The Lost Being, to me, is the true core of one’s own essence. This true self still shines through in early years, because at that stage one does not yet pretend to be someone else. But through upbringing, through social conditioning and external expectations, this true self becomes veiled, and a shell forms. This shell is like a mask. Yet over the years, it becomes increasingly difficult for this shell—so different from the true core of one’s being—to keep covering it, until the Lost Being casts off this shell through its own awakening and the achieved level of awareness, and appears in its full entirety.