What am I?

[allfoak]

Everything I see, hear, touch, smell and feel is a reflection of who i am.

 

[Quagmire]

I would be happy to participate in my own threads when there is a direct question to answer.

Then you don't understand what a debate is, and should probably stop creating threads in the debate forums.

If you have a specific question that needs to be addressed, please do let me know.

AiR

OK: if you aren't going to interact with the people who post in your threads, why not just go start a blog somewhere?

 

[Kilgore Trout]

When this question is asked, most people answer it in three different ways.

And yet not a single person has yet answered it any of the three ways you described.

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

When this question is asked, most people answer it in three different ways. The first person answers - I am the body. I look like the body. I have a name. I have a title. I have a designation. I have an appearance. I am this appearance.

But fortunately, some of us are lucky enough to go beyond this and we realize that we are not the body, but we are the self. We are not simply the body, but we are the body, the mind, the intellect, the ego, and the spirit and the soul. When we start realizing that we are not the body and we are actually the self, the human self, which is the composite collection of all these things put together, then we start praying and building a connection with God, because we realize that we are the power within. This is the stage where we move away from the lower state of being just the body. But we have still not reached the higher state of being the spirit of God itself.

A few are luckier still and move to level three, where we realize we are not the body because the body dies and is consumed and goes back to being a part of the five elements. The mind, the intellect and ego - are subtle parts of the body, which leave the body and therefore, are without an identity. When this inner instrument of the mind, intellect, ego complex realizes the truth that we are the divine spirit, God itself and like the wave merges with the ocean, merges with the creator itself, becoming God as God particles, going back to its source, energy - this is reaching the third level of existence.

Therefore, analyze what you think you are. Are you the body? Are you the self? Or are you the spirit of God that lives within you? What are you?

AiR

Okay, apparently you want responses not about what people themselves think in response to the question "what are you," but where people place themselves in your hierarchy of levels.

I disagree with your classification scheme. Each of the three are "true" from certain perspectives, perhaps, but also none are true from other perspectives. I have experienced self as body, self as mind/ego, and self as divinity; I have also experienced self as not-body, not-mind/ego, and not-divinity; I have experienced all six as illusion, as a seventh or six more possible states. And yet, I am a mind/ego that currently exists in a body and may or may not be divine; yet I am not those things.

I am a pattern of matter and energy that has existed for a time and will cease to exist in this way after a time. The matter and energy pattern came from already-existing matter and energy, and maybe something else, patterns; has persisted over time through a constant flow of different matter and energy and maybe something else; and will go back to being parts of other patterns of matter and energy and maybe something else. And it may all be an illusion, a dream.

But--and here's where my earlier answer came in--I interact with others, regardless of whether I am, view myself, or am viewed by others as a body, a mind, or a divinity...or something else.