Your body is not you; your mind is not you; these two are your tools. What are you? In your essence, in your origin, you are IAM. Man is a being that is created by IAM. The same goes for every other being.
IAM creates the mind, and the mind creates the rest that is called Life, which includes dimensions, energy, matter, thinking and so on. I will explain this in detail later.
If I insisted to graphically present how IAM is emerging from The Consciousness, I would make a picture which follows. You can see the black background again, representing The Consciousness. Then, you can imagine, as the picture suggests, that something expands from within The Consciousness, from an undefined point.
If you think as a scientist, you probably could compare this picture to an image presenting the “Big Bang”. Religious people would compare this picture to the creation of the world or Life, showing how Light appears from nowhere and expands.
Indeed, the idea of creation or origin of Life or universe has been present in religions and science.
Throughout the history of humanity, while explaining IAM, teachers gave it different names. You remember that the teachers did the same while teaching about The Consciousness. That is why, when you study ancient or present teachings, religions, philosophy etc., you can find different names describing IAM; this often is quite confusing. Here are some examples of names for IAM:
God, The One, supreme I, higher I, super-consciousness, The Origin, The Creation, The Supreme Being, The Absolute Truth, The Source of Life, The Existence.
Especially in ancient scripts, you can find stories about IAM, how it is created, how it emerges from The Consciousness. I will take an example from Chinese history again, from Dào Dé Jīng (道德經), where IAM is called Yī (一) which translates to One. In this scripture the origin of IAM is described in one short sentence: 道 生 一 , which, if literary translated, would be: Dào gives birth to One. Following the terminology from this book, the translation is: The Consciousness gives birth to IAM.
To make a long story short, just remember that IAM is the essence, the creator or origin of every being. Your body and your mind are not the real YOU, they are your tools. Those tools were created by IAM. The same is true about every man, animal, plant or any other being.