TWO BEINGS

There are actually two beings who dwell within you. One is made of flesh and bone and carries a genetic lineage that stretches back through family and race, to the beginning of time when we swam like tiny minnows in the oceans of this world. This being is made of the dreams of all yourancestors. Their gifts and their burdens, they breathe within you, waiting their day in the sun, waiting their moment to complete and to fulfill what they began when they walked the earth so long ago. You are their hope and their potential deliverance. You are their downfall and their doubt. You cannot try to outrun their influence upon you, no more than the impala can out run the cheetah. Their influence can be felt in the desire of your own urge, in your talent and your limitation. You cannot exist without them, for they whirl like spiraling dancers through your every mood and gesture, in your inevitable DNA, they dance. You can no more be separate from them than the salmon can be separate from the ocean, than the parasite can be separate from it host, than the swallow can exist without the twilight. You can no more escape their longing and their passion, than the springbok can escape the lions' jaw once it closes inevitable around her neck.

You are not who you think you are. You are not alone here. A multitude of beings travel with you through this world and they exact their say in all you do. This is why it is said, 'Know thyself'. For, 'thyself, is much more than you can imagine. It is your parents living within you, and your grandparents and theirs before them. It is the race that bore you and the millenia that gave you birth. It is the thoughts of all your fellows that swim in the ether around and within you, in the collective urge of all your species. You are not separate and apart. You are a conglomerate and a collection of all that has ever been.

And so you see that the body into which you have been born, does not belong to you alone. It is a living entity with a mind of its own, in service to an intention set into motion long ago.

You must get to know this being if you are ever going to live in a conscious way. Do not assume that you are aware of where it is taking you. Oh no, you must have great insight and committment if you ever wish to understand and utilize this being that is your genetically coded body. For it is programmed for something you will never know about unless you resolve to do the work that is necessary to understand it and to find out what it is really wanting you to do. This is no easy task. This will take a lifetime of devoted learning to decifer.

And so you see that you are not who you think you are. But your body is not the only being with whom you must create a relationship. Who is the other one who dwells within you? The one that must do the work if you are ever going to be able to 'know thyself'. The one who must learn to ride the 'body being' as it journeys through this world. The one who must learn to understand the workings of the 'body being' through which it lives.

This other being is an etheric essence made of nothing but light. This being stretches back, even further yet, to a time before the earth was even a dream waiting to become. This being is made of the energies of stardust and space. It knows no separation and if vastly more permanent than the manifestations of form. It is timeless and it is tireless. It is what comes in at the moment of conception and what leaves, once death comes, to travel again the timeless reach. You have only, after death comes, to sit beside the body of one you have loved, to know that the one you love is no longer there.

If all of creation is always in the process of being either created or destroyed, perhaps you could say that, as in physics, when form is created, when a body is born, the energy that is you appears as a 'particle' floating in space. And when you die, you return to being a 'wave' upon the ocean of infinity. It is a mysterious world, more mysterious than your wildest imaginings.