From a site visitor: “As you know, I ordered several of your books recently. After I read them, I started having a major identity crisis and it’s still going on. I think I’m worse off now than I’ve ever been. What do I do?”
F.: Actually, you were in crisis before you read the books, not after. You just weren’t aware of the true extent of madness that has been marking your relative existence as a result of your “Crisis of False Identity.” (What could be more insane than one who does not even know who she/he is?) All crises are self-imposed, meaning imposed by accepting a false self—by accepting false personas—as actual identities. As with all personas, you have accepted from persons in your culture the many false identities that they have assigned to you as they tried to define, erroneously, “who you are.” The supposed crisis you claim to be having is being made to seem real as the ego—the false “I”—fights a fictitious battle for its fictitious "life." The greater the number of ego-states that you have accepted as identities, the more egotism will manifest to try to defend each false identity.
In the readings, you were invited to question the false teachings of your culture as well as the false roles that you have accepted as identities. For the first time in your life, your phony ego-states have been called into question and your analytical “mind” is now asking, “Well if that’s not who I am, Who am I?” The more that you question your false identities, the more that the ego will try to exert its influence and keep you in denial, driving you to cling to false identities rather than abandoning belief in those personas so that You can become aware of What You Truly Are.
All of the ego-defense mechanisms that are available to the warped consciousness will activate during the early stages of this “journey” to try to support the lies that you have believed in for so long and that now seem so familiar. Ego is fed by fear, fear hates the unfamiliar, and what you are unfamiliar with is the awareness of What You Are. Because you have not found the answer to Who (What) You Truly Are, you are in that uncomfortable, unfamiliar middle ground between giving up your phony roles but not yet having found Who (What) You Truly Are, and it is that unfamiliarity that is giving your false self its perceived, imaginary sense of “crisis.”
That is not a crisis. To be free of your belief in both false identities as well as in the lie that you’re in a crisis, you’re invited to complete all seven steps of a seven-step “journey.” From what you shared, you have been at the third step for some time, having first adopted a religious identity and then subsequently assumed a spiritual identity. Your former programmers taught you that you are your body and your “mind” and you personality (or multiple personalities). Your more recent programmers in your “spiritual program” have convinced you that you are some “Spiritual Giant,” some “human being having a spiritual experience.” Whereas the consciousness needed de-programming, they merely re-programmed you. Now, that spiritual role that you assume to be real has been challenged via the readings, so you think you’re in a crisis. You are not. You are at a point where you can now transition beyond belief in all of the nonsense that must be left behind if you are to move farther along the “path” to realizing What You Truly Are.
You did not order From the I to the Absolute. If you would complete the journey, you might consider reading that since it is the guide for the remainder of your “journey” www.floydhenderson.com/order.htm .
F.: Actually, you were in crisis before you read the books, not after. You just weren’t aware of the true extent of madness that has been marking your relative existence as a result of your “Crisis of False Identity.” (What could be more insane than one who does not even know who she/he is?) All crises are self-imposed, meaning imposed by accepting a false self—by accepting false personas—as actual identities. As with all personas, you have accepted from persons in your culture the many false identities that they have assigned to you as they tried to define, erroneously, “who you are.” The supposed crisis you claim to be having is being made to seem real as the ego—the false “I”—fights a fictitious battle for its fictitious "life." The greater the number of ego-states that you have accepted as identities, the more egotism will manifest to try to defend each false identity.
In the readings, you were invited to question the false teachings of your culture as well as the false roles that you have accepted as identities. For the first time in your life, your phony ego-states have been called into question and your analytical “mind” is now asking, “Well if that’s not who I am, Who am I?” The more that you question your false identities, the more that the ego will try to exert its influence and keep you in denial, driving you to cling to false identities rather than abandoning belief in those personas so that You can become aware of What You Truly Are.
All of the ego-defense mechanisms that are available to the warped consciousness will activate during the early stages of this “journey” to try to support the lies that you have believed in for so long and that now seem so familiar. Ego is fed by fear, fear hates the unfamiliar, and what you are unfamiliar with is the awareness of What You Are. Because you have not found the answer to Who (What) You Truly Are, you are in that uncomfortable, unfamiliar middle ground between giving up your phony roles but not yet having found Who (What) You Truly Are, and it is that unfamiliarity that is giving your false self its perceived, imaginary sense of “crisis.”
That is not a crisis. To be free of your belief in both false identities as well as in the lie that you’re in a crisis, you’re invited to complete all seven steps of a seven-step “journey.” From what you shared, you have been at the third step for some time, having first adopted a religious identity and then subsequently assumed a spiritual identity. Your former programmers taught you that you are your body and your “mind” and you personality (or multiple personalities). Your more recent programmers in your “spiritual program” have convinced you that you are some “Spiritual Giant,” some “human being having a spiritual experience.” Whereas the consciousness needed de-programming, they merely re-programmed you. Now, that spiritual role that you assume to be real has been challenged via the readings, so you think you’re in a crisis. You are not. You are at a point where you can now transition beyond belief in all of the nonsense that must be left behind if you are to move farther along the “path” to realizing What You Truly Are.
You did not order From the I to the Absolute. If you would complete the journey, you might consider reading that since it is the guide for the remainder of your “journey” www.floydhenderson.com/order.htm .
To be in that “no man’s land” where “the man” or “the woman” do not exist but where the consciousness has not been purified enough to begin to see What You Truly Are can seem very crisis-like. It’s not. Ego-states are merely jousting with windmills, trying to attack perceived threats to their identification with the body-mind-personality. Consciousness is speaking through the words you read, and consciousness is not threatening You (the Real You) at all. It is pointing out the deceit involved with that which you take to be “you” but that is really the “not You.” How could anything involving that which you are not have any impact on You...on That Which You Truly Are? It cannot.
So “what do you do”? You realize that there is no do-er, you transition that notion that there is a do-er who must do something, you take the pointers being offered into quiet consideration, and then you allow the awareness of the truth that can only be tapped into from within to happen. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
So “what do you do”? You realize that there is no do-er, you transition that notion that there is a do-er who must do something, you take the pointers being offered into quiet consideration, and then you allow the awareness of the truth that can only be tapped into from within to happen. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
