Who Am I?
March 4, 2009 by akemi
“Who am I?” is the central question in life. What is your answer to this question, and how is your understanding helping you in life?
This article first examines various levels of self identity. Then it goes deeper to explore what “we are spiritual beings” really means. (Photo by Lucas Janin)
Will the true YOU please step forward?
We define ourselves in various ways:
1. I am (my name).
2. I am (my work position, social status, etc.).
3. I am (my life experiences).
4. I am (my thoughts, or the thinking mind).
5. I am (my soul or spirit).
#1 is just a label. #2, like “I am a sales manager.” or “I am a mother.” is just the role you are playing at this time. It’s pretty easy to see these are not the real YOU.
Some people are invested in their experiences and believe they are the sum or the result of their life experiences. “I was abused as a child and so I am incapable of building a healthy relationship. This is me.” or “I am an American and so I live this way.” But I don’t think human life is like a physics experiment. We have free will that allows us to go outside what our experiences define.
#4 is big. Someone said, “I think therefore I am.” If you don’t embrace the idea of the soul, I guess this is how you define yourself. Pretty obviously, you know you are not just the body you can see and touch. There is something within that does the thinking – your mind. So you are the mind, or the combination of your body and mind. (If you think the mind is just a function of the brain, then the mind is part of the body – still, you define yourself as the body / mind.)
Then there are those who believe in #5. I use to think this way, too. Our essence is the soul, or the spirit, that currently resides in the physical body. The thinking mind is only a tool. And when we die, the soul moves on, to eventually have another incarnation.
The idea seemed to work until I experienced Ascension soul shift myself.
Soul shifts and the Self
As Akashic Record Reading specialist, I read people’s soul records. Most people live with one soul for the entirety of his or her life. Or, rather, the soul lives its whole incarnation.
However, there are those who go through soul shifts. When this is the case, I can count exactly how many souls have been involved, the characteristics of each soul, and when the shift happened. And as I wrote in that article, soul shifting itself is nothing new. All varieties of soul shifts except the Ascension soul shift have been known for some time.
- Ongoing soul shifts
- One-time soul shifts, or walk-ins, including:
1) Reinstatement soul shifts
2) Complete possessions
3) Placeholder soul shifts
4) Special cases such as Pleiadean soul shifts
5) Ascension soul shifts
In each case, we can take one of the two perspectives to the question “Who am I?”
- I am the originally intended soul that was meant for me at birth.
- I am the soul I have now.
With ongoing soul shifts, there is one soul that was the originally intended soul. So although it was in the body only part of the time, we can say this is who he or she was meant to be. Alternatively, we can also interpret this situation that whichever soul that is in the body at the given moment is the self – at the time.
Similarly, in reinstatement soul shifts, we can say the originally intended soul that gets “reinstated” is the real you even though another soul was residing in the body for a while. It’s also valid to say that, when the other soul was residing in the body, that was you.
Complete possessions are sad cases. The originally intended soul gets kicked out by a negative soul. When this happens, I have to say the new soul is the you because there is no way to reverse the process.
Placeholder soul shifts are like reinstatement soul shifts but the first soul is a positive soul. So again, you are the originally intended soul. Or you can say the soul you had at the time is the real you.
How Ascension soul shifts differ from other soul shifts
However, Ascension soul shifts are different. With Ascension soul shift, the first soul is the originally intended soul. And the second soul is also intended – the shift is orchestrated somehow.
The repeatedly asked question about Ascension soul shift is “Why does this have to happen? What happens to the first soul? What happens to my spiritual development that I have accomplished as my first soul through many lifetimes?”
I sensed there was something bigger or higher than the soul that is still an individual, the ME, that was orchestrating these soul shifts. These soul shifts were not some random take over. At least the second soul knew the first soul and what was going on. But what is this “bigger or higher” something?
Here is my current understanding as I figured by communicating with my Akashic Record Guides.
