The conscious self image is still subject to circumstances. Free,
divested of conscience, in authority. Short of emancipation a bit?
I caught a nasty chest flu around the 23rd, chills and fever a few
nights in a row. Haven't had a smoke since, been smoking for fifteen
years, mostly over a pack a day. Everything is foggy, not feeling
myself, it started during the fever. It actually started in early
December when mom called crying, that time of the year too.
I am seeing shifts in the unconscious and feel unfamiliar, maybe it is
normal. The 'phantom' is the illusion of self right?
On 1/2/2013 12:31 PM, RP Singh wrote:
Psychologists say that a person's conscious motives are not the real
determinants of behavior but one's real motives lie in the unconscious
and one is not aware of them. A person who is obsessed with cleanliness
is ostensibly a very clean person but in reality he has strong
instinctive sex drive which get repressed as he cannot accept them.
The question is that are we to judge ourselves or judged by others for
our behavior by the conscious motives or the repressed unconscious
motives ? Clearly we cannot be judged for factors of which we are not
even aware even though they are the real determinants of our actions.
The question now arises of our will , is our will free ? Consciously we
are free , we think and act as we want , we can open or close our hand
freely. So , we have freedom of choice , and if our will is bound by
unconscious determinants we cannot be held accountable for them. If
unconsciously we are selfish and consciously generous , it is our
generosity for which we can be judged and not the unconscious motive. So
, the phantom of Bondage evaporates into thin air !
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