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[sylvari]

"What Jung says is that you should play your role knowing it's not you. It's a different point of view. This requires individuation, separating your ego, your image of yourself, from the social role. This doesn't mean you shouldn't play the social role; it simply means that no matter what you choose to do in life, whether it's to cop out or to cop in, you are playing a role, and don't take it too damn seriously. The persona is merely the mask you are wearing for this game."
 Joseph Campbell

How many of us live through our masks? Oriental thinking says that the role is All. That we need to give up our ego to connect with the Universe. Occidental teaching says the individual is paramount. That the Self is how we connect. Which is it for you? How many masks do you wear? Do they sit comfortably or not? For those who sub - is that yet another mask you put on and take off? Is choosing your role and then becoming it the way to go? Tell me.
    

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[btfulnightmare.livejournal.com]

life has taught me that using masks is a survival skill. When I go to work, I wear a mask, when I hang out with friends, a different mask, different groups of friends sometimes produce different masks. Its gotten to the point I don't know how to seperate me from the masks I wear.

[sylvari.livejournal.com]

That is the trick isn't it? To find the you behind all the masks. My biggest fear is that when all the masks come off the person at my core will be too ugly for anyone to look at. I have to find her first. ANy ideas on how we do that?

[btfulnightmare.livejournal.com]

That is also my fear. I have no idea how to go about seperating them. Although this year the work I hope to be doing at the covening is on playing with your perseption of your self, and letting go of what who you think you are, to get better clarity. When I come back I will share with you what I learned.