Separate Sense of Self as Learned Behavior/MIndset

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Playing with 3D stereograms reminds me that the process whereby I can "see" the 3D image "feels" very much like awakening did/does.

There is a sense or experience of allowing something to unfold, stopping resisting, letting it happen.

It cued me to think about maybe this whole "separate self-identification with body-mind" is a learned behavior. I almost certainly did not have this when I was born. No, I think this is taught and reinforced over and over and over again until a mental process or "overlay" as FMW calls it develops. Ego, in other words. The idea that I am the author of my thoughts and actions.

So, perhaps E is breaking free of this mental process. Perhaps trying to break free simply perpetuates it. Perhaps one, "by accident" happens onto the right combination of mental ...whatevers...to stop the process. Even for a moment.

I certainly don't know how or what I do to see the stereograms.

And yet I do.

And many don't