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Claudia Dommaschk's avatar

This is so interesting. As a Gestalt therapist, I am currently writing a long-form paper on the "self as process" and just wrote about this last night. So it is in the "ground" or "field". Thanks for bringing your version to life and I look forward to the next to pieces on this subject.

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Inanna's avatar

I don’t disagree with any of this but as a longterm student of yoga philosophy (Vedanta/tantra in the main), I do think that the westernised view of selfhood is horribly enmeshed with its religious tradition and/or reactivity towards that. This seems to define and limit the terms of engagement with the actual issue. The reason I study what I do is because I was fascinated, and disturbed, by the fact that I did not understand the oft-quoted “just be yourself” advice frequently dished out to children and was aware from an early age that I was a different ‘me’ in different environments. The Eastern traditions are incredibly rich for anyone wishing to explore such stuff.

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