Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this episode, I'm going to talk about the lower versus the higher self. You are like a light switch, meaning that you have basically two modes on which you can run.

On and off.

Or in other words, the lower self and the higher self.

What is the lower self? The lower self is who you are when you're fearful, when you're mean,

when you're petty, when you're untruthful, when you're selfish. The higher self is when you're calm, when you're kind, noble,

generous, truthful, and selfless.

And in the human organism,

if we think of the human organism as a machine,

it's like you have this switch, and the switch can be flipped at any time and can send you from

the regular place that you're at which is usually the higher self it can send you down into the

lower self and this is really the difference between the animal inside you and the

human inside you the lower self is like the animal, the beast.

Although in a sense it's kind of a slight and a slander on animals to say that because Because it's interesting, you know, with the human organism,

the human is capable of being like hyper-human

and embodying everything that's the most noble about humanity when you're in your highest

self but when you're in your lowest self it's like the flip opposite of that

180 degrees and in fact you're much worse than an animal and the things that a human being does from the lower self are really damaging both to the individual who does it but also to the people around that person

and also to society at large right and most of the issues and problems that we have in society, any really serious problems that we have in our own personal lives, often come from the fact that this switch gets flipped and we're not conscious of the fact that the switch is

getting flipped. So I want to talk a little bit about that here right now and I'm

going to give you two key insights here in this episode.

And the first key insight is the following.

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