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Identity
The condition or fact of a person or thing being that
specified unique person or thing, esp. as a continuous unchanging property throughout existence; the characteristics determining this;
individuality, personality.
Oxford Dictionary
Consists of two parts – the ego (who one thinks one is) and the soul (who one feels one’s
self to be). This ‘unique’ identity is no more than the program of social conditioning that we are instilled with from birth onwards and
which overlays our instinctually- programmed innate self. We then assume that we are unique individuals, but, in fact, we are forever bound
both to society’s beliefs, morals and ethics and our instinctual animal passions. This dual bondage and the ensuing lack of freedom
results in either rebellion against or resentful acceptance of one’s ‘lot in life’. Many people seek to escape from the bondage of
‘real’ world beliefs, morals and ethics and pursue the spiritual path of ‘freedom’ from everyday reality. For some .0001% of
spiritual seekers an Altered State of Consciousness (aka Enlightenment) is achieved resulting in a delusionary shift of identity from mortal
human to Immortal Divine. For the followers on the spiritual path the adoption of a new spiritual persona – an escape from everyday
reality – suffices by imagining ‘mortal earthly life’ a necessary and acceptable passing phase on the way to a better ‘some-where
else’, after death.
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A personal down-to-earth view
of identity –
‘The spiritual view is that ‘I’ as the
thinker is the issue and the spiritual teachings all actively encourage ‘I’ as the feeler to run rampant. My experience when I started
to run with the question ‘How am I experiencing this moment of being alive’ was that it was feelings that continually and relentlessly
emerged as my primary experiencing. Thus ‘I’ needed to feel grateful for being here in order to transcend the underlying feeling of
resentment at having to be here at all, and ‘I’ needed to feel love in order to bridge the gulf that ‘I’ as an alien entity feel
exists between ‘me’ and other human beings. ‘I’ feel compassion for others as a way of being able to indulge my own feelings of
sorrow and ‘I’ feel indignant when someone else suffers injustice as ‘I’ really like a good fight. ‘I’ am ever fearful of what
others think of me or feel about me, ‘I’ am ever on guard, ‘I’ am ever ready to defend myself against having ‘my’ feelings hurt.
‘My’ ploys are many in the battle with others – confrontation, withdrawal, snide remarks, denial, a bit of undermining, a bit of
cutting down to size, a bit of a whinge to someone else – ‘I’ can be as cunning as all get-out in these battles, if need be.
‘I’ readily believed in the spiritual
beliefs and wallowed in the blissful feelings as a welcome escape from everyday reality and the promise of an after-life, however subtly
implied, was poetry to ‘my’ ears and salve to ‘my’ heart. ‘I’ felt deep-down that there was no hope for Humanity and no hope for
me, and from these feelings were born a desperate belief in an after-life or an ‘other-world’ as an escape from the despair of
‘normal’ life on earth. The list goes on and on as ‘I’ fight it out for survival with others in a grim world, and ‘I’ will
ultimately do anything to stay in existence. ‘I’ am rotten to the core – the combination of animal instinctual passions and an ability
to think and reflect make the human animal not only malicious but cunningly malicious. This lethal combination allows the human species not
only to wage wars, inflict genocide, rape, murder, torture and pillage to a scale unprecedented in any other animal species but allows for
the psychic warfare and power battles, blatant denial, fantasy escapes, corruption, deception and deceit that is endemic in all human
interactions.
It soon became obvious that freedom from being
an identity – social and animal-instinctual – was the only way to get free of this constant emotional churning and the constant
selfishness of indulging in denial and escapism.’
The challenge facing modern humans is to rid
themselves of all past identity in order to become free of the Human Condition of malice and sorrow. The first step is to rid oneself of
one’s socially instilled identity – all the morals, ethics, values and psittacisms that bind one to be part of the traditional waring
groups be they ethnic, tribal, religious, spiritual, social, ethical or political. Stripped of the illusion that the world is a grim place,
and stripped of the delusion that there exists a meta-physical world, one is then able to tackle one’s animal instinctual heritage – the
innate ‘being’ that is programmed by blind nature to survive at any cost. This program of fear, aggression, nurture and desire needs to
be eliminated if one is to achieve one’s destiny – an actual freedom, the like of which has not been possible before.
The Human Condition is a transitory stage in the evolution from
animal to human, and a method is now available for those who want to achieve freedom from the burden of being a sorrowful and malicious
social identity and of being biologically bound to instinctual animal-survival passions. The ‘survival’ phase of human evolution is
finishing – the challenge for humans now is to be happy and harmless. To be a pioneer in this process is to be both unique and individual
and to evince an Actual Freedom is to be more free than a bird on the wing.
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