What is 'Personal'?

Our sense of identity rests on an inner experience of who we think we are. For most people this changes in the course of a lifetime and over the course of many lifetimes. Significant among all other stages in this process of growth and learning is the step of realizing that one's biological and familial heritage no longer determines one's identity as much as the heritage of one's soul. This is the step of shifting from a 'personal' definition of self to a universal or planetary definition. Here, one becomes a citizen of the world and, indeed, of the universe.

Such a step signifies movement beyond 'personal' agendas, plans, and inner acts of will, toward union with Divine will which increasingly shapes all actions, thoughts, and intentions in harmony with a higher 'good'.

As we move away from karmic history altogether, we step into the light of a new identity as a creation of God, a child of the Universe. This is the place from which great healing can go forth from us toward the Earth, for our new identity links our emobdied self with the purposes of light so that all that we do and all that we wish to do is in alignment with God's love and desire to bless the Earth.

Looked at from the perspective of growth, it is not that one loses one's individuality, but rather that the meaning and purpose of our individualized life changes. This is the nature of becoming a sacred being - one for whom the spiritual is the foundation of the personal and of all that manifests as life upon the physical plane.