There are all kinds of sophisticated
on-line games, numerous movies about magic, sorcery, vampires and wizards out
there that directly discuss the mystical elements of shape shifting. In these
scary and challenging games, some magician is turning some hapless human into
something else. Some wizards turn themselves into wolves. The point of the
concept of game shape shifting is that we become something else. We don’t
become someone else we become something else.
Native American lore is replete with
shape shifting, especially the wolf legends. A person changes their shape into
that of a wolf, to disguise himself to gain access to ancient knowledge,
understand the animal kingdom or to use spiritual stealth technology. So one
would wonder if shape shifting is real beyond the games and legends.
Shape shifting is going on all the time,
all around us and within us. All thought is energy. What we think, we create.
We shift the energy of thought into shape. Sometimes we do not like what we
have created and change that shape into something else. Consider that clay is
the ultimate material to use to shift shape. The potter takes a humble lump of
clay, adds the energy of thought and water and then molds it into a pot, urn,
human sculpture or abstract form. At any moment he or she can shift that shape
with the shifting of his or her own thoughts.
A peach shifts its shape from a gorgeous
flower, to a green piece of fruit to a ripe piece of fruit, to rotten fruit to
merely a seed. Then the seed shifts again into a new plant to become a tree to
then create more flowers to perpetuate the shifting of shapes for the
perpetuation of life itself in the world of peaches.
We are all shape shifters, shifting our
shape from the moment of conception from a separate egg and separate sperm into
an embryo. That embryo becomes a neonate, which then shifts into a fetus, which
shifts over time into a living, breathing baby. At some point along the way,
the soul enters the energetic mass of cells and becomes a personality. The
newborn becomes a toddler who becomes a child, teen and finally an adult.
Adults are constantly changing their bodies in so many ways until the body
begins to shift its shape into the posture of eventual death.
Souls take many shapes. In some lives we
are male, some female. Souls, like energy [which is neither created nor
destroyed] are eternal: souls just change shape for the pure delight of the
experience of all types of different lives. We are still the same soul, just
shifting our shape to accommodate a new experience. Some lives we shift into
what will become a deformed body, or a dwarf body. In some lives we take on
giant shapes.
We even shape shift our experiences.
Some lives we are wealthy, lose it all and shift into the experience of
poverty. Some lives, we shift out of poverty into varying levels of wealth.
Some lives we keep our basic physical shape and some lives we gain huge amounts
of weight and have the experience of either dying from it or losing it and
regaining our physical and emotional sense of balance.
We shift our shapes emotionally as well.
Some lives we are immature all of our life, endlessly a child in an adult body.
Some lives we are the parent to our parents, even as we are children. We shift
our roles in life as well, constantly changing.
Perhaps the concept of shape shifting is
a profound reminder that the only
constant in life is change. Sometimes that change within us is a slow
stagnation as we fiercely resist change of any sort. Sometimes it is magical in
its utter transformation. Truly, some people go through a metamorphic process
whereby they change from a mundane caterpillar personality into a magnificent
butterfly. There are even those souls who do transform from a caterpillar into
a night dwelling moth, occupying the darker aspects of life.
We are all shape shifters and so is life
around us. Perhaps this is a unique way to observe and possibly accept change.
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