AM!!!
Rabbi Dr Belinda Silbert (MTh, Doctorate in Counselling, ABCC)
Vice-President, Association of Certified Chaplains in South Africa
“AM” = “AS ME.”…that which cannot be named expressing itself in me, as me, through me.
The “I”is necessary for the for the initial separation and formation of the boundaries where the Divine Energy contracts itself so that we can begin to perceive something of its Nothingness. Nothing can contain the “ALL THERE IS, ” therefore there can only be imprints. We must not worship the “footprints/imprints of the Divine because they are only clues of its presence.
Fixating on the remnants could be an error because it is the same as being transfixed by the charred remains of a fire long after it has burned. We cannot see the substance that originally caused the flame. We can only find traces of it in the midst of the embers
The “Am” Power..that which we cannot name. We remove the “I.” The “I: is merely the persona, the clothing that we wear in each lifetime. It is the note we play on the string at different “times.” ….the different entries in the score of the Divine Symphony.
We are identified as the “I” and “You” even before we are born. 3-dimensional ultrasounds of the developing foetus entrance its parents and it is named and gendered before its emergence from the womb.
The new “I” is now loaded with the expectations and the dreams of its parents and its soul-purpose already begins to be clouded. The veil of forgetfulness begins to be drawn.
AM= “AS ME.”: That which cannot be named expressing itself in me, as me, through me. We need to restore the “Amness” to ourselves right now.