Oneness

1 You
What better way to start this book then by talking
about You. After all, this is your experience, and this book
is focused on how you can unlearn your past conditioning
and evolve your way of thinking. So, who are You? Or
better yet, who do you think You are? When you refer to
yourself as “me,” or “I,” what are you referring to? Are
you referring to your body? Your mind? Your name? Some
image you have of yourself? Do you really know?
Most people do not really know who they are. They
have been told who they are, and they identify themselves
with what they have been told they are—a name, a race, a
social class, some role to be played in society. People cling
to these beliefs for a sense of identity, and they become
extremely fearful and defensive whenever their identity is
questioned.
This is, of course, because they have no true sense of
identity. Their identity is built upon a foundation of beliefs
and concepts that have no stability in reality. The moment
that they are faced with the reality that they are not who
they think they are, they ignore and block out whatever
information is making them feel uncomfortable, in order
to restore their sense of security.
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