3 Blocks to Knowing Thyself

Block 1: Mental Entrainment

The process of assuming an internal role leads to that role becoming externalized into the outer world. Transcendental perception of the individual (and not a perception on roles) emphasizes a different method for perceiving the self and others. Entrainment on the other hand is a subconscious identification with roles.

Focus on a particular area or idea gives it power to expand and become real. However this is also true when an idea is rejected. If an element of existence is ignored then it has no power but rejecting something gives it as much power as accepting it. To reject something without giving it power the root of the idea has to first be investigated.

Block 2: Hidden Motivations

The motivations a person has to act provide valuable insights into the workings of inner mechanisms. For the purpose of exploring inner intentions the reason to do something at all or the reason behind doing certain things should be made as explicit and self-evident as possible in all circumstances. This is the most pragmatic method of approaching existence. Instead, people often tend to deceive, or attempt to shape their realities to suit the actual circumstances before them – which seems somewhat backwards.

Hidden motivations often cause a person to believe one action has greater merit than another where this might not be true at all. Hidden motivations are internal senses often confused with intuition that lead someone to believe their actions to defend a certain agenda are righteous when in perspective the need to defend that agenda is trivial. This is once again an issue of settling the soul and decreasing the margins between actual existence and social existence in contrast to the individual's frame of reference of both the social and the actual experience of life. Sometimes letting go is the best formula.

Block 3: Identifications of I

Identification with a particular state causes a person to become the personification of that idea. The individual self in all of its fullness can be experienced in a state of non-identification. If a person is not in identification at all then what that person is must be their true self. To take an example; identification with the ego can lead to becoming emotional and depressed; or being a victim; or assuming another similar role of self.

The aim of non-identification is to highlight those states as assumed "roles" and not to mistake those roles for who a person is. Roles people assume are often misperceived as their true self and this causes much conflict that is often not even worth the trouble of defending the masked sense of I.

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