Identification in the present is easily traced using expanded attention awareness, which includes the 6 schandas, when the reflection begins like 'I have a body, I have feelings, I have thoughts' then the present is being opened by an 'I' with sunken values, the nature of which may include wilful oppostion to the emergent truth in the present.
The unwilling to know bindings in the narritive within which the 'I or the They' arise are systemically hidden if they are linear such as with Maslow's hierarchy of Needs.