About your essay “The Self is a Conceptual Chimera“.
It was a pleasure for me to read your essay in a book “What is Your Dangerous Idea?” It resonated with me, and I believe it’s the most brilliant idea of all those “dangerous” ideas in the whole book. Although I have contemplated on and liked few of them (I assume, you’ve read the book), yours is so valuable and perceptive, that I simply had to find you and send you this message, as I am still under impression of the idea.
I completely agree with you, there is no real Self, what’s being called that is not an entity or personality. It’s surely, unique, as possibility of the same combination of different beliefs, as all а them are based on the unique experiences of individuals being under unique circumstances.
Even identical twins that were raised by the same parents, in exactly the same environment, and have experienced the same events, will have different “collection” of personal experiences and, subsequently, beliefs.
I salute you for bringing this up in the book.
I however will take the liberty of making a point that this idea is actually being promoted in the society, although, I agree, it’s still not widely known by people. And just as yourself, I believe if everybody could only know that there is no Self, we would have lived in a completely different word where this simple awareness would simply cancel most of the inner and outer wars around the planet.
Thank you for this idea. If at least a small part of those that have read the essay, could come to the awareness of it, how amazing their lives could have become…
Sincerely, Natasha.
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