Indeed we (our minds) are conditioned.
We are conditioned thru evolution, by society, by our particular environments. This is fairly obvious.
Every movement of a conditioned mind is the movement of conditioning.
This is a fact obviously. So seeing this fact, does thought create a separate entity to operate on this problem "the higher self",( which is clearly just a fragment of thought from the same conditioned mind). Or is it possible that one does not run from the FACT and stays with it? Then what happens is Freedom- when you realize that there isnt a separate entity capable of freeing itself from itself then the "becoming" ends, it is the
Death of the ego. Only in death can there be a ending.
Only in ending can something new begin. When one is only concerned with "what is" then "what is" undergoes a mutation.
TRY IT do it yourself and you'll see...
Or just keep with the enourmous arrogance that is the human condition-