The Shadow Side of Disidentification

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概要

TLDRThe video explores disidentification as a crucial element of spiritual awakening, elucidating its beneficial aspects while shedding light on its shadowy side. The process involves detaching from one's ego or temporal self to recognize the non-physical self. Benefits include greater objectivity, emotional resilience, and adaptability. However, the shadow arises when disidentification becomes a coping mechanism, leading to self-abandonment and the denial of one's identity and emotions, often justified by spiritual beliefs. The video cautions against extreme disassociation, emphasizing the importance of self-ownership and integration. The ultimate goal is to balance recognizing one's physical and non-physical aspects, understanding one's identity as both human and beyond. This duality allows for a deeper consciousness expansion without falling into the trap of ignoring one's human self.

収穫

  • 🌀 Disidentification helps in being objective by detaching from the ego.
  • 💡 It's essential for spiritual awakening, recognizing non-physical aspects.
  • 😕 The shadow side includes extreme self-abandonment and emotional blunting.
  • ✊ Healthy disidentification requires self-ownership and integration.
  • 🌌 Consciousness expansion is about balancing physical and non-physical selves.
  • 🚨 Beware of using disidentification purely as a coping mechanism.
  • 🛤️ Spiritual beliefs can sometimes promote harmful disassociation.
  • 🤝 Combine temporal and non-temporal self for better self-care.
  • 🔄 The goal is to embrace both being human and beyond human.
  • 🔍 Disidentification must not enhance self vs. other division.

タイムライン

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    Disidentification is integral to spiritual awakening, offering benefits like objective self-awareness and flexibility. It involves recognizing oneself as distinct from the ego and physical self, facilitating detachment from pain. However, the shadow side emerges when it's used to escape pain, leading to denial and disownership of one's temporal self, a form of self-abandonment justified by certain spiritual beliefs.

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    The shadow side of disidentification is rampant in spiritual communities, often mistaken for enlightenment. The narrative of Isan illustrates this, where radical disownment of his temporal self, presented as enlightenment, gains admiration. True spiritual practice should focus on integrating physical and non-physical selves with radical self-ownership, avoiding disidentification that enhances self and otherness. The ultimate truth is oneness, requiring us to recognize and integrate all aspects of identity.

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ビデオQ&A

  • What is disidentification in spiritual awakening?

    Disidentification is the process of separating oneself from their ego or temporal self to become more aware of their non-physical self.

  • What are the benefits of disidentification?

    It allows a person to be more objective, less emotionally reactive, and enables them to let go of what doesn't serve them, among other benefits.

  • What is the shadow side of disidentification?

    It is the extreme form of self-abandonment, where individuals detach from their pain, leading to disconnection and dismissal of the ego or temporal self.

  • How is disidentification used as a coping mechanism?

    People use it to cope with pain by separating their consciousness from the source of pain, often leading to emotional blunting or dissociation.

  • Why is disidentification prevalent in spiritual and religious communities?

    It's prevalent because these communities often focus on non-temporal aspects, encouraging disidentification for pain relief.

  • What is a negative consequence of using disidentification as a coping mechanism?

    It can lead to a deep resistance to one's self, denial, and disowning aspects of oneself, which may be justified with spiritual beliefs.

  • How should one approach disidentification healthily?

    There should be a balance of disidentifying from the ego while retaining self-ownership, care, and integration of all self-aspects.

  • What is the ultimate goal of conscious expansion according to the video?

    The goal is to understand and integrate that you are both physical and non-physical, human yet more than human—holding dichotomy.

  • Why can disidentification be seen as a form of self-abandonment?

    Because it involves detaching from one's painful emotions or aspects instead of owning and integrating them.

  • What is the role of spiritual beliefs in disidentification?

    Spiritual beliefs can sometimes justify disowning painful parts of oneself, promoting further disconnection.

