Q: BIG aha moment w/ what you said in response to my last question about the apparatus of false self. Now so many emotions like fear/anger/grief are coming up more often. Is this common?

So much has fallen away since then so thank you for shooting that elephant!

A: Not only is this common; I’d say it’s to be expected.

Your “aha moment” around the apparatus of the false self is not just conceptual clarity, it’s a shift in orientation. Something that used to be tacit, automatic, and unquestioned has now been brought into awareness. You weren’t trying to fix or explain the self, you just saw the mechanism that was …