Tag: Becoming
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In the Time of Unveiling – 2: Between Nostalgia and Invention — The Two Illusions of Escape
When a worldview collapses, the first instinct is to escape. Some try to go back — to recover the world before the rupture, to restore the lost forms, to rebuild what once gave meaning.Others try to go forward — to invent something radically new, to design new values, new identities, new worlds beyond the ruins.…
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In the Time of Unveiling – 1: The End of the Age of Becoming — Twilight of the Modern Worldview
We are living through the slow collapse of a world — not just political or economic, but metaphysical.Something deeper than systems is failing. Something older than ideology is being exposed.It is not the end of history. It is the end of an illusion about history.We are not watching a single civilization unravel — we are…
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The Truth of Eros – 1: Beyond Desire — Love, Lack, and the Disappearance of the Other
We speak of love, but we often mean desire.We say we long for the other, but we are often grasping for ourselves.We pursue intimacy, but secretly we are hoping to be completed. And so love becomes a negotiation of needs:I give, so I may receive.I see you, so you will see me.I want you —…
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Psychology and the Disappearing Self – 5: The Eternal Self — Being, Peace, and the End of Healing
After the trauma has been named, the patterns traced, the parts explored, the growth pursued — something remains unsettled. We are told healing is a journey, a process that takes time. But we begin to sense that this process has no end. We reach moments of relief, only to find new layers. We feel better,…
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Psychology and the Disappearing Self – 4: The Myth of Growth — When Progress Becomes Another Cage
“Keep going.”“Do the work.”“Trust the process.”“Become your best self.” These are the sacred mantras of modern spirituality and psychology. Growth is no longer just a goal — it is a moral obligation, a mark of worth, a sign of self-awareness. To grow is to evolve. To evolve is to be good. To stay the same…
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Psychology and the Disappearing Self – 3: Inner Child and Fragmented Selves — Healing Without Wholeness
The modern self is a fractured self. In the therapeutic worldview, we are not one — we are many.We carry an “inner child,” a wounded protector, a critical parent, dissociated parts, shadow selves. We speak of being triggered, “not feeling like ourselves,” or “working with the parts that got hurt.”And so healing becomes the art…
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Psychology and the Disappearing Self – 2: The Trauma Identity — Woundedness as the Modern Self
We live in an age where trauma has become a primary lens through which the self is understood. No longer reserved for the catastrophic, trauma now describes nearly every kind of suffering, rupture, or emotional pain. To be traumatized is no longer a condition on the margins — it has become a central identity. We…
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Psychology and the Disappearing Self – 1: The Therapeutic Worldview — Psychology as a Substitute Metaphysics
In the ruins of traditional meaning, psychology offered hope. As religion faded, as metaphysics was declared obsolete, and as the self lost its anchor in Being, the modern world turned to therapy — not only as a tool for emotional well-being, but as a way of understanding reality itself. We began to see the self…
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The Wound of Time –5: What Appears Without Time — The Eternal Now and the Structure of Reality
We live as if the present is a razor’s edge — a vanishing point between past and future, always slipping away. We try to be present, to stay present, to return to the present — but no matter how we focus, the moment seems to dissolve the instant we notice it. The “now” appears to…
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The Wound of Time – 3: The Self as Timeline — Identity in the Prison of Becoming
We are taught to think of ourselves as stories. From childhood, the self is described as a process — something that develops, grows, matures, breaks, heals, changes. We are told to “become who we are,” to “work on ourselves,” to trace our identity through our memories, our traumas, our achievements, our transformations. In this view,…
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The Wound of Time – 1: The Appearance of Time and the Fear of Disappearing
There is a fear that runs deeper than all others — one that haunts every joy, waits at the edge of every accomplishment, and whispers beneath even our happiest moments. It is the fear that what is will not last. That we, and all we love, will vanish. That time will take everything. This fear…
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Male & Female 2: The Crisis of Gender – Modernity’s Challenge and the Illusion of Becoming
Modernity brought unprecedented change—technological progress, scientific discoveries, and social revolutions reshaped human life. Amid these transformations, traditional gender roles, once tied closely to function and hierarchy, began to shift dramatically. The shift reflects a broader cultural and philosophical movement: the rejection of fixed structures in favor of change and becoming. This movement, however, overlooks a…
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Know Thyself – 8: The Rediscovery of Personhood: From Psychological Construct to Eternal Reality
Know Thyself: The Crisis of Identity and the Return to Being “Man is not merely a part of the world, but the place where the world begins to appear.”– Emanuele Severino The Disappearance of the Person In an age obsessed with identity, the person has all but disappeared. We speak endlessly of roles, traits, preferences,…
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Know Thyself – 7: The Culture of Self-Making and the Tyranny of Becoming
You can be whatever you want to be.” But what if that is the root of our confusion? Modern culture does not ask us to know ourselves; it demands that we make ourselves.This shift, often hailed as liberation, has become a new tyranny. We are no longer born with a destiny to recognize, but with…
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Know Thyself – 5: Memory, Loss, and the Illusion of the Vanishing Self
“All that is yours shall return to you, not as you remember it, but as it is.” In the experience of memory, we encounter both presence and absence.The beloved face, the longed-for moment, the words once spoken, they appear again, but only as images, pale echoes of what once was. We say things like, “She’s…
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Know Thyself – 3: The Myth of the Fluid Self: Desire, Gender, and the Collapse of Form