The Source, the energy, and the soul
First there was the Source, the Source of all energy. The whole, therefore perfect, energy. Then it split part of it to create individualized forms of itself. Basically, it wanted to play. It was hard to play as a single existence ever, so it split itself to be many existences.
For now, let’s call these split energies “X’s”.
Some X’s became stars and planets. Most other X’s became residents of these star systems. Then they traveled around. Eventually some came to Earth, which is just another creation.
To live in the physical bodies on Earth, X’s split part of themselves to form souls in much the same manner the Source split itself to be X’s. Perhaps most X’s split out just one soul and watched over how it goes.
The soul lived in one body. When the body was done, the soul crossed over to the other side for a temporary rest, and eventually came back to live another lifetime. This went on and on for millenniums of time. All the while the X of the soul was watching over its progress.
Ascension is the new game
Recently planet Earth and its residents decided to work out a new game plan. We have gone through plenty of lifetimes and saw the various different sides of life. We have done enough of the “learning by contrast” game. More and more of us are reaching the point that we can possibly reach as the existing soul. So we are going to change the matrix itself. We are going to do this Ascension.
Ascension is about increasing the vibration rate. For many of us, the souls we’ve had were good souls that were intended for each of us at birth, but they can go up only to a certain level of vibration rate. So our X’s decided to upgrade. Each X created another soul from itself and sent it to us. This is Ascension soul shift.
Because the new soul originates from the same X, it is the same type, same background group and training. It just vibrates higher and has no physical past life.
Meet X, your Higher Self
Now the issue of terminology. This is where things get sticky because it’s quite possible that person A uses the term to mean something different from what person B means with the same term.
For me, X is my Higher Self. My Higher Self came directly from the Source, and it infuses part of it to form my soul in much the same way the Source infused part of it to form my Higher Self. My Higher Self can create many souls if it wants.
It’s like making photocopies. Any number of souls can come from the Higher Self. Once the soul is created and incarnates in the physical body, it gets its own experiences. Like you can write memos on one of the photocopies. We’ve got too many scribbles on our copies (souls) that we decided to start anew with a fresh copy.
Who am I really?
So there are higher levels of answers to the first question, “Who am I?”
6. I am (my Higher Self).
7. I am God, the Source, or – just, I am.
Does this make sense to you? It does to me, so I concluded my communication with my guides.
A note in communication with spirit guides
If you are interested in trying this yourself, here is a brief cautionary note. Spirits use your existing frame of reference to give you ideas. So the analogy you get may well be different from mine.
Plus they are quite practical in their teaching. They know there are levels of understanding. Say, Newton’s law of gravity may or may not work in Einstein’s world, but if your understanding of physics is high school level (like most of us), they are not going to mention Einstein. They know that would just complicate things unnecessarily. So they tell you the law of gravity as Newton figured it out. If you work for NASA, on the other hand, you may get a different response. Both are, in a sense, “right” answers.
The answers I received make sense to me and so it’s good for me. For now. When my spirituality evolves further, I might get a new answer that may seem to contradict to what I know now. Just a possibility.
Ascension is a process to be one with God, or to be God
So the Ascension process promotes higher awareness of who we really are. We are not just our souls that goes through many lifetimes. We are our Higher Selves that are looking over all these experiences.
Further, we are the Source. We are God, the Creator. The split part is essentially the same in quality with the original. It’s a smaller individualized version, but like a piece of holograph, it has all the power and information of the original.
It gets really hard to “know” who I am at this level. It’s like trying to see my own nose. Not by the reflection on the mirror, but trying to see my nose itself. We are not quite capable of doing this. Likewise, after rigorous examination of who I am, seemingly ironically, I reach a point where I say, “I just am.” Everything and everyone are part of me, appearing to be different for the fun of it.
How do you identify yourself? Are you using the power that comes from realizing you are the Source?
