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The adoption of any number of Secondary Identities is to play the roles of
others, for the purpose of understanding why people do what they do and how the human world works. The best use of Secondary Identities is in real and actual circumstances and events which represents real context, as is presented by the external environment independent of one's own making of the mind. Of course the best way to learn Identities is to actualize them by living the role for real, such as joining the navy or training and becoming circus clown. However one is limited to one body, time and place, and has only so much time in this life for such role playing. Imaginary Identities while less instructive in their consequence of actuality are a shortcut to understanding.
Secondary Identities can be used as vehicles for the study of varying human
personalities. This premise is based on the concept of EverySelf, wherein it is assumed that specific elements in personality make-up of oneself, are the same or nearly so in everyone else. Because everyone has a fairly similar body, and since
interpretation or reality through the body is also fairly similar, in these respects one could assume that nearly every person would be affected in a similar way to similar stimuli such as hot and cold, rain storms, up hill terrain, the loss of loved ones or a mugging. There might be varying reactions but these might be due to varying Identities.
Any given environmental circumstance presents any number of observable objects. What the individual actually perceives, notices, focuses on, and thus remembers depends upon preformed contexts, of what is of importance and of Consequence, and thus what is worth noticing.
Creating contexts of observation can be done in a number of ways, such as the purchase of a camera may cause one to observe one's reality as if it were a photo. The use of Secondary Identities employs primarily questions and objectives. Questions may pre-exist Identities such that Identities are used to explore them. Questions may be used to create Interpretive Context as what is worth noticing, such that if one comes across circumstance related to a question, one observes, takes note and experiences some aspect of the question. For instance the question, how would one react to the chance meeting with a
famous actor, might be answered coincidentally by just such an incidence.
The use of objectives means that one can learn to understand the nature and dynamic of specific Identities, by the objectives that are inherent in any given character. To understand the objective is to understand a good deal of the Identity. For example one may pose the question why do evangelicals perhaps hate atheists? The Identity of an evangelical has the objective of converting sinners. The objective of an atheist might be to live and let live. The objective of the evangelist is to convert the atheist, and the objective of the atheist is to be free of the evangelist. If one were to adopt the evangelical Identity and try to convert an atheist, conflict may arise such that one may come to hate the atheist.
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