Know Thyself – You Are That I Am

You Are That I Am is a phrase that expresses the realization that we are one and here we discuss exactly where we connect and become one. It is a process of knowing thyself.

Roughly 95% of what you think is real about you right now is NOT Real. It is just a story that weaves energy into a personality which in-turn makes life so confusing and at times complicated.

The other 5% means everything!

Each one of us has a never changing place of power and deserving of great honour, a state of being that can only be associated with where we originally come from as mankind.

The statement, ‘You are that I am,’ is a concept that expresses the above although in the physical world we can clearly see two separate bodies between you and me, two genders too if we happen to be male and female.

Let’s begin from somewhere to explore this.

Following the same vein of the idea of oneness, somewhere in the bible God says we are made in his image and that could also be expressed as God saying, ‘you are that i am.’

So equally, from the above, we can say that what God is, is part of what each of us is. That also means we can all say,  ‘You are that I am’ in reference to each other.

If, God made all of us in His image, what is that image? The reference to God and as ‘He’ is for easier writing. There is no gender in this issue.

You are that I am, stands for the one-and-the-same thread that runs through all of us, religious or not. What is this thread?

The name God is not a name that everyone uses, so, let’s drop it and use something else that we can’t argue over?

How to regard humanity as one.

The Seer

You are a Seer. Not from some dingy dark place but from your personal nameless space that only you can see. This is a very deep concept yet simple enough for all of us to understand.

Here are two examples to illustrate this…

Example 1 : I had an idea and on going to research on it, I found that someone had already written about it.

Example 2 : One day I watched two people in a discussion. A man had an idea and the lady he was speaking to told him she had been thinking about the exact same thing!

The Seer That Is Me

I could ‘SEE’ from the above examples that one thinks of something and someone else is thinking about the exact same thing. This in itself shows us something but this is not the BIG DEAL. The BIG DEAL is that I was ‘looking‘ at those two situations and seeing that we can think of the same thing. I was not ‘Looking’ at this with the physical eyes!

I could ‘See‘ that there is a connection in thought beyond our control. This may not be very clear at this point.

The Seer That Is You

Do you realize that, from what I have described above, you can see that in the first instance there are two people who had the same idea, without prior knowledge of each other or prior discussion about the subject.

Although different gender in the second instance, the two people had the same idea without prior discussion. Can you see the joy in the other face as she said, “I have been thinking about the exact same thing!” She is joyful over the surprising connection. Can you see?

If you answered yes, then…

How come you can see what I saw even though you were physically not present in the situations I just described? From what or who did you look at what I saw?  From where or what do you observe what I am telling you?

To be able to answer my question, YOU become the observer that is observing what I said I observed. Something in you can read what happens in life. This is the thread that runs through us all. This is what is our oneness. What we have lost is the ability to use this thread to evolve to our highest point and to create the results that we want in our lives.

The thing that makes this idea really clear is that even though I am not in you to see how you are going to observe what I observed, I know exactly how and that you are definitely going to ‘SEE’ what I have written about in those two examples. I also know that your process of looking at this will be similar to mine. That means the observer that is you observes like the observer that is me. I know this and you know it too without a doubt. If I didn’t know this I wouldn’t ask you to look. I also know you are not physically looking at these situations.

And We Know

We both know what that observer in us is like, from our mind’s eye or wherever it is we observe from. No one can put words to describe it. It is formless, we can’t name it and neither can we quantify it. The best phrase to describe it is, ‘You Are That I Am’. Do you see why God said I am that I am? Because it is something we can’t put into words. We just know it.

Do you get this concept now? The observer is one even though it’s two people or even every human being involved. It is what it is – I am that I am and you are that I am is all we can say.

That, right there, is the Seer in all of us and that is the image of God talked about in the Bible. The realization that the observer that is you, is the observer that is me and in all of us, is the Big Deal. SWITCH THAT ON PROPERLY and the kingdom of everything is yours! Do you doubt this? Let’s try another angle.

The Wind Blows

When the wind blows, you cannot say that the wind that blows over your roof is different from the wind that blows over your garden. It’s different locations but the body of the wind is exactly the same. If you could stand in the garden and the roof at the same time, that wind blowing over you would feel exactly the same. It never changes because you are sitting on the grass or the roof. Equally, if you are in the garden and someone is on the roof, the experience of the wind blowing will be the same for both of you and yet that wind has no form and no one can see it or say exactly what the wind is or quantify it, yet we know it! We can see what the wind moves like the trees, leaves, and the dust, but we can never see the wind itself.

This is the weird thing. How do I know I can ask you to see what I observed unless I know you can? I know you can’t tell me who or what it is in you that can see this, like the wind we can only know It. It is a mystery but it’s not hidden from you. This is where our power lies as humans! We have to see this and live it to conquer our debilitating environment!

