11/13/2025
I wake up pretty early most mornings…I tend to just lay in bed and just avail myself to what is present and here’s the thing, it’s ALL present…every possibility…every opportunity…every identity…it’s all present and it’s all available. This is why “God” is referred to as Presence and why poets have often claimed that this Presence is “closer to us than breathing and nearer than hands and feet…”
This Presence is present with every breath in and with every breath out…we are an extension of this Presence. Imagine this Presence as a vast ocean and imagine waves arising from this ocean; there is a definite moment when the ocean “becomes” a wave while still retaining all the properties of the ocean that made it AND at no given time can you separate the ocean and the wave and say this is the ocean and this is the wave. The wave is an extension of the ocean. It rises from its source only to go back into its source once it’s done with its “performance.”
So I’m laying there in bed and I’m thinking of identity. What exactly is it? Identity is what we are agreeing with and making “real.” We are pulling what’s already present in Presence and aligning ourselves with it and since this Presence is all possibility, we are always choosing from it and our choice becomes our identity in that instant and here’s the thing; we are NOT BOUND by our previous choice. We “think” we are but we are not what we think as much as we are the Presence thinking it can be something other than Presence.
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I know it sounds odd because it goes against what we all learned but when I came out of that procedure I had a few weeks prior, I had these deep feelings within me that I wanted to convey but couldn’t and maybe it’s just as well because with the conveyance comes limitation. But I realized that that feeling I have often had just before writing something was actually something that was already there in its fullness waiting for me to make contact with it and identify with it and then extend it and yet it did nothing to deplete the Presence since the Presence is Infinite, Inexhaustible, and Immeasurable.
So that moment when I was about 25 and decided to stop identifying as someone who drank heavily and start identifying as someone who was sober and clear, everything that was necessary for that identity to be was already there and I just aligned with it and that Presence made it possible because it already was it and the Presence was also the possibility of someone who drank heavily. It didn’t judge the experience and make it bad or wrong just like the ocean doesn’t say a bigger wave is superior to a smaller wave.
We are always identifying ourselves with things and then we have experiences based on that identity. We literally not only have the Power to transform but ARE the Power. We are literal shapeshifters but most of us are in a loop of shifting into the same thing over and over again. We are literally sitting in an old pile of shift.
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What happens is, we shift and then the outer world doesn’t reflect that shift immediately and so we think that nothing has changed but on an atomic level, it has and we just have to catch up with it. When you look at the light from a star, you’re not looking at how the star is now; that star is long dead - but you are receiving the light transmission of something that’s billions of years in the making coming to you now.
This is all mind bending stuff. Or maybe only I think it is. But in a nutshell, the person you desire to be is already present - just be present with that version and identify with that version. Don’t look at appearances that may be happening in opposition to that version, just keep the inner gaze on that transformation and act on that.
Receive the “healing” and “go thy way and ‘sin’ no more…” in other words, don’t identify with the old you, identify with the new you…
Okay, I really had some fun with this essay. As always, peace be to you and have a blessed day…
John
