Random Insight When Drunk #1

[Arkilogue]

Beautiful.

Tell me about "an inheritance of your Self", though, I don't get that... that just sounds like hocus-pocus woo.

I took the "eternity" part to be merely poetic too.

The Self is the total operational vehicle of consciousness vs the little self that is the locus of awareness that can get trapped in the various internal organs of the vehicle. The "normal" state of entrained awareness is like winding serpentine line of linear thought/feeling trains that wind around in internal space. This would also be described as "monkey mind". The awareness of the self is caught up in internal monologue usually driven by subconscious emotion.

The "inheritance of Self" is the ability to retain dominion over the internal processed and information contained, as a whole space of several fields of simultaneous awareness. The ability to observe thoughts and emotions rise and fall and remain unperturbed...no matter what the world throws at you.

The actual experience of this nested field nature of the Self (total mind) range from the expansive eureka moments of deep comtemplaters to "The Zone" of dedicated athletes and well beyond.

It's a great relief from the "normal" (entrained) experience of self.