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Existential Review Part 12 TRANSCENDENTAL SUBJECTIVITY by Sasha Lessin, Ph.D., sashalessinphd@aol.com 808 244-4103
[Based on Koestenbaum, P., The New Image of the Person: The Theory
and Practice of Clinical Psychology, Connecticut: Greenwood Press,
1978.]
Now that you’ve familiarized yourself with the ideals in earlier lessons,
continue the exploration of the existential model of being starting with the next Ideal; then share your reactions to the explorations on this site.
EXPERIENCE TRANSCENDENTAL SUBJECTIVITY REVERE THIS CORE SELF IN EACH AND ALL (Ideal 10)
Reflect on your individuality and become aware of yourself as reflecting from a position outside your personality and bodymind. Transcend reflection and become one with-the flow of unity itself. Directly experience your being at each level of self-definition as flowing through the center of the core of each of your narrow-order identifications as well as flowing also through cores of others from whom you illusorily separated yourself. Know you are one with all your human parts, through which the same consciousness flows. Recognize your own center and you recognize the centers of others. Once you live from this knowledge, you respect the conscious centers of all people; you experience their inward cores as one and the same as yours.
"Each individual human inward subjectivity is the divine consciousness in man. Reverence for subjectivity is the highest existential principle of morality. Man's inwardness is the source of his value. I am capable of respecting infinitely the inner ego of both myself and others. A person's character may be evil and his body diseased, but his pure inner conscious core is infinitely precious and eternally dignified." Men are therefore born with unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Koestenbaum calls this reverence, "the highest existential principle of morality." [op cit, page 514]
RESPECT AND REVERE ANOTHER'S CONSCIOUSNESS
* Think of someone whose attitude you find difficult to accept. Then, with regards to this person, complete the following: I can forgive and feel compassion for by... (complete.)
* I’ve been intolerant of . Today and I’ll revere her/him by ....
EVIL
Koestenbaum contrasts respect and regard for the consciousness of others (reverence) with disrespect and disregard, which are existentially evil. "Evil is disrespect for, disregard for or destruction of any consciousness," because you can observe, from your center, that the consciousness of others is part of your own precious consciousness. Evil is also "disrespect for, disregard for or destruction of the freedom of any human being, for to be free is the essence of consciousness. Evil is disrespect for, disregard for or destruction of the right to love and security for any human being."
Evil, or disrespect for consciousness, takes specific forms: ignorance, ugliness, weakness, alienation, poverty and chaos. Whichever form of evil disturbs you most points to your life goal :grappling with it. If ignorance is the evil most bothering to you, your goal becomes knowledge. If ugliness is your evil, artistic goals will give your life broadening meaning. If weakness is your evil, your goal becomes power. If alienation is your evil, improving social relations is your task. If the greatest evil from your perspective is chaos, your goal becomes unity consciousness.
COPE WITH EVIL
* Rank the following evils in order of how much each troubles you:
ignorance,
ugliness,
weakness,
alienation,
poverty,
chaos.
How do you struggle against the evils which trouble you most?
Review: THE EXISTENTIAL PRINCIPLES (See each on this site):
Realize the reciprocal INTERPLAY between you and what you experience; learn of field theory, intentionality.
Experience yourself at several LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
Acknowledge that you are responsible; CHOOSE your attitudes and reactions.
Consciously experience your ever-developing sense of yourself as an individual and as humanity (phenomenologically SELF-DISCLOSE.)
Value PAIN and ANXIETY as opportunities to learn.
Use limits to make your life meaningful; reflect upon NEGATION, FINITUDE and DEATH.
Live and reflect using phenomenological bracketing (EPOCHE)
Be INDEPENDENT, SELF-RELIANT and SUBJECTIVE (to balance out love and commitment.)
Realize your own unique, creative INDIVIDUALITY.
Experience TRANSCENDENTAL SUBJECTIVITY; revere this core self of each and all consciousness.
Realize you are free to CHOOSE your own values and self-concepts
Accept GUILT for your choices as signals to do better.
Say YES to life. COMMIT yourself. Be REALISTIC.
LOVE and encounter others. Be FLEXIBLE and adaptable
Experience time living now, using the past, focused on your future.
GROW; expand and transcend your self-definition.