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    disidentification is a critical element
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    of Spiritual Awakening because it is so
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    important though people assume that it
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    can only be good but there's a shadow
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    side to disidentification in this video
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    I'm going to reveal this Shadow side of
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    disidentification so that you don't
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    succumb to
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    [Music]
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    it so first let's talk about what
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    disidentification is identity is the
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    condition of being oneself one separate
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    self another word for this is ego
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    you cannot have a sense of self without
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    also simultaneously having a sense of
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    other whenever we associate something
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    with oursel we identify with it it
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    becomes part of us we make it the same
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    as us this is what attachment really is
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    it is
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    identification before people start down
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    this path of Awakening they are
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    completely identified with their
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    temporal self the temporal self being
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    this human self that they call by their
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    name this means that they think they are
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    their body they are their emotions they
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    are their thoughts they are whatever
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    relates to their mortal human self in
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    this one
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    lifetime most people are completely and
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    totally ignorant to their non-physical
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    aspect the one that created this
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    Incarnation that they are calling by
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    their name by the way people use many
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    names for this aspect names like the
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    soul or the spirit or the higher self or
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    Newman or the stream of Consciousness
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    Eternal witness essence immaterial force
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    and so many more in different languages
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    trust me they don't understand that
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    their temporal self is a creation an
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    expression of their non-physical aspect
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    and so they mistake the temporal self to
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    be the totality of who they are really
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    you could say that a person is two main
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    points of perspective non-physical and
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    physical or spiritual and temporal same
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    thing we're describing on the path of
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    Awakening a person begins to gain
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    awareness of their non-physical aspect
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    and starts to disidentify with their ego
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    I.E their temporal self in this life
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    this disidentification is a profound
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    thing to disidentify with something you
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    must identify it as different to
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    yourself you must see it as other than
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    you for example if you would like to
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    disidentify from your own pain all you
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    have to do is to conceptualize of your
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    pain as a separate entity and when you
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    experience pain observe the pain as if
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    you are watching this separate entity
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    reacting in this way you do not take the
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    pain personally when you
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    disidentify you become able to see
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    things much more
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    objectively so let's look at some other
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    benefits of disidentification okay like
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    disidentification allows you to be more
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    aware of the non-physical elements that
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    play in any given
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    situation it makes it so that you are
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    the Observer of your own thoughts it
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    makes it easy to change beliefs it tends
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    to make you less emotionally reactive it
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    allows you to not resist the
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    everchanging conditions of your physical
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    body it allows you to change roles and
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    be more flexible as a being it causes
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    you to be able to let go of what no
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    longer serves you to change and adapt
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    what does serve you it helps you to let
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    go of the past and be far more present
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    in the here and now this is just the tip
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    of the iceberg there are many more
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    benefits to
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    disidentification because of what it is
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    it makes people feel better and because
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    of this disidentification can be used as
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    a coping mechanism and drag us deep into
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    the shadow expression of
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    disidentification when people are in
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    enough pain sometimes they detach from
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    their emotions alt together this is
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    sometimes called emotional blunting and
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    sometimes when people are in enough
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    physical pain they disconnect from their
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    body this is often called dissociation
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    this is to intentionally create a
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    separation between our Consciousness and
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    the thing that is in pain so that we
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    don't experience that pain if we
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    understand this concept in general we
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    can now move to an understanding of the
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    Shadow side of
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    disidentification so what is it it's
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    when we identify the problem that is
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    causing us pain as being our temporal
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    human self and so we choose to separate
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    oursel from it so as to get away from it
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    it's a radical self- disownership
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    basically our temporal human self is is
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    in pain and we don't want to experience
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    that pain anymore and so we disconnect
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    from it and detach from it and
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    disidentify with it and no longer
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    consider it to be a part of us this is
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    the most extreme form of
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    self-abandonment that a person can exact
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    upon themselves they no longer see the
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    aspect of their ego or temporal form as
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    theirs any of what's associated with
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    that aspect and as a result they remain
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    disconnected from those things deny them
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    refuse to acknowledge them renounce them
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    minimize them and see them as totally
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    inv valid to them no greater cruelty can
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    be exacted upon your temporal self and
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    as if this isn't bad enough the doing so
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    is so often Justified with spiritual
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    beliefs and even spiritual truths things
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    like the purpose of life is to transcend
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    the illusion of the physical plane or
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    the body is simply a vessel for the
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    Divine or you are not your body and you
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    are not your mind or strong emotion only
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    arises as a result of attachment to that
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    which is not you okay literally I could
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    be here forever giving of these types of
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    beliefs and even truths the shadow side
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    of disidentification is a deep state of
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    resistance because the entire process is
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    done out of resistance to the self
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    resistance to the ego resistance to the
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    temporal form this coping mechanism of
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    disidentification is absolutely rampant
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    in the religious and spiritual
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    communities because the focus of these
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    communities is the non-temporal and so
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    many people within these communities are
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    using religion and
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    spiritual spiritual practices we should
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    say for pain relief and because it's
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    working for them to feel less pain using
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    the coping mechanism they're all
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    encouraging each other to do so and
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    presenting each other with beliefs that
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    support the idea that you should do
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    so so just to get the straight these
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    communities in the religious and
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    spiritual World support this coping
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    mechanism in the same way that bars
