The Difference Between Thinking and Consciousness

Getting unstuck from our minds

Question: “My history and my attachment thereto is who I am. I do not wish to lose my identity.”

I think the word, identity, is key here. It seems you are saying that you derive your sense of identity, your sense of self, from your past, your history. That is not uncommon. Almost all humans do. We have been conditioned to live in linear time and to do so we need our minds. Our minds operate in linear time; past, present, and future. So while we are in a body living a life on Planet Earth we use our minds to navigate that life and therefore come to identify our minds as who we are.

But we are not our minds.

We are much, much greater than that. Each of us has a self/identity that existed before we ever came into a body and that self-identity will continue to last after we lay the body down. This is our true divine identity. The mind quits when the body does. And so does linear time. Our true identity/self does not live in time. Linear time is strictly a function of the human mind in the physical.

We have been on a very long evolutionary path of consciousness. Our true divine identity/self has remained constant for that entire evolutionary journey and it will remain so. It has been our awareness that has been…