When you only know yourself by reflective self-definition, and don’t appreciate the vast possibilities and natural freedom that comes from being the owner or source of the gameboard, you’re stuck.
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The reflective self-definition that is generated automatically by ancient psychological processes, the machine that seems to want to turn everything into “it’s about me” in some way.
That’s the first kind of identity or the first existential mode: reflective, in that there’...
To be the owner is truly being, and to understand and sustain that relationship to your own existence is where the “coherent” bit comes in:
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