that we know, the less we are capable of recognizing abstract patterns and percieving the world through pictures and imagery. The Child Self however is always functioning... it is so wehn you smell a certain smell or see a certain sight that rather than causing you to think logical words about it; causes you to have an emotional response. The most pure of thoughts. Thus, were one to allow the Child Self to participate more in the conscious thought process, the more emotional we will become and the more receptive we would be to this crazy "pattern" that I am constantly jabbering about.
Talking Self This is the shell or mask that is created from birth. As our brains begin to assign logical concepts to our sensory inputs, the structure of our surface consciousness is formed. Eventually after puberty the Child Self seems to become more limited and our personalities become locked into the thinking logical beings that we are everyday. This is the part of you that looks at everything at face value. IF the Child Self were not present, then we would be emotionless and strictly machines. All that we see is merely waht it is and nothing would remind us of anything else and trigger any emotional response. Themore developed the Talking Self becomes, the less prone we are to highly emotional incidents... For example, if a loved one dies and you see somthing that reminds you of them and you break down in tears..... It is the Child Self that is responsible for the emotional reaction because it never percieves things at face value. Everything is merely an indicator of some core emotion. The Talking Self however would never be capable of an "emotional outburst" because waht it see is exactly waht it is. In that light, the Talking Self can never comprehend "God" or "Magic" or "Love" because none of these things operate in the logical world. The Talking Self is merely the mask that we wear that allows us to function as rational and civilized human beings. Without the Talking Self, we would be nothing but animals. It is waht seperates us from every other creature on Earth; the rapid development of our consciousness. We wouldn't be much of a species if we strictly did everything based on emotional reactions.
I believe that "who we are" is the conjunction of these three aspects of ourselves.