I or I"s", Me or Me"s"
One of the many ways my world view has been changed recently is on the how I think of myself, or more accurately now, how I think of myselves. The idea that I am one singular entity that exists only in this place and this time and in this body no longer holds.
When I say "I" or "me" I am not quite sure what that means anymore.
- I am me, the person in this body, sitting at this computer typing away.
- I am "she-who-was-me" now become "she-who-is-me" who left this body and spent almost four months in the company of elders and then returned.
- I am the male shaman guide who comes and sits with me during our fire ceremonies, and even while I was drumming last night. I felt him sitting on my left, fell the fullness and warmth of a being beside me, a being who is .... me.
I was asked recently, if she-who-was-me was gone, how does she know about everything that happened here with me while she was gone. A fair question. I am not sure I have a solid answer, except to say that I believe everything is connected in ways possibly too fantastic for me to imagine.
If I can be both here, and somewhere else in another reality and as a separate spirit all at the same time.... If I know I can be this much, how much more am "I" that I am not yet even aware?


2 Comments:
Exactly the kinds of knowledge/questions/answers that led me away from mainstream "religion..." There is so much we do not know. Maybe we knew once and forgot...maybe we are supposed to be continuing on toward that knowledge and got sidetracked...maybe we are never supposed to really know and that is what being human is all about. Mainstream religion seems to want to think they have it all figured out.
Lisa,
I would go one step further and say that knowing this kind of knowledge is our birthright and that mainstream religion works to take away our ability to know exactly what we really are - transferring our internal power to the institution of religion.
Virginia
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