Spirituality Meets Philosophy
Your Identity Is Fluid, Spiritually
And you can be anything you want.
Identity is fuzzy. Where do you end and I begin?
How are you you? How am I me?
I love having my mind blown. Losing the mind and gaining clarity again is always the best adventure. And I’ve never been more mind-blown by a philosophical problem than by that of personal identity.
Are you really what you think you are? You’re a soul having a human experience. But as souls, is there any borderline between you and other souls?
How do you know what you really are? Where did all of the parts of your identity come from? To me, there’s no obvious reason why I like vanilla ice cream instead of chocolate or that I have a fear reaction to needles but not snakes…what has made up ‘me’? Where did these thoughts I have come from?
Identity is something we are so very attached to and yet it arose without our awareness or memory of it. You simply don’t know where ‘you’ originated. You don’t know why you’re here. You only know ‘who’ you are because you’re a functioning character in society, so all of your ideas about your individuality rely on relationships with other people, things, and concepts. But as a soul, you are not as clear-cut.
