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Stages Of Self
The Axis Mundi is the central pillar upon which all awareness, all being, is founded. It is composed of the lower, middle, upper and transcendent selves. This is the mythical world tree. This is Mount Olympus. All of these symbols are this one singular axis. It is a progression of development starting and ending with…
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Experience Of Self Awareness
Signs of self. First, we must clarify how one can be aware of self. Self awareness is not the same as thinking. The thinking will go on all by its own, a chain of cause and effect, stimulus and response. Where is the self in this? I’d say nowhere. If it was, people wouldn’t have…
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Centered In Self
Self awareness is the perception of the factor of your presence in life beyond circumstances. It’s what makes you believe you are capable of self determined action whether you actually practice that or not. Some people believe that people in general never change. This is in my experience thoughtlessly misguided. People change like dust being…
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Psychic Vandalism
I am a media junky. I take in information from my senses voraciously. But I realize that the senses are limited which means I feel under no constraint to confine my thinking to the senses, or if you prefer the sensible. I manage my emotions like the energy resource they are with the exception that…
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Signs Of Self
Your self is visibly reflected in the world sort of like a glow. It makes all sensory experience in that moment of self awareness seem much more intense, more vivid, and more instinctive. There are objects of self awareness, natural affinity. These fall into what some might call the cosmic or spiritual domain, and often…
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Spheres Of Self
Not all events in your life are illuminated or darkened. Not every experience is a sign of self. There is a third point of self awareness. In cabalism, it’s referred to as the middle pillar, but this middle pillar is the true self. The first shell of the true self is an expansive feeling, as…
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What Is Self Awareness?
Self awareness. What is it? How do we know something is self aware? It is our natural state. It is? Take notice of self, look at it, feel it. Can you take notice of something that cannot be defined apart from other things? Yes. Interesting. How so? You have already given it definition by noticing…
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We Exist As Self
How is self motivation possible? Being moved to act, being inspired, or moving on our own of our own volition? It is embedded in becoming. Indeed, and what is aware of becoming? What event is becoming? Awareness doesn’t become, just life is becoming. One cannot become aware? It is my perception that I become aware…
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To Master
What does it mean to master something? To be able to do the task with out much thought. To do it well consistently. To have control, knowledge. Why don’t we have mastery of everything? Because things change and grow. We change and grow. We’re easily distracted. Only so much that we can focus on. Innate…
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Self Mastery
Real is having evident existence. Are you real? I believe I am. How do we know that we are real? If you had no limitations, how would you know you are real? Evidence such as others having experience of me? Having the drive to protect your existence? I think I’m real because I think about myself.…
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A Question Of Space
People believe that human consciousness is a special case. They consider that human sentience is a fluke, or that it has no connections other than those that are self determined. Am I mistaken? People seem to equate self awareness with subjectivity, questions of I and the world according to me. Humans have attained much. Was…
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Your Event Horizon
I am not you, because my event border is distinctive from your own. I can happen at the same time you do. But is my presence a single event? You being conceived is your brain being “switched on”? My father being conceived was my being conceived, and in that case, my brain was switched on…
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Source In Chi
Perhaps a concept to centralize our thoughts. The Chinese have a word, Tsu or Tzu. It has two meanings. Child and master. In eastern metaphysics, mastery is defined as complete harmony with the Tao, and children are considered to come as close to that as possible. I’ve usually heard that word in someone’s name. Lao…
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Realize Self
Now perhaps the greatest mystery of self mastery. Why is it possible for me to like jogging, and you to hate it? Your point of view? Why is it possible for me to have a point of view? Reality is consistent, and we all have senses of one form or another. We all live in a…
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Each Time, You Choose
It feels like mastery of self is navigation, though not in the conventional way. Somehow navigating these patterns of being and applying action accordingly? Your 4th dimensional path is not a line. It’s an orbit. You cannot navigate space and fail to navigate self. You are not the same at McDonalds as you are at…
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Interested In Self
Today’s topic is self interest. I will start with this question. What is self interest? What would that look like in practice? Doing something for yourself. Taking care of your self? In practice, it would be doing that which keeps all your systems in optimum condition. At times it is seen as something also detrimental…
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Altruism And Egotism
There are two primary philosophies of self interest, though most people don’t consciously adopt one or the other. Altruism and egotism. Shall we examine each? Also called selflessness and selfishness? Yes. Altruism and ego sound like opposites? Taken as objects of focus, they are opposites. Taken as artefacts of reality, they are not opposites. Shall…
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Your Own Enemy
Many Christians died in the name of their faith, and many more would go on to kill those they felt threatened it. All of this is the name of a greater ideal. What great ideal has there been in the world that has not fostered corruption? I do hope there is one. What great cause…
Category: Self
Self awareness is the first spirit. The first sphere or plane of existence. Signs of self are always two, one dream, one nightmare. Those two facets, the vivid and the darkened, are on the same level. Self awareness is returning to the middle way. Continuing to recognize despite the vastness of it all that you are still present and able to choose.
Self is life. It’s why we are concerned with life, but how do we lose self awareness? How do we become creatures of our experience only? How do we fall asleep? If you seek truth, if you desire wisdom above all else, this is life. Heed your beating heart, listen to the whispers of your breath, and remember that you stand upon the earth.
Open chapter on Self Development | Self Esteem.
“We’re constantly being told what other people think we are, and that’s why it is so important to know yourself.” Sarah McLachlan (Canadian Singer and Songwriter, b.1968)
“One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.” Blaise Pascal (French Mathematician, Philosopher and Physicist, 1623-1662)
“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control – these three alone lead to power” Alfred, Lord Tennyson (English poet often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry, 1809-1892)