Chasing Your Own Tail
The Chase After One’s Own Tail
Humanity is running in circles.
A search for immediate gratification, power, money, technology, status, with no higher purpose.
The energy that was given to a person to grow toward their soul’s root becomes fuel for the “other side”—the klipot (shells/husks), which feed themselves on distractions and unfocused desires.
“The Spiritual Hole”
A vast mass of human beings directing their energy to the wrong places creates a collective lack—a kind of hole in reality.
According to the Zohar and Baal HaSulam, when spiritual energy is wasted outward and not inward, a void is created, which itself gives birth to a rupture, a crisis, or a catastrophe—on a personal, societal, or global level.
The Rectification
A person is called to direct their consciousness toward the Creator, toward the One who created them, before all else.
This is the alignment of the inner compass—not running in circles, but a direct movement toward the root.
The moment the consciousness is rectified, the reality around it also organizes itself: the chaos dissipates, and the forces that ruled over it lose their grip.
Mashiach consciousness means a direct connection to the root, without the mediation of distractions.
The person learns to turn the energy that flows through them into a stream of inner inquiry, love, building, and rectification, instead of wasting it on the pursuit of externality.
This is the transition from “humanity as a running herd”
to “a person as a free being”
who is directed inward,
and from there, radiates outward.
“I am God/the Lord” (Ani Hashem)
This phrase carries several layers.
On a simple level, it is the signature of the Holy One, Blessed be He. It is an expression of absolute presence, without concealment, without mediation.
But on a deeper level:
“I” – the human I, the consciousness of separateness, that which experiences itself as a private entity.
“Hashem” (the Lord/God) – the source of life, the one reality of which there is nothing else.
When a person says “I am God” from the depth of their consciousness, they do not mean to cancel the distinction between the created and the Creator, but to discover that their “I” is not independent—it is a vessel for the divine revelation. The person discovers that within their divine soul there is truly a divine spark—”truly a part of God from above.”
This is an inner voice that asks to be remembered:
I am not just a fleeting personality,
but a revelation of a supernal light within a body and soul.
The Ramchal writes that all of reality is nothing but a revelation of the Creator’s uniqueness. At the end of the rectification, the person will not feel separate at all. Mashiach reveals to a person that their true identity is not the limited “I,” but their being a living channel for the revelation of God in the world.
Instead of chasing his own tail, the person discovers:
“My ‘I’ exists only for the sake of ‘I am God’.”
Direction means to place the Creator before your eyes.
And before every action, to have a conversation with the Creator:
What does the action I am about to do serve?
Reflect:
Where in your life are you “chasing your own tail”—running in circles after a goal (status, money, approval) that has no ultimate purpose?
Can you feel the “spiritual hole” that is created when your energy is wasted on distractions instead of being directed inward?
What would change if, before every action, you asked: “What does this action serve?” and aligned your “I” with the Divine “I AM”?
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