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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)

I got a REALLY neat insight today as I was going about my morning rounds and
thinking about Connee's question of WHo am I and Who do I want to be and How
do I want to present myself to the universe and everyone else?

I was thinking that I should call Al to see if he wants to go to the meeting
with me tomorrow and then I thought about Dr. Jackson and wondered when we
could meet and talk Vet stuff and then I passed the Emergency Vet Hospital
that dropped my first dog Pasha off the table and his whole paralysis thing
which is relavent to this question because his accident and his entry into
my life caused me to trash my photojournalism career and get into dogs and
for a LONG time I started off my client meetings telling them about him and
our trials and tribulations and that I had worked with aggressive dogs, sort
of as a backwards way to reassure them that I would take Great care of their
dogs since I had fucked up with mine. And then it HIT ME, Pasha died when
he was 2 1/2 years old, the DAY after all of this Abe stuff clicked in for
me, I was in the car, listening to a tape and it all became clear to me,
everything that they were saying just made sense for the first time. I was
SO excited I rushed home and he was on his leash in the front yard and I
threw my arms around him and told him, that I GOT IT, I REALLY Understood it
now and He was Free to heal himself now. I felt On Top of the World and
Totally invincible and I thought he was staying paralyzed to help me learn
this stuff so it all made sense in a psychotic sort of way. Well, the next
morning he died in my arms out of no where.

SO, this morning as I was driving and my mind was wandering it Hit Me, part
of my resistence to the Farm is that I'm afraid when it gets going Cordy
will die on me as well. He's 2 and 4 months and as neurotic as it sounds
once it occurred to me, it actually made sense. SO, when I got home I took
him for a 2 hour romp to prove to myself that he's Healthy and Vibrant and
Full of Life and Loving Life. But I've still got a ways to go to really let
go of this. I guess my fear is that I will relax and trust that
everything's ok and then something awful will happen, Cordy or my Mom or
Gram will die, or my Dad, something will happen to ruin the perfect moment
or to make me regret going for my dreams. I have evidence of that happening
in my life in the past and it really Sucks when it happens.

So, now that I know what's in my vibe, what can I do to transform it? Any
hints?

LOVE YA- Juls

Hello Juls,

One thought that may or may not be comforting is that in Unity (similar to
Science of Mind) they often speak of perfect healing and remind one another
that only the person being healed and The Universe know whether that means
on this plane or transformed to another plane. My understanding from Abe is
that mostly animals prefer to be healthy and, if they stay around when
they're not able to enjoy life to the hilt, it's probably to protect us.
Once you "got" what you needed to "get" Pasha may have felt free to heal
himself in the best possible way for him. On the way home tonight I was
listening to the unedited Abe from Cleveland and they make the point that
animals make very quick transitions except that our needing them, praying
over them, etc. causes them to be uncertain about what they want -- or, in
Pasha's case, perhaps causes them to stay to protect you until you could
make it without that particular protection.

I don't know if this is comforting or not, because we prefer that
people/animals live and die in the best possible way for us, but I think you
set him free to do what was best for him, because you were now on the path
that would free you. It sounds like his circumstances were quite different
than Cordy's great sense of physical well-being. That would make a big
difference, I'd think.

Also, I don't know if you connect with him now (or after his transition) ,
but I had a strong experience of connecting with the dog I most nursed
through a long illness a few days after he died. I didn't identify it as
him at the time, but I knew I was connecting with an uncommon amount of
peace and comfort.

This next paragraphs ramble a bit. Oh, well....

Re: the creating and then having something bad happen, I have a considerable
thread on it from a week or so ago. If you have the past e-mails, the
thread was called "Comfort with improved manifestation" and most people
replied with that title. Some called it "counter-creation" and "improved
manifestation." Admittedly mine had to do with creating it and then having
difficulty and you may think you have yet to create it to begin with.
However the principles seem the same to me.

Possibly if you wanted to, you could address some of the issues before you
do the creation to save some of the undoing after the creation. I don't
know----as I type this, it seems a little "off" for the stage you're
currently focusing on. However the piece that does seem useful is the
thought, "I am a person who....." and finish with something that seems
truthful AND that indicates the steps you are taking are a natural for you
and "fit" with who you are. I find I comfortably allow small steps more
readily than huge ones, though you and I both have an affinity for the giant
ones. Perhaps, to focus on the little ones AND the big ones and see how
that works?

Freedom And Joy