Our true essence transcends the boundaries of our human experience.  It is an energetic presence that exists both before birth and beyond death.  In this lifetime, our energy inhabits a human body and perspective. In this way, we fully engage with the human condition.  This embodiment is like a compression of energy, where there is a narrowing of awareness in order to explore the depth and complexities of the human existence. 

Although our energy usually has a higher agenda or purpose, it becomes increasingly influenced and shaped by the structures of society as we develop.  From infancy, we are imprinted with societal expectations, norms, and beliefs.  This imposition is not a mistake, but a deliberate design.  We intentionally forget the truth of who we are.  This allows us to experience the world through an authentic human lens.  This forgetting permits societal conditioning and programming, which then serves as a central component of the journey that we came here to experience.