Well, I suppose it depends upon what you want to achieve at the end of the day?

There are only ever two paths that we can take. There is the path of our humanity, which no matter how successful we are in our lives; we still experience the ultimate failure - death. And there is the treacherous path that leads to our own salvation and the ultimate success - no death.

Said another way, there are ultimately only two realities, namely: Christ consciousness and Anti-Christ consciousness. Christ is a consciousness of unconditional love and the living of personal truth without duality, personal compromise or ulterior motive. Anti-Christ consciousness is simply everything that is a climb down from the above. So we can safely say that the world that we live in is the home of the Anti-Christ.

What determines our personal reality is nothing other than our behaviour. And that is determined by the way we perceive our environment and our level of acceptance of the people in it. When we don't accept life for how it is and we fight it, then we succumb to the demon of control (that which is not love). We all fall into the trap of trying to change that which is 'outside' of ourselves instead of going 'within' to change ourselves.

I was recently discussing the subject of sanity/insanity with a friend and I suggested to her that we are all insane to a degree! Our emotional make-up allows us to cope in an insane world, but when our emotional demons get the better of us and we can't see a way forward, then the balance we have achieved that allows us to live a so-called 'normal' life, is tipped towards insanity; and unless we are treated the result is often suicide.

The movement towards sanity is the movement towards an unlimited mindset and thus the movement towards insanity is the movement towards a limited mindset. The more unlimited (open-minded) we become, the more sane we become.

So a masterful being that experiences Christ consciousness by virtue of the choices they make, will be both sane and super-conscious. A lesser being that chooses the human path (born from a false sense of identity), will always struggle at times to maintain the emotional balance that engenders the desired social acceptance and approval.

There is no doubt in my mind that we are here to express ourselves but what is it we are here to express? I would say that we are here to express love and that that expression can come in many forms. However, what we see in our society is a conditioned chase to become a 'somebody' that often ends in disaster at the hands of insane emotional addictions, which are quelled with copious amounts of alcohol, drugs and abnormal sexual behaviour.

The more we label ourselves with identities the more we move away from the truth.

Can you really argue that you are a human being? And if you think you can, then please tell me what a human being is? Can you argue successfully that you are just your body? Likewise, are you just your emotions or your thoughts for that matter? Are you a composite of all three of these vehicles or are you really none of them? Are you the car or the driver of it? Are you the clay or the moulder of it?

You see, at death, we simply get out of those vehicles and continue having experiences without them. So what are we? We have a whole industry that is focussed on personal development yet the teachers of it can't even answer the most fundamental questions! How can we possibly develop self if we don't even know what self is?

You can turn around and say that you are a spirit, a soul, a consciousness or whatever, but these are just meaningless words; unless you know exactly what you are describing yourself as. After all, what is a spirit or a soul or a consciousness?

What we do know from science is that everything is energy; so we could say that we are a form of energy and that would certainly be true of our bodies, because we can see that form. But what leaves the body at death and does that also have a form? There's no doubt that it is an intelligent energy but does it have a form? And if so, what form is it? Or could it be formless yet take on a new form at will?

Now this begs another question - what is Will? We all have it albeit that it is suppressed beyond recognition in some people! So we are starting to build an hypothesis here that is postulating that we are an intelligent energy (all energy carries consciousness with it), with a wilful intent that can either be essentially formless or inhabit another energy-form, as a vehicle of self-expression.

Quantum Physicists who study the sub-atomic world of particle behaviour (the faster forms of energy that underpin this world), are in no doubt that what they are 'observing' is intelligent. Indeed, all energy is intelligent. So just because something doesn't have a brain doesn't mean to say it is not self-aware. Does the tree know when we are leaning against it? Or cutting it down for that matter! These are valid questions in our quest to understand ourselves better.

"Know thyself", said the great master over 2000 years ago.

If I am correct - that it is our journey to experience a greater love in this life, and to express that love in whatever way we choose; then it is inevitable that some of us will become ‘somebody’s’ as a result of our expressions here. However, I will argue that the expression of that greater love is wrapped up in the understanding that we are really ‘nobody’s’ on a journey of self-discovery, towards the realisation that we are all really imageless, boundless, super-intelligent, parcels of the most exquisite energy.

The only way we can ever truly describe ourselves is in evolutionary terms. To say "I am a human being", is to fix one's behaviour as human behaviour. This does not allow us to evolve beyond the human condition. But to say "I am becoming that which I am becoming", keeps one undefined and forever evolving. And that is the way we all should be, if we're ever going to evolve as a species. The only way we can ever truly know what we are, is to become it.