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Please note that the text below was written by the feeling-being ‘Peter’ while ‘he’ lived in a pragmatic
(methodological), still-in-control/same-way-of-being Virtual Freedom before becoming actually free. |
Identity
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
Peter: 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.
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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