If you were asked to define who you are beyond physical, emotional and mental?

Question

Who or what is the you that exists beyond/inside the physical, emotional and mental shells? What does that inner you consist of? If the outer shells of your physical form, emotional make-up, thoughts and beliefs fell away to reveal the real you, what would it be?

Answer 1

With all due humility ( and most of all because I do not apply any thoughts to myself that I would not apply to all and any of us ) :

A multi-dimensional energetic being, engaged in mahifestations across an infinite number of realms of beingness, all are energetic in provenance, but are spread across the electro-magnetic spectrum on a frequency basis. This 'physical' realm is, for example, at the lower end, a slow vibrational, dense realm, where manifestations appear to be very heavy and 'solid', which, of course, they are not, it's all just energy being applied in an infinite number of ways.

The 'real' me is you, all of you, for we are 'One', the only difference between you and I is that I am standing 'here' looking at you standing 'there', of course, with all of the physicality stripped away, there is no 'here' or 'there'.

As many have said, we are all just 'One' dancing around each other.

Ultimately I am that I am, if we go back up the tree far enough we arrive where we started, at the thing which many call 'God'.

Answer 2

What if you were asked to define what your dog is beyond the physical emotional and mental? You just took away a lot of the essence of what your dog is/means to you. Not a perfect analogy, but serves the purpose. We not much more than physical, mental, and emotional beings. Otherwise, we go into speculative realm and that is where anything can be in the figment of your imagination. Personally, I find those topics not too interesting because it lacks substance and substantiation.

Answer 3

I thin the physical form, emotional make-up, thoughts and believes ARE the real me. That's pretty much everything. The only possible exception would be intelligence (which is different from emotion and thoughts) or intuitiveness. Abilities and potential perhaps would be different.

An old illiterate minister I knew once said "You see somebody alive and lively, and then you see that same person a week later dead in their coffin, whatever the difference is in that body and that person was dancing and laughing is what they are". I think that's relevant here.

Answer 4

I suppose it would be a spirit, an essence, a soul undefined by others, or by myself, for that matter. It is that thing that differentiates me from a machine or from an animal. It's indefinable, unseeable, but it is there. We all have it in various forms. But is it the "real" me? No, because if there is such a thing as a real me, part of that has been shaped by all of those things you're casting aside. Everyone is the sum of their parts, their experiences, their physicality...but that other part, the invisible soul--it may be less affected by external forces, but I wouldn't define it as being the thing that is real.

Answer 5

There is no self, there is no I, there is no spirit, there is no soul, and there is no mind. That knocks off the whole list, and you have no way of finding out what you are left with. You may very well ask me the question, "Why do you go on telling people about the way you are functioning?" It is only to emphasize that we have been for centuries using some instrument, that is, thinking or mind, or whatever you want to call it, to free ourselves from the whole of what you call the 'I' or the 'self', and all kinds of things. That is what the whole quest of spirit is all about. But once it dawns on you that there is nothing to be free from, then these questions don't arise at all. How that dawned on me, I have no way of finding out for myself.

Answer 6

My deeply loved friend died. As her body lay on a kind of inclined stone table, I washed it slowly to prepare it for burial. Before this process, I cleared my mind of all thought as best I could because I wanted to derive from this experience whatever was there for me to learn and understand. I didn't want to cry and blubber my way through the experience. As I cleansed the body, patted it dry, applied some makeup -- a zany blond, she had said in one of our crazy moments before she became ill that she was worried that she would be buried without her eyebrows -- and wrapped it in silk, I realized, understood, knew that this cold, inert body was not Orpha. It simply, unequivocally, irrevocably was not she. I felt nothing beyond reverence and respect for this flesh tool of hers, but she was not it. It was not she. Yet, her vibrant, intelligent, audacious existence was as real as the stone table, the room, and the paraphernalia in my hand. My lesson: whatever it is that we are, it is not this body.

Answer 7

nothing. the emotional side of me, is the real me. and that is what makes me a human. if it is all taken away from me, i will be left with nothing, the inner me is what i have emotionally evolved into. i will be just plain air, which is present and felt but never seen.

:-)

Answer 8

I'm a work-horse in the universe that can be used by higher-level intelligent beings. I'm disposable if they do not choose to use me.

I am nobody by myself. I can only be defined like a swarm. I am part of the collective whole of humanity. My intelligence is determined by the needs of the swarm. My physical, emotional make-up, thoughts, and beliefs are only determined by the needs of this swarm, too.

Is that what you were looking for?????

Answer 9

The event of this physical form ' falling ' away...what is to behold is energy in pure form. Energy that would be felt more than seen. What would be seen would be Energy in ' form ' of Light.

Who am I ? At my core I am happy... I am Light...Light is Love.
.

Answer 10

the me that exsists beyond the physical emotional and mental shells is a performer. it is something that is always shifting to best fit the given circumstance.