Some Readers may be of the opinion that I spent an inordinate amount of time explaining: [1] the reality of self and self-ascribed operations, [2] common misconceptions as to the existence of individualized, permanent spiritual selves, [3] the operational meaning of the psychological term, ego, … Continue reading Explaining Self: Psychospiritual Significance
Author: Baron Jean-Michel
Who am I? A physician, scientist, inventor, philosopher, poet, sculpture, friend, lover, partner, father, adventurer. All of these and more. Life is a wonderful sojourn in a miraculous, universal theatre with comedy and tragedy, where the unexpected is in all ways just ahead. A play where each can choose to be an active, conscious participant or simply a sleeping bit player. A play where perhaps one can attain permanence and return again and again to the Great Play joined with his or her matched half, or die like a dirty dog in the streets of Cairo. A play where an awakened couple can bring relief to the less enlightened players by decreasing unnecessary suffering. A play which delights in finding persons with magnetic centers and a thirst for life eternal. A play which has been and will remain center-stage for a very long time.
Explaining Self: The Riddles of Adam and the Nāgárāja©
It came to pass, on this first day of the New Year, that Adam, as has been his custom since his Awakening, partook and ate another apple from the Tree of Knowledge. No longer did he call it the Tree of Knowledge of Good and … Continue reading Explaining Self: The Riddles of Adam and the Nāgárāja©
Explaining Self: Psychoanalysis Modernized (3) ©
I think it prudent to briefly summarize what we have discovered. First, the social belief impressed upon us since early childhood, i.e., that each possesses a single, unified, homogeneous, and isotropic Ego, or Self, is inconsistent with conscious observation of our mental function, awake or … Continue reading Explaining Self: Psychoanalysis Modernized (3) ©
Explaining Self: Psychoanalysis Modernized (2)©
Every day is a blog day, are you not pleased? Yesterday, I modernized portions of Freudian terminology. In particular, I introduced Federn’s terms, ego and object cathexes. Today, I we move deeper into analysis. I am not fond of how the word ‘ego’ is utilized … Continue reading Explaining Self: Psychoanalysis Modernized (2)©
Explaining Self: Psychoanalysis Modernized (1)
I wish, each and every seeker of truth, a Good New Year. May all experiences prove necessary for completion of your journey. As it is New Year’s Eve, I want to remind you that these blogs are not meant ‘to be easy to comprehend’ or … Continue reading Explaining Self: Psychoanalysis Modernized (1)
Explaining Self: The Most Dangerous Concept of Self
Before moving onward and upward to Paul Federn’s psychoanalytical innovations, I need to digress and discuss an extremely misleading and harmful concept introduced in the writings of post-Aryan India, the Mediterranean Neo-Platonists, the Occidental Hermeticists and Alchemists, the 19th century Spiritualism Movement in England and … Continue reading Explaining Self: The Most Dangerous Concept of Self
Explaining Self: The Autobiographical Self
Today, we continue our emergent evolutionary physicalist analysis of how people came to possess the feeling of being an independent self–both physical and aphysical. We start from biology so to avoid foolish and unfounded speculation as to the nature of the personal self. For seekers … Continue reading Explaining Self: The Autobiographical Self
Explaining Self: The Cognitive Self
Previously, I introduced the meaning and importance of the word ‘self’ from a psychospiritual vista. If you return to these blogs you will see that I stressed a modern approach to the structure of ego states and personality–closely related to concepts stressed by the Buddha … Continue reading Explaining Self: The Cognitive Self
Reality Series: The Paths of Work and Study
I would like you to take a few moments considering the methodologies utilized in the ministries of Jesus, the Christ and Gautama, the Buddha. Did either man indulge in pontificating theological and abstract nuances? Did either man discourse primarily with the learned scholars of his … Continue reading Reality Series: The Paths of Work and Study
Reality Series: Necessity of a School
Happy Boxing Day from Jolly Ole England. Look it up! As an aside to yesterday’s blog, I want to discuss a question asked frequently by seekers. Is it necessary to affiliate with an esoteric school for efficacious progress toward stream-entry or full illumination? This is … Continue reading Reality Series: Necessity of a School