Tag: Ego
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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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The Last Dualism 4 – The Eternal Structure of Thought
Beyond Self, Ego, and Silence Modern non-duality often speaks of “going beyond thought.” Thought is treated as noise, as interference, as the domain of the ego. Silence is upheld as the pure state—the absence of self, of mind, of conceptual filters. Enlightenment, in this view, is the cessation of thought, or at least a radical…
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Post 38 – Truth Appears as It Must: Myth, Reason, and the Necessary Revelation of Being
Introduction The pursuit of truth has shaped philosophy, science, and religion, yet the very paths taken to uncover it have often obscured it. In dismantling myth, philosophy inadvertently led to nihilism, while science reduced existence to mechanistic materialism, both framing truth as something lacking and to be grasped at, rather than recognizing it as the…
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Post 37 – The Necessary Unfolding of Truth in a Lifetime
Introduction Within the Structure of Being, as understood in Emanuele Severino’s thought, life is not a journey of becoming but the appearing of an eternal necessity. Every moment of existence, every experience of time, is an expression of the immutable truth of Being. What appears as the unfolding of a lifetime is not a transition…
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It Is What It Is 