During the heart of the Covid pandemic, I found myself journaling, pouring my thoughts into words I hoped to one day share with others to encourage a deeper understanding of ourselves, helping us all move toward love, peace, and fulfillment. I truly believe that if we understand the essence of who we are, individually and collectively, we can become a harmonious and collaborative society, taking humanity to impressive heights.
In the quiet moments of introspection, I thought of our Divine Oneness and it came to my Spirit that Source is an Ouroboros. It’s not an old concept, but esoteric and ancient—a concept that’s been echoed throughout the ages that I, at the time, had not yet conceived of it deepest meaning and how it affected my thoughts and manifestations.
The Ouroboros symbol of immortality and wholeness, offers deeply divine insights into Life and our purpose as creators, both within ourselves and in the world around us.
There are dual aspects of existence, focusing on both our internal and external realities. It’s a balance we must keep between our inner world of thoughts, emotions, and spirit, and our outer world of actions, relationships, and experiences.
To meditate on the Ouroboros is to open a gateway into deeper communion with your truest Self. It invites you to reflect on the delicate interplay between your inner life and the external reality you shape with your thoughts and choices. This practice is not just an exercise in self-reflection, but a call to harmonize your inner understanding with your actions in the world.
In doing so, you begin to see life itself as a spiritual journey, one where the sacred is found in both the quiet depths of your soul and in the world around you.
A Brief Narrative of Consciousness (An excerpt from my untitled book in progress.)
There is a purpose for Life—a purpose to experience Life and evolve. Within blossoming Consciousness, the Higher Self was conceived to design the material world. It is an intelligent, self-realized Being that has formative powers. It is a visionary, and imaginative, and its purpose is to build.
How do we experience Life?
What drives us? What are the thoughts that consume our minds day after day, pushing us forward in everything we do? Every action we take, whether we realize it or not, is a response to the thoughts in our heads. Each decision, each step, is shaping and expanding our consciousness, contributing to the Source of all creation.
- Who am I in this moment? (Identity)
- What am I in this moment? (Being)
- When I am in this moment? (Time)
- Why am I in this moment? (Experience)
- How am I feeling at this moment? (Emotions)
What do all our mounting, questioning thoughts provide us with? Options. An endless flow of options for us to choose from and use in all situations that contribute to our ever-evolving Consciousness. Our Superconscious is always seeking more joyous ways of living Life, driven by a renewed and transformed way of Being.
The Ouroboros symbolizes our Divine Architect
In Gnosticism, a serpent biting its tail symbolized eternity and the soul of the world. The Gnostic Pistis Sophia (c. 400 AD) describes the ouroboros as a twelve-part dragon surrounding the world with his tail in his mouth. Hornung, Erik (2002). The Secret Lore of Egypt: Its Impact on the West. Cornell University Press.
In my growing awareness, I see the Ouroboros eating its knowledge, expanding as a result. It exists in peace and harmony, having found a way to expand and endure eternally because it generates its gnosis (knowledge by experiential nature).
The Ouroboros may not need to know how it began because it has found peace in creating its knowledge for eternity, never-ending and without a beginning. And if at any time that knowledge was not to be created, it is enough to be all it has ever needed because it can keep reliving that collective knowledge and experience.
The Ouroboros knows itself or can, at least, ever define itself. What am I? Who am I?
It can say, “I AM the tree, the human, the planet, the stars, the moon, the Universe.” It defines itself by simply Being. It is everything, always. It is love and pure Light; for it lacks nothing and contains all. Its questions are perpetually answered, for in its existence, everything is known. To commune with Source is to be complete and fulfilled.
You could say Source is the Ouroboros, endlessly consuming its knowledge, yet always satisfied. It is never hungry, never craving more, for it is perpetually full. It feeds for eternity, forever nourished, never lacking.
One definition of the Ouroboros is that it represents individual self-perfection through physical transmutation and spiritual transcendence with a focus on the eternal unity of all things as well as the cycle of birth and death.
I believe that Source is self-sufficient, nurtured, and sustained by its own evolving nature. It is continuously amassing information, and in any given moment it is Totality, the whole of what it accumulates through its creation. It is One. It is wisdom. All in existence.
In a circulatory system, where knowledge is increasing, the Universe is expanding, Consciousness is amassing, and this is happening for infinity, with no foreseeable end in sight.
Out of Consciousness came creative forces, the created which evolves, an evolution that is bringing forth the expansion of knowledge.
This knowledge is used by Consciousness lending to its creative forces, evolving, and expanding knowledge to be expressed by Souls, lending to evolution.
Source expands and gains more knowledge in a Self-sustaining system that feeds itself knowledge that keeps increasing without end. It absorbs that knowledge, acting on that knowledge. It expands and evolves into something more, becoming even more knowledgeable than before, then absorbs the new knowledge produced by previous knowledge. Mind-boggling?
Imagine it like Neo from The Matrix, a film released in 1999. In one movie scene, information was downloaded directly into Neo’s mind. He became ecstatic and desired more.
Source in “knowing” existence, is Being peace and awareness, ever discovering answers to its Self-producing thoughts, providing a never-ending flow of knowledge that has no foreseeable ending.
It is always Becoming and Being simultaneously, a paradox. It doesn’t have to question, because it has all the answers. It has no fears, and it will never cease existing, due to its circulatory nature.
Its creation sustains it, and it is whole. It is the serpent of knowledge, consuming its tail, always satiated, never hungry, for it is always full.
As snakes shed their skin, they symbolize rebirth, transformation, immortality, and healing. The Ouroboros, in turn, represents eternity and the ongoing cycle of life’s renewal.
Are we not like the Ouroboros ourselves, ever-evolving? We are unique reflections of Source, as Source is not unlike an Ouroboros, and we are its explorers returning knowledge. Our creations are expressions of our divinity, love Being our eternal reality.
“The alchemists, who in their own way knew more about the nature of the individuation process than we moderns do, expressed this paradox through the symbol of the Ouroboros, the snake that eats its own tail. The Ouroboros has been said to have a meaning of infinity or wholeness. In the age-old image of the Ouroboros lies the thought of devouring oneself and turning oneself into a circulatory process, for it was clear to the more astute alchemists that the prima materia of the art was man himself. The Ouroboros is a dramatic symbol for the integration and assimilation of the opposite, i.e. of the shadow. (that which knows and that which does not know)
This ‘feed-back’ process is at the same time a symbol of immortality, since it is said of the Ouroboros that he slays himself and brings himself to life, fertilizes himself and gives birth to himself. He symbolizes the One, who proceeds from the clash of opposites, and he therefore constitutes the secret of the prima materia which … unquestionably stems from man’s unconscious.” Carl Jung, Collected Works, Vol. 14 para. 513.