Musings

Musings

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For the sake of logic (based on my suspected premise that reality, at its core, is nondual consciousness) I like to entertain the idea of a higher or deeper self: an aspect of individuality that isn’t bound by time and space, that communicates more through intuition and synchronicity than right-angled thought. It’s how I differentiate between fulfillment and hedonism–my greater aspect desires fulfillment, while my surface consciousness (if not aligned with its higher segments) can fall prey to self-destructive indulgence.

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  1. Freud identified three ‘parts’ to the general psyche: the ‘super-ego’ – what we think we ‘should’ be, at our best; the ‘id’ – what our ‘base’ desires really want (what you’d call your hedonistic impulses); and the ‘ego’ – where we balance those two, other parts. Freud saw that even the super-ego was ‘learned’ (culturally conditioned). Mind you, he was living amongst the Viennese upper class, who wanted to be pirates and brigands like their ancestors, but were repressing those desires fiercely, out of a sense of cultured ‘propriety’. The thing to remember is that there is no ‘self’ to that higher; it is being separate [limited] in time and space that gives rise to ‘self’. Or as the kid in The Matrix said, “Remember, there is no spoon.”

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    • Your last point is crucial! Yes, the self is a derivative of time-space linearity based perception. Any dissonance between “selves” is essentially a result of the total self crimping its perception, much like a garden hose that’s bent back on itself, when it’s meant to provide an obstructed channel.

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