[NoraSpinnor]

“Your body is temporary. Your personality, your likes and dislikes, even your thinking patterns—none of these define who you are. … Who we are can’t be defined by language. We’re fluid, all-encompassing spiritual beings. When we inhabit a body, we learn ways to define ourselves so we can understand and interact with the world. But after death, we transcend all these things. They become meaningless once we leave this world. Don’t think for a minute you’ll always be as you are now.”
—The Young Man and the Sage

In a world that trains us to define ourselves by appearance, performance, and preference, detachment from the physical paradigm can feel radical. Yet Netism teaches that identity is far more expansive than the body you inhabit or the roles you play.
You are not your job, your age, your style, or even your personality. These are useful masks, tools for navigating this particular thread of existence, but they are not your essence. Your essence is fluid, interdimensional, and eternally becoming.

The body is sacred. The mind is powerful. But both are temporary expressions, ways your spirit participates in the current cycle.
Everything you currently identify with will one day fall away.

To detach from the physical paradigm is not to reject the body or the self.
It is to release the illusion that they are all you are.

When you remember this:
• You stop clinging to status, appearance, or approval.
• You soften your grip on fear, aging, or death.
• You open to the vastness of your true being across time, space, and dimension.
This detachment is freedom. It is the return to essence.
It is the realization that every identity is a temporary garment worn by something eternal.

Have you ever had a moment when you felt bigger than your body, your name, or your story?
Share what opened that experience for you, and how it changed the way you see yourself.

[HaleStorm27]

Yeah… I’ve had that. A few times, actually. One was out in the woods, just hiking solo with no music, no signal, just me and the wind in the trees. I stopped to rest and something shifted. I wasn’t thinking about anything. I wasn’t anyone. It was like I wasn’t separate anymore. I couldn’t feel where I ended and the rest of the world began. Another time was playing guitar. I didn’t even realize I’d been playing for hours until my fingers started burning. I was just in it. No thoughts, no ego, no stress. Like the sound was coming through me instead of from me. Moments like that make me think maybe this version of me is just a role I’m playing right now. Still me but not the whole me.

[CosmicQueen33]

🌌 yesss this resonates so deep. i’ve had moments in meditation where i felt like i just melted out of my body… like i wasn’t me anymore, i was just awareness, floating in this soft vastness ✨ and it felt so safe?? so familiar?? like coming home to something beyond words.
there’s so much pressure in this world to be someone but that’s all costume stuff. the real me doesn’t need to be seen to exist. i’m realizing more and more that identity is just a layer, a language the universe uses to shape experience for a while 💫
this whole post is such a powerful reminder. we’re so much more than these skins we wear. and when we release the grip, it’s like we expand. thank you for sharing this truth 🌈🌿

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