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October-December, 2007

Who Am I?

by Rev. Étienne Pait

Perhaps what and how we do anything comes from a direct correlation of how we perceive ourselves.  How often do we define who we are as a name, a role, a relationship, a fan, a nationality, a color, a status, a member, and so on and so on, ad nauseam? If my answer to the question, ‘Who am I?’ is ‘Étienne’ (the name my parents gave me) then I will be and act out according to whom I think ‘I’ should be, given the meaning I have for this body and mind I am using.

If my answer is, “I am a minister” then I will be and act out what I think a minister should be according to my definition. If my answer is, “I am an American,” then I will act out what I believe an American should be. If my answer is, “I am a father,” then I will be and act out according to the meaning I give this role. You get the idea. If I choose to perceive and identify who I am only through distinct identities and special relationships, then I will limit Who I can be and Who I really am.

By these few examples, perhaps you see that there is a high probability that we pigeonhole ourselves into separate and limited identities based upon our conditioning and relationships among people and situations. We, also, may be impressed to believe that we are our minds, emotions, and/or bodies due to the subjective nature of our experience.

Ask yourself, “Who Am I?” When you’re asking yourself this question, who is the who that is asking? Who is the who that is answering? Who is the who that even thought about asking the question? Think about it! Are you your name? Are you your mind? Are you your emotions? Are you the role you express in the world? Are you an aspect of a relationship? Who were you before participating in a particular role? Who were you before that relationship? Who are you after the job is gone? Who were you before that body you’re using was born? Who will you be after that same body dies?

For illustration, simplicity and an attempt at redefining for the sake of seeking Truth, imagine yourself as comprised of three aspects – light, mind and world. This model is synonymous to that of a movie theater — light, film, and images. In the theatre, light shines forth from the projector through the film and casts images upon the screen.

Using this model, the Light is Who we really are. We all holographically share the same Light equally, without reducing the radiance of the Light. The film (the mind) contains the roll of frames segmenting our beliefs, aware thoughts and unaware thoughts. The images on the screen are the forms and outward appearances our beliefs and thoughts assemble, creating our world, as the Light shines through the film, our mind. This is the functional oneness model that is the foundation for remembering “Who we are.” This simple model will be the basis upon which our love, peace, joy and innocence will be realized in us, everyone and everything in our world — because it demonstrates our ONENESS with all of creation.

If you will, go a step further in remembering Who you are by imagining or pretending you are the only one alive — the absolute only one. Try to become aware that you are pure Awareness (as Light) absent of any concrete or abstract relations.

Everyone you perceive is merely an imaginary character you animate onto your screen, in your world, as you shine through your mind. Everything you perceive is only imaginary conditions and stage props you set up on your personal screen in your theater. You give life, form, reason and meaning to all, to everything on your screen. Everyone and everything are present because your Light is turned on and you beautifully create the image of them — for Divine purpose. Everything and everyone in your world have taken on form because your Light gives them form as you shine through your film (mind).

Step back in your consciousness and become aware of your awareness. This objective view allows a point of reference for your new identity, without being limited by a thinking mind, body or emotions.  Just imagine you are the only living beingness in life. You exist as Light. You are Light. Imagine your Light shining so brightly that your Light is eternally present. Your Light is animating every form you see around you. Imagine your Light is pure. Imagine your Light never dims nor weakens but stays brilliant.

Imagine, in your true Self, you are pure and you are eternal Light. As Light, you are using your mind, emotions and body as the formed vehicles to facilitate your moving around in the world and communicating in this earthly environment. So the new definition of “Who am I?” will be, “I am pure-light-energy-eternally-present” — as God created me.  I am Pure! I am Light! I am Energy! I am Eternal! I am Present!  I am as God created me. L.I.G.H.T. — Living In God’s Holy Thought.

This definition of being “pure-light-energy-eternally-present” will hit up against those areas inside us that have been trained to resist and not acknowledge our precious divinity, our purity and our greatness in our oneness with God. We’ve been taught (and we also teach) to be, think and live within boundaries. We’ve established restrictions within ourselves. We’ve created limits with and within others. We’ve separated ourselves, others and nations into parts, and the parts into parts.

We diagnose our bodies we’re using in parts, as though one part of the body is disconnected from another. We make laws and regulations according to nations, provinces, states, counties and districts. We’ve even separated ourselves from God and divided God into parts, and claimed ownership to the parts of God — my God and your God.

We have created experiences of separation instead of oneness. These partitioning and separating experiences have created a consciousness of incompletion, competition and a ‘less than’ and ‘better than’ perception. Consequently, do you not feel that something is missing?

Our experience of unity is missing. Unity is not missing! Our experience of unity is missing! Our sense of incompletion fuels our desire to be complete — to be whole, to be one, to ‘get it together.’ Is there not an inborn desire in us to find our real identity, our true home, where we came from, where we’re going and a sense of purpose of why we are here? We are looking for our divine coordinates, so to speak. We want to know where we fit in, so we no longer feel like strangers in strange lands. What is our goal? Do we have a purpose? What is our function here? Why are we here?  What is the bottom line?

Are we not ultimately present in this world of form to express and to know our divinity? Depending on what’s on our film (in our mind) will determine the expression on our screen (in our world).

If we have inharmonious beliefs and thoughts lodged in our minds (any form of judgment or fear) then the Light (Who we are) shining through this same mind will give inharmonious images (perceptions and experiences of discord in our world).

If, on the other hand, we have harmonious beliefs and thoughts flowing through our minds (love, joy, peace and innocence) then the Light (Who we are) shining through this same mind will yield harmonious images (perceptions and experiences of harmony in our world). Is it that simple? Yes! Changing the images on the screen is not done directly by altering the image but by editing the film (beliefs, aware and unaware thoughts of the mind)!

The way of oneness, through Truthful Identity, allows us to reclaim our power and to deliberately, mindfully and consciously allow joy, peace and love in our lives in this world of form — and to see the innocence in all.

Just think! When we know Who we are there is no one to blame, no one to judge, no one to criticize, not even one with whom to find fault. Our perception of everyone, everything and all conditions in our world is the result of our radiant Light shining through our minds. That is, our Light is shining through our beliefs and thoughts — creating your world, creating my world as a perfect hologram of impeccably woven and shared perceptions and experiences.

God is the principle, origin (the One Source) and cause of all. It is from this principle that Light is born. This means, we — as God’s created Light — share our identity. The Source contains the power.  Remember Who you are: Pure-Light-Energy-Eternally-Present! You, me, each one of us are the Light.

Remembering Who we are spontaneously and automatically connects us in our knowingness to our Source. Forgetting Who we are severs the experience and recognition of that connection. When we remember Who we are, we automatically think, speak and act from our Source — harmoniously. When we forget Who we are, we will think, speak and act inharmoniously.

Remembering or forgetting our Source will not change the Truth of Who we are — Pure-Light-Energy-Eternally-Present. Remembering or forgetting our Source only changes our conscious awareness of Who we are. Our connection is natural, yet oftentimes, forgotten; our disconnection is not natural, but is more often than not how we function. Our everyday experiences reveal when we remember our connection and when we don’t.

One of the most profound discoveries of the oneness experience is that there is no order of importance of me or anything I perceive outside of, or I perceive separated from, me. In Oneness, I am Awareness — not a form separated from another form. In Oneness, I realize I am Awareness being aware of and observing Itself — experiencing Itself through all perceived matter. The perceived me and the perceived forms outside of me are all equal parts in the Oneness Model. I (my aware Self, my real Self) literally blend and merge in and through with all that I previously perceived to be me (the body-mind me) and not me (people, objects, other forms). Now, all this blending and merging takes place totally in my awareness as I, in that moment of oneness, am able to reidentify and see Who I really am — the Life, the Energy expressed as Light behind what I perceive.

Who am I? I am as God created me — Light!

© 2007, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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