A short note left for the next arriving soul. (A collaborative story written by awakening souls. So, I ask, or challenge you to add to this tale. Just start before the last paragraph.)
THANK YOU FOR CONTRIBUTING. SHARE THIS WITH THOSE YOU KNOW WHO ARE ON OUR JOURNEY HOME AND MAY HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY. AND, SHOULD YOU FEEL SO INCLINED, KEEP ADDING TO OUR STORY. (Just make sure to tie in with the last segment)
We are rolling. Our story, unfolding, here and now, on our little rock, earth and beyond, where all is happening, all will happen, and all has happened. It is we, the dancers to this musical chaos who in each odd note, must learn to sway to and fro, both this and that way in our waltz home.
I shout out to you, come dance with us, with Atala Galaz, Natalie, Femi, or me - tell us of your adventures to you, your fears and woes, your failures, and of your revivals and victories. Show us, we souls in the world how to boogaloo and twist the night away.
So, here's a little something to loosen you up and get those creative juices flowing. Now, after you finish wiggling around, grab your pen, your paper, your laptop or you phone, and sing out, yeah, again, should you want.
That is the point of collaborating with other souls, to bring differing perspectives, and different ways of conveying the same messages. Just like we each understand a language, we too understand from different points of view.
As the story unfolds, the person adding to the conversation must take in the story as it has unfolded before their addition. When one knows the essence of the story and the subsequent additions, then the one adding their part will be more likely to stay in step with the whole message being conveyed.
You see I like earth, I like the trees, the plants, the sun, the sky, the water.
There's just one thing. The people.
There are people who are not sure who they are and spend their time trying to become more of who they think they are. They try to put me in that box too. I hate being put into a box. I hate to be told to be something I intrinsically know I'm not. But I love earth. I love the planet and how it moves. I love the vast landscape that makes me feel small yet still connected to our almighty home.
I try to find home in other people but I can only find home in those that have found home within themselves. And the home within themselves is that home that is beyond our comprehension of what is visible in this time space dimension. As I travel through the days and deeper through my own spirit, I know my time in this earthly home is temporary.
I yearn to find the freedom seekers, the ones that use their voice unapologetically. I fear I will never use my voice in the way I know how to. I refuse to be another voice which is a culmination of all words spoken through the vessels of other people. As I can hear my own voice I know I need not speak the words of another for I have been blessed with the voice of my own soul.
I refuse to be a product of the world and the environment in which I travel. Only through returning to the the blissful whisper of nature and the vibrations that emanate through me from the divine can I connect to the wholeness of my voice. My spirit desperately yearns to be free from what it's been taught to be on this plane.
However, I love earth, as I know it's my home from home where I can expand more of who I am inside.
Is there still room to write something on my state of existence and if so is it here? I thought this was on , I am whom I tried to message and my email said go to website and here I am under you Femi Makanjuola - I found I agreed with your statement and with the other but is not what I want to write.
There's a way to edit the publication. I believe you already accepted the invite. Just like you do on your SubStack. Go to the Section of "Post". Then you will see the story "End of Autumn". Click on Edit post, then you will be able to put your original intentions.
Well, I see that no one added anything to this writing, End of Autumn. This leads me to conclude it is perfect just as was written. LOL
Or, maybe I was not clear in my asking for others to join in and add to this writing from each of your individual points of view. Or, no one is interested.
Do me a favor, please let me know which speculation is correct, especially if it's perfect just as it is. LOL
Hi Mark. I didn't feel like I had anything to add at that moment upon reading this. I also got a message from a friend that also writes on Substack that he is now following me. So whatever I write thorugh this thread apparently can be viewed by anyone on Substack. Not sure how I feel about this .
I don't know how to join my part in the text above, like you instructed. Should I write my part in the comment section? Have been looking for an editing button to continue from where you stipulated, can't find one
Jul 6, 2023Liked by I Am - Wisdom, Natalie, Femi Makanjuola
This is a creative thread of powerful collective energy that stands so authentically in oneness. Thank you for this. It's amazing!
If you are lucky, you'll experience opening your eyes twice in a lifetime. That is the blessing all of humanity simply must experience. The second opening of eyes. Because after that moment, regardless of whether it spurred from a black moment or a white one, you will never be the same.
I tried very much. To go back to sleep. I tried closing my eyes and pretending it had never happened. I put that blindfold back on and pretended I could keep on walking the same path. But my eyes had been opened and could never be closed again now. Even when I numbed my entire existence with my poisons of choice. Even when I abandoned myself, ran away from myself, and gave up on myself. Only one thing remained with me through that denial stage, TRUTH. I could not escape it. The second opening of eyes was a blindfold I could never again put on. And I had no choice but to face it all. The good. The bad. And the ugly.
