Who am I? In social situations I guess I would say Im a retired law
librarian. But that doesnt conjure up images of who I want to be, or be
seen as!!
Im a visionary. Im a nature lover... Im part of nature, Im one of the
animal species here in my beautiful riverine, white-pine forest ecology. Im
a teacher and student of metaphysics. Im a recluse, Im a hermit, Im
whatever you call those people who go off to the woods to be alone and live
the simple life, like Thoreau did. Next time Im at a cocktail party Ill
introduce myself as a visionary nature-loving simplistic metaphysical
recluse!! (Im safe, as cocktail parties arent part of my world)
Thanks for this exercise, Connee. Perhaps you and Abraham meant how
would we introduce ourselves to the Universe, but ordinarily we are
introducing ourselves to someone here in the physical. For me the exercise
went beyond how we describe ourselves. It showed that we define who we are
by the standards, expectations, and definitions of the people and the
community we introduce ourselves TO. We say who we are in terms that make
sense to the people we say it TO, and we say it to show where we fit into
their world. Visionary nature loving metaphysically oriented simplistic
recluses seldom need to describe themselves to anybody in ten words or less.
This is because of where we are and are *not*, and who we are and are not
*with*!
All the good things I am, all the important things, cant be summarized
the way people in most social situations want them summarized. This is partly
because their labels don't fit, their cubbyholes and categories don't fit.
When I am in places where there are no labels and cubbyholes, I feel good.
(Thanks, David, and Abraham, and all of you readers for this list, which is
one of those "places"!!)
The living things in nature KNOW who I am without my saying, and so
does the Universe and all of non-physical. New people I meet through my
existing connections and/or in the context of metaphysical classes seem
content to discover who I am gradually as I express myself in our shared
experience. Its like they could pick up on my vibration and know who I am
almost the way the beings in the natural world do. And they are content to
wait for more to unfold as our association grows. Wisely they know that who I
am changes and shifts, and that they will discover for themselves, as I am
discovering, who I am. Perhaps I am someone different with each of them.
Each being you are with, each community you are part of, evokes "who you
are" from within. Are they evoking who you want to be? Examine not only who
you are (in terms of who you want to be) and how you introduce yourself, but
who you are introducing yourself TO. What associations allow and evoke and
encourage and LOVE the person you are describing? Find them and introduce
yourself to THEM!! There you will feel free. There you will feel loved. There
you will grow. There you will experience joy!
Jane(ME)
