7 A Coincidence of Identities. The Magic of Refraction.

ABSTRACT CRYSTAL REFRACTIONS

“God said: Inasmuch as We are One, what can be made of Our One Self? Who is speaking now, and Who is listening and writing down what I say?

…Nevertheless, on Earth, I keep opening up to MySelf and finding MySelf right where I am within the supposed you.

There is no identity crisis. There never was. Your whole sojourn in life in the world is to find out Who you truly are. Without exception, I am your Magnificence. I am your True Nature. Not one human being running around on Earth is lacking Oneness with Me. How strange this seems to you. How strange that you in your fantastic body do not recognize Me in supposed others and in your errant self when, all along, you are Myself!” HL 4387

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The identity crisis

In this Heavenletter, God says: “There is no identity crisis. There never was“. But in this relative world, we can say that there is a “perceived” identity crisis. Perhaps are we feeling that we are undergoing the process of mutation or metamorphosis of identity from a caterpillar to a butterfly. The feeling of crisis must reside in the fact that there is a seaming splitting between what we made ourself as a personal identity (the caterpillar, the body tied down to gravity)  and Who we truly are (the butterfly, the spirit, the soul, free from gravity, hence from time and space). And this split is becoming more and more obvious in our awareness. There is a process of sight correction or adjustment that needs a period of adaptation. In fact, I will use a well known scientific fact in physics called “refraction of light” to illustrate this apparent identity crisis.

The refraction of light

God says: “How strange that you in your fantastic body do not recognize Me in supposed others and in your errant self, when, all along, you are Myself!” How is it that we cannot recognize God as us and as the others in separate bodies? It seems that some phenomenon is going on “at the junction” of the soul and the body.

In physics, the wave nature of light leads to two very important properties: refraction, where the direction of light propagation is altered at the boundary between media of different densities, and diffraction, which has among its consequences that light can “bend around corners”. One will immediately ask: what have refraction or diffraction to do with the soul and the body?

Let’s consider the phenomenon of refraction as illustrated by the diagram on the left below. Let us represent the relationship between the soul and the body by a perfectly straight stick (S-R-A) that you submerge halfway in the water. What do you see from above the water? The submerged part of the stick seems to deviate from the perfect straight line and create an angle to itself         (S-R-C). The submerged part of the stick does not seem to belong to the part of the perfectly straight stick

that is not submerged (assuming that you already know that the stick is perfectly straight). The reason is that the density of water being higher than the density of air, the light seems slowed down with the effect of being deviated or refracted by the water. In reality, the stick is still perfectly straight. It just seems to form a broken angle in its submerged portion.

The second diagram with the fish (below) illustrates that when we see a fish in water from our eye perspective in air, the fish is not actually where we see it (apparent position) but is in reality a little “off” its apparent position (actual position).

 Is it not what happens between our soul and our body? Don’t we observe the phenomenon of refraction when the light of our soul (air) “hits’ the surface or boundary of the physical body (water)? Since the body is denser than the soul we tend to see our submerged part — if we consider our body as a projection of
our mind — as refracted from our Source. The submerged part, our body, is also the dwelling of our personal identity since we tend to identify fundamentally with our body. We, therefore, identify ourself with a deviation of ourself, a deviation from who we originally and truly are. Our fear of death must be somehow related to the fear of losing our physical identity which is in an apparent other location.

It seems as if our mind had the simultaneous capacity of looking through the soul or through the body. It suggests us another analogy with the physical world: the longtime belief that the earth was flat and that the sun was gravitating around the earth (geocentrism) until we could raise at a height where we could Know that the earth was round and that the earth was gravitating around the sun (heliocentrism). Belief is linked to perception through the body while the Truth is linked to the soul. We apparently have a double identity. But one of them is just a refracted image and that is the one we locate and believe in.

In reality, it is like if we didn’t seem to COINCIDE with the Real and Unique Source(straight Line S-R-C-) of our Identity which is God, ONE. We take our refracted identity(broken line S-R-C) for the Real One because we are submerged in the body with which we identify. To ↑”co-in-cide” is to “to occur with, fall into place with”, which is to occupy the same relative position or the same area in space. Translated in our One Identity with God, it means that by ceasing to identify with our body — our submerged part — we begin to enable ourself to see that we cannot obliterate our real identity, which is only submerged and seemingly refracted in the density of time and space, although we can keep it asleep under the water.

Refraction, diffraction, perceptions, levels, hierarchies…

There are no perceptions without a body. And perceptions are deviations from Truth. Truth is Whole, Total, Unchangeable. So is the Truth of what We are. Our personal identity is a perception of ourself as separate from the others. And the body is the major apparent separator or refractor of individual identities.

All human individual or personal thought systems are based on perceptions which means that they are based on degrees, levels, and hierarchies. That is what defines space and time. And there is no way out of the seeming laws of matter in the relative world. How could you climb from the first floor to the second floor without steps, intervals or degrees, in terms of time and space?

Human thought systems are also built on conflicting behaviors precisely because they rely on perceptions that are ever-changing within the framework of levels, intervals, and hierarchies. Perceptions constantly change so what kind of personal identity can be stable, consistent, and coherent?

Is the body the real obstacle? Not really. The split or refracted mind is. The fear of death applies to all human thought systems. That is how ideologies are born and die one after the other in the course of history. The fear of death is the fear of the destruction of our thought system. But it is only a belief, even if we think that it is reality.

What we have to leave is the illusion that we are separate from God and that the relative world, the one perceived by the mind through the body, is real. Hence, the world is not left by death but by the Truth of what we really are. No perceptions can lead to Knowledge. What we really are, beyond the perception of personal identities, is Knowledge because what we are in Truth is unchangeable, eternal.

What dies is not me but the perceived me, my separate identity enacted through the means of the body. The death of a perception is nothing. It is purely symbolic if we understand that a symbol or an image stands for something else.

If we want to see ourself as bodies, we are not seeing ourself as we are but rather as we want to be. The solution to our conflictual identity(ies) is wanting to be what we are, as we were created by One.

Written by Normand Bourque on Jan 17, 2013