The Many Selves

Chances are that you have come across slogans like 'get in touch with yourself', 'find yourself', 'be true to yourself', candy to inspire a positive attitude making you 'feel good'.

And of course many 'feel good' gurus turn the candy into a profitable business by providing the public with these ego-boosts.

Yet although these catchphrases may sound very positive and good on the surface, there is one important crucial question which needs to be asked before these phrases can be assessed: what is 'self'?

'Self' is the concept of an identity.

Whatever you identify with is what becomes part of YOU, and that is where the problem lies.

The slogans I mentioned may sound good, but if you identify with corruption, then being 'true to yourself' implies acting out a corrupt nature, a Lie.

And if you are true to the Lie, then 'getting in touch with yourself and being true to yourself' means your entire Life becomes a reflection of the Lie, and the slogan which looked like a positive inspiration actually becomes a gateway into self-destruction.

There IS a true self, a self (or identity) which YHWH gave us, a self which is uncorrupted and untainted by the Lie.

It is a self which is rooted in the Creator of our conscience and seeks to act out what is Good, right and true, living by the standards designed by YHWH. 

There is however another self, a self which is the result of being exposed to corruption in our environment, the family into which we are born, the school we attend, the friends we associate with, the workplace where we earn a living, the TV set which programs our mind, the artist we admire, etc.

I have explained how hypnosis works by grace of the fact that we ARE already hypnotized by our wrong reaction to Life's pressures,

The hypnosis is the result of being exposed to a flawed cultural setting through which the Lie manifests and reproduces itself in us. 

Programming man's mind is achieved by creating links in the physical brain, and the way these links are created is by exposing man's senses to the message promulgated by for example the TV station.

The programming on TV becomes the transmitter, and the viewer's brain the receiver.

The physical senses of sight and hearing become the interfaces through which the input originating from the TV set enters the brain, where it is recorded in neurons, and our reactions on a conscious and subconscious level determine the strength of the connections between different neurons and their power to influence us, either on a conscious or sub-conscious level.

Subliminal messages are information packages designed to escape conscious detection of their content, so that they are able to register in neurons and become part of a network of neurons without any awareness on our part.

The area of linguistic programming deals with the area of how language and the way it is spoken, its timing and the choice of words, are part of programming the minds of people.

Linguistic programming creates real physical links in the human brain between neurons where the information of the programming has been stored.

If you will, add up the multitude of moments we were exposed to the flaws in our environment which elicited a wrong reaction on our part, add to this the moments we have been exposed to subliminal messages on the TV set, the MP3's, and so forth, and take into consideration that we are born with a basic flaw which opens up our mind to a destructive element called Evil.

Then ask yourself the question: who am I?

What is your 'self'?

Surely you agree with me that if I toss the phrase that you should be 'true to yourself' I am stating an absurdity if I do not place this slogan in a proper frame of reference?

Which 'self' am I referring to?

Am I not leaving out the most important element, which is the question of what your 'TRUE self' is?

The awakening to your 'true self' is the result of a choice your make in your Soul.

If you identify with corruption and you reject YHWH's Spirit, His Ruach, then your concept of a 'true self' equals a 'corrupt self' in the absence of YHWH's absolute standard, a 'self' which embraces the Lie and Destruction.

From YHWH's absolute perspective your 'true self' is a 'false self' which you have embraced as your 'true self', and your TRUE 'true self' is lost as a result.

Without YHWH's input through His Ruach we lack the absolute frame of reference which allows us to know what our 'true self' is, and as a result we are fixated on a concept of 'self' which is the result of the Lie acting through the programming we were exposed to.

I have often explained how we are born with a Spirit which wants to do Good, at least, MOST of us have been born with a Spirit which is not fallen, but this Spirit enters a physical Body which carries the legacy of Sin, meaning that it acts as a conduit for the destructive power of Evil.

The moment the Spirit is locked into the physical experience it is separated from YHWH by the prison wall of the physical Body, yet it retains the knowledge of (the intimacy with) what is Good.

Since our Soul is connected to both the Spirit and the Body we experience a tug of war between the two forces of Good and Evil within.

In other words, the moment we enter the Flesh is the moment we suddenly have two selves, one 'TRUE self' of the Spirit and one 'FALSE self' of the Flesh, a spiritual and a carnal identity.

Part of our purpose on Earth is to learn to identify with the 'true self'.

YHWH created a special procedure for us to be restored to a purified identity, our 'true self'.

This procedure is activated through belief in the Man He sent to be our Savior: Yahshua.

The Light of the Father dwells in Him so that we can identify with that Light and be restored to that Light.

This means that when we identify with that Light as our home, our 'true self', we are restored to a pure identity in Him.

That is the moment when a phrase like 'being true to yourself' begins to make sense.

