My intrinsic nature, my extended Self . . . Sounds good, but what if one doesn’t know everything? I went in there with that attitude, and realized there’s stuff there, things happening! All kinds of stuff, not just the bad. Something more complex is going on in there: I can feel the motion, flows, potential…
So, as far as levels go, and having to deal with them, the basic one may be the material world/body, and the mind/soul. Extremists may say you are either one or the other. Others will speak of the problems of being in the material level, rather than the spiritual. Washburn’s triphasic idea was interesting: one…
With the Life World within the Greater World, I can think a bit differently about my life directions and what they mean. Within this active approach, its more than just the typical person dealing with the nasty, the unconscious, but the enhanced with better understandings. I’m at the level of the extended self now, no…