Most of the men you meet are living out a false self, a pose, which is directly related to his wound.
This is the story of the creation of that false self.
The false self, our plan for redemption, seems so right to us.
He will do something to thwart the false self.
He deliberately chose to push his true strength down and live the false self.
As I hung up the phone my false self was screaming what are you doing?!
What keeps man from this state of consciousness is the ego, the identification with a false self.
They exist only so long as man identifies himself with the ego, the false self.
The ego with all its egotism is the false self.
Perhaps the Modern, too, wants to be saved from its false self.