Who Am I?

 

How many bodies have I occupied?

Have you ever considered how many bodies you’ve occupied since birth? Who is the person that continuously leaves one body behind and occupies another?

I know that I, like you, started out in a little baby body that weighed somewhere between five and ten pounds. Little by little I, like you, started to discard that baby body and move into a toddler body that learned how to crawl, then walk, then run and changed appearance entirely.

Most likely, my two year old self would have found it difficult to recognize the baby body that was, by then, completely discarded. After living in the toddler body for a while, I discarded it too. This included every cell that was in my body at birth. This new body I assumed bore a likeness to my toddler body but was completely different.

I’m certain that I have remained even though I have been continuously shedding the bodies I have occupied. What’s more interesting is that this strange phenomenon has proceeded up until today and this moment.

Today I am in a 60-year-old body that is nothing like the body I occupied 40 years ago. I have a very clear memory of my 20 year old body, what it could do, what it knew and didn’t know, but I haven’t been able to find it anywhere — like if it was an illusion. Like every body that you and I have occupied in our lifetime, it is gone from the physical world.

Quantum physics explains that the body you’re occupying while you’re reading this piece right now, is completely different from the body you were in when you read the previous paragraph. This is the nature of the world in which we all live. We are all constantly changing.

The person in question still hasn’t been revealed, but it’s become clear that we are not our bodies. Is it possible that the person in question is our higher self — changeless and real? Is it possible that we could be a kind of formless energy — a spirit with the capacity to be unchanged and with the ability to occupy an infinite number of bodies?

When we make this discovery and continuously befriend who we are, nothing is impossible.