Our conceptual reality is held in place by the subconscious, which exists on the periphery of our conscious experience. The conscious mind did not establish these conceptual constructions. They were gathered from experience by the subconscious and constructed to keep us safe.The ancient Greeks of the mystery schools called the result of this construction the meta-identity. That means it is the identity that comes after the original identity with which we were born. The construction starts as early as when we cry for our first food. We realize in that very moment that when we cry, somebody hears us and they bring food to our lips. That action and dynamic is quickly put into place by the subconscious to help us survive in the world. All internal dynamics that we piece together unconsciously throughout our formative years are handled and set in place by the subconscious to keep the conscious being safe.The subconscious, using the brain, constructs the world around us at every moment. Without this interface between the subconscious and the brain, you would not be able to tell what is what, and the world might be a very confusing place; indeed it could be dangerous and difficult to navigate. According to the mystery schools, by the time we are seven many of these internal concepts have been constructed and established, the conglomeration of which form a personality. All future internal conceptual constructions will be built on these.The problem we face as we grow older is that what was a relevant concept when we were ten years old is no longer appropriate when we are forty-five. But because these concepts were established by the subconscious, the conscious mind has no real ability to make fundamental changes.The subconscious constructed this conceptual reality. And according to the blueprint it has established, the conscious mind will view and react to the world from a particular and unique perspective. Since the subconscious is the author and keeper of the concepts that lead us to react to the world, it must also be the agent of changeTo the subconscious, an event that took place thirty years ago maintains exactly the same emotional and intellectual impact as it did on the day it originally happened. That is why people can mentally go back to events of the past and re-traumatize themselves. The subconscious experiences the event from the past as if it is happening now.Like the quantum physicist, the subconscious sees the reality behind time--it sees 'slices' of events that mysteriously seem to fit together in an artificially constructed, conscious experience of time. So, even though the conscious mind does not have access through memory to an event from the past, that same event, (happening now to the subconscious), may be influencing all present behavior with an intensity that the conscious mind cannot really fathom.But no concept embedded in the subconscious is really a part of the self. They are only constructs that help us navigate the world in which we find ourselves. Useful, and often necessary, but they are also disposable and replaceable with concepts that are more appropriate to our present circumstances and accumulated life knowledge.More interesting is that we don't need to go back to or identify the event and relive the story from that time. We can simply allow the subconscious to show us the feeling. By accepting the validity of that feeling impartially (in other words, without reacting to it), we give it an opportunity to mysteriously reconstruct the pattern of behavior or the concept that drives that pattern. Without any participation of the conscious mind, the subconscious can let go of the embedded concept and replace it with another that is more appropriate to the conscious adult now.
