What Is Your Essence?

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Your Essence Is Your Soul

Your essence is you, in the most expansive possible way.

Your essence encompasses your multidimensional nature, your higher self, your past lives, your astral body, and your parallel lives, to name some of essence’s manifestations. Essence has tremendous resources, expansive perception, and limitless energy.

It is truly Who You Are.

Found In Many Spiritual Traditions

The term ”essence" has been used in many traditions, and there are many similar words such as "Atman", "Higher Self" or even just "Self" (with a capital S) that infer the same thing.

Personality Is Different From Essence

On the physical plane, our identity is based around our personality. This is the part of us that has limited perception and is attached to the physical plane and its limitations.

Our identity is influenced by many factors: childhood experiences, parental imprinting, soul and personality traits (in the Quintessence System, listed below) astrology, genetics, friends, work environment, and every factor we can imagine affecting a human being.

No Separation From Essence

Although we tend to think of personality as separate from us, there is no real separation from your essence. But because of how the physical plane works we must experience the perception of separation. Few of us remember our past lives, see the unlimited choices available to us, or have clear and conscious connection to our essence.

Qualities Of Essence

Our essence provides the "juice" behind our personalities. It encompasses parallel lives, different planes of existence, and all perceptions available to us that go beyond physical reality.

Flavored By Soul & Personality Traits

Our essence is flavored by some of the soul & personality traits in the Quintessence System: Primary and Secondary Archetypes, Frequency, and a few other aspects that do not change between lifetime.

Beyond Time, Multidimensional

Our essence is not affected by time like we are, because it is beyond time.

It is multidimensional and exists, quite literally, everywhere (and every time) at once. It is what remains between lives on the astral plane as the experience of our personality is integrated and "downloaded". It is what makes choices for our next lifetime.

Essence Is ”God”

When most people talk to "God", or their perception of god, it is most common that they are actually talking to their own essence. That is why the connection to our essence is so important.

Enormous Perception And Love

Our essence, being us to the nth power, and without limitations, possesses enormous perception, energy, and love. This love our essence has for us can feel overwhelming to many people. It is truly a religious experience, one that Carl Jung wrote about prodigiously.

Essence Is YOU, Your Innermost Being

At the same time, your essence is truly You. There is no separation, no external quality to your essence. If you were to remove the barriers of perception that you (and your Essence have created) in order to have this experience on the physical plane, you would see with this expansive perception and know you have never been separated.

Connection Goes Both Ways

Just as you can benefit from a more conscious connection to essence, your essence benefits from a more solid connection to your conscious awareness. You are here having experiences so that essence can learn and know itself. Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the book by Richard Bach, is an excellent parable of some perceptions of essence.

Essence Is A Spark Of The Tao

Beyond the essence, in your innermost core, is what is termed the "spark". This is quite literally the Tao, God, or All That Is. It is the source of all creation.

It is the part of the Tao that "split off" in the process of incarnation in order to ultimately know itself. This is always an act of Love.

Essence Is Vast, As Are You

In many ways, the essence's relation to the spark is analogous to our personality's relationship to essence. In other words, the universe—and by extension, you—is more vast than even your imagination can possibly comprehend.

I’ve spent the past ten days in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, far from my present home in the northeast but closer, much closer, to my true spiritual home, and during this time one of my specific goals was to immerse myself into a deeper connection with Nature. Though my home is in a semi-rural area, affording me an opportunity to frequently bike through rolling hills amid cornfields and farmhouses, I really don’t feel all that connected with the nature element of it usually. Perhaps it’s because I don’t connect energetically with the space, or resist a deeper connection; perhaps it’s the human element in a long-inhabited space that has overwritten the elements of nature, but in any case I felt a huge difference in my little cabin in the forest, a short walk from the beach, easily moving into a space of love and appreciation for Nature and my place within it. I spent several hours roaming the trails through the forest, meandering along the beach, and standing in the rain under the trees at night.

And then I upped the ante considerably and spent some time in a different forest last night.

I entered the forest under a nearly-full moon, bright on a cloudless night, and instantly I felt a different sort of welcoming, an embrace, an invitation. Through connecting with the trees who are themselves all connected and always aware of that connection to one another, to the earth, and to All That Is, I could reach back into time and feel roots tapping into the dawning of human consciousness on the planet with such primordial innocence that it took my breath away.

At the same time I was aware of every possibility that continues to stretch before us in time: possibilities for each one of us and all the myriad possibilities available at any given moment, every choice, every road taken and not taken, and I felt vast, knowing that I was a part of everything that ever has been and everything still yet to come. I was as tall as the trees and as bright as the moon, and I turned my face toward her, accepting the spotlight, fully acknowledging my completeness and perfection.

To say this was a joyous and magical experience doesn’t quite do it justice.

But it served as a wonderful reminder, one that I will take back to my home with me and one that I offer you now, that our connection with Nature is an essential of simply being human. It’s part of us, and to deny it is to deny part of Self.

Afterwards, I channeled this:

There is of course value in connecting with animals, trees, and other elements of what you consider to be “nature”. These elements, are of course, part of your home, part of your world, and are as such connected to you, to humans, in a very intimate way. You share space. You share air. You share resources. Not only that, but you share in the creation of your world, the global creation of the reality you know as life on the physical plane. And because of that, there is an undying connection between you as a human and ALL of the so-called “natural” elements of Nature.

Some of you feel this connection more deeply, more emotionally, than others. Some feel a return, when confronted with Nature, especially in her most raw state, to that innocent and childlike state of simply Being, existing, that lies dormant within all of you. And as such, you feel it deeply when one of nature’s children, one element of the intricate tapestry that is constantly being woven and re-created, moves through natural transition into another state. There is, for you, a deep sense of loss, as there is the recognition not only of the timelessness of transformation and the cycles of life on the planet, but also of the transference of human-type connection to an element of nature. You can mostly only experience connection with nature by transferring those feelings to a more human perspective, and when loss of an element of nature, such as a pet or tree, occurs, there is transference to the human state of grief.

We have mentioned the energetic connections between you and your pets and we wish to elaborate. Again, not only is there a very real symbolic connection here (discovery of Self, of Love, of perspective: these things were gained through and with your interaction), but also there HAVE in most cases indeed been some past-life associations. Though most animals live lives in mainly hive-type soul arrangements, there is a constancy of energy that can flow generation after generation through one individual animal to another, and even of course crossing boundaries of species. There has been for many of you, then, a common thread through many lifetimes of connection with various elements of nature, and it is this thread, now running through you and the pets you love, that has touched this present lifetime.

The lessons from connection to Nature are many and varied and often depend on the individual, but regardless of perspective there is ALWAYS growth opportunity through human connection with Nature. After all, it is your home. It is your LIFE. To deny Nature is denying an aspect of Self, and to fully EMBRACE Nature, to ACCEPT it in all its splendor, ugliness, and beauty, is a HUGE step in actually accepting your Self.