We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simp

ly the other face of our own fear of death or rejection.

Our society that is, we ourselves, all of us is defining the individual with a doubl
e-bind, commanding him to be free and separate from the world, which he is not,
for otherwise the command would not work. Under the circumstances, it works only
in the sense of implanting an illusion of separateness, just as the commands of
a hypnotist can create illusions.