I have never understood why so many North Americans will describe themselves as Scottish, Irish, Ukrainian (or whatever) when they are actually born and bred in Canada or the US. In my experience, citizens of the USA tend to be much worse at doing this,
I estimate that at least 50% of those I have known (and I have known/know a LOT) will identify with another country other than their own. And this is despite having been from American stock from the last several centuries and (often) never having visited the place they claim affiliation with. It’s amusingly ironic considering the amount of pride Americans generally claim to have in their homeland.
Naturally, I’ve asked on numerous occasions for explanations from those who do this. Claims of a need to be “in touch with your roots” and averring that “the Americas are still a new world” seem shallow. Why would somebody want to claim to be something they’re clearly not, either legally or by birth? How does a country of (often ancient) ancestry have any kind of claim upon an individual? Why do people need to describe themselves in such a wholly inaccurate way?
The same phenomenon manifests itself in two other somewhat different forms.
In 'Some Dogs Are Angels' I made a passing reference to having met several Cleopatras, all of whom claimed to have been the Egyptian Queen, and all of whom took themselves and their link to their supposed past embodiment very seriously. I have even come across a little group who claimed to be from biblical times. It notionally consisted of Jesus's brother Timothy, John the Baptist, Mary Magdelene and others who were similarly close associates of Christ. Strikingly, they were all now living in Calgary. (Perhaps they got it confused with Calvary.) Yet when, during a group channeling at which they were all in attendance, the etheric were asked directly if anyone in the audience had known Jesus, the reply given negated their claims.
Again, I find myself asking why would someone feel the need to identify with someone other than who they are. Even if they have been these individuals in past lives, they’re certainly not that person now. Previous lifetimes are an irrelevance for old souls, and one that can be highly disruptive and damaging. Believing that because you were someone, it somehow impacts who you are now, is surely borderline delusional.
And then there are those people who change their names because they feel that the name they take on will somehow alter their pathway and make them a more spiritual/better/stronger/powerful person. I have known many individuals who have legally changed their moniker to incorporate those of angelic beings, those who they believe are their etheric guides, or even words that are of some meaning to them.
But what for? Clearly they are unaware of precisely what a given name is and its meaning for us in a lifetime. Changing a name because of marriage is a planned and in some cases necessary aspect of an individual’s development; but randomly altering something which (in some small way) is an expression of the essence of your being is just plain silly. And often damaging, as they tend to discover to their cost.
So how are these phenomena connected?
In all cases the individual is acting under the misconception that elements which are external to us are significant in establishing our identity in this lifetime. The belief that prompts the action is fallacious. Consider the following:
A country of origin has an impact upon us culturally if we grow up there. If we don’t, it doesn’t. Even if our parents are from another country, it is utterly irrelevant to who we are, even though they may try to impose it upon us. We forge our own identity out of the environment we grow up in.
(NB. Identifying with a country that is not really our own merely serves to alienate us from our purpose in being in the country in which we find ourselves. We may certainly change country from the one we are born in, but should then identify with the one we have chosen as our home, not keep harking back to someplace else.)
Who we were in a past life is certainly part of our soul DNA, but in this lifetime, it has no bearing upon us at all and attempts to make who we were a part of who we are, have a retrograde millstone like effect upon our ascension progression. We forge our own identity out of who we are in this lifetime.
(NB. Identifying with who we (think we) were merely serves to alienate us from the life we intend to be going through now. It leads us to a surreal version of reality, disconnected from our current personal experience. It is an attempt to deny the fact that the past is, in all senses, in the past, and should remain there.)
Our names are agreed upon before we incarnate. They are significant and the intonation of them by those about us as we grow up has a great deal to do with how we activate our soul memories and follow our intended pathways. We forge our own identity as a result of connecting with this tiny element of our etheric selves.
(NB. Identifying with a name that was never intended to be our own merely serves to alienate us from those aspects of our being that are fundamental to who we are and how we need to progress. We endanger ourselves in that we may lose a vital link with our soul DNA and consign ourselves to a fruitless and unrewarding lifetime.)
And yet alarmingly, I’ve met individuals who’ve tried to do more than one of these things simultaneously. One of Jesus’s chums actually called himself ‘Lyvarous’, seemingly oblivious to the fact that the name itself contains the very aspect of what he had wrought upon himself: A Lie.
The ego does funny things to us when we incarnate. It is a complex and potent component of our psychological make up, and I urge all who have not done so to listen to the 'Enlightenment Teachings' on the subject. Each one of the follies related above has its origin in ego and its ability to deceive us.
When we incarnate we are intended to be precisely what we are and not pretend to be something else. We occupy the body we were supposed to and all importantly, we assume the identity we were meant to have. Despite our freewill, we are not intended to meddle in this aspect of our being and are unwise to do so.
Younger souls may be able to get away with such foolishness as aspects of their learning, and may even indulge in even more extreme attempts (such as plastic surgery) to escape who they are and who they were meant to be. But old souls should leave well alone. They should be comfortable in their skin and embrace every aspect of their being exactly as it is.
Wherever you come from, whoever you were, whatever you are called, the identity you occupy now is who you are meant to be.
So why make out otherwise?
