Who are you? It’s a question that can be answered in many ways. In fact, you probably have answered it in many ways throughout your life.

Think about yourself on the playground at school at the age of 10. A student you don’t know approaches you and asks, “Who are you?” How do you answer? You probably say your name and how old you are. Maybe you also mention your family or friends. You might also share your favorite pastime—a hobby; a sport or game you enjoy playing; or your favorite toy, musician or sports team. These sorts of things define a 10-year-old’s world and their sense of self.

Now imagine yourself at a party at the age of 21. Someone you don’t know asks, “Who are you?” At this point in life, you most likely define yourself by your college studies, your job, or your career aspirations. Your identity is very much tied up with your career aspirations and your preparation for achieving it. It also includes your leisure pursuits: “I’m a surfer,” “I play the guitar,” “I love to read books,” or “I’m learning to cook gourmet food.”

By the age of 35, you likely have already gained some career success, so that now plays a strong role in your identity. When asked “Who are you?” you may mention your job title and status: “I’m a manager who leads a team of eight people.” You may mention your family life: “I’m a mother of two wonderful children.” It may also be about your dwelling: “I live in a two-story craftsman home”. And it may include your hobbies, where you’ve traveled in the world, and so on.

Thus, as you progress through your life, the ways in which you define yourself evolve. Very often, this evolution centers on the external trappings and accomplishments that accompany your life experience.

Seeing Yourself from Other Perspectives

Now, imagine traveling via spaceship to another planet far beyond your solar system. When you arrive, you quickly notice that everything about this planet is different from yours. The plant life looks nothing like what you know on earth. The buildings are oddly shaped and made from materials you’ve never seen. You witness several people constructing one of them, but they don’t seem to be working hard. Standing in a circle with their arms outstretched, it’s almost as if they’re materializing the building out of nothing. The atmosphere feels thick, which causes you to move more slowly than you would on earth, and even the color of the sky is different and seems to change as you observe it. Nearby in an open field, some other beings appear to be engaged in a friendly competition using a large disc, but they don’t seem to be touching it as it moves between them. And it looks like they are they hovering just a bit above the ground! But what you notice is that they are joyful in their pursuit of the game. Teammates embrace when they are successful and console each other when they fall short.

Two beings approach you. One is a tall figure. The other is much shorter and, by her demeanor, appears to be a child. Both have light blue skin that seems to shimmer. You can sense the love that the tall one has for the child by the way they interact as they approach you. You sense that they are friendly and curious about you.

Smiling, but without moving his lips, the tall being asks, “Who are you?” How do you respond in this foreign world where nothing is the same as it is on earth? Most of the answers you have given on earth will make no sense at all here because you have no common frame of reference. But what you can understand immediately is that the parent and child share a bond of love, and the players on the field share a bond of friendship.

What does that say about who you think you are? What does it say about who you might actually be?

You don’t even need to travel to another planet. Imagine traveling back in time to your own town 200 years ago. How much of your current self-identity translates in that time? Most of the physical things in your world—cars, clothes, dwellings, objects, and pastimes—do not translate at all. But the love between a parent and child translates. Camaraderie among friends translates.

You don’t even need to go back to another time period before this life. Just think about your own current lifetime. How much of the identity of the 10-year-old child matters to the adult of today? How much of what matters to the adult of today would seem important to the child? What can you point to besides the love between parent and child, or between the child and her friends?

What Captures Your Attention?

The point of this exercise is to illustrate that much of what humans deem important in your earthly sojourn is fleeting. From the material perspective, what mattered yesterday is of no concern today, and what matters today will be of no concern tomorrow. And yet, what is in front of you today seems so very important, does it not?

What captures your attention today is indeed important, but not in and of itself. Everything that exists in your life from a physical point of view, including the people in your life, are simply the stage and supporting actors you have summoned into your experience to help you awaken to who you truly are. And who you truly are has nothing to do with where you work or live, what title you have, whether or not you’re a parent, or what you own. All of those things exist only to support you on your journey of awakening.

If you doubt that, think about something you really wanted in life. Maybe it was a new car. You couldn’t wait to own that car! It was so good looking and comfortable, and it had all the bells and whistles. You saved your money or waited for the best deal you could get, and one day that beautiful car was yours. You felt great as you sat behind the wheel, and it became part of your identity. But time went on, your tastes changed, and so did the style and features of cars. At some point, that car was no longer a part of your identity, and so you moved on from it.

Or maybe it was a piece of furniture or clothing you longed for. Regardless, the one thing you know about the car, or the furniture, or the clothes is that where they once contributed to your self-identity, at some point they no longer did. In fact, if you look at the styles of cars, furniture, and clothes from thirty years ago, you’ll probably laugh and say, “I can’t believe I ever wanted that. It looks so silly now.”

That’s not because the styles of thirty years ago are inherently silly. It’s because humanity is constantly creating new options to choose from, and the collective consciousness of humanity that once judged the older options to be beautiful no longer does. And you are all aligned to a large degree with the collective consciousness of humanity. Thus, any physical thing you identify with—both material items and conditions—are not so much aligned with your individual identity as they are the collective identity you are plugged into.

