I AM

“I AM”

From a presentation by Leonard Laskow, M.D. at the Rogue Valley Metaphysical Library, March 1, 2008

Each of us is like a wave in this ocean of
awareness; this quantum field, of oneness. And when we are identified
with the wave, we have a sense of separation; a sense of separation from
other waves, from the ocean itself. It is all water; the wave is just
the water of awareness given form. We use these terms metaphorically.
And it is all One. I like to speak of it this way: Pure awareness is
without any quality, it can’t be known. When there is only one, one
can’t be known, because it takes more than one to know. There has to be
an object that is being known, and there has to be a knower and there
has to be the knowing. In order for something to be known there has to
be duality or relativity. When there is only One that can’t be known.
When the One becomes aware of itself that is what I call Consciousness.
One aware of itself was the first wave: The I AM. When this
I Am interacted with itself, other waves were created. I Am
that I Am is the first other wave. Call that I Am that I
Am “mind”, big Mind. And then, I Am not this.
I Am not that. I Am this. I
Am that, and all the other waves were created, and then
the separation from these waves. And now, what it is all about is
returning home to the awareness we never left. That’s the great paradox.
We’re searching now in so many ways for what we already are.

So what is it that veils us from the awareness of who we already are?
What are the veils? This is what we will be exploring this morning
experientially. It is identification with the mind-made self. The little
I/me, the little mind. The identification of the mind-made self with the
thought waves, the feeling waves, the sense perception waves, with the
beliefs, that are consolidations or coalescences of waves into a more
substantial energy form. I call this a Holoform. A belief creates a
Holoform. Interpretations of what we see that become consolidated into
beliefs. Judgments, consolidation of experiences that we’ve had.
Interpretations of experiences that we’ve had. Identification with our
story. All of this is what veils us. Even our desire for something that
supposedly will fulfill us and will give us more. Why do we want what we
want? One of the things about the Law of Attraction is that it can
provide you with more. More of what? More material things? Well, that’s
fine, but the greatest gift of the Law of Attraction would be if it
pointed you back to Source and allowed you to realize your true nature.