The Zen of Advaita - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

metaphorically, is the oneconcept, belief or idea that youhave about yourself that you useto organize everything in youruniverse. Very simply stated theFalse Core Driver drives thepersonality by offering the reasonor justification for separation(for example, “I am worthless”,”there must be something wrongwith me” etc).The False Self Compensatorcompensates for the falselybelieved reason. For example, ”Imust prove my worth or value”, or“I must prove that I am perfectand there is nothing wrong withme”. The False Core and theFalse Self act as a hub on thewheel of personality which goesaround again and again, and itessentially hides or masks who youare.Once this False Core belief andFalse Self are solidified, thenervous system begins to perceivethe world through its False Corebelief and to abstract out of allof the information available toit only those elements that ithas decided are significant. In126