The Real Matrix - And How To Free Your Mind From It By Jake Danger At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

It starts when we’re small children, about the time we first develop self-awareness. Society steps in – first in the form of our parents, then out teachers, then the media, or bosses at work, our peers – and tries to tell us ‘who we are’. That’s when we begin creating the false self, the self that is a response to the demands of the society around us. We begin managing other people’s impressions of us, we begin to lie, we begin to act like a reflection of what we think the world expects us to be. Before too long we can no longer see ourselves in the mirror – we have stepped through the looking-glass. We forget that the false self is an artifice, and we begin to believe our own BS – we begin to believe that the false self is the real self, and thus submerge our real selves inside the tomb that we have created to encase it. Indeed, social conditioning is the most powerful of all mind-altering drugs.

But what happens if you suddenly wake up and remember who you are? What happens if you try to reclaim your real self? You will find yourself besieged on all sides, surrounded by a society full of other false selves who are utterly hostile to what you are doing. A counterfeit feels uncomfortable in the presence of the genuine article because it reveals his own ‘counterfeitness’ by comparison. It may even be the people closest to you – your family and your closest friends – who will oppose you the most vigorously, because they are the ones who have made the heaviest investment in thinking of you as you have always seemed to be. And once your true self comes out they may not recognize you – but did they never really know you in the first place? It will seem for a while that the world is trying to beat you back into your tomb. For many people, complete authenticity is ‘crazy’.

Forgive them and press on.

“As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give permission to others to do the same. We are liberated from our own fear. Our presence automatically liberates others.” - Nelson Mandela

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