The Self, Emptiness, and Awareness

In this exploration of self-identity, I argue that the self is not a standalone entity but an integral part of a broader consciousness. Deep meditation reveals the self as a construct beyond egoistic confines, interlinked with the external world and others' experiences. Decisions arise from an awareness that transcends individual ego, suggesting that our sense of self is an inexhaustible center of dynamic consciousness rather than an ultimate emptiness.

This is a chapter of the book Truthfulness. The Consciousness that Creates Reality.

Truthfulness. The Consciousness that Creates Reality

Claus Janew

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Are you tired of feel-good attitudes and really want to solve your problems? This unusual combination of down-to-earth life practice and magic-like creativity focuses on authenticity and seriousness as you learn about love, trust, and higher harmony. The one to two page chapters offer helpful philosophical, psychological and spiritual insights and do not exclude "radical" approaches. In particular, the daily life of truthfulness is linked to the possibility of consciously creating a better reality.

"This book is like a box of good tools. You can put it in a corner and take it out when you need it, but its true value is only revealed when you use the tool. Then you will learn to realize unimaginable abilities and creativity in your life and become a 'real person.'"

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Does happiness make sense?

Some people would rather ask what meaning life should have if not the purpose of becoming happy. Really? Is that all there is to it? 

As I said, perhaps a clever drug would be enough to give you perfect feelings of happiness until the end of your life. Wouldn't it? 

That would be too dull for me too. But what are we looking for instead?

Self-responsibility and self-liberation

Only you have your worldview with all the bells and whistles, because that is what defines you as an individual. Everyone else sees things in a different way, a completely different way if you ask them, even if you have points of contact. Your motives for everything you want and everything you do are accordingly individual. Although we try to find and emphasize similarities in order to feel secure or to assure ourselves of mutual help, we actually know how little we really share. Strictly speaking, nothing at all. Or if we take "share" to mean "divide," then we divide everything – into individual perspectives, unique ways of being, unique emotional tones.

Opinions

I have been trying to understand how people come to their opinions. Pure logic and impartiality are rare - largely independent of intelligence. Emotions constantly distort thinking in one direction or another. Fear of something in particular does this. Often subliminally, but you can see it very well if you pay attention. In discussions, I can sometimes see, as if under a microscope, how someone fails to think ahead at a particular point, but always turns back to what is pleasant. And, of course, the appearance of rationality has to be maintained.

What Does Love Have to Do with Creativity?

Creating is an endless game of separating (projecting, i.e. changing) inner aspects in order to obtain a new individuality, which we can then rejoin (and enjoy again). A moment later we separate a new form of our infinite inner reality, and so on. We integrate all these "objects" in a new way as our awareness expands. This awareness also means going into limited experiences and coming back to the bigger "picture" that has now become more comprehensive, both consciously and subconsciously.

Truth, Harmony, and Free Will

The stem of the Reality Funnel summarizes the alternation of the less conscious points of view "perspectively". But if they don't just jump around there, they also have a closer effect on each other and are wound up in places to cores that harmoniously connect many perspectives. (Without harmony, they would fall apart again.)

Such a comparatively harmonious core, such as our inner self, can hold our Awareness (I) together, and from it probably emanate more comprehensively harmonizing impulses for thought and action than from the adjusting roles of our little ego. On the other hand, this ego can often handle everyday situations better. Therefore, it is best if each one devotes itself to its own subject and benefits only from the skills of the other. We can feel such a harmony like a beautiful concert. If, on the other hand, the ego is completely in tune with the inner self, we can speak of unity, but hardly of harmony: The connection is too rigid and the duet probably short.

Is There a Constant Reality?

If we can exist only in the constant change of the point of view (sensory, psychic, mental) and this must apply analogously to every place of effect (hardly has it worked, it is different), how then stability, something constant arises?

Of course, by repeating the alternation: of thought, of way of looking at things, of mutual confirmation, of effect. Quite exactly, the change can be repeated only for an infinitely short moment; then it must already reach beyond the repetition in order not to cancel itself out. That is, it changes altogether and thereby remains open. For stabilization, approximate repetition is sufficient, though. So we believe approximately the same thing for a long time.  

Probability Thinking

When we weigh between two alternatives, say between job A and job B, we weigh between their respective priorities. Each job has a certain probability of realization, which can change during the weighing, whereupon the probability of the other job immediately adjusts. That is, if we prefer job B, job A becomes less probable, but remains available in the background for a while. With job B we choose an individual probability hierarchy as such to our reality.

What about the other candidates? They and their choices are also part of our probability hierarchy. They are aspects of our individual Awareness, which as a whole decides for a new individual reality, for a new probability hierarchy. This means in reverse: The other candidates have their own awareness and choose their own probability hierarchies. We all meet in the respective awareness, but we do not merge.

Subconscious - Free or Not?

If we combine the results of Consciousness I and Consciousness II as well as Awareness I and Awareness II, the following picture emerges:

• We are aware of what exists for us in the circumscribing alternation of perspectives as their common approximation.
• When perspectives slip away from the approximation, we can still be aware of them. They exist as such in constant alternation.
• Everything that exists dynamically (i.e., alternately) transitions in a funnel-like manner from the most conscious "opening" through a perspectively "narrowing" stem into an awareness that we can call subconscious.
• This subconscious ultimately extends to All That Is.

Reality creation 10 percent plus

How can we describe an intentional change in reality with minimal assumptions?

1. We change our individual reality.
2. This affects the reality of other individuals.
3. We encounter resistance.
4. We find support.

None of this is new to a conventional, non-magical worldview. However, the word "reality creation" suggests more: we also create what is usually seen as independent of us.

Focus dynamic

Excerpts from the summarizing chapters of my book How Consciousness Creates Reality – The Full Version. This topic is developed and explained with many examples in the regular chapters of the book and also to a certain extent in its abridged version How Consciousness Creates Reality.

The perception of any object is a unique whole, the summit of an individual maximized in a vanishingly small center, and it is only through the transition into its own until then subconscious that an individual reaches another whole (another object). The transition can entail an effect after all, something of the preceding object, and the way back, a retroaction. In this way, a new individual, a new summit, is circumscribed – one that is conscious of the two earlier ones differently, or not at all.