The False Persona vs. Evolution
Transcript Excerpts of Jane’s Teachings
during a “Shifting into Your New Consciousness” group 6-25-09
(Clients’ names are changed to protect their privacy)
(To the group) “Generally what happens (in the model I use), is every time a person makes a limiting decision, they are building up an alternative self. They’re building up a self to relate out in the world with, that they feel would be acceptable, and that works well, or at least relatively well, in the world. Every person here has done that. I would say just about every person in the world has done that to some degree unless you are an enlightened master. And then the idea is to master that persona so that you’re successful out in the world and in relationships. But for many people, that way of being eventually crashes, perhaps showing up in mid-life crisis or in various other problems, because it’s very separated from the real self, and any real meaning in life.
Now, some people just can’t develop a very effective persona. It just doesn’t work well. I think it’s a matter of the particular path you chose in this lifetime. It’s probably more of a challenge to come in with a personality so different than the norm, so that you can’t just blend into the acceptable thing. A false persona that would fit in, turns out to be too incongruous for you. This can cause you to be a part of an evolutionary process, because probably what we’re talking about is not only different, but more evolved. And this can be a challenge for the people around you, because in order for you to come out as your self, you have to basically break through an old mold, and there’s going to be resistance, because it’s not comfortable for other people. And so it is not an easy path. But it is, in terms of your own soul’s evolution, a very important thing to do. And you’re contributing to the evolution of humanity in general by doing it. And despite whatever degree of difficulty it brings you, it is a relief to your soul, to be out there more and more expanding the expression of who you are. The soul cries for that, the soul must express itself. So the more you do that, the more of a relief it actually is to your soul.
(Melanie was saying she finally let her real self out when she spewed out her anger at her son who had been abusing her.)
(To Melanie) “What you’re letting out is not the real you either. It’s another level of your defense system. It sounds like you’re coming from a disempowered or victim kind of a place, so what you’re doing is you’re revealing how the disempowered you feels, which is probably revealing more than you were revealing before. But the real you is not a disempowered victim at all. There are limiting decisions in there which are causing the structure of how you relate to your son, causing a certain kind of dynamic between the two of you. And so your upper-most defense system is to have a big wall up there. You don’t say anything until you explode, and the explosion is not the real self either. It’s showing more of what is going on under the surface, but there’s probably some decision that there’s something wrong with the real self, so you don’t show it.”
