--- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > <snip> > > [Quote from Wikipedia] > > The word "corporation" derives from the Latin corpus (body), > > representing a "body of people"; that is, a group of people > > authorized to act as an individual (Oxford English Dictionary). > > At the risk of being dubbed schizophrenic (as well as hopelessly > disconnected) by anonymousff, I think it's interesting that not only > is a corporation (legally) an individual, but an individual is also > (really) a corporation -- as may become more and more evident along > certain lines of consciousness exploration :-)
I'll jump on this one, Rory. :-) Given some of the things I've studied and the weird people who have taught those things to me, I'm always surprised when long-time spiritual seekers say that they have a "self." It's not the use of the word to distinguish between self and Self that gets me; it's the assumption that there is only *one* of them, that they have only *one* personality or self-structure. Another viable way of seeing the situation is that each of us has millions of "selves," all Maya, none of them with any more substance than a mask at a costume ball. We put them on for the occasion and we take them off when another occasion arises. At times, the hard-boiled, cynical "self" is appropriate, and we "wear" it. At other times, the loving, com- passionate "self" is appropriate, and we wear that one for a while. It's all a way of talking, of trying to describe a situation that doesn't even really exist :-), but I'm more comfortable with the idea that each of us has a myriad of selves than I am with the idea that we only have one. As Walt Whitman said, "I contain multitudes." And that doesn't necessarily mean that I suffer from so-called multiple personality disorder, merely that I'm human. Unc To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
