STARGATE

'She appeared... 'not of this world'. As if a star had formed from within the earth. A cosmic portal opened up, and it birthed a single, perfect star.  She was an earth star. A true and  beautiful light. She could shine even on her blackest of days, and illuminate the darkness of her never-ending night.'

The Emergence of, and Return to: 'Self'

In our modern world where the ever-present discovery and exploration of our 'true selves' perplexes even the most evolved of souls, we ask—who are we? Are we an emergence of something new birthed into this world or a return of something now forgotten? A star does not become light; it burns with the very powerful energy that creates light itself. And so it is with the self. The journey inward is not one of construction but of discovery, a deep unveiling, beneath the layers of conditioned amnesia, we reveal what was always there, and through our very own self-discovery, forge a new definition and experience of the self. The multi-generational coded memory of who we are lies deep within us, woven into the threads of our DNA, etched into the pathways of our physical and subconscious realities.

Science tells us that our genes hold not only the blueprints for our physical form but the imprints of those who came before us. Epigenetics reveals that our ancestors' physiology, fears, triumphs, and traumas shape the way our genes express themselves and how we are born. Memory exists not only in the mind but in the cells of the body, passed down like subtle strings that resonate like a grand orchestra from our past generations. Our complex inheritance forges a new self, that holds with it a unique self-formed from the lineage of all that came before expressed as something untouched—an essence shaped by internal and external forces. Within us all lives a soul, a distinct part of us that has always known who we are. The self that whispers beneath the noise of learned limitations, waiting to be re-discovered through our present experience, and again remembered.

Psychology tells us of the theory of ‘individuation’, the lifelong process by which we integrate the fragmented aspects of the psyche into ‘wholeness’. Carl Jung described it as ‘the awakening to the true self’, a reclamation of both shadow and light. The mind, much like the cosmos, holds infinite expanses, some known, some obscured. The conscious self-navigates the surface, constructing identity from experiences and expectations. Below the conscious reality, deep within the unconscious mind, lies the vast reservoir of ancestral memory, intuition, and pure untapped potential. And as we sink into this eternal abyss we begin the discovery and return to the inner selves of our psyches.

Freud defined the psyche as a complex interplay between the id, ego, and superego. The id, primal and instinctive, holds our most basic drives and unfiltered desires. The superego, shaped by society and morality, enforces rules and expectations. And between them stands the ego, the mediator, forging a balance between raw impulse and imposed control. The self we present to the world is often a construct of this negotiation, a version of us that conforms, that survives within the framework of external realities. But what happens when the ego is no longer enough? When the weight of suppression becomes too great, and the hidden parts of us rise from the depths, demanding to be seen? When the constructed limitations of the ego and superego are removed then we can enter the truth of ourselves and navigate beyond the psyche to discovery the soul.

Neuroscience reveals that the brain is not a fixed entity but a landscape of plasticity, capable of transformation. The patterns that define our thoughts and behaviours are not set in stone but malleable, shifting with experience and intention. When we begin to question, to challenge, to seek, we ignite neural pathways that were once dormant. The act of remembering—who we are, who we have always been—rewires us at the deepest levels. To awaken is not to discard all that we have been, but to integrate, to weave together the threads of past and present, shadow and light, human and infinite.

Belonging is often thought to be external—found in a tribe, a purpose, a connection to others. But the more we evolve in human experience and understanding the more we discover that in fact true belonging lies within. It is the recognition that we have always belonged to ourselves, to our ancestors, to the universe born of stars, and the great unfolding of the cosmos. Our cosmos exists both outside of us and within us, a mirror reflecting our own depth and expansiveness. The same stardust that forms galaxies pulses through our veins. The atoms that burn in distant suns once drifted through space before becoming part of us. We are not separated from the vastness—we are embodied by the very nature of it.

At times the return to self happens regularly, as if in an instant, with a singular moment of inspiration, clarity, or a memory as an undeniable awakening. And at times it is a slow and complex unfurling, an unfolding that we experience over long durations of time. In these moments the veils lift, all diversionary illusion dissolves, and we see the truth stands before us: we were never lost, we had only forgotten.

And so our emergence, is in fact, an emergence from deep within the inner self, and also a remembering of all that was and is in the expression of the self. In one way a transformation, and in another, a return to an inner portal of light that has always existed within us.