Akemi – another fascinating post. The soul shifting idea is new to me, I am going to sit with it for awhile. My background is more in Vajrayana Buddhism and Kundalini yoga, so I understand the vibrational shift side of things, but always tended to think of the changes as the same being evolving rather than a new soul. And actually in Buddhism there really isn’t the concept of a soul – it is more like a collection of energies and karmas that some people CALL a soul, but the enlightenment process is one of moving beyond these (which also raises your vibrational rate.) So I do think in different terms but found this fascinating nevertheless.
FYI – I tried to submit my info for a reading yesterday, and also tried emailing you, but kept getting error messages. Just wanted to make sure you were aware of it…opposition in action I suppose!!
Lisa
Bit too long for me, but I definitely like the first part. Its funny to see people associate themselves with labels such as their jobs or careers. I mean if you think about it, when someone tells you they are an accountant, it almost looks like they took a piece of paper and read their title from.
The opposite is when someone tells you well i help customers max out their rrsp or get the biggest tax refund they can.
that sure makes a difference, it is more of a human touch, because really who would you strike up a conversation with more?
Lisa,
I think vibration change happens both within one soul and with soul shift. I think my analogy of elevators in tall tower works pretty well. A soul can increase its vibration rate, like an elevator going up. But in certain tall towers, the elevator goes only to a certain floor and then, you must get off and switch to another elevator that takes you to higher floors.
Thank you for letting me know the glitch in the email system.
Tom,
Too long? I thought vegans have long attention span. . .
Do you realize you are God?
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Hi Akemi
This is a very interesting post. I have never heard of these shifts previously and it certainly does take the question of “who am I” to another level!
It’s a pity that I couldn’t read it properly in it’s entirety because there is a problem with your google ads overlapping the text.
Perhaps I’ll be back because it will be in Monday’s blog carnival
Juliet
Juliet,
Umm, will you tell me which google ad interfere with the post, plz? I checked both Firefox and IE and I don’t see a problem. And there are only two ads, one between the post and the comment, and another in the sidebar, which should be within the sidebar width . . .
I’d really appreciate your help to improve this blog. Thank you.
Akemi, well i am not really a vegan, just all over the place now. But to correct that, my generation has short attention span, hehe.
I did once hear that we are gods, mind explaining that a bit more?
Hi Akemi – This is interesting and I understand it a lot better now. I wouldn’t like to be one of those people who have their soul booted out by a negative one though. Is there anything we can do to stop this from happening?
So far, I’m getting a reasonable understanding of how we are Source. But I haven’t got as far as really knowing how to use that power yet. I’m trying my best to get there though. Meditation is one thing that is definitely helping.
Tom,
It’s written in the article.
Cath,
I guess you are talking about complete possessions? I think they develop from partial possessions (I think — I have very little experience with complete possessions because people who go through this — meaning they have negative souls now — would not come to my service), and partial possessions are something I can take care of.
However, all one time soul shifts are done deal — whether the new soul is positive or negative, it’s a complete switch, and once it’s done, there is no way to reverse.
We are God, and this is why the Law of Attraction works. I will write that part of the story soon.
Hello Akemi!
I have seen your comments now on a few sites and decided to follow over here as you have me intrigued.
Although I still sometimes catch myself identifying with #5, after having read Eckhart Tolle’s book “A New Earth” , I was actually able to move to #6 and even #7.
I know it still makes a lot of people uncomfortable to think that way or represent or see oneself that way, but it really makes sense to me. We are so much more than anything we could every grasp or understand, and that is why to me it makes perfect sense that when we take away all of the layers, and illusions, all that is left is “I AM” and how wonderful is that. So fresh, so freeing.
Now as an aside I do know someone close to me who I wonder about their soul and about a possible partial possession. Any advice?
Hi Evita,
Yeah, it feels good but does take courage to say I Am (God).
Now about your friend. . . My best advice is to please order my Akashic Record Reading and clearing. Because until I actually see his or her Record, I don’t know if it’s really a possession, and I can’t do the clearing. Sorry this sounds like a sales pitch, but this is just the honest professional advice. Doctors cannot give diagnosis and treatment by hearing the symptoms — they need to see the patient. Similarly I need to read the person’s Akashic Record to say anything specific and to do clearing. And if it is indeed a possession, the only way I know to clear it is my way of clearing — I am not aware of the over-the-counter type way to deal with it.
