Your Sacred Self
Living Your Real Life
You have a role to play in evolution -- and in saving the planet.
introduction
True or False
There is a war raging within us whether we wish to admit it or not.
This battle is fought between our true and false selves for the possession of our souls. We must choose which self we will honor -- the true or the false. This choice determines the direction we take in our lives: toward or away from our life's ultimate purpose -- enlightenment.
Our true self urges us to become our own person. True to ourselves, we leave the limits of the family, the clan, and the nation and become a universal person. We belong to the truth at our core, free at last to evolve into life's deepest calling.
Our false self resists change. It is unconsiously ruled by introjected parental and ancestral voices and the societies and religions that support them. Collectively these constricted familial voices are the norm; they demand unquestioned conformity and are quick to condemn any who defy their rule.
We constructed our false self in childhood to appease our parents and deflect their harsh and unloving ways. As adults, if we refuse to resolve this traumatizing past and dismantle this protective facade, we begin to identify with it and forget that we have a true self at all. With the false self unchallenged and in charge, it rules our lives with impunity and will ultimately destroy us.
To save our lives and our planet home, we must take the first step in self-honesty and admit that the traumas buried in our unconscious, passed from parents to children, generation to generation, are destroying us.
And by telling the truth, we change our orientation to life.
We begin to identify with a gay person's battle for a truthful identity. When gays come out, we take a courageous step to be true despite the family's threats of exile, the damning contempt of religion and the legal intimidation of the state. As gays embrace a variant orientation, we dare to live beyond the clan's condemnation and join a universal partnership with life.
Coming out has implications for us all: it is the daring act of leaving the norm's deadly demands of conformity to the false self -- to live true.
We all must change our orientation and evolve beyond the collective family's denied heritage of trauma if we are to survive. We must become a "mutant" -- a new and truly universal species who can lead humanity into its next, more evolved chapter.
If we refuse to transform our destructive ways, planet earth will spin empty-handed around the sun and Homo sapiens will be another name on the already long list of the extinct.
There is a war raging within us whether we wish to admit it or not.
This battle is fought between our true and false selves for the possession of our souls. We must choose which self we will honor -- the true or the false. This choice determines the direction we take in our lives: toward or away from our life's ultimate purpose -- enlightenment.
Our true self urges us to become our own person. True to ourselves, we leave the limits of the family, the clan, and the nation and become a universal person. We belong to the truth at our core, free at last to evolve into life's deepest calling.
Our false self resists change. It is unconsiously ruled by introjected parental and ancestral voices and the societies and religions that support them. Collectively these constricted familial voices are the norm; they demand unquestioned conformity and are quick to condemn any who defy their rule.
We constructed our false self in childhood to appease our parents and deflect their harsh and unloving ways. As adults, if we refuse to resolve this traumatizing past and dismantle this protective facade, we begin to identify with it and forget that we have a true self at all. With the false self unchallenged and in charge, it rules our lives with impunity and will ultimately destroy us.
To save our lives and our planet home, we must take the first step in self-honesty and admit that the traumas buried in our unconscious, passed from parents to children, generation to generation, are destroying us.
And by telling the truth, we change our orientation to life.
We begin to identify with a gay person's battle for a truthful identity. When gays come out, we take a courageous step to be true despite the family's threats of exile, the damning contempt of religion and the legal intimidation of the state. As gays embrace a variant orientation, we dare to live beyond the clan's condemnation and join a universal partnership with life.
Coming out has implications for us all: it is the daring act of leaving the norm's deadly demands of conformity to the false self -- to live true.
We all must change our orientation and evolve beyond the collective family's denied heritage of trauma if we are to survive. We must become a "mutant" -- a new and truly universal species who can lead humanity into its next, more evolved chapter.
If we refuse to transform our destructive ways, planet earth will spin empty-handed around the sun and Homo sapiens will be another name on the already long list of the extinct.