Persona refers to the personality appearance that a person displays in public. Its purpose is to show a good image that is beneficial to oneself in order to gain social recognition. The effective use of persona is an important means for people to obtain benefits in society.
It does sound like a very useful and necessary necessity in modern society. Unfortunately, there are advantages and disadvantages. Excessive attention to personality masks will inevitably sacrifice other parts of the personality structure, thus causing harm to mental health.
To put it in layman's terms, it's like when actors who wear masks and act in the industry are often warned by their seniors not to get too involved in acting. Once they go too far, they will no longer be themselves.
But those who choose to continue moving forward in the extraordinary realm are obviously not normal people. To the extreme, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are all psychopaths with twisted thinking.
The reason is very simple. If the practice in the first field is just to turn the ordinary self into the perfect self in the eyes of "oneself", then the practice in the second field is to turn the perfect self in the eyes of "self" into the eyes of "others". Perfect existence.
The "other" here does not refer to others, but to the object of the subjective consciousness of the non-transcendent person.
However, it is quite appropriate to directly replace others with words such as masses or others. From a certain perspective, the process of practicing the second realm of extraordinary people is abnormal from the process of an ordinary person growing into a moral perfection in the eyes of the masses. Similar, they all fall into the category of "how steel is made".
The reason why they are so similar is that the human brain is actually unable to understand the extraordinary domain knowledge after the second domain. It is beyond the understanding limit of the normal brain. It is like requiring a chess player to directly use the exhaustive method for each move like a computer. It is simply impossible for everyone to make perfect moves.
For the extraordinary people in the past, after crossing the carbon-based limit and increasing their spiritual energy capacity to the "natural end point", the extraordinary realm has come to an end, and the road ahead is just "the ravings of a madman" and does not exist.
The physical quality cannot be strengthened again, and the spiritual power controlled cannot be increased. Decades of hard work are nothing more than trying to catch the moon in the water.
But with the development of technology, dark ore was dug out from the ground thousands of meters deep and put into the boiler as red as the sun. The hot steam that could melt people pushed the steel gears as if they were created by gods. Rotating in the calculation array, the iron-clad facts were printed on the thick paper tape and placed in front of people's eyes.
——There is a road ahead.
It is a pity that even if this step is achieved, it is still a distant dream for extraordinary people, because even if the road ahead is clearly shown in the pinholes on the paper tape, it is still not a fragile carbon-based human being. Primates can do it.
Just like the ancient chess players who have spent their entire lives searching for the so-called "god's move", even if they understand that there is a "god of Go" whose every move is a "god's move", they themselves cannot become such a being - a human being. How can it be a machine?
But fortunately, the most important thing about being human is to be able to use tools. Go has a so-called "set", and there is a similar technology in the extraordinary field, which is the method of visualization.
There are only a few people who cannot do it as well as humans by using abstract thinking to transform cold mathematical formulas that cannot be done into some kind of "god" or "great being" that can be abstractly described and understood. Advantages, let yourself move towards deeper areas.
In layman's terms, if a person's natural main thinking body is compared to a rough stone, then the cultivation process in the second realm is to carve the raw stone into a stone statue. However, the main thinking body is not a stone. Even a slight mistake can be fatal. How could there be no mistakes? Therefore, if extraordinary people who have not developed the ability to think before they want to continue to make progress, they will naturally send huge gifts. If they are promoted, one will die, and those who do not die will also go crazy.
The two end points of the visualization method, namely the [Second Brain] and the [Visualization Map], are like CNC machine tools and electronic models. Human hands cannot achieve such high processing accuracy, so let the "machine" do it. Naturally done quickly and well.
It’s just that the human brain is not as simple as a machine after all. Someone has said that the shortest shortcut is to take the long way around. Since the method of visualization utilizes the characteristic of abstract thinking, then what is finally achieved through visualization will definitely not be the original “self” , but the "abstract self", or the self in the eyes of "others" and "others".
But it will never be the self in the eyes of "myself".
But no one wants to become "someone else" - those who think so will take the prosthetic route.
To use the terminology from a game that Yuanye liked before traveling through time, if the technology of prosthetics, that is, the route of mechanical ascension, "gives a strong body to the brave," then the extraordinary technology, or the route of psychic ascension, then It is "giving an iron heart to the weak".
Prosthetic technology is to replace monsters with [inhuman hearts] with [extraordinary bodies], and the extraordinary technology after the second realm is to help ordinary people with [extraordinary bodies] create an [inhuman body]. Heart】.
Since it is necessary to complete the transformation from "human" to "non-human", a question naturally arises - after becoming a "non-human", will I still be the same person?
the answer is negative.
But it all depends on human beings, and it is not impossible to transform into a non-human being if you want to maintain yourself.
The key point is to use [Personal Mask].
Of course, this is just the extraordinary technology borrowing psychological terms to express its thoughts. It does not express the meaning in psychology.
Human consciousness will be affected and "counter-shaped" by the unconsciousness of the group. Although humans are social animals, the consciousness of successful people in society must not fully meet the expectations of social consciousness.
In other words, in a certain society, successful people in the general cognition of social consciousness need to have extraordinary qualities that the "general public" who constitute social consciousness do not have before they are "allowed" to succeed - for now, we will Successful people in this social consciousness are called moral perfections.
In social consciousness, only those with perfect morals are worthy of success. Successful people who are not morally perfect are all "morally unqualified".
But if you think about it with your buttocks, are there so many people in real society all morally perfect? Totally impossible!
In this case, social consciousness will "counter-shape" them, making the successful people "become" moral perfection through public opinion and other means.
Successful people naturally do not want to be morally perfect, so at this time they have to ask the persona to appear.
Persona is a personality expression that a person displays in public. Its purpose is to show a good image that is beneficial to oneself in order to gain social recognition. For example, people who eat people without spitting out their bones often publicize how much they love and care for the poor. If you are good at charity, even the village sages in ancient times would pave roads and build bridges, and give porridge during disasters. This is the personality mask they wear for themselves in order to resist the counter-shaping of social consciousness.
So, if you replace these nouns with words from the extraordinary realm, the answer becomes obvious.
Only the perfect main thinking body (perfect moral person) can be recognized by the spiritual energy (group unconsciousness) and continue to move forward (succeed) in the extraordinary field. However, if the spiritual energy finds that your thinking is not suitable for the perfect main thinking body, it will Counter-shape you, and at this time, if you don't want to become "inhuman", you need to wear a personality mask.
That is to say, possessing "the self that is not myself".
