Tag: Self
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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 – 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 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 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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