Whenever that blindfold falls from your eyes, you will remember who you are. You will see all that you've been. All that's ever made you. Fragments of yourself that you've built your illusory reality out of. You'll finally understand the magic of a magician. You’ll understand the roots that have you rooted you here and chains that await your enslavement. You'll see all the versions of you that have existed and realize that many still remain within the version of you that stands with a blindfold in hand now.
You will refuse to ask yourself the one question that will crumble whatever remains of the foundations that were laid before your first opening of eyes:
“WHO AM I?”
Embarking on this journey of self-discovery will sustain your developing sense of self and if you’re lucky awaken the parts of your soul keen on elevating your consciousness level like intuition and discernment. Self-actualization is the gift of solving the puzzle of you that’s come to exist in this present moment. Subconscious reprogramming is the priceless treasure.
The answer I found for myself: I AM <3
There are five things that cultivating for oneself is essential in choosing to operate going forward from the most authentic version that exists of our highest self.
1. Courage
The denial stage exists for a reason because it takes choosing to grow, change, evolve to overcome it. The advice I give myself now: 5 seconds of courage is all it takes.
2. Grounding
This physical Earth is jaw-droppingly beautiful and finding moments to appreciate the simpler things helps to center your soul to the thread that knits everything in the universe together, energy. Bask in the last rays of a golden sunset or the feeling of cold grass between your toes on a summer night or even the wind as it dances so lightly on your skin as it endlessly carries whispers for miles. One day, you just might hear it and truly listen to what it’s saying. Everything, Everywhere and Always connected.
3. Faith
I preach this. Faith over Fear. Love over hate. Within God over without God.
It’s hard at times to stand by it. Sometimes I falter and lose myself in the perception of the day-to-day illusion. Sometimes I forget to love the harder things to love and forget to believe in the inconceivable. The point is to always choose to blossom and open every morning like lotus flowers do every morning with each new day the sun brings.
4. Compassion
Choosing yourself means choosing to let go and surrender to people, things, situations and even versions of yourself that simply no longer align with your most authentic self. Way easier said than done. Life will never stop trying to teach you lessons and growth will primarily come from the failure of them. Show yourself true compassion and care. Let the light that emanates radiantly from that unconditional self-love, hold you tight and bring you peace and comfort with whatever you struggle with. We all deserve that. Unconditional love is our birthright. Never forget that.
5. Acceptance
If you had the chance to rewrite any of your past, what would you change?
Whatever your answer is, just know that there is no right or wrong. Acceptance comes when you can answer this question candidly and wholeheartedly refuse the offer to change anything at all. When you realize that everything in your past has created the version that you are now, you simultaneously understand the purpose of your existence. The why factor that motivates us to go out into the world and consciously create with passion and share our soul’s journey with others that cross our path. We are mirrors. Before you can see another as one, you have accepted all that you see in your own reflection. You have made your Piece of Peace.
Enjoy your experience and embrace the unknown. You haven’t got much time. Neither one of us does. Just as some come to an end, the journey for others begins. The cycle of life keeps going and energy is transformed over and over and infinitely times over again. Love is the key to everything. Love will bring you balance in an enigmatic world losing its own. Stay blessed. Good luck and I love you.
Absolutely, Femi. This is our contribution to the light of the world. Individually, we own nothing of this, but together, we own it all. This is our reason for being, not to be the star, singly, but shining together as the universe, as the Holy Spirit. Share away!
Thank you for sharing. This is beautifully written.
"Acceptance comes when you can answer this question candidly and wholeheartedly refuse the offer to change anything at all. When you realize that everything in your past has created the version that you are now, you simultaneously understand the purpose of your existence." This for me is one of the most powerful things you can do, come to a complete acceptance for who you are and where you've been.
Truly, this is our reason here, far a beyond anything else. For those who are living this, coming to "a complete acceptance" of who we are - is this not enough? When we are facing our self, all of our self, this is quite the swamp, desert, mountain, and hell to traverse. There is a reason we do not confront all of us at once. Being overwhelmed to a point of utter and complete destruction of who we were, should be done in steps. Hence, we each are walking each other home. Quite the rag-tag beautiful crew we have here, isn't it? What better time to stroll home? Who better souls to travel together? <3
THANK YOU FOR CONTRIBUTING. SHARE THIS WITH THOSE YOU KNOW WHO ARE ON OUR JOURNEY HOME AND MAY HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY. AND, SHOULD YOU FEEL SO INCLINED, KEEP ADDING TO OUR STORY. (Just make sure to tie in with the last segment)
THANK YOU - THANK YOU ~ Mark
Okay. I look forward to the next part of the book. Is my pleasure to be here
We are rolling. Our story, unfolding, here and now, on our little rock, earth and beyond, where all is happening, all will happen, and all has happened. It is we, the dancers to this musical chaos who in each odd note, must learn to sway to and fro, both this and that way in our waltz home.
