Who Am I?

In the edition of 'Touching Eternity - Thought experiments for a life well lived', (with its new look!), I invite you to explore one of the simplest, but most profound questions we can ask ourselves...

"Who am I?"

So let's find out if there's a self there to answer!

Here are the experiments you'll get to play with in this edition:

The Sunset of Self

Have you ever watched a sunset and tried to convince that it’s you moving backwards, and not the Sun going down?

Well that erroneous but oh so compelling illusions, has much to tell us about who we really are... and what we really are not!

Infants of Evolution

"What was your original face before even your parents were born?"

?That enigmatic Koan is the deepest pointer toward what lies beyond the asking of the question "Who am I?"

?The 'turning ' words in this Koan are "...before even my parents were born", and they point way beyond the long ancestral lineage that for all of us leads all the way back to the cradle of humanity.

?Thanks to evolution, and the arising of creatively curious sentience, we can now see through evolution!

?By which I mean, we can see beyond the primal fit for purpose, ‘red in tooth and claw’ realities of the savannah, to the stuff from which this manifesting world (and we within it), all arises.

?Beyond form, beyond matter, beyond even the quarks and atoms that seemed to make it up, all the way through to the fields from which those particles emerged.

?Until, in the ripples and curves of fundamental forces yet to be deified, in the highlights of peaking waves, and in the shadows of that dark energy we may never understand, we see emerging from the effervescent anything of pure potential, our true face before even our parents were born… and we touch eternity.

?For it is the face of consciousness itself.

?Once witnessed, it can no longer never not be seen. It is the presence, of presence, aware of its own awareness, as awareness… observing itself into being.

?And like the curve on a compound interest chart, the inflection point of this evolved awakening is now tantalising close.

?It began its upward turn just a few emancipating decades ago, as in the 1960’s popular culture in the west began to explore eastern spiritual traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism.

?Theses introspective wisdoms themselves emerged just three and half thousand years before, rapidly followed by Stoic insights into what it takes for we human beings to enjoy ‘The Good Life’.

?The arrival of digital technologies, smart devices and their apps now place in our hands all of this combined wisdom, able to present its insights in whatever way we find easiest to consume!

?Now even neuroscience and quantum physics begin to cast their empirical gaze on consciousness itself to fill the void that their material equations cannot solve.

?And all of this emerging in the last 3,000 years of the 200,000 thousand years of human consciousness, and the 200 million years of conscious life on this one planet amongst too many trillions more, billions of light years away.

?We truly are infants of evolution.

?For as a species, we already stand as toddlers on the event horizon of awakened awareness.

?And as consciousness, we wait beyond that threshold to share a warm welcome home.

?All we have to do is learn to walk!

Here's a Thought

"Its dawn before day, as purpled night skies give way this new lighting up.

The blurring light shapes the shade of this awaking, as if a new masterpiece… in the moment of its making."

Find yourself a quite place where you won't be disturbed, put on some headphones, and let me share with you this story for your subconscious mind.

Helping Others

My purpose?through all that I share of the insights I've discovered in a life well and truly lived, is to help as many others as I can wake up to their own version of that well lived life.

So, in addition to sharing my thought experiments as widely and deeply as possible, I help others as a?mentor,?coach?and?keynote speaker.

If you feel I may be able to help you please feel free to set up a conversation by using the link below.