

The Essential Self: Fact or Fiction?
After much back and forth, I have finally decided to go ahead and share a talk that I was initially afraid to give.
In this talk I share my personal journey with the idea that we—as human beings—are all endowed with a true, authentic, core, and essential self. It’s the idea that as humans we are individuals, and as individuals there is an underlying reality, a true authentic nature that makes us who we are. That at the center of who we are, is a core self that is comprise