SHACK 40142 THE TURNING OUT OF SELF

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 In the quote by KrishnaMurti 'One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end', and 'having no head'. This to me epitomises the title. The known is the small self as it were, the everyday and accumulated beliefs, judgemental attitudes, one's chosen path via custom, tradition, cultural, academic achievement, basically most others ideas and conditioning. Most follow this without questioning the validity and because we never may question this and we are comfortable to a degree of satisfaction it continues into perpetuity never perhaps realising that this fixed determined position may not agree or even to examine another's chosen 'path' and even become hostile towards it as it may challenge the security or the obdurate fixation and the comfort and security becomes shaken and a crisis of the 'faith and loyalty' to the chosen way looms and so defences and attacks may follow and all sorts of actions are justified by the beliefs and ethics of this chosen way. 

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I am not against a chosen path or self merely examining the cons and pitfalls. This self is composed of beliefs and other components mentioned above and these are ideas, beliefs handed down by many generations and the recipient of these maybe just a clone, a inculcated receiver and carries on in many ways as a robot, the algorithms being the ideas and patterns implanted by the constant rhetoric during one's formative years. Is this right or wrong. The lack of choice maybe a downfall for this keeps the recipient on the track and a narrow path of choices.  However one may say the fact that one maybe without paths and guidelines could result in wild abandonment and ruthless wild antics which could result in chaos and anarchy. Or a ruthless despot whose path is the only path and this despot and the followers, the loyal band of followers can reek havoc by forcing others to follow the one and only path.

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There is another self spoken about the Higher Self or Over Self or Spiritual Self this would imply another being with ideas more lofty ideals and spiritual qualities and this maybe another set of ideas albeit more moral and ethical than other less higher ideals. Again a form of conditioning, perhaps more inclusive and holistic. Could there be a Self which is Selfless which is just pure potential and has no boundaries, borders or conditions and is just seemingly empty of any conditions, restrictions or human ideas or strains. It may appear to  human senses as empty, barren and yet it is unfettered space a fount of Life. Light not as human photonic light but just a light and when touched by a human mind in some illuminating experience or by realising all paths are limited and local and then dropping out of the path not by force or collaboration or enticement but by a shocking revelation or gradual deep intuitive understanding, the flash of the light and the dawning of the mutual surrender and one relinquishes 'the path' and becomes pathless without qualms and then realising that one has turned out self and it is natural and one has no identifiable identity and is the unknown as it were.  

SHACK  aka  GEOFF