Who are you? and do you actually exist?

I’m me and everything that comes with me and to quote René Descartes “Cogito ergo sum”… I think, therefore I am. I guess I do exist, to the extent of measurable existence.

I do not exist but I Am able to express qualities which allow me to believe I exist. This happens so I can realize I don’t exist.

Who or what is ‘having’ ”your” perspective?

From consciousness ‘perspective’, which is not really a perspective (as advaita teacher Rupert Spira always emphasizes), there is no ‘you’ in that sense, as a single, individual’s awareness looking ‘out’ into the external world, contrasted with it’s supposed own inner knowing.

Where is the directionality, the contrasting, can you find it in immediate, actual experience? Both the ‘you’ you are referring to in your question and the ‘I do exist’ are within im- or transpersonal consciousness, which cannot be appropriated by language; not even for the sake of expression or communication.

The I and the you are interdependent, this is the basic law of opposites. If you doubt the ‘you’, you simultaneously, whether you want it or not, though you might only realize later on, doubt yourself, the I of the statement.

Consciousness ‘itself’ is one, so both other and ‘I’, as representation, for example in the form of words, dissolve in pure, luminous, selfless awareness. The question ‘do you exist’, can only arise because, often subconsciously, there is a holding onto the I-thought, or it attendent torrent of sensations in the body.

A teacher once said: the inner direction is a whole other dimension entirely. Self and other on the phenomenal plain, as seeming obvious realities, are rooted in the senses, mostly the eyes (sight) and ears (talk). If you ask, without verbalizing in the mind, during meditation, who/what am I, and you discover that the intellect, the superego, cannot answer, you utterly ‘don’t know’, because consciousness, and especially it’s source, can never be objectified., Then the question of whether or not an ‘other’ ”really” exists or not becomes either irrelevant or literally nonsense, because how to even make or justify that distinction in the first place, if, logically, you cannot use the same instrument who devised that illusory border-line to begin with (i.e. some things are in me, in the mind, in awareness, and other things are outside of me, my mind, my awareness)?

Have you ever found, or experienced, this schism directly?

Thank you for your interesting reflections!

@notmanyregrets, completely agree with you on this topic. I can’t answer that question and no one has ever been able to answer whether we actually exist, so you are correct! In that no one can prove t hat, but we just chose the easy way out and believe the most true answer which is i don’t exactly know, but i assume that we actually ARE in existence, but with a body and a soul. It also differs based on your religion, some people believe we are all in one, mind, body soul, some believe these things are separate and not a part of our true identity and that at death we separate. It all depends on who is questioning their existence which would produce the varied answers to this question, which none would have the absolute true answer to. :)

I am “god” as are you and everyone alive, since we are all one perceived as many.

does that work?

I am, because I am.

Somewhere else on the High Existence website is an image file with the quote, “I am not a human being having a spiritual experience; I am a spiritual being having a human experience.” These words resonate with me, as do many of the posts to this topic.

That consciousness, or spiritual essence, is something like an energy frequency, which makes more sense to me than a strictly biological view that humans are just protoplasmic robots with thinking abilities during life but nothing else before or after. That energy – or consciousness – seems so much more plausible of an explanation for so many unexplained phenomena and experiences.

I am also keenly aware that every moment contains the full potential for every emotion and that a major part of our human experience is to feel. The ability to feel seems to be our divining rods to Truth. The translation of those feelings into action or non-action seems to be our linked to our human purpose.

Recently, I went to my physician. She sent me to a specialist, who sent me to another specialist. Yesterday morning, I went to a lab and gave samples of my blood and urine for extensive analyses. I have to wait until the 18th for the results. The last specialist I met informed me that I “have a 95% chance of not having cancer.” Now, of course, my ego wants to spend 100% of its time worrying about that 5% risk. What does this awareness mean and what do I do with it? Ignore it? Change something in my habits? Meditate more? I think there is a potential for me to waste a lot of energy if I am not careful about this.

Maybe the best that I can do is not to get caught up in regrets of the past or worries about the future, but rather experience what is. And to appreciate and nurture LOVE.

@twinsoul, I’ll jump in on this one and see if I can help. This concious light and love is what you want to feel? Well meditation is a popular answer, but I myself just smudge. Burn sage, cleanse myself of impurities and let myself go when in thought. I guess I call it praying.

A powerful prayer will let you know what you are, which is kind of like a light but it will also let you know what love is. And the thing here is, you have to believe your teachings for how you hear them. Learning to listen is the key.

Often people will disclose the experience as over active imagination, you have to learn to go with it and climb that wall of doubt. That takes time. But when you long in the countless hours of mental torture, things just set right. You hear messages all over, things all around you seem to manifest as you hope they would. Bringing new meaning to the quote, life is what you make of it!

@kirkwilly, you have to believe your teachings for how you hear them. Learning to listen is the key.”

This is interesting. can you tell me more about this?

@twinsoul, I really can’t explain it as much as it’s something that needs to be experienced.
Experience is knowledge.. That being said there are many enlightened ones who can tie this information into easily understandable ways. One of the best I’ve found regarding pretty much everything we are going through at this time is David Icke in his “The Lion Sleeps No More” The 2 part video is linked below. Yes they are long, but well worth the time to watch, so long as you go into it with an open mind. I hope this can help as many people as possible to recognize their true potential in these crucial upcoming times, as it did for me, Enjoy!
“When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything.”

http://www.humanitywinsilluminatilose.com/?p=2040

I think. therefore I am.
Descartes

Though the meaning is clear, I see this in a different way too, I see it as what my mind believes, decides, so it will be in my reality.