Thanks Akemi. I will see if they consider it.
Sometimes we want to help others, but not always is it the right choice – and I constantly play with that – to know when not to interfere with a soul’s evolution. I realize that sometimes the soul just needs to go through various experiences to evolve to its higher potential, no matter how those experiences may seem to us.
Evita,
I totally agree we need to respect the free will of everyone. I guess if you just let them know about my service, they’ll make the best choice for themselves.
I really like the new look of your blog.
[...] Because we are God. Some express the same saying we are children of God, or we are connected to the Source energy. Really the same thing. If we are children of God, we are growing up to be God. If we are connected to the Source, we have the same energy the Source has. And just like God created the universe, we can create our lives. Smaller scale, but the same working of the energy. [...]
Thanks for this post. One thing I noticed a while back is how invested I was in stage #3 you describe — in my case it was “I’m everything I have and haven’t accomplished.” What I’ve been doing recently is asking “do I have any evidence right now, in this moment, that I’ve done anything, or that anything has happened in the past, or that anything will happen in the future?” And the truth, which was a little scary at first, was that I do not. But thinking about this more has been eye-opening to say the least.
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It is very interesting to learn yours point of view and hypotheses but did you ever actually think that it could be all logic calculation of your mind based on everything recorded that brain would use for creating his self perception?
Since I’m, i changed my hypotheses and my point of view of everything a hundreds of time going to the extended understanding of all, based on mathematical calculation, undeniable universal logic’s, imagination and spirit eye.
Taking in count karma, spirit, higher extension, self negation, chaos structures balance based laws, conditioning, self conditioning, believes and etc.
I been trough this point of view of yours akemi as well and every time i found out that i’v been manipulated by omnipotent self extension of I’m.
I know now that everything coming out of calculation its a illusion broad up by necessity of self attribution of valor which make us seen as we see.
I think there are not separation of spirit or higher me, shift from good soul to bad.
There is only one : a infinity see of esoteric energies forms and chaos based laws which make beginning of structured creation of spiritual been.
Like a algorithm that looking for self perfecting through the material existence, we extending own self through the time-matrices–energies, sicking of eternal.
We are not disposed to know the trout here, as the trout will set us free. As free you will give up any researches of it, which will stop your progression-as your progression depend on experiences lived and emotional charges delivered.
Certitude make us always fall.
Many peoples are closed in they pyramid of knowledge forgetting that where is the structures closed there is no more evolution. Hold your chaos closed to you as it will help you any time broke down any false part of your self. There is non “trout”, there is no “I’m:, because,” I’m” its a obsession of self, closed in reality totally opposed to whats we really want.” I’m” it is only a first beginning of long awaking processes.
Hope i will make sense for some…
Who am i?
I’m a black fire dragon holding the fire in my right while from my left a water flowing.
A blue electric storm below my head it is my vision that separate the light from the darkness and the trout from the lies in sicking of eternal.
I like your take on it. Thanks for the step by step process…
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How can the soul affect the mind or the mind affect the soul? I really like these ideas. Like we all have a little piece of godliness inside us trying to work it’s way back to the source. The original singularity.
[...] Because we are God. Some express the same saying we are children of God, or we are connected to the Source energy. Really the same thing. If we are children of God, we are growing up to be God. If we are connected to the Source, we have the same energy the Source has. And just like God created the universe, we can create our lives. Smaller scale, but the same working of the energy. [...]
Hello Akemi,
I enjoy reading your posts and the comments, this one especially is a mind-bender that I have actually already wrapped my head around and just needed to remember. I used to practice Reiki and meditation and am struggling to getting back into it after trauma.
Your posts are actually helping me, inspiring me to find more and connect again.
And that is what I wanted to say, it is all about connection. All is one.
Thank you for speaking out.
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