God this video is good! Thandie Newton, who I’d never heard of, nailed everything I know about identity in a simple 14 minute video. In a nutshell, she describes the fictional nature of our “self” and advocates losing our self in order to find ourself. Hmm. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?  (You will probably have to cut-and-paste this link.)

<http://www.ted.com/talks/thandie_newton_embracing_otherness_embracing_myself.html&gt;