The ego of self, imaged

The ego of social masking can be observed as a way of seeming to join without really meeting.
Its characteristic function runs evasion & fear of intimacy of being. Thus it offers a realm of substitution in which bodies are used as masks and distancing - so as to permit reducing aspects of masking or distance subject to terms and conditions of avoidance. Can you see the pattern?

This can be represented (eg: Plato’s Cave) as a screen projection of dissociation from unowned, unhealed conflict. Conflict is then used as the lens for the projection of a virtual model of invested ‘reality-adjustment’ or control. Guilt operates as the basis for exclusion or withdrawal of support, as a covert identity of agreement to separate - or rather NOT to extend or accept intimacy of true presence.
So isolation and lack are drivers of a realm set for ‘getting’ life from ‘others’.

But “I am come that ye might have life more abundant” signifies the re-cognition of love in place of ‘self-justified hatreds’ rationalised as all the valid, provable reasons to be suspicious, withholding, and thus seek & find ‘what’s ‘wrong’ with everything as a pre-emptive denial of an Innocence of being that is thus masked over and distanced by layers of nested defences that set ‘rabbit-holes’ of infinite diversion - and thus serve as defence against knowing our Self or another in truth - with nothing added nor taken away. Such is an Innocence of being that stands prior to the generation of guilted conflicts of a house divided against itself.
“Before Abraham was I Am” is not a personal claim to specialness, but an undoing of self-specialness to the wellspring of Infinite Potentials of which everything is a unique expression - but unrecognised as such through a glass darkly.

 

 

(These reflections came up in context of an interview with Mattias Desmett)

@DesmetMattias

about truth & honesty as ethical principles, at the transhumanism panel.