Your Personality is a Prison

To the degree you associate or are attached to the personality it will continue to be your prison, limiting you to a pre-established outcome.

You cannot have a prison without guards, you cannot have guards without a judicial system, you cannot have judges without rules, You cannot have rules without???

However this prison was created or however it is maintained is not important, conspiracy theorists, go at it. Victims, blame the system. The asleep, don’t even realise they are in a prison.

“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the ‘Universe’ —a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and feelings, as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

Albert Einstein

We really do not need guards, we are our own guards, afraid to step out of line in case we are judged by the community, a community who are also lost in their own prisons.

Rules are imposed to create the illusion of freedom. Although it may seem as though rules are meant to continue to keep us in our prison but could they?  Yet, with each new ‘piece of legislation’ each new nail in the coffin of freedom, is another wake up call.

The problem here is that rather than escape their prison, most people are happy to exchange it for another prison, perhaps one more comfortable. A revolution is a classic case in point, overthrow one ruler, replace it with another, who, you hope, will be more beneficent.

When did that ever work?

Imagine your life, and the ‘choices’ that you have made to get where you are today.

Were you able to choose between choice A, B or C? Whatever happened to choices D,E,F,G,H,I,JK,L etc?  Your desires, your motivations, your insecurity, your programming, all have created the illusion of choice whereas in reality the choices were so limited as to not really be choices at all.

We are caught down a rabbit hole of our own making, ‘decision’s made in the past have led us to this point of the journey. We may find this a pleasant place, or an uncomfortable place, we may blame others, or the self, for past thoughts, words, actions.

We may seek relief from the conditions in which we find ourselves, but still any options we may believe we have are still products of past ‘choices’.  We struggle to make sense of a fast changing world, to find our place in it.

All the time we seek answers outside of the self we are caught in the trap of trying to ‘do’ something to improve our lives. All this ‘do-ing’ just deepens the rabbit hole we find ourselves in demanding that we ‘do’ more. So, the more we ‘do’ the deeper the hole we dig for ourselves the more we need to ‘do’ in order to feel safe, comfortable, validated.

This need to ‘do’ blinds us to what for me has become obvious, that we created this personal world by past thoughts, words and actions. A creation that was primarily driven by the sub-conscious conditioning that we have yet to bring into the light of consciousness.

Our sub-conscious, or as Jung referred to it as ‘the shadow’ is an accumulation of information and experiences that we have failed to effectively deal with, in part because we were not even aware of them, in part because we found then too uncomfortable to acknowledge, in part shame, in part fear of this ‘unknown’ aspect of the self.

When this ‘shadow’ is allowed to build mostly because of a lack of awareness and acceptance, the pressure on our system builds, as the pressure builds it is constantly needing to express itself, creating a reality that we are not entirely comfortable with, thus causing us to ‘do’ more.

Without our full conscious participation a reality has been created.

If you have trouble accepting that the ‘shadow’ is real (a product itself of the shadow) then read “The Holographic Universe” by Michael Talbot, that may open your eyes to the part you are playing in creating the world that you live in.

Awareness is always the beginning of change, be it on a fundamental level or just a superficial one.

The next step is safety, you need to feel safe in order to take a step towards bringing the shadow in to the the light.

Safety comes with a growing understanding of the nature of the world you have created.

Recognising that you have built a reality based upon a story that you believed in, a story that was passed down by others who also believed in the story, a story that is constantly reinforced by your social environment, is a major breakthrough on your journey to liberation from the prison of the personality.

Take the first step, and even though there will be speed bumps along the way, you will, slowly, discover just how powerful a creative being you are.