Use contradictions, polarities, paradoxes and ambiguities as opportunities to establish dialogues and DIALECTICS leading to further growth.
sashalessinphd@aol.com
[Based on Koestenbaum, P., The New Image of the Person: The Theory
and Practice of Clinical Psychology, Connecticut: Greenwood Press,
1978.]
Now that you’ve familiarized yourself with the ideals in earlier lessons,
continue the exploration of the existential model of being starting with the next Ideal; then share your reactions to the explorations on this site.
EXPERIENCE TRANSCENDENTAL SUBJECTIVITY REVERE THIS CORE SELF IN EACH AND ALL (Ideal 10)
Reflect on your individuality and become aware of yourself as reflecting from a position outside your personality and bodymind. Transcend reflection and become one with-the flow of unity itself. Directly experience your being at each level of self-definition as flowing through the center of the core of each of your narrow-order identifications as well as flowing also through cores of others from whom you illusorily separated yourself. Know you are one with all your human parts, through which the same consciousness flows. Recognize your own center and you recognize the centers of others. Once you live from this knowledge, you respect the conscious centers of all people; you experience their inward cores as one and the same as yours.
"Each individual human inward subjectivity is the divine consciousness in man. Reverence for subjectivity is the highest existential principle of morality. Man's inwardness is the source of his value. I am capable of respecting infinitely the inner ego of both myself and others. A person's character may be evil and his body diseased, but his pure inner conscious core is infinitely precious and eternally dignified." Men are therefore born with unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Koestenbaum calls this reverence, "the highest existential principle of morality." [op cit, page 514]
RESPECT AND REVERE ANOTHER'S CONSCIOUSNESS
* Think of someone whose attitude you find difficult to accept. Then, with regards to this person, complete the following: I can forgive and feel compassion for by... (complete.)
* I’ve been intolerant of . Today and I’ll revere her/him by ....
EVIL
Koestenbaum contrasts respect and regard for the consciousness of others (reverence) with disrespect and disregard, which are existentially evil. "Evil is disrespect for, disregard for or destruction of any consciousness," because you can observe, from your center, that the consciousness of others is part of your own precious consciousness. Evil is also "disrespect for, disregard for or destruction of the freedom of any human being, for to be free is the essence of consciousness. Evil is disrespect for, disregard for or destruction of the right to love and security for any human being."
Evil, or disrespect for consciousness, takes specific forms: ignorance, ugliness, weakness, alienation, poverty and chaos. Whichever form of evil disturbs you most points to your life goal :grappling with it. If ignorance is the evil most bothering to you, your goal becomes knowledge. If ugliness is your evil, artistic goals will give your life broadening meaning. If weakness is your evil, your goal becomes power. If alienation is your evil, improving social relations is your task. If the greatest evil from your perspective is chaos, your goal becomes unity consciousness.
COPE WITH EVIL
* Rank the following evils in order of how much each troubles you:
ignorance,
ugliness,
weakness,
alienation,
poverty,
chaos.
How do you struggle against the evils which trouble you most?
Review: THE EXISTENTIAL PRINCIPLES (See each on this site):
Realize the reciprocal INTERPLAY between you and what you experience; learn of field theory, intentionality.
Experience yourself at several LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
Acknowledge that you are responsible; CHOOSE your attitudes and reactions.
Consciously experience your ever-developing sense of yourself as an individual and as humanity (phenomenologically SELF-DISCLOSE.)
Value PAIN and ANXIETY as opportunities to learn.
Use limits to make your life meaningful; reflect upon NEGATION, FINITUDE and DEATH.
Live and reflect using phenomenological bracketing (EPOCHE)
Be INDEPENDENT, SELF-RELIANT and SUBJECTIVE (to balance out love and commitment.)
Realize your own unique, creative INDIVIDUALITY.
Experience TRANSCENDENTAL SUBJECTIVITY; revere this core self of each and all consciousness.
Realize you are free to CHOOSE your own values and self-concepts
Accept GUILT for your choices as signals to do better.
Say YES to life. COMMIT yourself. Be REALISTIC.
LOVE and encounter others. Be FLEXIBLE and adaptable
Experience time living now, using the past, focused on your future.
GROW; expand and transcend your self-definition.
Use contradictions, polarities, paradoxes and ambiguities as opportunities to establish dialogues and DIALECTICS leading to further growth.
sashalessinphd@aol.com
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