Redeeming the Self

Happenstance encounters with those looking for the way, how ironic it must be to be going a separate way. The mystery of the end in sight, the world to come always so near, a feeling reflected in the narrative of life - never the same, always diverse. The process of coming to behold the meaning of the divine guiding those who are perplexed, is a transcendental structure beyond archetypes of the sacred narrative itself, a lived-in-experience where to state “I” is accompanied by “where are you?.” Looking for the practical moments where space and time no longer holds true, confusion only when distant from “her presence.” The mind only has time to look up to the countless stars above questioning the meaning of it all.

The Spirit of the Divine that "Is"

Is it the true that matters most or the idealistic – are they not the same? The German romantics dancing on the dance floor attempting to unify the two worlds, moves his feet in timid humility - a sacred dance, to woe the chosen to the brink of confusion. The romantic sees a reality beyond the mundane, easy to see, but worthy of righteousness? How can such a subtle play-on-words come true to the simple? The becoming of the Christian “way,” is to realize the suffering self as the son, in complete trust of the Holy Spirit and the father on high. The Will ought to will itself towards the true and the good, a teleological process – a revolution terrifying even to the father, not yet sure of the Absolute Spirit himself. The next generation of the sons of men, a brotherhood of love!

Categorical Imperative and “nihilism” and the Tao

Categorical Imperative and “nihilism”

Is it hard for anyone to argue that the will reacts to the stimulus that is the phenomenal world in a unique “way.” However, upon realizing the issues of freewill and determinism, the intellect embarks on investigating the far boundaries, pushing the limits of both “freewill” and “determinism.” In our world today one must learn to walk the tight rope between the two and come to terms with the simple fact that the Chinese “Tao” is taking root in the world. In these confusing times of uncertainty, the Tao allows one to experience the freedom to choose, while always reminding you of the paths that are more suitable.

The Kantian categorical-imperative becomes a meticulous personalized religion, a confident “being” in the world. However, the journeyman must achieve the freedom to live a deterministic life by accomplishing his goals of choosing what he loves. Nihilism originally begins with the interpretation of “nothing matters” a depressing sense of gloom that forces the sitting to stay sitting without motion to find what matters most. But upon finding the passion and the “what matters most of life,” Kantian thinkers can go on the brink of psychological collapse in trying to achieve perfection in “self-mastery”. The New “nihilism” not defined as “nothing matters,” but, “oh well, I’ll let Nature takes it course” must be internalized before the journey of life becomes easier. When focusing on imperatives one gets loss in the pressure of perfection forgetting that there is an Absolute Spirit that is beyond our control.

"mystical experiences"

Equivocal "words" in logical associations can complicate the interpretive experience, but can bring the text to come alive. The individual subjective interpretation becomes important. However, if too many amphibolous words are placed in logical sequence of "each other", the dynamic "nature" (of the text) can easily turn to a chaotic experience of misinterpretation. To quantify the problem, univocal and equivocal "words" can interchange to becoming amphibolous depending on the perspective one takes and the interpretive process. This creates an almost mind bending task that is difficult to comprehend. One must make a leap of faith and trust in one subjective interpretation of the author at a time, without second guessing what the intended meaning is. Interpretation of an author who is amphiboulous natured becomes close to impossible to comprehend - even the author has many subjective (conscious and subconscious) messages. The "truth" of the author is the goal of the interpretive process.

Revelation of Self

God’s judgment brings the pure and intellectually high minded "self" the experience of exclusiveness beyond most particulars. However God’s judgment requires the necessity to reconsider the moral and intellectual self in relation to other particulars. Utility of those who are morally and intellectually inferior to experience God’s divine nature in the form of revelation is problematic due to the simple fact that the Self, necessitates the need of chaotic and unruly matter.

When the intellect is in the company of those who approximate His nature, the soul is uplifted. When those who are judgmental in an impure way, insecurities arise in the soul, and brought down and away from the simplicity of the divine nature.

Those parts of the soul, the divine part that is the intellect must transcend material particulars, and have the confidence to remain unmoved by the forces that are less intelligible to the intellect, namely the chaotic matter.

However, to understand God’s omniscience and divine knowing it is a necessary evil to come to understand the world in all of its particularities and in its universality. Again, to repeat the earlier self-observation, Divine nature must be cognized without the dependency of matter but must look towards those intellects more developed to experience revelation.

From a psychological interpretation using religious and philosophical categories/language: the thesis would be the process of creation and the process of God beginning the creative act (a setting in motion); The antithesis is revelation, a process of learning to assimilate God’s world and become aware of appropriate relation the self must have to God and the material world in all its particularity; The synthesis is the continuous redemptive act of balancing both the love of creation and the difficulties of revelation (issues such as subjectivity and objectivity and the coming to a viable interpretation) , to transcend the self-chaos, for a healthy understanding of what is meant by God’s self-knowledge and to learn to self-actualize the intellect to continuously achieve the visible telos.

Intellects who take the path to comprehend “the true” will help the self overcome those obstacles, to become more divine-natured in hopes of a future unity with the “historical actuality” or the process of becoming at one with the Absolute spirit.

"The Self": a psychological interpretation

"Here I am"
[and interpretation of an introduction to psychology text]
The Self "today" engaged in a mighty outward and inward struggle for a new world-life-view stands at a point where multiple worlds meet amidst an almost inconceivable devastation of the past. No clear orientation is possible, nothing can show the mind a way forward, all bearings have been lost in this whirlwind of dualism (between realism and idealism). Self-actualization, in all its uncertainty, must be a "process" of thorough re-examination of the self towards being. The colossal destabilization brought by the war of subjective perspectives, and the issues of interpretation, directs the mind more imperatively than ever to the realm of spiritual and philosophical realities. Perhaps, psychology, mysticism and philosophy, may help the mind understand some of those incomprehensible realities the Self has been relentlessly confronts with ever since the creative process began, and may guide his pathless present towards a more meaningful future. From a different angle, the process of self-actualization is the beginning of a realization of self-consciousness that the root of all reality lies in his own mind and that the phenomenal realm is as he himself has shaped it.

But how can the self move towards actualizing his being when he cannot even find his way about from the dilemma of finding "truth" in all the subjectivities?

After the countless endeavors that have been made from various interpretive methods, the mind finds a necessity to attempt to understand and "extract" a more comprehensive system from psychological, philosophical, and mystical linguistic categories.