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    support the use of alcohol as a coping
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    mechanism the absolute tragedy about
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    this is that people who are effectively
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    using disidentification As A coping
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    mechanism to blunt their conscious
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    experience of their temporal self are
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    often considered by others to be the
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    most awakened and enlightened of them
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    all they are considered to be
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    Transcendent and above it all so that
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    you understand this better I'm going to
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    give you an example isan grew up in
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    rural India he was very very smart from
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    the get-go and because of this let's
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    face it he wasn't very happy right he
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    couldn't simply accept and believe
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    anything that he was fed without
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    experiencing it for himself he was
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    fairly non-compliant his father would
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    consistently bered him and his mother
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    was just oh so manipulative to try to
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    get isan to do whatever she wanted him
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    to do for her sake she was especially
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    prone to victim control
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    drama his grandfather who he was really
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    really close to his only safe attachment
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    figure died when he was seven and as a
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    result the family had to move to a major
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    city where he was put in school for the
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    very first time which for isan was an
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    absolute
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    jail okay so let's fast forward isan
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    ended up in more and more and more pain
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    and until he became suicidal and one day
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    in his early 20s he wandered into a
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    Ganesha Temple and immediately felt
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    relief because of this he became really
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    interested in studying about spiritual
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    philosophy as he did this he met many
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    gurus now isan had a very important
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    Epiphany one
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    day this Epiphany was that there were
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    two parts of himself the part of himself
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    that was miserable that he couldn't live
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    with anymore and the part of him that
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    was watching or able to observe that
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    part he came to the conclusion
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    that the one that was watching was his
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    real self his
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    soul the isan that existed before this
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    life and that will exist after and he
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    came to the conclusion that the other
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    part was his ego not his real self now
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    this realization caused this major
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    internal shift whereby he drastically
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    identified with his non-physical aspect
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    and drastically disidentified from his
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    temporal self his unhappy self he no
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    longer saw of his temporal self that he
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    calls by the name isan as him or as his
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    he radically disowned it this is not my
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    body and my body is not who I am it is
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    not me that is in pain it is the ego and
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    this emotional body that's in pain it is
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    this aspect of me that was conditioned
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    in such a way to stay in pain these are
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    not my emotions these are reactions that
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    I'm watching happen in the body that
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    isn't me when isan would experience an
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    emotion he would not see it is his
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    emotion he would minim it see it as
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    totally invalid to him refus to engage
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    with the language of felt perception as
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    a result he may have been observant of
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    the things going on within his temporal
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    self but he was fundamentally
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    unresponsive to it he was dismissive
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    towards anything that related to his
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    temporal self he did not act in a
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    considerate caring and loving way
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    towards
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    it isan has effectively disowned his
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    human self the thing is in this state of
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    disconnection and separation from his
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    own temporal self he was very very very
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    non-reactive he felt very at peace truly
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    he felt very little he spent all of his
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    conscious energy on the non-physical
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    planes due to being solely identified
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    with his non-physical aspect now and as
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    such people started to regard him as
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    someone to follow and emulate a teacher
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    isan gained a very large following and
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    went on to teach people that the
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    solution to their suffering is to
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    disidentify from their temporal self but
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    he was not simply teaching them to
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    disidentify from their temporal self he
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    was teaching them to disconnect from it
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    to dismiss it and to disown it here is a
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    rule that you need to follow so as to
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    not fall into the shadow side of
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    disidentification there can be no
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    healthy disidentification without
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    radical self-ownership you cannot
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    disidentify from the ego without owning
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    the ego as a cherished part of you you
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    need to be loving caretaking responsive
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    valuing of all aspects of your temporal
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    self you must integrate physical and
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    non-physical integrate temporal and
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    non-temporal the point of expansion of
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    consciousness is not to wake up from
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    some illusion and realize that you are
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    not your body and you are not your
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    emotions and you are not your mind and
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    you are not the you that you call by
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    your name and you are not
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    human so what is the point of expansion
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    of
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    consciousness the point is to understand
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    that you are your body and at the same
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    time you are not you are your emot tions
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    and at the same time you are not you are
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    your mind and at the same time you are
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    not you are human and at the very same
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    time you are not you are the you that
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    you call by your name and at the very
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    same time you're not you must hold
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    dichotomy as such one of the intentions
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    of disidentification from the temporal
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    self must be to better own and caretake
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    and integrate the aspect of you that is
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    temporal the you that you call by your
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    name this is meant to be a harmonious
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    marriage between your non-physical
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    aspect and your temporal human self in
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    this life the hardest part of spiritual
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    practice is the complimentary
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    contradictions inherent in a
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    multi-dimensional universe that quite
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    frankly don't feel very complimentary at
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    face
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    value ultimately the highest truth is
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    that all is one the painter is one with
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    the painting and
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    so any form of disidentification with
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    must not be done to enhance self and
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    otherness in this universe nothing is
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    other than you not your mind not your
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    body not your emotions not other people
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    not your kitchen table not your dogs not
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    the
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    clouds not the cement on the sidewalk
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    but to even see much less experience and
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    live in alignment with this truth we
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    must first disidentify with the very
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    things that are keeping us locked in our
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    own intense sense of
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    identity have a good week
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    [Music]
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  • disidentification
  • spiritual awakening
  • ego
  • non-physical self
  • self-abandonment
  • emotional resilience
  • coping mechanism
  • self-ownership
  • consciousness expansion
  • dichotomy