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There are several points I would like to make concerning psychological identity. For the sake of analogy only now, imagine your present self at the center of a circle of endless spirals. You are yourself, and yet one of the spirals that form the circle. You are a vortex for the circle. You do not have to contact it nor its other spirals, in that you already belong to it.
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They are to a large degree, but not entirely, self-perpetuating, as if the seeds of an apple, instead of falling down to the ground, fell backward into some mysterious dimension within the core of the apple itself. And yet because of the creative abilities of this mysterious dimension, more than inbreeding would be concerned, for it of itself could provide entirely fresh and new elements out of which further creativity could come.
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The circle image that I gave you is meant to represent the basic meaning of each individual’s entity. Within it each individual is free. In the simplest of terms I have tried to suggest through analogy the multidimensional aspects of a basic self.
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If you are interested I will give you such exercises, but whether or not you remember these lives consciously is of little importance, for you have subconscious knowledge of them. This is your last reincarnation, in your terms. At death you will consciously realize the sum of your reincarnated selves. To me that is your personality, but this is only a small part of your overall self. To me it is as if you had finished one life, you see. To you it will seem as if you had finished many.
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