I shout out to you, come dance with us, with Atala Galaz, Natalie, Femi, or me - tell us of your adventures to you, your fears and woes, your failures, and of your revivals and victories. Show us, we souls in the world how to boogaloo and twist the night away.
So, here's a little something to loosen you up and get those creative juices flowing. Now, after you finish wiggling around, grab your pen, your paper, your laptop or you phone, and sing out, yeah, again, should you want.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CCgDvUM4TM
That is the point of collaborating with other souls, to bring differing perspectives, and different ways of conveying the same messages. Just like we each understand a language, we too understand from different points of view.
As the story unfolds, the person adding to the conversation must take in the story as it has unfolded before their addition. When one knows the essence of the story and the subsequent additions, then the one adding their part will be more likely to stay in step with the whole message being conveyed.
So, have you added your part yet?
Yeah, it started with "My mother had...." After your own part
I'm loving the thread, especially Natalie's part, it brought some kind of more light to the book.
Thank you Mark.
You see I like earth, I like the trees, the plants, the sun, the sky, the water.
There's just one thing. The people.
There are people who are not sure who they are and spend their time trying to become more of who they think they are. They try to put me in that box too. I hate being put into a box. I hate to be told to be something I intrinsically know I'm not. But I love earth. I love the planet and how it moves. I love the vast landscape that makes me feel small yet still connected to our almighty home.
I try to find home in other people but I can only find home in those that have found home within themselves. And the home within themselves is that home that is beyond our comprehension of what is visible in this time space dimension. As I travel through the days and deeper through my own spirit, I know my time in this earthly home is temporary.
I yearn to find the freedom seekers, the ones that use their voice unapologetically. I fear I will never use my voice in the way I know how to. I refuse to be another voice which is a culmination of all words spoken through the vessels of other people. As I can hear my own voice I know I need not speak the words of another for I have been blessed with the voice of my own soul.
I refuse to be a product of the world and the environment in which I travel. Only through returning to the the blissful whisper of nature and the vibrations that emanate through me from the divine can I connect to the wholeness of my voice. My spirit desperately yearns to be free from what it's been taught to be on this plane.
However, I love earth, as I know it's my home from home where I can expand more of who I am inside.
This is beautiful. I take it, what you wrote is intended to be added to the initial writing, correct?
Thank you Mark. Yes it is :)
Beautiful
Is there still room to write something on my state of existence and if so is it here? I thought this was on , I am whom I tried to message and my email said go to website and here I am under you Femi Makanjuola - I found I agreed with your statement and with the other but is not what I want to write.
Go to I Am "End of Autumn", through the Invite. So you can make the necessary editing.
There's a way to edit the publication. I believe you already accepted the invite. Just like you do on your SubStack. Go to the Section of "Post". Then you will see the story "End of Autumn". Click on Edit post, then you will be able to put your original intentions.
Well, I see that no one added anything to this writing, End of Autumn. This leads me to conclude it is perfect just as was written. LOL
Or, maybe I was not clear in my asking for others to join in and add to this writing from each of your individual points of view. Or, no one is interested.
Do me a favor, please let me know which speculation is correct, especially if it's perfect just as it is. LOL
Thanks, Mark
Hi Mark. I didn't feel like I had anything to add at that moment upon reading this. I also got a message from a friend that also writes on Substack that he is now following me. So whatever I write thorugh this thread apparently can be viewed by anyone on Substack. Not sure how I feel about this .
Fear is a sad and debilitating thing. It was and is hoped that what others wrote would bring us together, and be an uplifting beautiful creation.
I don't know how to join my part in the text above, like you instructed. Should I write my part in the comment section? Have been looking for an editing button to continue from where you stipulated, can't find one
This is a creative thread of powerful collective energy that stands so authentically in oneness. Thank you for this. It's amazing!
If you are lucky, you'll experience opening your eyes twice in a lifetime. That is the blessing all of humanity simply must experience. The second opening of eyes. Because after that moment, regardless of whether it spurred from a black moment or a white one, you will never be the same.
