Art Cameron Gray
Discovering one’s actual self-identity, who (or what) we are, is the
key to living spontaneously unencumbered by spurious opinions, beliefs,
superstitions, prejudices, misconceptions, dislikes, aversions, phobias,
neuroses, fears etc… For, until we have investigated reality and
discovered our true Self, our view of the world (and all it contains)
will tend to be distorted by identifying with ego and self image, and
then referring our experiences back to this erroneous identity. This
also entails seeing the world through the filter of our likes, dislikes,
beliefs, self-interest, self-concern, fears for the future, memories
etc…
This means that we do not see the world as it actually is and are
thus liable to blunder around in an illusionary mental framework
determined by the fictitious story we have fashioned concerning who we
are. Not only that but we will also relate to others, about whom we will
each have concocted a story, from this mental creation of ourselves.
Obviously this will lead to a great deal of misunderstanding and
confusion. This also entails regarding oneself as a separate ‘object’,
in a universe of such, and thus regarding others in the same way. Which
leads to treating them as objects (for that is what we think we are),
the outcome of which can be seen in the modern world.
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