I think the most mind-blowing thing from learning about the death traps is how it's caused me to examine my identity more critically. I've started to recognize that I only inhabit this body temporarily...genetics and all. I won't be a white male forever. Our genetics are like a car we're driving but don't really define us. We think of ourselves as European, American, Asian, African, Latin, human...etc...so often but are we really any of these things for long. I'd say no. None of those things are really us.

The Buddha became a friendly green alien apparently. He was able to because he recognized who he really was...he was able to move on. There's nothing wrong with being in a human body inherently...and like driving a fun car it's fun to be in one sometimes...but don't confuse the driver with the vehicle.

I agree that perception of self can be diferentiated from the body. The fact that 'I' can say "I have a body", can be understood in the same way, when I say, "I have a hat" or "I have a car", or anything else that I can perceive from the 'outside'.
This realisation raises some interesting questions about the little word; 'I'.

The idea of the 'Isbe' as the 'I' being an 'immortal cosmic' being is not new. It is something that has gone 'out of fashion'. Perhaps because of the difficulty in being objective about differentiation of the different aspects of our non-physical being.
I am not my 'emotions' either. I 'have' emotions, like I 'have' a body.
For some people the perspective is just 'semantics', a play on words.

However, consider the fact that the same life event's can trigger different emotional responses in different people. This suggests that each 'Isbe' has a unique relationsip with 'emotions'.

There is no doubt that Humans are complex beings and emotional manipulation has become a very successful psychological tool for achieving specific goals.

I am pretty sure that the advanced ETs are more aware of this complexity than many of us.

Consider what an intelligent being might do if they understood the relationsip between 'emotions' and the 'isbe' if they had a particular goal in mind?... and we all have a unique pespective on reality.

The events that 'trigger' emotions may be considered as a 'catalyst', rather than the 'cause' of our responses.

The fact that I can make choices about how to respond to to emotional experiences is a clue to exploring the deeper connections of my 'Isbe', my 'body' and my 'emotions'.

We appear to be 3 dimensional beings in more ways that 1 ♡

It is interesting to consider why the threefold image of Man – once known as the Trichotomy - the image of Man as consisting of body, soul and spirit, - was ‘abolished’ by fiat of a Church Council at the 8th Ecumenical Council of Constantinople in the year 869. It was replace by the Duopoly of Body and Soul.
The spirit was 'absorbed' into the concept of 'soul' because people had lost the perception of themselves as Isbes. It kept 'spiritual' stuff as the domain of the religeous elite... and the Theocracy has contiued to thrive along with the technocracy ever since... go figure ♡