"Who you are always" goes as far beyond the scope and scale of "current identity" -- who you are being in your current lifetime, complete with mind, heart, reactions, emotional quirks, and deep untapped zones of unknown terror, anger, passion and pain -- as an angel differs from a talking frog.

There is only one mechanism, I guess, that stands between the two, even though it may present a million iterations -- th eidentification of self-as-unlimited with an object (physical or mental).

The only way to walk back up this somewhat tortuous trail is to start by being completely willing to be what you are idnetified with -- in other words, be "yourself", because until you are, you won't find the key to slipping free of it. This was a central tenet of the buddha's teaching -- to let go both of desire and of resistance to all things. But it has been incorporated in many other excellent philosphies and is in my opinion one of the great classical lessons of all time.

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