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concept:the-i-ultimate-self

The I / ultimate self

The single blinding unity, the ground of being, which living centers connect us to.

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  • A phenomenological experiment asking the reader to regard a beloved animal as part of the same I as oneself.

Related by similarity (8)

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

  • Central metaphysical concept of the chapter: the universal ground of selfhood that living centers reflect and connect to; what makers must yearn toward to produce living structure.
  • The I (Great Self)concept0.836
    The transcendent ground of all existence, the eternal self within each person, to which we appeal when judging living structure and which is revealed when we truly please ourselves.
  • the self (or 'I')concept0.806
    An eternal, impersonal yet intensely personal core within each person, also called the Void, the ground, or the great Self; the core of every living center.
  • The three qualities of the I: personal, one, suffused with relatedness.
  • the selfconcept0.786
    The interior awareness, consciousness, and felt identity that each person experiences; absent from mechanistic cosmology.
  • Eternal selfconcept0.785
    The deep, enduring self that is related to living things; the part of a person that experiences relatedness, distinct from the everyday self.
  • Minimal conclusion that at least one of the two versions of the I-hypothesis must be true.
  • The personal experience of being a self, which is left out of the mechanistic world-picture but is central to the new wholeness-based view.