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This talk is a version of the essay from my last Responding Gate effort with some impromptu elaboration and more discussion of the scientific studies I mentioned. Listen to the talk for all of that, but here are is the essay I started with:
Lately I’ve been thinking that a key part of our work of maturing at human beings is the work of letting ourselves be seen.
Of course in a way people see us, and in a way we see ourselves, but there are deep forces at work in us urging us to hide. To obscure. To act in a certain way. To put on a front. Perhaps this is intrinsic to our creating a personality – to our “selfing” from day to day. Through all of the forces at work within us a kind of simulacrum of a person emerges and we hold that between us and the world as protection – as a human shield that hides our true humanity. Continue reading