Mistaken identity is defined as ... An instance when someone incorrectly thinks that they have found or recognized a particular person – collinsdictionary.com

Who do people think that you are? How do they define you? More importantly, are they correct in their assessment?

Humor me here for a moment.

I believe I may have a Doppelgänger or at least an evil twin or at the very very least, I am the target of someone’s rather overactive imagination which is the most likely scenario. Exactly why this has happened I do not know and having worked in a hospital for many years in Urgent Care and often exposed to Personality Disordered individuals, I am not about to play amateur psychologist to try and figure out why I have been mistaken for someone else. It seems to be too tangled of an ongoing web for me to unravel yet I thought it only kind to bring some awareness to the finger pointer at large and perhaps help others who are not firmly in their own power enough to be unaffected by such instability from another person.

Now, in all fairness, sure, people make mistakes and usually they are honest ones and totally forgivable but when a person accuses someone of something or of being someone else for personal/ego satisfaction, jealousy, hatred, gain, or to make themselves appear as some sort crusader, well, they just might deserve a little more than some egg on their face. There are names for people like this:

• Slanderer - someone who deliberately tells lies that will damage your reputation
• Libeler - slandering in print
• Perjurer - slandering under oath, or other specific legal circumstances
• Famacider - a killer of reputation
• Liar – which covers all of the above

Let’s review some spiritual law about accusation:

Spiritual Law states that we all are supposed to make ‘diligent inquisition’ which means we are supposed to be very careful and search the actual facts before making a judgment against someone. Most normal people take the time to do this. Yet, someone with an agenda or a deviant mind will skip this prerequisite and jump to what looks like a familiarity and use it for basis in fact because it is effective (to them at least) and or fits the fantasy that has been created. That familiarity is often superficial at best and nowhere near the actual truth and very easy to see through in some cases and in other cases a well-veiled manipulation that a bit of research can unveil as there is often a prominent psychological pattern. The whole thing is a shame really when all our unfriendly neighborhood accuser had to do was man up and ask. Personally, in my case, I would be more than happy to answer any questions to alleviate doubt.

False accusation is worse than backbiting and some petty gossip. At its very worst, multiple false accusations result in a distortion campaign. Remember, false accusations are used by abusers as a deflection technique, to discredit their victim and promote the idea that the abuse is merited. This ends up inevitably worse for the accuser than his target because he winds up in an endless and never-ending loop of lying to cover up previous sins in order to remain believable. That means a lot of sleepless nights and energy expended in a negative direction. More’s the pity methinks – a little karmic kickback there.

Here are some helpful hints for staying in your personal power and engaging your higher self:

• Don’t let them get into your head – do not believe everything a Personality-Disordered person says to you or about you. If they are vulnerable to deceiving themselves they will occasionally try to deceive you too.
• Don’t try to negotiate by asking the Personality-Disordered individual to retract their accusations more than once. The goal of the false accusation may be simply to bait you into a fight.
• Don’t play Dr. Phil by trying to over-analyze false claims. If someone believes something untrue, that is their problem, not yours.
• Drop the guilt and don’t blame yourself for being falsely accused. You are responsible for the truth in your own words, not someone else’s.

Somewhere, out there (as the song goes) there is another JR who is also suffering from a case of mistaken identity. I hope he too is in his power and unaffected. I'm sure he would accept an apology just like I would. In the meantime ... Sometimes you just gotta’ laugh.