We have been led to believe that we have to use a substitute for ourself. A not us to be used as a separate personality, and to be lived out as some kind of a non-connected representative of words rather than the experience of what we are. An attitude to be expressed as an alternative to individuality outside of our true being as an adjustment to how we think others want to perceive us. But even if we then somehow believe it is us, it is still going to behave as something separate from us. No matter how hard we try to convince ourselves otherwise, it is going to generalise and depersonalise our actions in the world we live in as that other. And by using it in that way, we will then come to blame an act of what we are doing on the role we are playing. Even if our actions still are our personal doings.
It is quite telling when people do awful things to other people or to our earth, and then look completely dumbfounded to the responsibility when confronted with it.
They don’t even sense it as something of their own. Its that ”other one”, the surrogate personality.
It has become a separate personality acting on its own.
Maybe, its true or proper use is to help us personify all that we have of that inside of us, which can act as us and be as us from within, and make that better known to us in its own rights through our energized experiences.
We seem to have more in common with the aboriginal stomp dance in the light of a campfire than is apparant to the eye.