We are not here to transcend. We are here to live.

I used to long to become something more than human − to exist entirely beyond the third dimension. I wanted advanced psychic gifts, the ability to timejump and speak light languages, relationships with our galactic partners − all the fantastic, magical phenomena. A constant psychedelic experience.

It was never a conscious thought, but I see now I was hoping to become something that looked different and lived differently from what I thought the human experience could be.

Looking back, I see that a part of me was holding onto a belief in separation − as though the gifts I longed for were beyond me, or as though I couldn't enjoy a normal human life and also live in those other dimensions. It was a hidden layer of disbelief in our interconnectedness.

The more I heal − the more I let go of separation, and the more light I allow throughout my being − the more the self-realization of Oneness seems to integrate. It's amazing to me that as I realize I am the being I always wanted to become, I find myself embracing the human experience more than ever. Now, this feels like the whole point.

There is nowhere to get to.

We are Source Intelligence, creating itself. We are the creator and the creation, alive and awake inside its own dream. The more we open to this truth, the more we realize joy, richness, beauty, and love are not rewards waiting at the end of the path. They are the path. They are us. They are what we're here to generate, to inhabit, to weave into the living plasma of this shared world.

We are here to remember who we really are, and to live.

In the mornings, I simmer in this knowing. I feel it in my body. I feel myself as one with all living things, the breath of life breathing me and everything else in concert − one vast, coherent, interconnected creation. Each morning I pray as both Creator and Creation, Source Intelligence and its living dream: Thank you for this love. Thank you for this joy that I am. Thank you for the peace and ease that are woven throughout my entire being. I breathe this light into the web of life, all beings, all aspects of myself, all my relations. I love you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

The great invitation is not transcendence, it is incarnation: deeper, fuller, more awake. To be here, truly here, as the creator and the creation. To live this life, this body, this specific and unrepeatable human experience, as the gift and the joy it actually is.

This is what the human journey is really about. Not earning a beautiful afterlife, not living for tomorrow, not becoming something different, but remembering what you are and have always been − and living from that, here, now, right in the middle of it all.

A human life well lived, in service to the One.

Such a magnificent design.

You are held, even in the unknown. Your longing for a life fully lived is the voice of Truth calling you home. It is the light that illuminates what wants to be seen, and loved, and liberated. This light lives in you. It is who you are: the One, looking back into its own eyes.

Bless you, Friend. I love you very much.

Aowyn

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