“I feel like I’m becoming who I really am.”– A common expression, but beneath it, a profound contradiction. In a world where identity has been severed from Being, where presence has dissolved into process, fluidity emerges as an ideal. To be fluid is to be free, unconstrained, endlessly open to becoming. This modern myth is…
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Know Thyself – 2: The Fragmented Self: Psychology, Power, and the Loss of Presence
“I used to think I was one person. Now I’m not so sure.” The modern self is not only in crisis; it is shattered. Fragmented across roles, performances, diagnoses, and projections, the self has become a mosaic of shifting parts. Where once we spoke of character or soul, we now speak of personality types, trauma…
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Know Thyself – 1: The Crisis of Identity: Becoming, Nothingness, and the Modern Self
“Modern man believes he can be anything — because he no longer believes there is anything he truly is.” We begin in the midst of crisis. Not just political or cultural, but ontological. We no longer know who we are, and worse, we have come to believe that this unknowing is freedom. For centuries, the…
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Know Thyself – Introduction
The Crisis of Identity and the Return to Being We live in an age where identity is everything, and nothing. It is affirmed, debated, deconstructed, weaponized, and endlessly remade. To belong or to be excluded, to find one’s “true self” or to reject the very idea of a fixed self; these now lie at the…
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The Unfolding of Truth – Appendix B
The Veil and the Real: Islam, Mysticism, and the Eternal Structure “He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.”— Qur’an, Surah 57:3 Islam and the Ontological Unity of Being At the heart of Islam is the affirmation: “There is no god but God.” This statement, while theological on the surface, also…
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The Unfolding of Truth – 9: Emanuele Severino – The Inevitable Resolution of the Contradiction
The Final Contradiction The journey of philosophy, from Parmenides to postmodernity, is marked by one recurring drama: the tension between Being and becoming. Parmenides declared: Being is; non-being is not. And yet, all of history, Platonic dualism, Christian creation, Buddhist emptiness, modern subjectivity, has wrestled with the appearance of change: These questions have driven metaphysics,…
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The Unfolding of Truth – 8: Modernity – From Substance to Subject and the Collapse of Metaphysics
The Turning Point: From the World to the Self With the collapse of the medieval synthesis, the philosophical gaze shifted dramatically. No longer anchored in substance metaphysics or a transcendent order, modernity turned inward, to the thinking subject as the new foundation. This was not merely a shift in emphasis. It marked the beginning of…
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The Unfolding of Truth – 7: Scholasticism and the Domestication of Metaphysics – The Final Attempt Before the Fall
The Afterglow of Revelation and the Return of Aristotle As the Middle Ages matured, a remarkable convergence took place: the truths of revelation were increasingly systematized through the lens of Greek metaphysics, particularly that of Aristotle. The fusion promised much: clarity, coherence, and the ability to defend faith through reason. Yet behind this synthesis lay…
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The Unfolding of Truth – 3: Plotinus – Emanation and the Return to Unity
If Plato glimpsed the realm of the eternal through the Forms, fixed, timeless, and shining with intelligible clarity, Plotinus deepens the vision. In the Enneads, he presents a metaphysical unfolding of reality from a single, ineffable source: the One. This One is beyond Being, beyond intellect, beyond any distinction. It is not a being among…
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The Unfolding of Truth – 2: Two Worlds: Plato and the Birth of Metaphysical Structure
Parmenides had shown that Being cannot not be. Change, then, must be illusion. But human experience contradicts this at every turn: we see birth, death, decay, motion, transformation. If thought must reject the evidence of the senses, how is truth to be known? It is Plato who takes up this task, and with him, philosophy…
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Christianity and the Structure of Being– 3: The Persistence of the Platonic Framework
From Augustine to Modernity: How Christianity Carried the Logic of Annihilation By the time Christianity emerged as the dominant religious force of the Roman Empire, the seeds of a deeper metaphysical tension had already been sown. The Christian proclamation of the eternal had fused with the Platonic suspicion of time, matter, and change. The result…
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Christianity and the Structure of Being – 2: The Infiltration of Platonism
How Greek Metaphysics Entered Christian Thought In its earliest centuries, Christianity encountered a world saturated with Greek philosophy. Among the many schools of thought that shaped late antiquity, none was more influential—or more seductive—than Platonism. Plato offered a majestic metaphysical vision: a realm of eternal, unchanging Forms—the true Being of which all sensible things were…
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The Final Non-Duality 6 – The Fulfillment of the Religious Quest: Eternal Structure and the Destiny of Thought
Beyond Paths, Beyond Goals — The Joy That Always Already Is Across the millennia, religion has been the most enduring expression of humanity’s longing for the infinite. Beneath its doctrines, rituals, and images, there pulses a single, unyielding question: What is the origin of all things, and what is our place within it? This question,…
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The Final Non-Duality 4 – Modern Non-Duality: Awareness, Realization, and the Trap of Sudden Awakening
The Self Does Not Awaken — It Eternally Is Modern non-duality, especially in the traditions emerging from Advaita Vedānta and later crystallized in the teachings of figures like Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, and more recently Rupert Spira and Francis Lucille, offers what seems to be one of the most radical breaks from ordinary consciousness. The…
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The Final Non-Duality 3 – Christian Mysticism: Union, Darkness, and the Eternal God
From Ascent to Appearing: Rereading the Path of the Soul The mystical tradition in Christianity stands as one of the most powerful witnesses to the limits of conceptual thought and the longing of the soul for something that cannot be captured by language. From Dionysius the Areopagite to John of the Cross and Meister Eckhart,…
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