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so long now that I would not recognize my own face
but I know that Home
Home
remembers me
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“Long at Sea”
©2007 em claire

    This feeling and sense of being “away from home” is common to many people who yearn for the knowing and the experiencing of their union with the Divine.
    Yet are we in the fullest sense “away from home”?
    No. We are neither away from home nor away from God, but it sure seems that way. The tiny amount of information that we have been given by those who simply write about our history and our physical sciences has been wholly lacking in any truly important metaphysical or spiritual detail. Or, worse yet, it has been riddled with error.
    All of that is going to end here.

    You’ve brought your Mind to this self-exploration to remember three things: (a) the purpose of your life’s journey, (b) the paths that this journey can take, and (c) the journey’s destination.
    Your remembering will begin with some more basics. But first, a request—from your Soul to your Mind:
    Because these are “basics,” much of what you will read in these next few passages may feel like “old news” to you. Have patience, then.
    A gentle request, yes?
    It is not a bad thing to be reminded of what you already know. Most people are not applying what they already know anyway, and that’s the point. Perhaps a memory jog would be really good right about now.
    And perhaps there are one or two tiny pieces of data that are not fully remembered—the remembering of which could change everything.
    So please, have patience.
    Now then … to those basics.

    You are not your body. Your body is something you have.
    You are not your mind. Your mind is something you have.
    You are not your soul. Your soul is something you have.
    Who, then, are you?
    You are the sum total of all of these things—a loving, caring, sensitive, compassionate sentient being that has these things—and each of these things has a purpose and a function that serves the agenda of all three.
    This Body/Mind/Soul trio will be referred to in this self-exploration as The Totality of You.
    The function of the Mind is to guarantee the survival of the current physicalization of The Totality of You for as long as it takes to fulfill the Soul’s Agenda.
    A Soul Knowing: You are the sum total of the Body, Mind, and Soul, and each of these aspects of you has a purpose and a function, but only one has an agenda: the Soul.
    The function of the Body is to gather data from the physical environment to assist the Mind in guaranteeing your survival, and to place within that environment, in physical form, the nonphysical ideas, concepts, and decisions of the Mind.
    The function of the Soul is to experience as many aspects as possible of Who and What It Really Is, using the Body, the Mind, and the physical environment in which It has placed Itself, as tools with which to accomplish this.

    Because your Mind has been given little—or worse yet, totally inaccurate—information about the Soul’s Agenda (which is Life’s agenda), neither your Mind nor your Body can very often serve that agenda well—unless it is working in conjunction with the Soul.
    Right now, if your Mind does not know what the Soul knows, your life could feel as if it’s being pulled in different directions. Indeed, your very purpose for being on Earth could wind up being compromised—if not completely ignored.
    This is, in fact, the circumstance in which most of humanity finds itself today.

    What must happen if you wish to live a life that serves its actual purpose is that your Mind must bring into its database that of which the Soul is already aware, so that you can produce the experience of it. The Soul holds Knowledge, while the Mind creates the Experience of what you call Reality.
    This is the very reason that The Totality of You came into the physical realm: to Experience that of which It has full