Breaking Bad - Season One - The Badness Begins

Season One: Episode #1 - 7; Walter gets his feet wet in the meth business. Excerpt from my blog in re the pilot: "...At home, Walt meets his wife's troubled queries with atypical sexual aggression. A stunned Skyler asks, "Walter, is that you?"

The compulsion to seek self-identity is one of the banes of the human condition. People have this need to know who they are, what their essence is. There is an assumption that they need to set themselves apart from everyone else by finding themselves. 

Walter is tired of being an inconsequential high-school chemistry teacher. And although he tries to convince himself and others that the sole reason he cooks meth is to provide for his family's financial security, that's not the real truth. Walter seeks a new identity and as he grows more proficient in making meth, he grows more firmly entrenched in his new identity; master meth cooker, and then later on, drug kingpin. Eventually he uses Heisenberg to encapsulate his criminal persona.

As I point out in my first book, "Overcome Any Personal Obstacle, Including Alcoholism, By Understanding Your Ego" – http://www.lulu.com/spot light/leewriter -- your true self isn't a limited, narrow, laundry list of traits and demographic facts, or your career or who you're married to or how good you are at some activity. There is no fixed, magic pill, neat little label that defines the real you. The true you is the consciousness that's aware of you and the world around you. In other words, it's that being that looks on as you live your life, not the things you do. 

As Eckhart Tolle notes in "Silence Speaks", many people mistake the form and content of their lives for their identity. Your self is the spirit, the awareness that's deeply connected to all other life in the universe, the mystical energy that keeps your body and mind alive until physical death, and then your spirit, which is immortal, continues on in some form, forever.