Omnipresent, Omniscient, Omnipotent

What do they say about God? Omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent which is equals to three in one. And what else? That we are made in the image of God. Do you SEE that the observer that is me is the observer that is you and that, that is the God image in all of us. It is always present, and you know it instinctively and this is where your true potential lies. This is what those three ‘omni…’ words mean and they give a description of the thread that connects all of us. I could say it another way; we are omnipresent as we always are with our physical body. Everyone has a physical body. We are omniscient as we have a part of us that can ‘SEE’ as I demonstrated above. Then there is a part of us that is omnipotent that most of us don’t even realize we have. We are three in one. Those three components of us make the composite being into the wholeness that we are. God called it ‘I Am That I Am.’ When you can truly see what this is really all about, your life changes in ways you never thought possible. You move into your power position.

There is no way we could have been put on earth and have our power hidden from us. We have been made to believe that God is hidden but that is not true. His image is right there for us to see. Call it whatever you like for different religious reasons but it all comes to the same thing and it applies to everyone!

Can you ever say the wind blowing on that tree is different from the wind blowing on the other tree or the grass below? Is it not all the same wind and yet were I to ask you, “what is wind?” will you be able to explicitly explain to me what wind is and how come it blows everywhere and it’s the same body of that substance? Through all languages, countries and continents, every human experiences the wind the same although different races may have a different name for it. Does giving the wind a different name change what it is? In the same way, does anyone calling God or you something else change how you observe as that observer? You being in God’s image does not change because of a change of name and neither does God change because someone else uses a different name for God.

I Know You

When I say, ‘Do you ALSO See that I was being the observer, observing the interaction’ you begin to observe just like I observed. That means, despite what you call this seer that is us, be it God, Yahweh, Infinity, Creator, Brahman, Allah, Shiva, we are all looking at the same universal concept – IT HAS NO NAME in reality. It is beyond names. It just is. WE ARE!

Why Do We Seek Enlightenment? Answer: because we seek to find our wholeness! To awaken is to become. I say your wholeness is 3 in 1. You are not whole till you see the three sides to you, your omnipresence, your omniscience and your omnipotence. We usually see just one aspect of our whole beingness, that is, the body, our omnipresence.

I read with my eyes, I looked at those two people in discussion with my eyes but beyond that was the perceiver who was understanding a connection of thoughts. A perceiver lacing it all together.

We feel lost and even less capable in our day to day lives because we don’t know how to work with this God image on a conscious, moment by moment level. Thus we seek enlightenment.

For some reason we Don’t Know how to truly be that image on a voluntary basis and how to use it in our lives. We use it subconsciously sometimes and even then we use half of it or a third of it and most of the time just 5% of it and the rest of the 95% being false and imposed false image. This is what has led to the condition we find ourselves in as mankind. To live our day to day lives consciously as that image of God is where we have our true power, peace, true potential and happiness. We are seeking to live our lives stabilized in that image of God. This is about evolving the 5% that is overshadowed by all the drama around us.

How do we get overshadowed by the drama?

Things happen at random and we make meaning of them. From that meaning we create our own image and interpretation and thus we get lost.

In reality we have no boundaries to our wisdom and potential. There is just boundaries in the unreal world that we create and live in. All you need to do is to understand why this world you live in is not real and YOU will see how you can switch to the real one. We are already enlightened. All we need to do is to turn on The Seer that we are.

You almost have to look at it as though through a lens.

Why do we find it hard to see this Seer we talk about?

Of all things discussed about how to be enlightened’, a step has been or is left out and this is what makes it harder, even impossible to attain enlightenment and happiness you seek.

There is a lot of information about the subject from all walks of life but no one explains exactly where we miss the mark and instead you are asked to blindly follow steps to self knowledge without understanding where you are coming from.  How can you be asked to drop the world you live in that you can see and touch without a good reason? It is not easy. This is why most people cannot stop their thoughts to find the stillness within.

Until you understand where it actually goes wrong, the enlightenment and happiness you seek will always elude you. You will struggle with the ideas and teachings about how you can become or be the ‘Higher-Self.’

When you get the missing step, following the rest will be like a walk in the park.

We cannot blame anyone that the step has been missing for so long. Things happen at different times for a reason. There is always a bigger picture in the scheme of things.

The manual, ‘‘How We Get Lost‘ gives details on what there is to understand about the first part of the trio. It is where to begin your journey. You will learn how to boot out unwanted stuff from your life.

It is time to embrace our greatness and be truly the powerful mankind that we are!

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I Am That I Am

… and you know what? You Are That I Am.