I estimate that at least 50% of those I have known (and I have known/know a LOT) will identify with another country other than their own. And this is despite having been from American stock from the last several centuries and (often) never having visited the place they claim affiliation with. It’s amusingly ironic considering the amount of pride Americans generally claim to have in their homeland.
Naturally, I’ve asked on numerous occasions for explanations from those who do this. Claims of a need to be “in touch with your roots” and averring that “the Americas are still a new world” seem shallow. Why would somebody want to claim to be something they’re clearly not, either legally or by birth? How does a country of (often ancient) ancestry have any kind of claim upon an individual? Why do people need to describe themselves in such a wholly inaccurate way?
The same phenomenon manifests itself in two other somewhat different forms.
In 'Some Dogs Are Angels' I made a passing reference to having met several Cleopatras, all of whom claimed to have been the Egyptian Queen, and all of whom took themselves and their link to their supposed past embodiment very seriously. I have even come across a little group who claimed to be from biblical times. It notionally consisted of Jesus's brother Timothy, John the Baptist, Mary Magdelene and others who were similarly close associates of Christ. Strikingly, they were all now living in Calgary. (Perhaps they got it confused with Calvary.) Yet when, during a group channeling at which they were all in attendance, the etheric were asked directly if anyone in the audience had known Jesus, the reply given negated their claims.
Again, I find myself asking why would someone feel the need to identify with someone other than who they are. Even if they have been these individuals in past lives, they’re certainly not that person now. Previous lifetimes are an irrelevance for old souls, and one that can be highly disruptive and damaging. Believing that because you were someone, it somehow impacts who you are now, is surely borderline delusional.
And then there are those people who change their names because they feel that the name they take on will somehow alter their pathway and make them a more spiritual/better/stronger/powerful person. I have known many individuals who have legally changed their moniker to incorporate those of angelic beings, those who they believe are their etheric guides, or even words that are of some meaning to them.
But what for? Clearly they are unaware of precisely what a given name is and its meaning for us in a lifetime. Changing a name because of marriage is a planned and in some cases necessary aspect of an individual’s development; but randomly altering something which (in some small way) is an expression of the essence of your being is just plain silly. And often damaging, as they tend to discover to their cost.
So how are these phenomena connected?
- In the first case, individuals are trying to make a connection with a place and a notion of ‘historical roots’ in order to establish their identity.
- In the second, individuals are attempting to explain themselves in the context of someone else and create a link that gives them an identity.
- In the third example the individuals are seeking a new and different identity that they believe may be embodied in a name.
In all cases the individual is acting under the misconception that elements which are external to us are significant in establishing our identity in this lifetime. The belief that prompts the action is fallacious. Consider the following:
A country of origin has an impact upon us culturally if we grow up there. If we don’t, it doesn’t. Even if our parents are from another country, it is utterly irrelevant to who we are, even though they may try to impose it upon us. We forge our own identity out of the environment we grow up in.
(NB. Identifying with a country that is not really our own merely serves to alienate us from our purpose in being in the country in which we find ourselves. We may certainly change country from the one we are born in, but should then identify with the one we have chosen as our home, not keep harking back to someplace else.)
Who we were in a past life is certainly part of our soul DNA, but in this lifetime, it has no bearing upon us at all and attempts to make who we were a part of who we are, have a retrograde millstone like effect upon our ascension progression. We forge our own identity out of who we are in this lifetime.
(NB. Identifying with who we (think we) were merely serves to alienate us from the life we intend to be going through now. It leads us to a surreal version of reality, disconnected from our current personal experience. It is an attempt to deny the fact that the past is, in all senses, in the past, and should remain there.)
Our names are agreed upon before we incarnate. They are significant and the intonation of them by those about us as we grow up has a great deal to do with how we activate our soul memories and follow our intended pathways. We forge our own identity as a result of connecting with this tiny element of our etheric selves.
(NB. Identifying with a name that was never intended to be our own merely serves to alienate us from those aspects of our being that are fundamental to who we are and how we need to progress. We endanger ourselves in that we may lose a vital link with our soul DNA and consign ourselves to a fruitless and unrewarding lifetime.)
And yet alarmingly, I’ve met individuals who’ve tried to do more than one of these things simultaneously. One of Jesus’s chums actually called himself ‘Lyvarous’, seemingly oblivious to the fact that the name itself contains the very aspect of what he had wrought upon himself: A Lie.
The ego does funny things to us when we incarnate. It is a complex and potent component of our psychological make up, and I urge all who have not done so to listen to the 'Enlightenment Teachings' on the subject. Each one of the follies related above has its origin in ego and its ability to deceive us.
When we incarnate we are intended to be precisely what we are and not pretend to be something else. We occupy the body we were supposed to and all importantly, we assume the identity we were meant to have. Despite our freewill, we are not intended to meddle in this aspect of our being and are unwise to do so.
Younger souls may be able to get away with such foolishness as aspects of their learning, and may even indulge in even more extreme attempts (such as plastic surgery) to escape who they are and who they were meant to be. But old souls should leave well alone. They should be comfortable in their skin and embrace every aspect of their being exactly as it is.
Wherever you come from, whoever you were, whatever you are called, the identity you occupy now is who you are meant to be.
So why make out otherwise?