15. Reflecting on being SPIRIT

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 SPIRIT!

Being spirit!

What might we mean by “being spirit?”

Let’s introduce it this way: You’re human, right?

Well, at least you’re hanging out in human form!

From a holistic perspective, being human means

being body … mind … emotion … and spirit—

a unique blend of these four elements, four realities,

one of which—and it may actually be the most powerful—

is the perception and reality that you are SPIRIT!

Do you ever picture yourself as “spirit”?

Invisible … without a human form or energy-filled form?

Intangible … unidentifiable either visually or with touch?

Pure being itself … a presence absent even of light?

Well, I do picture myself, and everyone else as spirit … and quite often.

I see everyone's spirit as much as I see their body.

So, I’d like to share with you today my vision of the

“spiritual you,” or ‘you as spirit.’

When I look at you as pure spirit, here’s what I see.

I picture you primarily as a presence—

in fact, a pervasive, infinite presence, with no form.

Then, I see you as pure essence—a wondrous, all-encompassing being-ness.

Next, I notice you as a bigger-than-life, almost overwhelming, brightness—

not a brightness that emanates from light,

but one that emits from your sheer being-ness.

Finally, I see this presence, this essence, this brightness that is your spirit

hovering above and around your human form,

even having a powerful presence in and through you.

I witness your spirit enlivening and empowering its human version—

its ‘you’ version.

I notice it protecting and guiding your human person and earthly life.

I even observe it subtly, quietly (as if) whispering to you,

reminding the human version of you,

sub-consciously and soulfully anyway,

(even if your conscious mind doesn’t pick up the cues),

that you are, indeed and always are,

pure spirit

giving yourself the treat

of living a physical, mental and energy-filled experience—

having a human experience!

Hmm, let’s ask ourselves an obvious question, but one we don’t often consider:

What might this mighty, vast, unlimited spirit that the ‘bigger you’ actually is

notice, see, perceive, observe

when it—this giant spiritual you—observes the human version of itself

(the human you, that is)

going about your everyday human life,

doing your ‘human’ things and, well, just ‘being human’?

My own sense is that your spirit is filled with three unique perceptions.

Join me now, as I describe them to you,

In fact, let yourself experience these same three visions of your self

as you view your human self through the eyes of your all-seeing spirit.

First, your visionary spirit sees the human version of you as itself—

Yes, itself, a formless spirit all dressed up in fancy human clothes

and having a truly enjoyable time pretending to be human.

Can you picture that? Can you see your pure spirit

witnessing itself playing the main character in a featured human movie,

dreaming itself as a spirit that is convincingly disguised as a human being

dancing in this imagination-rich masquerade ball of spacetime,

and imagining itself moving in and through this “let’s pretend” fantasy world

of human-ness?”

Second, I sense that your spirit—the spirit that you essentially are, that is—

sees this ‘pretend version’ of itself—the human ‘you,’ that is—

spending a whole human life-time enjoying this “make believe” adventure

while it experiences itself as physically charged, energetically alive,

mentally aware and emotionally feeling!

What does this picture look and feel like to you?

Are you sensing yourself not so much as the human character in its dream,

but as your giant spirit itself actually experiencing itself in this human dream?

Join me now in a third vision, where your bigger-than-life spirit

is perceiving itself dancing a unique dance—let’s call it the human dance.

Now dancing on an earthly dance-floor rather than on clouds of air,

now dancing to energy-stimulating music

rather than to the stellar music of silence,

and now dancing to the ebb-and-flow-filled waves of physical movement

rather than to the unifying rhythm of pure being.

This is you, spacious spirit that you are!

This is the ‘you’ that blesses your human dream and dance

with its ethereal touch.

This is the ‘you’ that serves you as your ethereal source and guardian.

This is the ‘you’ that you now realize you are—pure spirit!

In this last moment together today, be spirit—be your spirit,

your spirit that is dancing, pretending, enjoying

and playing in and through every aspect of your human dream.

Be the vast, formless, spiritual presence

that illumines every element of your humanity,

that holds the bigger truth of every moment of your earthly life

and that is ever rejoicing

at the wonder of your human nature,

at the beauty of your human self

and at the imaginative splendor of your human dance!

Thank you for being spirit!

Thank you even more for being spirit in human form!

And thank you for rejoicing at and in every moment of your personal life

just as your amazing, wondrous and endless spirit does,

day in and day out!