The false self/personality acts as a psychological substitute for our true or essential self, the authors say.
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The false self/personality is formed by the environmental/cultural influences/conditioning of our upbringing and the imaginary idea or image we form of ourselves, the authors convey.
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The egoic or imaginary self that rules us is a “mental construct” or “composed of imagination” Tolle and Nicoll respectively tell us.
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Our imaginary or illusory “I” or “self” is the cause of many misunderstandings or misinterpretations, creating confusion inwardly and externally.
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The false self is the source of much of the dysfunction or misunderstandings occurring in human relationships, the authors say.
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Because the false self is only a fiction/mind-made, we constantly feel compelled to do things to maintain it, we’re told.
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Living through the False Personality/ego creates underlying fear, the authors say, even if it’s hidden. Striving to maintain something unreal brings ongoing anxiety/insecurity about losing it.
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The desire to sustain the ego or false personality creates an unending psychological struggle or expense because one is essentially striving to maintain a fabrication, the authors suggest.
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The illusory or imaginary “I” or identity we cling to, and its fictitious self-image/pictures, will start to dissolve or collapse when brought into the light of consciousness, the authors say.
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We mistake the false self for who we are, the authors say, but when we observe or recognize what’s in us clearly, our illusory/imaginary self begins to dissolve.
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To release oneself or withdraw—psychologically—from one’s identification with the false self is a great relief, the authors suggest.
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The pseudo self or phantom self wants to fortify itself—the idea or image of who we think we are, Nicoll and Tolle say.
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The imaginary/illusory I or identity is at least partly sustained, Nicoll and Tolle suggest, by the erroneous importance or perception we give to “the word ‘I'”
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Nicoll and Tolle both explain that a person can discover the truth of who they are only by gradually identifying what they are not.
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Allowing one’s false sense of self to diminish—and thus become less or nothing in relation to what we thought we were—draws real “I” or Being to us, the authors suggest.
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