At this time in human history, the collective consciousness of the the developed nations is largely focused on politics and government. In the United States, the leaders of your government are almost all focused on one of two identities: Republican or Democrat. You are encouraged to take a side and adopt an “us against them” mentality. You’re either part of the solution, or you’re part of the problem. The other side is the problem, and your side is the solution. Each side spends endless amounts of money and time trying to convince the other side of how wrong they are and trying to wrest from their grip whatever control they have over policies and resources. Both sides express outrage at almost everything the other side does or says, and both attempt to demonize the other side’s leaders for their point of view.

What’s funny about that from the perspective of the non-physical is how much energy you all spend trying to make the world fit your vision of what’s right. We in the non-physical know that even your own vision, should you achieve it, will not be satisfying to you. It’s no different than your desire for the car or the clothes that will in time look silly to you. Unless . . .

Before we get to the “unless . . .” part, perhaps we should speak to the resistance many already have to this message. Some are thinking, “Wait a minute! Are you saying those of us who believe the government should do more to protect the environment and the disadvantaged will be dissatisfied once we enact policies that accomplish that? Are you saying we shouldn’t bother—that we should let people who don’t care about the larger good just run the show?!” We’re not saying you shouldn’t pursue your goals for a better world as you define it. What we are saying is that your achievement of them will not bring you lasting satisfaction so long as the accomplishment comes through a battle of wills. Where you go off track as individuals and societies is when you become convinced that the path you have laid out to achieve the results you seek is indeed the “right” path. In many cases, the path you have laid out very often contributes to the divisiveness.

Is Your Identity Based in Love?

That brings us back to the “unless . . .” part. It’s very easy to get caught up in the human drama that is before you. From the perspective of the physical self, you see circumstances, make judgments about them, draw conclusions based on your judgments, and choose your actions based on your conclusions. For example, at this time in the United States, the government is debating whether or not to impeach your president for unlawful actions. Your nation is divided pretty much down the middle about whether this is the correct course of action. As an observer of the circumstances leading to the impeachment debate, you judge them either as good or bad. If you judge them to be good, you likely conclude that impeachment is wrong. If you judge them to be bad, you likely conclude that impeachment is correct. Based on those judgments, you may act in support of either outcome. However, regardless of which outcome happens, it will not be satisfying to the winners in the long run. Sure, they will feel vindication and relief in the short term that will underscore their belief in their own correctness. But after the other side has had a chance to go away and lick their wounds, they will come roaring back with new challenges and attempt to undo what was done, or to get revenge on those who did it.

Look no further than the actions of the current administration. Recently, they have overturned hard-won policies designed to protect the environment. When those policies were enacted, the ones who championed them were elated at their victory. “We did it!” they thought, “Progress has triumphed today!” It was quite like the feeling of “Yay! I finally got the car I always wanted!” But the ones who opposed those policies want to feel that sense of accomplishment, too. They have their own vision of what is correct, and they, too, want to enjoy “that new car smell.” And so here you are some years later with them enjoying it once again while their opponents go away to plan their counterattack.

This is the point, friends: Whatever your vision of “correct” is—whether that is the “correct” self-identity or your definition of what is best for society—unless it is based on the principle of love that transcends all time and space, you will not be satisfied. You may enjoy temporary victory that feels good for a while, but you are also setting in motion a whole new set of challenges that will eventually come back around to confront you. Today’s political victory is tomorrow’s political challenge, just as today’s dream car is tomorrow’s object of ridicule.

We have said so many times through this channel, and through countless others for as long as you have inhabited this planet, that Love is all there is. Period. It is the power that creates and underlies all in your physical experience. And so, no matter how correct your solutions to today’s challenges seem from an intellectual point of view, if they are not based in LOVE FOR ALL, REGARDLESS OF THEIR POINT OF VIEW, they will at some point fail. This is inevitable as your planet ascends into higher dimensions of awareness.

So, we ask you in these apparently challenging times, once again, to get out of your head and into your heart. Practice visualizing your heart energy as radiant light. When you observe the circumstances of your world, drop your awareness into that radiant heart energy and let it guide you past the step of judgment directly to a place of action that springs from and aligns with the love that you are. Practice as often as you can. When you feel yourself getting keyed up because the other side did this or said that, drop into that radiant light in your heart and just rest there. Don’t pick up the phone, send an email, or talk to your neighbor about it until you can do so from a place of alignment with the love that is constantly pouring forth from your heart center into the world. Drop into your heart energy, act from that place of love, and thereby cause it grow and spread.

This is how you will change your world, my friends. It is not through policy that excludes some people over others. (All of your policies currently do that to some degree, regardless of how enlightened you believe they are.) Rather, you change the world through your love. LOVE IS WHO YOU ARE. And you will know that you are aligned with this True Identity when you no longer judge another to be wrong. Love is who you are, and love does not judge.

This is not just trite sentiment from pop stars, hippies, and tree huggers—it is the way of the Universe. It’s not apparent in your physical reality yet because you simply haven’t yet practiced enough to where your physical reality reflects this Truth. But, collectively, you are getting there. Keep going and keep challenging yourself. Stop challenging others over this belief or that belief. Just challenge yourself to open to the love that you are, to share that love, and to make all your choices from alignment with that love. Then watch the divisions in your society dissolve, almost as if by magic. How long it takes is entirely in your hands.

Our blessings to you all.

 

 

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