We live in illusion, the appearance of things, but there is a reality and we are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. —- Kalu Rinpoche “I can’t believe I’m me.” Those words left my seven year old mouth as I gazed at my reflection in the mirror of my elementary school bathroom. Between the ages of around 6 and 8 years old I had frequent experiences of feeling an almost psychedelic awareness of my being. I was cognizant, hyper attuned and in awe of being a limitless soul experiencing the limitations of identity and form. I obviously didn’t have that nuanced perspective or the ability to articulate my experience at that age, it was just an almost disembodied feeling of amazement and wonder where I would always repeat the words “I can’t believe I’m me.” as the world around me disappeared from my vision and I existed, momentarily, in my own hyper-dimensional sphere of awareness. The density of the this realm soon encomp...