We’ve been hacked!

There is a virus running in our heads that leads us to believe that our thoughts, beliefs, memories, culture, environment, experiences and our physical bodies are who we are.

Have you noticed that when you ask someone who they are you might get an answer like, “I am me.” Or they’ll give you their name, their profession, and maybe even share descriptions such as “mom, father, daughter, victim, etc.” Habits are also included in this formula of a “me”. “This is just the way I am.” 

The beautiful, innocent, pristine being that is one with open, spacious awareness, brilliant intelligence, and the creative mind where everything appears and disappears in is having a huge case of amnesia. This begins shortly after birth. First, with well-intended parents that name us.

Now we have a name. Then we begin to learn our gender. We learn language which it too has a lot to do with the culture we are born into. We begin to form attachments. We begin to formulate ideas on what we like and what we don’t like. We learn strategies to get what we want. We are sponges soaking up everything we perceive from our parents and those in our immediate circle. Then we go to school. And the education in the making of a person continues. 

Regardless of our upbringing - whether you had a wonderful childhood, or the circumstances were horrible - you have bought into the “hackers” virus. You have believed yourself to be something you are not. Who you think you are is not your true self. You are not the personality. 

You have unique gifts, talents, traits that you were born with. This is what Dr. Emilie H. Cady calls Individualization. You begin to discover your innate, individual traits as you begin to question who you are and the “false self” is seen. Beliefs have to be questioned, stories dismantled and sifting through our soul we begin to recreate ourselves and our relationship in the world. 

Then the soul might want to inquire into what is the meaning of it all. Why I’m I here? What is my true purpose in life? How can I make a contribution? What is my sacred contract?

Wonderful questions that allow us to dive deeper within and make the journey of self-realization even juicier. 

By the way, I highly recommend that you have some fun while you are in the process of  deconstruction of the self, and the search for meaning. If not, it can become too dull, stressful, even dangerous.

Please, don’t take yourself too seriously. You are now on a floating rock in the middle of nowhere, going nowhere. And you have not fallen off the rock. Trust the intelligence that permeates all of the universe. If it can take care of the stars and the planets and all animated life, why, certainly, it can take care of you. How can it not? You are part of it. Just like a drop of water contains the whole ocean.