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~ Positive Identity: I Am What I Am ~
[Former Zygote - Former Embryo]
When you incarnated, nature provided a body: egg, ***, zygote, DNA, gender, color and handedness.
[The Way Your Brain Is Organized - Left and Right]
You entered a society. The word "society" is a collective noun. Societies are not real; only individuals are real.
Societies are born and die. A society is an unsustainable burden on humanity when its costs exceed its benefits.
The societies on Earth compete for survival. Each civilization and culture wants to prevail over the others.
[Cultural Wars and the Global Village]
[Understanding the Modern Culture Wars]
[The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance]
[Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses]
[It's Not Diversity - It's Perversity]
[Out of Work *** Will Work for Food]
Amidst this conflict, your society issued provisions to you for safe keeping and transmission…
1. Name: Family, clan or tribe.
[State of Alaska Birth Certificate]
2. Mind: Thoughts, ideas, concepts, images and feelings.
[Culture in Mind]
[You Write What You're Told - Thanks, Corporate News! We Couldn't Control the People Without You]
[Freud's Concept of the Unconscious Mind and the Conscious Mind]
[Dissociation: Culture, Mind and Body]
3. Ego: The idea of separation from the whole and ambition.
[No Man Is An Island, by John Donne]
[With Winning In Mind]
[Blond Ambition World Tour]
4. Personality: Personas or masks.
5. Character: Distinguishing Traits.
[Free Robot Sex]
6. Conscience: Normative morality and ethics.
[Religion and the Culture Wars]
[Culture Shock Exposure]
[No Bad Women - Just Bad Laws]
7. Ideals: Models of perfection and excellence.
[Free Your Mind]
8. Language: Words and knowledge.
[American Literature and the Culture Wars]
[Language, Mind and Culture]
[Illiterate? Write for Free Help - Illiteracy Foundation]
9. Culture: All else that is not nature; e.g., art, laws, faiths and parties.
Nature makes humans seek food for individual survival and sex for species (DNA) survival. All else is culture.
[The Culture of War]
[The American Culture of War]
The USA gives its Order of Purple Heart for military merit to serial killers.
[Order of the Purple Heart]
Some states give life prison sentences for a third conviction for consensual ephebophilia.
[California Three Strikes Sentencing]
Your body and your social provisions are your positive identity.
These social provisions are collectively called social conditioning.
Social conditioning is a cultural artifact. It has utility value but no truth value.
[The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good]
Conditioning begins at your physical birth and continues every moment until your physical death.
Nature: male, female or hermaphrodite. Culture: man or woman; masculine or feminine.
Carrying this load of provisions and containing it requires expending enormous energy.
[Pro-Pain: Contents Under Pressure]
[Under Pressure - Deep Cut]
When you leave your body, all your illusory provisions disappear back into nothingness.
You accepted these social provisions and freely identified with them.
No one told you otherwise during formal schooling of up to 20 or more years.
But you felt dissatisfied with unexamined assumptions and began to search for answers.
[The American Culture Wars]
[Stop War]
[We the People]
[Case Studies in Hypocrisy: U.S. Human Rights Policy, by Noam Chomsky]
[Hyp*cri$y - It's the American Way!]
[The Umbrella of U.S. Power: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy, by Noam Chomsky]
[Traitor!]
Your parents, priests, teachers, pundits and political leaders are conditioned agents of society.
They did not question their socially issued identity.
These social provisions were useful in becoming accepted within your social group.
[Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America: Making Sense of the Battles over the Family, Art, Education, Law and Politics]
They also created divisiveness and conflict with insiders, outsiders and aliens.
[Rage]
[Kultur-Terror]
[Orson Welles' - War of the Worlds - Fake Radio War Stirs Terror Through U.S.]
Each of these social provisions was presented by the society as a gift of great value.
But these social provisions were not fulfilling and could not bring fulfillment.
[Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education]
One man who received these provisions felt frustrated by them.
He lagged far behind his peers, becoming a social failure, and he felt miserable.
One woman who received these provisions was highly talented in using them.
She advanced far ahead of her peers, becoming a great social success, but she felt empty and hollow.
[Winner - Loser]
As a cosmic sightseer, you came to Earth with only one thing - your awareness.
When you leave your body on Earth, you will take only one thing with you -- your awareness.
Your awareness is buried under your social conditioning, but it continuously calls out in a still, small voice.
Culture is a Big Lie repeated continuously to ensnare, imprison, enslave, hypnotize and make you spellbound.
Whenever you turn away from the hypnotic, vain, mad world and meditate, you are breaking the spell.
[War Is Over! - If You Want It]
To be your true self, go within, beyond the mind, to the innermost center of being.