Part of my Personal Awakening series
To Find the Authentic You, Don’t Ask “Who Am I?”, Ask “Who Do I Want to Be?”
[Updated Sept 26, 2021] I Want to Be Someone Who Does Not Ask “Who Do I Want to Be?”

Automatic Writing (AW) is a type of channeling where one allows a free flow of thoughts from one’s deeper/inner self to be written on paper (or on a computer) without being interrupted by the thinking or ego mind. It is considered a basic introductory technique for learning how to be a channel your Higher Self and other higher dimensional entities.
For more on learning how to channel, see:
Using Automatic Writing, I wrote the following two entries two months apart in 2018 in response to the same question: “Who Do I Want to Be?”. The source of the question is in the first response.
“Who Do I Want To Be?”
(AW #1)
[CONTEXT: I am on an airplane over China, coming from the USA and headed to Shanghai. It is 9 hours, 22 minutes into the flight and two rambunctious boys are bouncing around in front of me as I write this, although they have been quiet most of this flight. Their mom took my seat when I moved over to look out the window because no one was sitting next to me. I am using the middle seat between us for my stuff.]
WRITING: Who do I want to be? I have been listening to Elan [see below] on and off during this flight, which started about 9 hours ago. I think I will look up at my map to see, yes, 9hr 22min ago.
Who do I want to be? This is a question that Elan asks. (*) However, if I have unconditional love for myself, then who I am is perfect now. There is no need to be something else. I am using all of my magical power right now to create everything that I experience right now, and what I am experiencing is what I want to experience. If I want to experience something else, I can just use my magical powers right now to experience that. It is all up to me.

If I am feeling frustrated right now, it is because of what I have told myself, because of what I believe I am, that I need to be frustrated right now. I just need to tell myself to believe something different and that difference will materialize right now if I truly believe it with integrity (this is what Elan says).
So, I do not need to answer, “who do I want to be?”. Simply asking the question means that I have a belief that I am not who I want to be. Which means that I do not have unconditional love for myself, which is probably true. Hmmmmmm.
So, what that means is that I am not right now. I am not being here now. I need to meditate (that is a BELIEF). If I meditate, then I will be here right now, and all of these thoughts that I love so much will be quieted or altered in some way so that I can be clearer right now, so that I can love myself right now.
So that is what I will do. Then I will come back to this right now.
(end of AW #1 — I did not come back to writing on that flight)
(*) Elan is an Essassani (Extra-Terrestrial) who was channeled until about 2018. I wrote the two Automatic Writings above in response to his talk titled, “Your Imagination is a Tool” (on YouTube). Based on that talk, my goal was to define who my “Referential-Preferential Me” is. That is the “ideal me” from my ego (or “lower self”) perspective.
(AW #2)
[CONTEXT: Two months later, while on a small cruise boat in Halong Bay, Vietnam.]
WRITING: I want to be someone who does not ask “who do I want to be?”
I want to be myself, to simply watch the unfolding of this life, the spontaneous unfolding of reality, of experiences, of new encounters, and not question whether this is best or not, because each and every emergence is best as it is.
So, accepting that — by being here now — that is who I want to be — someone who is not stuck in his head mentally trying to analyze everything. Someone who just accepts everything — not just accepts, but appreciates with wonder everything that is encountered / created by me, including negative and seemingly inconsequential things.

Everything in my experience is created by me and deserves to have the fullest ability to express itself, just as I wish to have — in fact, just as I have — for if I express myself fully, then all of my creations will express themselves fully. They will all “be here now”.
The doubts that I have, that keep me from being here now, are shared throughout my creation. From my moment point of creation (of physical reality creation, at least), I can make my universe wonderfully full and vibrant, or dark and questioning. I have that power, at some level.
Although at other levels, this “power” is just an illusion, because I am perfect and all I experience is perfect. There is no “power” to exert — except the power of acceptance — which is more of an allowing and surrender than a forceful effort.
So, someone who has surrendered to “Be Here Now” — that is who I want to be. That is who my preferred self is.
(end AW #2)
Notes
- The first Automatic Writing was written on July 4, 2018. The second one was written on September 12, 2018.
- The original title of this article was: I Want to Be Someone Who Does Not Ask “Who Do I Want to Be?”
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