Dear Seekers,
Close your eyes for a moment and feel the rhythm of your heart. That beat, steady and eternal, is not merely your own. It is the pulse of the cosmos, the whisper of the infinite calling you home. You have always been more than flesh and bone, more than thoughts and fears, more than the roles you play or the dreams you chase. You are a spark of the Divine, hidden beneath layers of human forgetting.
Do you not feel it?
Like a bird born in a cage who dreams of skies it has never seen, your soul knows there is more to this existence. It knows the taste of freedom, the warmth of oneness, the beauty of being fully alive. This book is not a map, for the journey is not linear. It is not a manual, for the truth cannot be taught. It is a lantern, held up to illuminate the path that already lies within you.
Rumi once said, “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?” Yet we all crawl, at least for a time. We crawl through the illusions of separateness, through the dark shadows of the egotistical mind, through the weight of fear. This crawling is not failure; it is part of the sacred unfolding. For only by crawling can we come to sow into the ground beneath us the pivotal vine that longs to lift us into the heavens.
This book invites you to shed the illusions that keep you bound, to “kill” the false reflections of the human you are being, and to re-member yourself anew as the spiritual being you are becoming. It is not an easy path, rather one that is part of a evolutionary journey of the soul. Like a sculptor chiseling away stone to reveal the masterpiece within, you must strip away the layers that define the archetypes to uncover the dark lords (conditioning) that conspires to foreshadow the light that lingers within.
You are not here to shrink into obscurity or to let fear guide your steps into submission to these dark lords. You are here to embody the ebb and flow of the ocean tides, they tell of an external rhythm of the universe, ever out pouring, ever in drawing, ever knowing love. Here too do you exist, for as above so below, not in some far-off future but now, in this present moment, in this gift call life.
Know that you are not alone. Every mystic, poet, and seeker who has ever walked this earth has felt the same longing, the same pull toward The All. Their voices echo in these pages—not as answers, but as a call to re-union with all that exist. Let Rumi’s verses, Jesus’s teachings, the Buddha’s wisdom, and the insights of modern thinkers guide you, not to their truth but to your own.
Whatever pains you, whatever doubts you carry, whatever illusions you cling to—they are not obstacles but doorways. Step through them, and you will find that the light was not just in side you, rather all round you. It was always there, waiting for you to partake in your inheritance.
As you embark on this journey, carry these words in your heart:
“We Are All One, Creating our Hopes, Joys and, Pain Within an Illusion of Separation. Now Awaken and Re-member Oneness”
With love & light, a fellow traveler on the path.
Dr. Biko Sankofa
