09-23-2010, 12:00 AM
“And to present this in another way...the fact that we have essences should comfort us, yet how many people walk around in comfort? Most don't. For example, many attend church because they fear their essence will not have an afterlife. Yet if they have an essence, why the fear? Is not the assuption then that such essence isn't truly theirs and they must fight for it? So essence has been tampered with in a way to make it what its not. And this gioes beyond religious people, everyone has a fear that can be manipulated and so any idea of essence does not help them in any way”.
SHM: I’ve read this a couple of times and am still a bit foggy on what you refer to as ‘essence.’ Could you define it for me? Is essence our soul? The totality of the self? The habitual AP position?
Ok SHM, you are really good at intuiting my posts so I want to give you the answer that best gets to what I mean.
Essence as I'm referring to it is anything which evokes fear of death. But its not something feared at first, essence is at first loved, adored by all who conceive of it, until certain thoughts, inceptions, occur and seem to pose a threat to the essence so beloved. This essence takes different forms depending on the awareness of the one experiencing it. The fact that it takes so many forms gives it a quality of being something truly unique, but again fear stalks it constantly. The uniqueness is the pleasure derived from it even if short-lived. Pain (fear) is endured only because of its (essence's) promising fulfillment (which never arrives) of security.
SHM: I’ve read this a couple of times and am still a bit foggy on what you refer to as ‘essence.’ Could you define it for me? Is essence our soul? The totality of the self? The habitual AP position?
Ok SHM, you are really good at intuiting my posts so I want to give you the answer that best gets to what I mean.
Essence as I'm referring to it is anything which evokes fear of death. But its not something feared at first, essence is at first loved, adored by all who conceive of it, until certain thoughts, inceptions, occur and seem to pose a threat to the essence so beloved. This essence takes different forms depending on the awareness of the one experiencing it. The fact that it takes so many forms gives it a quality of being something truly unique, but again fear stalks it constantly. The uniqueness is the pleasure derived from it even if short-lived. Pain (fear) is endured only because of its (essence's) promising fulfillment (which never arrives) of security.