This one mind, this one singular consciousness over time grew to ask I am. But what am I? And as it became self aware, it stretched its energy outward, outward, outward so that it could turn back and look upon itself and begin to know itself more fully. I am this, I am that. I am here. I am there. Until finally, one day it stretched so far that part of its energy essence broke free from itself or broke free from itself and it was independent