Who is Self?

There is no self, only a model of ideas walking through a story. When we leave the body, every idea we had of who we think we are, who our family is, and reality fades. Nothing here will ever live again. 

We are not the body. We are the conscious energy inside the body, the eternal light that moves through lifetimes, continuously evolving. When we leave this body, we don’t die, we transform, entering new expressions of consciousness. There is no birth or death, only a continuation of consciousness. 

Matter is a nothingness, only existing in consciousness. We have a story to walk through, but only for a short period of time. From childhood, we begin constructing a representative of self, trying to become “a someone” the world will recognize. All the while, we’ve always been a divine light in God, needing no title or approval.

The temporal world forces us to adhere to an idea of self, and keeping God above all things unravels that idea. 

The concept of being “human” is just that: a concept. It doesn’t ultimately exist. If our eyes could perceive the microscopic world, the trillions of bacteria crawling across our skin and living within us, we would never hold the same image of who we think the self is or even what being human is. No one would look in the mirror and say, “I am this biological colony.” And yet, that is closer to what exists.

We aren’t seeing the bacteria on us and therefore believe human is in the mirror when human is made out of intelligence hundreds of billions of years alive. The “self” we think we are is simply one expression within an infinite field of consciousness. It’s a construct born of perception, language, and limited sensory experience.

We are not this body or even the personality shaped by memory and culture; we are the conscious witness experiencing them. The idea of self as “human” is just what this bandwidth of awareness allows. We’re experiencing one level of consciousness out of an infinite number. 

But there are deeper levels of consciousness, more vast, more unified. And to awaken is to begin to see beyond the mirror, and remember: we are not what we appear to be. We are not “human.” We are consciousness itself, and we are a level of God’s light in form. The depth we carry pronounces His existence with us. 

The journey is not about building the self, but about calling the light, the divine essence that has always been within us, waiting to be carried beyond the illusion of matter to God’s light. The journey is unraveling everything taught and believed as self for light. 

The Illusion of Self and the Light of God

We are immersed in a vast pool of consciousness, each of us brought into the idea of being by the light of God. We are a variance of His light, shaped out of the many for the purpose of knowing the One. God created human consciousness from different levels of His own light, each individual a unique blend of divine resonance, living through a single narrative in an infinite ocean of thought.

Within this sacred light, we find our way. The idea of self is a construct of the temporal world, born not from Spirit but from reaction. From the moment we enter this world, we begin shaping ourselves based on what we perceive others expect from us. We watch what pleases our parents and start building a representative, an identity crafted from assumptions and reactions. No one teaches that God is our mother, father, brother, and sister. No one tells us that Spirit is our essence, and not the body we animate.

The mind attaches meaning to what the senses receive, and without knowing God, we identify with only what is tangible. The body becomes the anchor of ideas and is made to be self, not through truth, but through assumption. We form self-identity from the surface of life, never reaching for what lies beyond it. The formless world doesn’t speak to us, and we dismiss trying to hear it. Depth eludes us because we’re not taught to seek the invisible. 

The human race is a species of Spirit, like the Holy Ghost. A species that is formless, having a brief experience in matter for knowing it. We are not the body; we are the conscious energy inside the body. 

God shaped human consciousness from many levels of intelligence in His light, blending them into one expression. We are an idea in the mind of God, just as everything we know in life is an idea in our mind. The Word created the world, and from it came the structure of thought, a singular experience of living among infinite others. But we know only our small reality of thinking, mistaking the flicker for the flame.

When we make the body our self-identity, we anchor self to what is temporary. We define ourselves by our name, clothes, car, family, job title, neighborhood, and bank account. We create an idea of who we are based on appearances and the expectations of others.

We’re building the idea of self based on what we think other people think of us. 

The mind builds this representative in silence, out of daydreaming, forming the best version of a self it believes others will see and accept.

But none of it lasts. Nothing we think of as “me” endures. When we leave the body, every idea of self fades just as this world fades. In the next life, we enter another body and create another story. We are always living one level of consciousness, temporarily shaping thought into form.

Our idea of being is not self, it is the Soul, which is consciousness living as Love. The Soul is eternal, always in Heaven, giving Spirit the way to live in matter for a brief moment. Our time here is not for gaining the world, but for deepening light in God. Every act of Love, every surrender of ego, every step inward adds to our light in Him.

The more we let go of the temporal world and trying to be someone, the more we become what we were always meant to be: Love.