Within the last week, I have redefined myself as a person. In the West we currently profess that there is an individual core self. We believe in a unique self that remains, when all of our masks are removed.

I have tried to identify my core self until last week. I have given a lot of thought to identify my core self over the years. I have even asked others what they may think is my core self. I almost always do not really want to hear what they have to say.

The concept of a single self never worked for me. I just could not believe that there is just one core self called David Morris.

My new understanding of who I am and how I got to this place in my life is as follows. I really like the concept that Joseph Campbell has identified in his scholarship. Life is represented as a symbolic opening and closing from one stage to another. We are constantly dying and are being reborn to a new life. According to Campbell all individual and competing cultures and religions identify with some form of this concept.

Burnt by the Sun
Nonlinear Returns

According to Morris these individually identified stages of all individual AO stories are essentially controlled and mediated inside each of our own stories. Our inside story includes our actual life experiences that are lived within our larger but separate AO alpha and omega story. My individual story is post world War II, American, higher education, nonlinear, working class, and business. This story for me is subsumed within the larger alpha and omega story called Irish, English, Roman Catholic, and Episcopalian Christian.

I have combined all these stories into what I call an individual and AO Celtic story. I will join with others inside of this common but separate AO story.

The concept of finding a common story is driven by the understanding that humans will protect them self. Thereby we will protect others that we deem to be as our norminative self. On the opposite end, we will destroy and not protect those deemed as the other.

The Master and Margarita
Norminative Self

The norminative self is a created self from our common individual and AO story. Within our life, we continue to maintain membership within our individual and AO story. I define this membership group as the final group of similar 'others' that we believe will contribute to our protection.

An interesting way that I can identify who I currently am is to go back to the concept of returning to the opening and closing or from death comes life. We have billions of self-configurations when we are born that stay, move, and change in each opening and closing stage of our life. We do not die to our old life and self when we are reborn to the new one.

The billions of self-configurations that are within us are represented in all the stages of our life. An actual infant, the developed teenager, and the old man are already their when we are born. Each stage of from death to life modifies and effects our past, current, and future stages.

So today, I am still an infant, toddler, teenager, and  adult combined. When showing myself to those deemed as our self and the other we emphasize and deemphasize particular aspects of our life long configurations.

We have been told that the problems of story strife with the other can be solved when we turned to so-called science. The linear story called science has taken this concept of from death comes life to extremes by an obsessive separation of every aspect of our life. Creating innumerable individual experts for each new separation. Whatever followers think, hear, and believe once changed to the linear science story they believe it will create human harmony.

This linear story called linear science was created to justify mass production and distribution. Mass production and distribution requires the over consumption of larger numbers of people to work effectively. Science promised that all these producers and consumers can prosper together. Linear science proposed that by endless separations of the from death to life story that everyone can attain wealth through specialization. We refer to this as our share of the pie.

Carnival Night 2
Science to Counter Endless AO Conflicts

Human AO stories stay apart, move closer, or become enemies. It is safest for all groups to stay apart rather than move closer or become enemies. Our stories are so different and our tolerances of the other is so limited. This slightest difference in story is accentuated. So we prefer to stay apart and and do little to to learn anything about the other.

In the case of love between members of different AO stories the physical also becomes a barometer to assess the movement of the relationship apart or closer. We move closer because physical intimacy creates tolerance for the other’s individual and AO story.

Even with the addition of the intimate our individual and AO stories still face real and unreal fears. These fears are counterbalanced by love and common children.

Whenever in this love relationship intimacy is replaced with separation for good reason both people return to their fear of the other.

We can never trust the other to be fair with us when intimacy followed by tolerance disappears. Each group of AO story holders are constantly returning to support only those identified as self.

People realized that no matter the outcome of an AO story conflict will not end. It matters not if they fight to a draw, are conquered, or conquer.  The conflict continues throughout time. You can figure out what happens next.

Prisoner of the Mountains
Science Begins Falling Apart

A new model created in the United States was different from other human models. This model was created with the idea of mass production. With mass production masses of people were required to consume. No alpha and omega story was big enough to incorporate and handle the market sizes that mass production could attain.

Members of different AO stories were convinced that they must also have these products. Starting with the young of the different AO story holders. This was achieved through a requirement and exposure to a mass education. Mass consumption through education would save the world.

The Story Elite

The AO story elite's rules, values, and accomplishments dominate. The story elite have always feared the masses both within and also those outside of their influence and power.

All story elite walk a tight rope with those deemed as the 'other' under their influence. They are well aware that their are not enough of them to protect them self in times of war. The 'other' determined by the story elite in time of war are those that will fight for them and those that will turn against them. Those internally that must be the soldiers and producers to protect the story elite are categorized. Those that they believe will and will not be potential challengers of the story leadership. Internal challengers are vilified, humiliated, exploited, and separated.

The story elite both ally and enemy with their own masses are never trusted. As land and peoples are conquered these standards remain consistent. Allies can change to enemies very quickly during the war. After the war each story ally must capitulate, fight on the spot, or wait to fight later with the strongest story.

Soldiers Production Loyalty

What the story elite require to remain safe are soldiers,  production, and loyalty. Soldiers and producers from the masses must be linear to control. The linear is reinforced in the masses from birth to protect the story elite.

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
All AO Story Holders Cheat

As a person brought up after World War II I was convinced that that I had equal access to the resources of the society and perhaps the world. I was willing and happy to share. As my life progressed beginning at the University I realized that some animals AO Stories were more equal than others. I still believed that it was a matter of hard work and individual effort.

I also internalized that all AO stories were tolerant, friendly, and open to me. If one listens to the rhetoric of science, if you simply show the evidence applying math then things will change. All the science followers will happily move toward so-called scientific truth. Ouch! The wall of deception moves into place. Science like all other stories is believed to have been taken over by a few for their own benefit. Sound familiar?

Soldiers Aren’t Born