A Deeper Meaning of the Origin of the Outer Self

In this article I am writing about a deeper meaning of the origin of the outer self.

I will follow Master Kuan Yin’s discourse [1]:« (…)What I wish to discourse on here is another element of how the ego can use Christhood to attain another ego goal».

Ego’s Birth and the Need to be Right

The first thing we need to understand is that Christ is beyond 'right and wrong'; it is neutral towards any experience we have and does not make value judgements. Therefore, Christ never seeks to 'prove itself right'.

However, the ego desperately needs to prove itself right. Why? Because it was born of duality and feels the need to legitimise itself.

We can say that the ego can never see unity because it was born of duality itself. This is why it can only exist in one polarity against another: if it is right, the other must be wrong, and vice versa.

As Master Kuan Yin taught us, the ego -the sense of being separate - is inseparable from the serpentine mindset.

The Masters have given us new insights into this mindset, which is not only related to fallen beings, but to all human beings who fell into duality long ago.

When a being enters into duality to the point where it forgets its true identity as a spiritual being and identifies completely with the separate self - as is the case with people living on Earth - a change occurs in the mind.

The 'conscious you' is pure awareness of the 'I am' presence and is connected to it vertically as localised awareness of the presence in the world of form.

However, when the 'conscious you' delves deeper into duality, it becomes trapped in its own experience by completely immersing itself in the role of a 'separate being'.

A consequence of this is that at a certain point, the natural process of projecting images into the matter light to experience whatever it chooses to experience changes:

The ‘conscious you’ uses the conceptual mind to project an image into the world of form and experience what is being co-created from within the experience.

 But, by the fact that it enters in duality, it suffers a change- a distance is created between the self and the experience that becomes to be seen as something ‘outside’:

The 'conscious you' begins to see itself as 'here' and everything else in the world as 'out there'. This distance, which philosophers call the subject–object relationship, creates a new filter in consciousness.

Instead of experiencing itself as part of the world, the ‘conscious you’ now experiences itself as separate from the world, as an 'I' that can judge its own experience from a distance by creating concepts about it.

For most people in Western societies, this is a step forward in the development of the mind.

However, it comes at a price: now that we can see ourselves as separate from what we create in the world, we not only look at the results of our creations, but we also judge them (and itself).

The ego emerges from the dualistic mind's ability to create a 'space' or distance between us and our experiences.

When we don’t like the results of our choices, the newly formed ego begins to doubt: could I have made a mistake?

This is not just a simple doubt; it is much more than that because, remember, the dualistic mind always works in opposites, and this means that if I accept that I could have made a mistake, it has epic proportions.

There are no 'little' or insignificant mistakes: if I am wrong, I am completely wrong - there is nothing in between.

This makes it unbearable for the new sense of identity born from the process of being able to reflect on our choices and judge them as 'right' or 'wrong' in an absolute way.

This creates a defence mechanism for this new sense of self, which gives rise to the serpentine mind. This mind is inseparable from the separate sense of identity that creates the ego, structure after structure.

This mechanism gives rise to the ego and epic dramas born from the need to hide the fear of being wrong.

This is the high price paid for choosing duality, which inevitably created this new sense of self as a separate being.

However, the emergence of this sense of self was no mistake. At a certain point, it was necessary to allow the experiment of freedom on Earth.

But this state of consciousness was never meant to become permanent. Why? Because the purpose of any physical world is to allow newly created beings to experience anything and everything in the physical realm.

But with a purpose: to enable them to choose completely voluntarily and consciously not to enter duality again.

On Earth, however, humanity chose to remain in that state indefinitely. This is not necessarily wrong, but it cannot last forever, as this would go against the Creator’s design for creation.

[1] ‘The Christ Will not Win Every Argument’ in Being The Living Christ in Everyday Life, dictated through the messenger Kim Michaels, 2025, p. 72, E-book version.