Why Does the Separate Self Keep Coming Back?

Описание: After prolonged periods of deep oneness where thoughts arise without resistance, why does the sense of separation return with even greater intensity, often accompanied by physical sensations of fear in the body?

Rupert says: ‘This is completely normal. Recognition has uprooted the separate self, but the separate self hasn’t completely come to an end as a result – just as when you uproot a tree, the tree doesn’t die overnight; it takes time. As you rest in your being more and more, there’s less impulse to suppress or avoid any feeling, because you feel deeply that no feeling can harm you anymore. So dormant feelings begin to bubble up, and you think things are getting worse – but they’re not. It’s just that all the material that was dormant in you no longer needs to be repressed or avoided.

‘The other reason is that the more you rest in your true nature, the more the separate self feels the imminence of its own demise and has to come back with a vengeance to reassert itself. But there is not really any need to do anything about it. The fact that you see the mechanism clearly enables you to remain in being as being, not pushed and pulled by the antics of the separate self – and sooner or later it will realise it can’t manipulate you and it’ll leave you alone.’

*This video is from one of Rupert’s in-person retreats at Mandali, 30 August–6 September 2025. For more information on upcoming retreats (many of which can be attended online via livestream) go to:

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Timestamps:

0:00 Prolonged States of Oneness
1:25 The Separate Self Returns
2:39 A Normal Spiritual Process
3:58 Two Explanations Explored
6:04 The Separate Self Fights Back
9:49 The Pain Body Explained
15:04 Trauma Is in the Mind

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