You Are Not Book.indb - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

Student: “I” disappear.
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Wolinsky: This I am concept, which believes in the concept
of mother, earth, earth is mother, feminine, not
masculine, being the center of everything, nurturing,
solid, important, certain, take care of, etc.
How has this I am concept deceived another I
am concept?
Student: Took a lot of responsibility from other I am’s,
feels like we must take care of.
Wolinsky: If the concept of taking care of was a concept of
I am and had nothing to do with anything, then
. . . ?
Student: _______Nothing_______(Silence).
Wolinsky: This I am concept, which believes in the concept
of earth is mother, mother, earth, feminine, not
masculine, being the center of everything, nurturing,
solid, important, take care of, etc. How
has this I am concept deceived itself?
Student: It imagined that all those mother earth stories
were true and had to be acted out.
Wolinsky: And if all those stories were just concepts of I
am and had nothing to do with anything, then
. . . ?
Student: _______(Long silence).
Wolinsky: How does the concept of earth, which this I am
concept believes, like the concept of mother,
earth, feminine, not masculine, being the center
of everything, nurturing, solid, important, take
care of, etc. How does this I am concept seem
now?
Student: It’s gone.