25th Anniversary Issue If you ask someone, “Who are you?” they usually describe their roles and say, “I’m a mother,” or “I’m a graphic designer.” We are so identified with our work and family, as well as national, racial, and religious roles, that we rarely go beyond these roles to examine who or what we truly are. In our journey to self-realization, it is essential that each of us seek an answer to this question. Although there are many aspects to this question, I would like to focus my discussion today on what we all have in common physically. To do this, we need to understand our physical makeup, and subatomic physics and biology provide us with the information necessary to do so. We Are Mostly Space In recent years, we have learned that atoms contain much more space than previously believed. Most of us have heard that humans are about 75% water, which might make us imagine being liquid. However, it is more accurate to say that humans are made up of 75% water molecules, and like all molecules, water is about 99.9% space, not matter. This means that we are mostly space. Yet, how many of us can truly see ourselves as space—or, in other words, “ether”—rather than as solid? It’s very challenging; but this scientific fact has profound implications for how we relate to ourselves, others, and the world. Science has shown that we are mostly ether or space, yet we persist in seeing ourselves as solid. Our atoms are constantly interacting with the atoms of chairs, trees, and other humans, and still we believe...
20th Anniversary Issue The Importance of Ancestors in Our Lives Today I am delighted to share an excerpt from my latest book, High Beings of Hawaii: Encounters with Mystical Ancestors, published in 2019. When most of us think of ancestors, we think of blood ancestors who have lived in the past and from whom we have received DNA and learned family patterns. Examining our blood lineage is important as the increasing popularity of websites like Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org and WikiTree.com attests. Our motivation for engaging in these practices might stem from curiosity to discover where we come from and the gifts of our lineage to healing ourselves and not passing our family wounds onto our descendants. Thinking of ancestors in a linear way, which is how most often we view our physical ancestors ranging from past to the present (great-grandmother > grandmother > mother > daughter) does not accurately represent the multi-dimensional reality in which our ancestors exist. Rather than viewing ancestors as existing only in the past, it is essential to embrace the reality that they exist, like us, in all dimensions, including those outside of space and time. Yet, they can influence us from these non-physical realms. Ancestors in physical lineage include our family (such as parents/ grandparents/ etc.), our tribe (Celtic/Jewish/Sioux/etc.), and our nation (Canadian/ German/ Egyptian/ etc.). For instance, if our ancestors descend from Ireland (even if we were not born in Ireland) we carry within our genes the poverty and suffering of the Irish people who endured successive famines. And if we have German heritage, we inherit the trauma of two world wars. For...
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