Our choice to believe in Yahshua saves us, and our choice for His Salvation sets a process in motion where we are being restored to a pure identity by constantly rejecting the Lie and embracing Truth.

The problem with many New Age type philosophies is that the way to the 'restored self' which I just described is paved by esoteric 'wisdom', as if knowledge can save us and restore us to our 'true self'.

They equal the Light of YHWH to the enlightenment of knowledge, but this is exactly the Lie the Adversary held up to Adam and Eve: 'leave behind your ignorance and embrace the knowledge of Good and Evil so that you can be god too'.

Being 'true to yourself' in the New Age philosophy is the identification with this Lie, and that is how it becomes a deadly poison setting you up for Destruction through your identification with corruption in the form of a false, pseudo self which seeks to create its own liberation through wisdom and knowledge, a Gnostic ladder reaching into a false image of Heaven.

You cannot by-pass YHWH's construct of Salvation, no matter how hard you try.

You can never become a '1' again after being turned into a '0', regardless of how many wisdom quotes you may put on your webpage.

Without YHWH these quotes become just part of the New Age stairway to Heaven, which actually is the Dark Loft dressed up as Heaven.

YHWH created ONE way only for us to be restored, a way which seems like folly to the intellectually oriented mind: belief in a Man the Father sent so that by believing in that Light, we become part of that Light.

BELIEF is the magnet drawing a Soul to that which the Soul has chosen to accept, and the Souls of YHWH's own are drawn to Him in His Yahshua with a strong magnetic pull which defies description, yet which is undeniably real to YHWH's own.

Our problem as human beings is that we are schizophrenic.

At the root level we carry two conflicting identities inside which are mutually exclusive and shielded from each other, very much in the way someone might split up into different personalities after being exposed to a severe trauma in order to be able to mentally survive the shock of the trauma.

Each of these personalities takes a piece of the trauma it is able to deal with, so that the overwhelming monstrosity of the trauma is broken down into pieces the victim is able to come to terms with.

The fractured personality which is split into different and compartmentalized 'selves' can be the effect of an assault of an agent of Evil of such proportions, that the target of the assault is unable to come up with the right kind of resistance against the assault.

The result is a wrong way to defend the Soul by creating different identities, safety havens where the victim can hide from the Evil invasion of the Soul.

The problem is that the moment Evil succeeds shaping someone's identity, even fracturing an identity as the result of severe trauma, then the presence of Evil caused by the wrong response (which is Sin) opens the victim up to Evil Spirits.

The safety havens of the different identities resulting from a fractured personality can become habitats for Evil Spirits. 

Sin is like a piece of software code which de-activates the firewall of the Soul so that unwanted intruders are able to get in.

Likewise, the compartmentalized personalities, the different selves, lend themselves perfectly as hide-outs for demonic entities, like virtual tents in the physical Body where unwanted Evil beings can take up residence.

Thus, a fractured personality can lead to possession by many Evil Spirits, like Legion in the Bible, and merging with the artificially created identities then equals merging with Evil Spirits.

This kind of possession can never be cured by means of any psychotherapy or other kind of medical treatment.

The only way this possession can be reversed is by exorcism caused by belief in Yahshua.

That is when the Evil Spirits have to vacate their chosen premises, and the possessed person is set free instantly from any indwelling Evil Spirits.

The memories of the trauma still are present in the form of neurons, and these neurons are still organized in different compartments which gave rise to different personalities, but the presence of Evil Spirits has been eliminated, and the healing can begin.

This person will experience Yahshua's liberation as if he or she has taken a spiritual shower which washed away all the dirt, and that is the reason why baptism, which washes away the dirt from the Body, was chosen as a symbolic expression of Yahshua's work.

Although the spiritual cleansing Yahshua performs is not dependent on an external baptism, the external baptism IS dependent on Yahshua's spiritual cleansing, because without it the ritual of baptism becomes an ordinary shower which changes nothing for anyone's Life.

Man's great trauma is the trauma of Sin.

It caused us to split into two basic identities which are mutually exclusive.

An identity of Evil came into existence next to an identity of Good.

The identity of the Spirit is unable to tolerate the element of Evil, because it carries the element of Good.

The identity of the Flesh is unable to identify with the element of Good, because it is part of the domain of Evil, the result of the choice to identify and thus merge with rebellion against what is Good.

That is why the 'self of Evil' had to split off and cause us to become compartmentalized in two distinctly different selves, one which is able to deal with and process the element of Evil, and the other which is able to process the element of Good.

In our Soul we cross from one personality into the other, and Salvation implies that we cross over from the artificial identity of Evil, which came into existence as a result of the first trauma, into the identity of Good, the real and original identity.

