So I’m going to assume that you’ve read yesterday’s post and done yesterday’s little game of self reflection.  If you haven’t, do so before you read this.  As with any character based game, you have to earn your right to each level.  In fact, you really should read all these posts in order to get the full impact.  For example, if you just started reading with today’s post you wouldn’t even know that there are three of us writing this.  But I digress.  Back to The Evolution of Me.

Level 2:  Get a photograph of yourself as a child. Look closely at the person looking back. Without making value judgments, ask yourself what that person has in common with you and how that person differs from you.

Do the exercise, read this link…   Evolution of Me – Jan 15     …and then finish this post.

The farther back the photo, the greater the difference in inner reality between se and I. Ultimately, if I look at a photo of myself as an infant, I do not know how to care for myself, how to survive in the world. My inner reality is close to a blank, I do not even know my name. And in that picture of me in the hospital, wrinkled skin, eyes closed, held by the mother I so recently left, I may not even know I am a separate being. I may not even know there is an out there. I may not even know there is an in here. I may not even know I am.

That is where ‘I’ started this life. That was my first ‘now’ as a human, somewhere between an outer reality bombarding me with unintelligible, incoming data, and an inner reality that is either blank, or filled with feelings and knowings from a previous ‘now’ in a previous body. The current paradigm would say one thing, Integral Consciousness another. But that hardly matters, since both would agree that there is a point on the continuum between birth and ‘now’ where I both know that I am, and am able to express it.

And that is true not only for every individual ‘I’, but for humanity as a whole.

peace……….ag