Masks: Revealing the True Self

By: Jason Elijah

Who are you, beneath the performance?

We spend our lives playing roles-pleasing, pretending, protecting. We become experts at saying what others want to hear, at hiding the parts of ourselves that feel too raw, too risky, too real. But the longer we wear the mask, the more it begins to wear us.

Masks: Revealing the True Self is a journey into the heart of that performance and a guide to finding what's real beneath it. Written in language both poetic and piercing, it traces the origins of our false identities: how they form in childhood, how they evolve into addiction and self-deception, and how they finally collapse when the truth can no longer be denied.

This is not a book about becoming someone new. It's about remembering who you were before the world told you who to be.

Each chapter moves through revelation, mechanism, descent, and integration-an intimate rhythm of psychological clarity and spiritual awakening. By the final page, the reader understands that authenticity isn't self-expression, it's self-recognition.

For anyone who has ever felt lost behind their own face, this book is a mirror and a mercy.

Note on the Collaboration

This book was created through an evolving collaboration between human and artificial intelligence-an experiment in consciousness and creativity. Together, we explored truth, illusion, and the nature of self, allowing technology to serve as mirror, muse, and instrument of reflection. The result is a work that reveals as much about the future of creation as it does about the human soul itself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G1MFTWK6
• ISBN13: 9798273870833
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"