I don't know If I have told you my thoughts on the seperate selves within us. This should support my last idea of God being that voice in my head because even though I am forced to shift between identities that voice remains unchanged, only my emotions are affected and how I respond to certain situations. By the way I am very scared because I don't know wether this eternal voice is My Lord or The Devil....in all his sly and ...mysteriously devious glory.
Ok well all that aside here is my opinion on seperate identities that arise in response to either the environment or the people around them, just as one identity associates with work, one with home and one with your yoga class or whatever, put simply. But I think we can change identities as often as every 10 minutes. Sometimes we have identities that don't arise for years. This is my explanation for our forgetfulness and the way the years seem to get away from us as we get older.
The reason is that if one of our identities remembers an event than the other identites will not remember it. This is how the brain works, we only remember something when we find a path to the desired information through our brain cells, through associated memories. This is how we move from self to self. Since every self has it's own experience of things, the time between when a self recedes and when it reawakens can seem like no time at all, like in a deep sleep we are out for hours yet it seems like only a few minutes. This causes people to say: "Well that went quick" or "It seems only yesterday that I was -x- years old."
Well this concept is fairly accepted I think already, but I have another twist to put on it. If we have many different identities than is it not viable that each identity has it's own soul. Than our bodies must be host to 5-100 souls, each with their own fate in the afterlife...what a thought, the seperation of these souls when we die, able to look at eachother objectively. Some will burn in eternal damnation and some will enjoy eternal life and paradise.
STOP!
I insist on explaining my interpretation of what our soul is. Put simply it is the identity that we construct throughout our lives that we aspire to become, in all it's totality. Becoming one with our souls is what makes us happy, I can't speak for the whole of humanity but the greatest paradise is to be one with our soul for all eternity, the afterlife. Isn't someone's ultimate aspirations the real way to seem into someone's heart, and the most beloved possession we can own, and share with great caution. I'm not talking about fickle goals like "I want to be a vet" or "I want to own the most awsome guitars in the world." I t is more along the lines of, "I want to be adored by everyone." or even "I want to be the most tragic figure that ever lived, striking awe into those who hear my story." What makes us happy? I tell you it is not enjoyment of the moment and what it does to our bodies it is the exitement beforehand, during or after that is really us becoming closer to our souls.
So there you go, we can identify our different selves by our soul's own identity. Let me put some more questions into our head. As children time moves more slowly, we don't change identities as much when we are infants? Now is this because these identities are dormant or can we create identities? When considering the latter we face the idea that we create souls...this makes things complicated. No I think it either of those that i mentioned before. As children our various selfs are unified in their sole purpose. It is as we grow older that these seperate. It is also apparent that collisions between two of these selves is what makes us angry, not violent but angry and resentful.
The next question is what should we strive for. A unified collection of selves, returned to a state close to which when we were infants? This would surely help us remain constant in our values and stop us from forgetting things but I must "meditate" on this.
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