I tried very much. To go back to sleep. I tried closing my eyes and pretending it had never happened. I put that blindfold back on and pretended I could keep on walking the same path. But my eyes had been opened and could never be closed again now. Even when I numbed my entire existence with my poisons of choice. Even when I abandoned myself, ran away from myself, and gave up on myself. Only one thing remained with me through that denial stage, TRUTH. I could not escape it. The second opening of eyes was a blindfold I could never again put on. And I had no choice but to face it all. The good. The bad. And the ugly.
Whenever that blindfold falls from your eyes, you will remember who you are. You will see all that you've been. All that's ever made you. Fragments of yourself that you've built your illusory reality out of. You'll finally understand the magic of a magician. You’ll understand the roots that have you rooted you here and chains that await your enslavement. You'll see all the versions of you that have existed and realize that many still remain within the version of you that stands with a blindfold in hand now.
You will refuse to ask yourself the one question that will crumble whatever remains of the foundations that were laid before your first opening of eyes:
“WHO AM I?”
Embarking on this journey of self-discovery will sustain your developing sense of self and if you’re lucky awaken the parts of your soul keen on elevating your consciousness level like intuition and discernment. Self-actualization is the gift of solving the puzzle of you that’s come to exist in this present moment. Subconscious reprogramming is the priceless treasure.
The answer I found for myself: I AM <3
There are five things that cultivating for oneself is essential in choosing to operate going forward from the most authentic version that exists of our highest self.
1. Courage
The denial stage exists for a reason because it takes choosing to grow, change, evolve to overcome it. The advice I give myself now: 5 seconds of courage is all it takes.
2. Grounding
This physical Earth is jaw-droppingly beautiful and finding moments to appreciate the simpler things helps to center your soul to the thread that knits everything in the universe together, energy. Bask in the last rays of a golden sunset or the feeling of cold grass between your toes on a summer night or even the wind as it dances so lightly on your skin as it endlessly carries whispers for miles. One day, you just might hear it and truly listen to what it’s saying. Everything, Everywhere and Always connected.
3. Faith
I preach this. Faith over Fear. Love over hate. Within God over without God.
It’s hard at times to stand by it. Sometimes I falter and lose myself in the perception of the day-to-day illusion. Sometimes I forget to love the harder things to love and forget to believe in the inconceivable. The point is to always choose to blossom and open every morning like lotus flowers do every morning with each new day the sun brings.
4. Compassion
Choosing yourself means choosing to let go and surrender to people, things, situations and even versions of yourself that simply no longer align with your most authentic self. Way easier said than done. Life will never stop trying to teach you lessons and growth will primarily come from the failure of them. Show yourself true compassion and care. Let the light that emanates radiantly from that unconditional self-love, hold you tight and bring you peace and comfort with whatever you struggle with. We all deserve that. Unconditional love is our birthright. Never forget that.
5. Acceptance
If you had the chance to rewrite any of your past, what would you change?
Whatever your answer is, just know that there is no right or wrong. Acceptance comes when you can answer this question candidly and wholeheartedly refuse the offer to change anything at all. When you realize that everything in your past has created the version that you are now, you simultaneously understand the purpose of your existence. The why factor that motivates us to go out into the world and consciously create with passion and share our soul’s journey with others that cross our path. We are mirrors. Before you can see another as one, you have accepted all that you see in your own reflection. You have made your Piece of Peace.
Enjoy your experience and embrace the unknown. You haven’t got much time. Neither one of us does. Just as some come to an end, the journey for others begins. The cycle of life keeps going and energy is transformed over and over and infinitely times over again. Love is the key to everything. Love will bring you balance in an enigmatic world losing its own. Stay blessed. Good luck and I love you.
I love this. Stay blessed and grounded in the Truth, sir. And can I use some part in my current project, sir?
Absolutely, Femi. This is our contribution to the light of the world. Individually, we own nothing of this, but together, we own it all. This is our reason for being, not to be the star, singly, but shining together as the universe, as the Holy Spirit. Share away!
Thanks...I will keep you guys posted.
Thank you for sharing. This is beautifully written.
"Acceptance comes when you can answer this question candidly and wholeheartedly refuse the offer to change anything at all. When you realize that everything in your past has created the version that you are now, you simultaneously understand the purpose of your existence." This for me is one of the most powerful things you can do, come to a complete acceptance for who you are and where you've been.
Again, thank you for sharing :)
Truly, this is our reason here, far a beyond anything else. For those who are living this, coming to "a complete acceptance" of who we are - is this not enough? When we are facing our self, all of our self, this is quite the swamp, desert, mountain, and hell to traverse. There is a reason we do not confront all of us at once. Being overwhelmed to a point of utter and complete destruction of who we were, should be done in steps. Hence, we each are walking each other home. Quite the rag-tag beautiful crew we have here, isn't it? What better time to stroll home? Who better souls to travel together? <3