Play to Survive

All those whom I worked with are dead and I am the sole survivor of my action team. Why? Some of them were smarter and stronger than me, but they failed to make it. Some were killed; but most died of a natural cause, mainly from congestive heart failure. Why am I now the only one left? The reason, I believe, is that I am able to get outside of myself in order to view myself dispassionately. What this does is to free the Self from out the prison of one's own body. I'm not speaking of the body in the physical sense, but in its psychic sense. The mind is encased within a shell and this shell holds the mind inside of itself. The mind is trapped by the limitations of its own identity, It has to be able to somehow transcend that identity, if it's going to survive. If it cannot; then the Self dies when its shell dies, since it isn't able to free itself from the prison of its identity. To survive, Self has to be given a new identity and a new passport to life. It has to be able to liberate itself from itself. How may it do so...by participating in the play of a bigger game.