38. Reflecting on Being Human

Hello! Welcome to this sacred space … to this quiet moment …

to our reflective, meditative time together!

I’m Bill Bauman, and I’m deeply honored

to invite us to reflect together now on …

… being HUMAN!

Hmm, “being human!” This topic sounds pretty familiar, doesn’t it?

Well, maybe we shouldn’t interpret it too simply just yet,

because, today, I’m inviting you and me to embrace a bigger-than-usual version

of what it means to ‘be human.’

Are you ready? I’ll start by asking you to take a close look at yourself

as a human being. What does it mean to you ‘to be human’?

What do you think of or picture when you say to yourself: “I’m a human being!”

Well, most of us share a somewhat narrow picture of ourselves as humans,

but today I’m moved to offer you an expanded view of us humans.

Here, though, I’ll personalize that view and make my description “all about you”!

My view goes like this:

Most fundamentally, you are quantum—quantum emptiness, quantum void.

Picture your quantum self, now, contemplating your emptiness

and envisioning it filled with endless possibilities.

Specifically, when it comes to the singular creation of human-ness,

this quantumly empty ‘you’ is imagining yourself embodying

five unique possibilities:

· space—in which your unending vastness is constrained in a 3-dimensional space

and in which everything that happens in this space is measured by time.

—As space, you are a space being.

(Picture yourself as pure space—not as a human in space, but as space itself).

· light—in which your spatial essence now experiences itself as pure, radiant light.

—As light, you are a ‘light being,’ or ‘being of light.’

(Picture yourself now not as a person possessing light, but as light itself).

· energy—in which your light expresses itself as vibratory energy,

allowing you to feel, move, sing, dance and connect magnetically with life.

—As energy, you are an electro-magnetic ‘energy being.’

(Picture yourself not as a human having energy, but as energy itself).

· physicality—in which you walk on a physical planet and live in a physical body.

—As physicality, you are a ‘physical being.’

(Picture yourself not as a person with a body, but as physicality, as body).

· consciousness—in which you can think, interpret, believe, imagine and decide.

—As 3-dimensional consciousness, you are a ‘conscious and aware’ being.’

(Picture yourself not as a person with consciousness, but as consciousness).

Now, envision yourself as all of these ingredients combined—

quantum nothingness, empty space, pure light, moving energy,

physical mass and intangible consciousness.

This is the view of your human self to which I’m inviting you today—

‘you’ as a quantumly envisioned and dreamed blend

of five unique possibilities, all blended together and imagined as real:

nothing-ness, space, light, energy, physicality and awareness.

What do you think about this expanded definition of the word human?

My own thought about it is this:

The ‘human’ that we usually envision only contains the last steps

in a much larger identity.

It’s but one or two slices of a 5-sliced, quantumly imagined, pie of creation.

What do you think your life would be like

if you applied this expanded picture of ‘humanness’ to your daily thinking?

What difference might it make if you went about your day

picturing yourself as the quantum source dreaming yourself as a human?

What difference might it make in your life if you saw yourself

first, as the quantum void imaging everything else in your creative imagination,

then, as quantumly infused space, caretaking everything within your sphere

or as a pure being of light, illuminating and blessing the world around you,

or as vibrational energy, interweaving vibrationally with other energies,

or as pure love, energetically expressing to everyone and everything,

or as organically rich physicality, resonating primal energies in a body,

or as conscious-ness, intangibly transforming light into mind-based awareness?

As you’re sitting with and reflecting on this question,

I’ll share my own sense of what a few of the answers might be.

First, I think you might start looking at everything in and around you

in an expanded way—for example, looking at everything and everyone

through many different lenses rather than just one lens:

for instance, looking through the powerful lens of the quantum void

or the unique lens of space

or the illuminating lens of pure light

or the unifying lens of unconditional love

or the vibration-rich lens of interconnected energy

or the organic viewpoint or lens of your precious body,

or, in your magical consciousness, the lens of your sub-conscious,

un-conscious and super-conscious minds

as well as that of your conscious mind.

Second, my guess is that you would increasingly find yourself

feeling like a bigger-dimensional being, living in a larger-than-life space

and breathing a more illuminating light

all the while being that bigger-than-life ‘you’ here within this human dream,

being not just another human being living a regular human life,

but being a grace-filled visitor and blesser of everyone’s human adventure.

Third, my guess is that you would more grasp the bigger picture of existence,

you would not be bothered by the ‘small potatoes’ aspects of life here,

you would let former judgments about anything and everyone fall by the wayside,

and you would no longer take your specifically ‘human’ self or life so seriously.

With those few thoughts to contemplate, I again ask you this central question:

Who are you? What do you look like to yourself now?

Look within for whatever response or insight might emerge.

I wonder if you and I came together today so that you can awaken anew to this truth:

that you are so much more than the traditional definition of ‘human,’

so that our time together could invite you to the bigger reality of who you are,

to give you the gift of upgrading your self-concept and owning your expansive nature.

Let’s take a concluding moment together for a final reflection.

Let’s join anew in celebrating the real human that you are—

the quantum you, the possibility-filled you, the spacetime-oriented you,

the essential and light-filled you, the energy-rich you, the physical you

and the multi-leveled conscious you!

Let’s celebrate this human you, this dynamic and exciting you,

this expanded picture of the ‘self’ you now know yourself to be!

Also, let’s honor you as a wonderful, beautiful, magnificent human being!

Let’s celebrate your time-measured visit here on earth,

with gratitude to you for bringing your nothingness, your limitless possibilities,

your unique light and your dynamic energy here with you!

And let’s thank you for blessing the rest of us with those qualities

while you’re here—whether you do it consciously or not!

In closing, I thank you for being you—

a human who is so much more than what you may have believed,

a human who is such a mighty presence among us

and a human who is such a profound blessing to those people

who have been waiting for someone just like you

to soothe their pains and heal their sense of littleness,

just by being the expansive human that you truly are!

Thank you!