Friday, December 31, 2010  A New Year's Revolution: Becoming
OneSelf  As touched on in a comment yesterday, the movement from
ego to self and servility to freedom is accompanied by a
withdrawal of projections, so that the locus of reality is felt
to be on the interior rather than exterior plane.  Ultimately we
see that the exterior could never be the cause of the interior,
for the greater cannot arise from the lesser (vertically
speaking, of course, in the sense that consciousness is prior to
matter, not in the vulgar horizontal sense of deepak animals and
other beasts).  Human psychospiritual development requires the
interiorization of boundaries of various kinds between self and
other, ego and environment, affect and thought, man and God,
etc., without which the maturational process can never get off
the ground (interesting that one of yesterday's trolls argued
that the absence of boundaries represents some sort of
"mysticism." If this were true, then babies and rocks would be
mystics).  Hans Jonas discusse