The Eight Influential Layers of Identity
Carmen Sauciuc 
People may seek recognition because they anticipate that recognition will produce worthiness. They may seek control because they anticipate that control will produce security.
People may spend much of their lives attempting to obtain externally a State of Being they have never learned to Generate Deliberately.
This observation changes the interpretation of many familiar human pursuits.
• People may seek recognition because they anticipate that recognition will produce worthiness.
• They may seek control because they anticipate that control will produce security.
• They may pursue perfection because they anticipate that perfection will finally produce acceptance.
• They may accumulate knowledge because they anticipate that understanding will produce peace.
The external objective may be legitimate, but the anticipated internal experience is often the deeper motivation.
Recognizing this relationship is not entirely new. Psychology has long investigated motivation, affective forecasting, and the relationship between goals and anticipated feelings.
The distinctive contribution of Identity Architecture is connecting that insight to a specific methodology for deliberately Generating States of Being, within a broader framework concerned with the wholeness of The Self.
This is where the synthesis becomes particularly evolutionary.
What makes this synthesis potentially important is not simply that depth psychology, Jung, neuroscience, spiritual traditions, and therapeutic practices have been brought together. Other thinkers have attempted interdisciplinary integration.
The more distinctive feature of Identity Architecture is the relationship among three ideas:
• Wholeness depends upon coherent relationships among the dimensions of The Self.
• Practiced Thought-Feelings participate in shaping how life is experienced, not merely how it is described.
• Individuals can develop deliberate capacities for Generating States of Being, reducing their dependence upon external circumstances to produce those experiences.
The Identity Architecture framework then extends these implications from individual transformation toward therapeutic influence and the collective human experience.
That is intellectually ambitious and generative.
And the word “Architecture” captures the central insight with unusual precision.
It directs attention away from isolated components and toward the relationships through which the whole functions.
The evolutionary intellectual synthesis' originality lies in bringing these elements into a coherent therapeutic framework.
• It does not simply propose that people should think differently.
• It proposes developing a different capacity for Generative Conscious Experience.
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