spectrum of modes: "will-to-be","will-to-survive" and "life-living"

As the self reflects on the past narratives of its own life in the present moment, the process of change can be seen as taking place incrementally. Is it not apparent that the future is taking hold of the present?

The self can create in its being, the diversity of modes that it can Will dependent on the characteristics of its phenomena (i.e. the enviornment that molds the self in the present). Life is found between the spectrum of "will-to-be" and the "will-to-survive". The "will-to-be" is described inwardly as philosophical reflection as a meditation to bring the ideal self, the telos as an authentic character, onto the phenomenal appearance as projection. Outwardly, the "will-to-be" observes the phenomena without motion, as it reveals itself as a being viewing the particularities in the multiplicity of life existing as individual expression of its individual will in the totality of the encompassing All. This is only one mode on one end of the spectrum that can be contrasted with the mode of "will-to-survive". This contrasting mode is a pure will that makes itself known as a being striving to survive in the continuum of life-nature. The self in this mode has little to no room for philosophical reflection, and can be described as the is-ness of its being reflected in the actions of preforming the task at hand for survival. Both modes are expressed during the rhythmic cycle we call "day".

What persists through this spectrum of change is the expression of the artist represented as "life-living" in authenticity!

wonder

To be aware of the extended world while remaining in a state of meditation about the self's relation to the world makes the phenomenal experience one of wonder. The self begins again to rediscover itself hidden in the depth of its own soul. It looks upon the world of phenomena with curiosity. This curiosity brings to the fore of life-living, an inner expression of authenticity - as the self reflects on the world through the gaze of philosophical perspective. The All encompasses everything except the freedom of its own will and consciousness to be. As the world of the mind separates itself from the extended world, thought sees itself clearly as an artist expressing its world-life-view. This is the beginning of the present-ness of experience through its own meditation.

We are by nature confined in the dual worlds of the mind and body. What unifies the two in the present is the will to express itself in the form of authentic being. Consciousness manifests itself as the extended body and its world of thought unifying itself in the grand narrative we call life-nature. How the self experiences the world is like a single drop of water flowing in the stream of life. To see momentarily the river as it is and to realize that through extension the self has a specific place in this process is to come face to face with the All. In a momentary epiphany it sees its own creaturely-ness in nature as it contemplates its will to be. The is-ness of the moment reveals the artistic will expressing its wonder.

Freedom and Autonomy

To make oneself an artistic being in the world of phenomena, the self must create imperatives that dictate its own actions represented by the Will. To express the self's freedom to act in accordance to its own will is to have autonomy. Freedom and autonomy does not necessarily mean that it has limitless options in the world. The artistic being ought to create its own categories in which it must abide by in order to express its freedom in the phenomenal world. The Self knows its moral nature and its ability to abide by laws that are apparent through its sensation, but beyond this self-knowing lies other laws that have been created by the mind in order to make the self more free. It is to will the mind's world (a projection of the ideal Self) onto the extended self that relates its being to the objects and other particulars of the natural world. The Self, must identify with the minds own aesthetic categories and make it a reality in the world of its phenomena. How else can the artistic and authentic self come to be expressed in the extended world? This "will" must bring its own world-life-view into the world of phenomena through its expression in philosophic language. The self as artist.

Purpose - an age old question (previous post)

The unknown world of other "selves" and the peculiarity of their subjective consciousness, is of concern to the "I" of the Self, who struggles to understand what it means to live in the current narrative of existence. Changes to the web of societal existence is so rapid that the "I" dwindles to the size of an ant mindlessly carrying on its own function for the good of the survival of the species. However displaced, our existence and our conscious experience has some meaning at least to our own subjective perspectives. We exist not aimlessly in the dark for a new darkness of the next generation, but we exist as beings created for a purpose. It is this "purpose" or telos that drives us consciously or subconsciously to move ourselves for the light of something more.


What is more to the Self can or cannot be the same as the other selves that exist. With this division in purpose comes a great divide in the narratives of our lives. Yet, the narratives converge on a spiritual level to create what may be a "objectivity" of existence. This hypothetical objectivity is quickly dissolved into narratives of  illusion of the current social system. When the bubble burst and the individual "I's" are left to there demise to find the narrative that suits them best, all is left for the Self to pray to a harmonious story of the objective world. It is nothing more than goodness, and simple existence of contentment for the ability to be alive.


How is it that the Self's subjective experiences are congruent with the realm of other subjective beings? Do we not live in our separate worlds blinded by our own world-life-view, without a clue to the existence of the other?  The existence of an "I" so confidently stated in the mind of the Self, is nothing more than a scared-squeak as an existent in the phenomenal realm. How to "bridge" the gap between existence in the noumenal world while conscious of our existence in the material world is the philosophical task of contemplating truth.


The Self is nothing more than a construction of itself, looking to understand how the "I" relate to "others" to create a narrative of how and why we exist. It is a process to find meaning - an age old question.

the bridge between worlds

Is creation of the world an experience that transcends logic?
At once the soul is uplifted into the noumenal world, where phenomena becomes a process-reality for the believer. Isolation is momentarily transcended for a world that seems to point to redemption. However, the Self is by natural law, apart of the extended world as a being with multiple modes. Dependent on the narrative one takes, fruitful realities appear in the day light of lived-life. How else are we to find a bridge between the nouminal world and that of the phenomenal - is it not dialogue?


Darkness looms when one re-enters the phenomenal world without the basis of the ideal world. Chaos of the mind, narratives of delusions, clouds the path to awakened self-authenticity. It becomes the imperative of the will to unify what is divine in the soul with that of the self that is apart of the extended world of materiality. Being, encounters the created world of the Mind as a momentary we.

Upon meeting

The truth is hard to come by, due to the nature of trust and similarity. How much has been revealed to me in the art of "thought"? I am a dualist in the present, due to the radical nature of the separation between the what is of the material phenomenal world and that represented in the Mind of the believer. It is "light" subsumed by darkness and despair in the night of the world of extension.


Can there not be a path towards a reunion of the formal ideal world and that of the present? Who am I, but an inquisitive soul experiencing the phenomenal with pure subjectivity with multiple modes of being. Self-authenticity becomes the process of the will to power. Is it not the purpose of the self "to move" itself (i.e. to Will itself) to self-authentic Being?

What is Being?

The fuzzy boarders that comes with the youth of the journey, makes the identity of the Self to be an unknown of the future. For on the one hand there exists a majestic life full of meticulous calculations and an imperative to always 'Be', and on the other hand a slave like morality in the material phenomenal world full of simple darkness. How to make the world of "thought" immanent in this world becomes the journey of the Self, willing itself to "Being." Yet, I have not explained what "Being" is... Is it not creation of everything, the coming to know the All in perfect rhythm with the beauty of lived life.


This process makes the self look upon the aesthetics of life to improve upon the Will to live more virtuously in pure wisdom of the traditions of "philosophy."


Is this not the Process to being?