Our choice of identification decides whether our Soul is drawn out of the artificial personality into unity with YHWH, or whether it is drawn into the artificial self where it exists in disparity with YHWH, something which can never exist in the true reality where YHWH is, since there is no existence outside of YHWH, yes, there is no 'outside YHWH'.

Our plight is the co-existence on the most basic level of these two identities, or two selves within our being, our Soul.

The personality of Good is one and cannot fracture, but the identity of Evil is capable of splitting itself up in many different elements like a tree with many branches, all having in common that they have grown out of the original stem of Evil within us.

The result is that we have two 'basic selves' of Good and Evil, and out of the 'Evil self' can grow many other selves by means of the programming we were exposed to, like masks worn by the Soul.

Which one will you pick when someone urges you to be 'true to yourself'?  

What meaning does this phrase have if it is not defined by a certain context which makes it clear to us what 'self' really is?

Our schizophrenic nature allows us to identify with Evil so that our 'true self' becomes a 'self' born from the Lie, and it allows us to identify with Good so that our 'self' can be saved and restored in Yahshua to a 'true self', a 'self' which is the result of the properties of 'self' which YHWH created, a 'self' rooted in and being an expression of YHWH.

Identifying with YHWH in Yahshua restores us to our true self, and that is the only context where a slogan such as 'being true to yourself' begins to make sense.

In all other cases positive sounding phrases such as the ones I mentioned are just part of a parcel of the Lie, false tactics designed to lead us astray on a path which has the appearance of being positive only because Darkness covers the true destiny of where the path is leading to.

The 'self' is a very strange phenomenon.

We have different identities within us we can identify with, thus turning an identity into our 'true self'.

Apparently there is something greater than the 'self' making the choice to identify with a 'self'.

This greater component is the Soul connected to the Spirit as well as the Body.

As a result of the input of the Spirit and the Body we make a choice in our Soul to believe in one or the other, and this choice causes the Soul to dress up in the chosen 'self', thus merging with and becoming the 'self'.

We experience a convergence of different dimensions, existing both in the physical AND the spiritual dimension, and this is the construct which makes it possible for two basic and mutually exclusive identities to exist in the consciousness of our Soul, the conscious link to Heaven and Earth.

It chooses an identity based on the input it receives, and it becomes the identity, the 'self'.

If that 'self' is corrupt and nothing but an artificial vehicle for 'non-existence', or 'Evil', the 'Lie', then the Soul is captured in that vehicle, and because it merged with the vehicle of Evil (it thereby became Evil, non-existence which only can have an appearance of existence due to the energy given to its instruction code), it suffers Destruction.

This is the Death of the Soul, something which Yahshua warned for when He instructed us not to fear those who can kill the Body yet have no power beyond the Flesh, but rather to fear Him who can destroy the Body and the Soul in Gehenna.

Likewise, if that 'self' is restored and a vehicle for YHWH's Ruach, the Source of Goodness, Truth, then the Soul merges with that vehicle and thus becomes a manifestation of eternal Life, since it has aligned itself with the Source of eternal Life, YHWH.

So, among the many 'selves' there is one 'true self'.

Adam used to have one 'true self', but after he sinned, the shock of the trauma split his Soul into 'two selves'.

The 'Evil self' processes and perpetuates Evil, and the 'Good self' processes and perpetuates Good.

We are born in a Body predisposed to draw our Soul into the identification with the 'artificial self of Evil', yet the presence of our conscience, the 'real and true self of Good', is designed to draw us back to our 'true self' so that we may find Salvation from the 'false self of Evil' which resulted from the first trauma.

The journey to know YHWH is the journey to recovery and restoration of that true self, because only in YHWH we can find our true self, since He is Truth.

Unfortunately the Dark Exploiters of mankind have turned this world into an ongoing commercial for the 'false self'.

Music artists bend over backwards in their attempts to hypnotize the masses into the embrace of a 'false self', receiving fake pearls and false mirrors from their Dark Masters as rewards given to the monkeys which fail to recognize the things of true, lasting worth.

Invariably YHWH's children are the misfits in this world because of their failure to BECOME the false self.

There always is something in them which remains incompatible with the many 'false selves' which the Prince of Darkness promotes.

Against all odds they grow where they should perish, become stronger where they ought to be weakened, they live on where they should have been killed or where they ought to have killed themselves.

This is the one thing the Evil One hates above all other things, that regardless of how he chooses to deal with YHWH's own, whether he torments them or covers them in material wealth, somehow none of his strategies seem to yield the desired end result in the long term.

Even worse, everything the Evil One does ends up strengthening YHWH's children so that he turns himself into Heaven's useful idiot through his plans and schemes to steal their Souls.

So, be true to your TRUE self, love YHWH, embrace His Yahshua, and you will become a source of eternal frustration for the Evil One as you grow into a source of eternal joy for our dear Father YHWH.
He delights in His children when they learn to overcome and persist in their love for Him.