by Kiara Windrider

My journey into deeper presence has included a wider understanding of the many aspects of our multidimensional self. In our descent into 3rd dimensional human incarnation, many identities formed at various stages along the way.

In the very beginning of all things, the Unmanifest One chose to manifest. And so It manifested as a field of being, consciousness, and energy. Before there was a concept of anything, this field pervaded everything. There was no awareness of time yet, no dimensions of space or matter, simply this vast universal presence aware of itself as itself, what the ancient seers of India referred to as Brahman, the “I that I eternally AM.” This universal presence found outer expression as individualized presence, as individualized I AM, or Atman. Although distinct from Brahman, Atman was not separate from Brahman. Atman is also known as the Monad.

This is where our journey begins. Monad sought expression. Vehicles were created for its expression. Various planes or dimensions were created for these vehicles to explore. And so we began to externalize ourselves, eventually creating a universe in space and time, seeding it with infinite possibilities of expression, and creating forms for ourselves to interact with other forms.

In our journey of descent, our primary identity of pure I AM Presence began to create reflections of itself that were capable of responding more directly to the planes and dimensions we traveled through. Some of these reflections were human, others cetacean, others angelic, others devic or elemental. There are innumerable such reflections within the starry universe. And so, along the way, one such stream of divine expres-sion created an oversoul consciousness of humanness, which later individuated further into human soul consciousness.

There was constant communication between these aspects of Self. Brahman and Atman were not separate. Atman and soul were holographic reflections of each other. Atman, or the I AM, existed before the creation of time and is eternally self-existent. Soul was created after the division of time and space, and therefore was able to orient itself in the worlds of form. In the realms of soul, the causal planes, time is not yet a linear construction as it is in the physical planes, and so soul found itself able to simultaneously explore worlds and realms in a multitude of times and spaces at once.

In order to deepen our experience of any one of these simultaneous possibilities, we created personalities. We endowed these personalities with mind and emotion, drawn from the mental and emotional planes. Descending still further, we formed bodies of denser matter that these personalities could express through in interaction with other personalities. We incarnated as souls within these personalities to explore the worlds of form.

Our awareness of ourselves continued to extend into the realm of personality. As fifth dimensional beings, we remained unified with the aspects of us that existed as soul, oversoul, and monad. We too were imbued with creator consciousness. We continued creating new worlds and possibilities with unified intent.

As we descended into fourth dimensional form, the diversity and multiplicity of our expression continued to grow. At this point we merged identity with another stream of oversoul consciousness, known as the devic or elemental kingdoms. Just as the focus of the human kingdom was to develop personality through mental and emotional expression, the purpose of the devic kingdom was to play in the worlds of form, creating an infinite variety of lifeforms in the physical realms.

The Elohim are part of the devic realm. Their job was to create planets. A hierarchy of devas was established to cover different orders of creation. The nature spirits are specialized devas under the guidance of the nature god, Pan, that are responsible for creating the many vehicles for life available for souls to inhabit.

There was a devic stream responsible for the creation of human bodies. As we merged with this stream, we found ourselves fully embodied within fourth dimensional human bodies. The devic consciousness within the body remained unified with all the other aspects of self through the entire line of descent from the Original Source. Our DNA reflected this unification. At that time our DNA is believed to have comprised 12 strands, instead of two, as it does now. Each of the original 12 strands included two strands from each of the planes we had traveled through. Thus there were two strands connected to each of the etheric, emotional, mental, intuitional, causal, and atmic planes, making a total of 12 strands. Operating as a unified 12-strand DNA field, our bodies were capable of attuning to the vibrational qualities of each of these planes and dimensions.

The tragedy of the Fall to the third dimension was the fragmentation that took place within this unified sense of self. The body was experienced as separate from the personality, which in turn was experienced as separate from the soul. Access to the higher frequencies of oversoul and monad was completely cut off. As the stream of devic or elemental awareness separated from the stream of human personality, a split was created within our bodies. The body elemental took charge of the autonomic functions, such as regulating the heartbeat, maintaining hormonal balance, and all the multitude of things that go on in our bodies all the time without our conscious participation. The personality maintained control of the voluntary functions.

As we dropped to a lower vibrational frequency, known commonly as the physical planes or 3-D, our DNA fragmented as well. The two strands of DNA on the etheric planes dropped down into the frequency of the physical plane and became effectively cut off from the remaining strands of DNA, thus cutting off our access to those planes. Our journey back into 4-D includes the reconstruction of our spiritual genetics, as we return to 12-stranded DNA consciousness.

There is another center of identity we need to become aware of. This is the “dreamself,” also known as the luminous body, or the etheric self. This is an aspect of ourselves that can facilitate communication on non-conscious levels between these split off parts of ourselves. The dreamself is also used by shamans when they access non-ordinary states of consciousness. It is capable of traveling interdimensionally, and imprints itself with any information required from any level of reality. To the extent that we are linked with our dreamself we can access this information consciously.

To summarize, there are many aspects of ourselves that were once unified and will be so again. These include the monad, soul, personality, dreamself, and elemental. To the extent that we are aligned with all these aspects of ourselves, we open to higher and higher levels of love and truth. In early 2001, during an enlightenment intensive, I found myself in a state of profound Unity consciousness in which my personal sense of self merged with the I AM Presence for a period of time. The following commentary was written from this perspective once I was able to think and write in linear terms: