Tag: Self
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The Truth of Eros – 5: Glory — Love as the Appearing of the Eternal Other
Love, in its highest truth, does not end in intimacy, in warmth, or even in joy.It ends in glory. Not glory as triumph, pride, or accomplishment —but glory as radiance: the shining forth of what is real, eternal, unrepeatable.To love the other truly is not simply to feel something, or even to recognize them —it…
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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 – 2: Memory and the False Redemption of the Past
We often turn to memory in search of redemption. We revisit the past — through recollection, analysis, even therapy — hoping to find answers, healing, clarity. We try to make sense of what happened, to piece together a self from what we remember, or to change how the past affects us now. Memory, in this…
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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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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 – 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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