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Social Identity
Conscience – A
moral sense of right or wrong; a sense of responsibility felt for private or public actions, motives, etc.; the faculty
or principle that leads to the approval of right thought or action and condemnation of wrong; still small voice; a sense
of guilt with regard to a thought or action; scruple, compunction, remorse, principles, ethics. Oxford
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A social identity is a psychological creation manufactured
by society to act as a guardian over the wayward rudimentary self one was born with. All sentient beings are born with a
biologically coded instinctive drive for physical survival which, when one is operating and functioning with a group of
people, is potentially a danger to the survival of other group members. Hence the need for principles and morals and
ethics to regulate the conduct of each person ... with appropriate rewards and punishments to ensure compliance.
In a well-meant but ultimately short-sighted effort to
prevent gaols from being filled to over-flowing, a social identity – a psychological guardian – is fabricated in an
earnest endeavour to prevent the offences from happening in the first place. This ‘guardian’ is programmed with a
set of values and charged with the role of acting as a conscience over the wayward self. A conscience is made up of a
sure knowledge of what is Right or Wrong and Good or Bad ... as determined by each society. By and large this enterprise
has proved to be effective – only a small minority of citizens fail to behave in a socially acceptable manner.
Something can definitely be achieved in regards to this
culturally-imposed social identity ... one can readily do something about it if one is suitably motivated to do so. One
can bring about a benediction from the perfection and purity of the infinitude of this material universe by contacting
and cultivating one’s original state of naiveté. Naiveté is that intimate aspect of oneself that is the nearest
approximation that one can have of actual innocence – there is no innocence so long as there is a rudimentary self –
and constant awareness of naïve intimacy results in a continuing benediction.
This blessing allows a connection to be made between oneself and that
perfection and purity which is the essential character of infinity and eternity. This connection I call pure intent.
Pure intent endows one with the ability to operate and function safely in society without the incumbent social identity
with its ever-vigilant conscience.
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Thus reliably rendered
virtually happy and relatively harmless by the benefaction of the infinitude, one can begin to dismantle the
now-redundant social identity. To end the separative social identity, one can whittle away at all the social mores and
psittacisms ... those mechanical repetitions of previously received ideas or images, reflecting neither apperception nor
autonomous reasoning. One can examine all the beliefs, ideas, values, theories, truths, customs, traditions, ideals,
superstitions ... and all the other schemes and dreams. One can become aware of all the socialisation, of all the
conditioning, of all the programming, of all the methods and techniques that were used to control what one finds oneself
to be ... a wayward ego and compliant soul careering around in confusion and illusion. A ‘mature adult’ is actually
a lost, lonely, frightened and cunning psychological entity overlaying a psychic ‘being’.
It is never too late to
start in on uncovering and discovering what one actually is.

So, the first thing to be
aware of is that you are doing the very business of dismantling your social identity by questioning and challenging your
dearly held beliefs. The second thing is that they don’t magically disappear by themselves. It requires stubborn
effort to dig in and question and you will find much resistance, wariness, hesitancy and objection in yourself to
devoting the necessary time and effort required. The third thing is that it is something you have to do yourself to the
point that the ‘penny drops’ for you, otherwise you are back with simply swapping beliefs or adopting another belief
– a useless enterprise that will do nothing to free you from the human condition.
Actualism is not a philosophy – it is a
down-to-earth practical method that can enable you to become free from the human condition.
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