The self

>>19572608
What is a non-succubus thread doing on this board?

>>19572608
is this crowley?

>>19572703
It's just me using logical deduction along with spiritual guidance to come to conclusions. If my logic is correct it wouldn't surprise me if others also came to the same conclusions.

>>19572608
Your will in a dream can make you become a rabbit. You still exercise your will even as a rabbit, but you are also subject to all the feelings and instincts of a rabbit. You can dull your will as a man bowing to every limitation too. You must seek to follow and manifest your will in life or you too will be a cog.

>>19572726
This sounds really similar to what I have been thinking about lately concerning fate, will, and the existence or nonexistence of "essential self" in anything. I think you are onto something.

>>19572848
I hope so. I wonder how this relates to the concept of heaven.

>>19572630
Someone's got to contribute real threads to this board.

>>19572608
>It is merely a cog in the surrounding machine.

This is where your logic has a fault. The ego is not a cog in a machine, it is an evolving piece of the process of the universe. The human body and mind is a coterminous with nature as the tree and the rock. You are not a result of anything, you are simply a point in time of what the universe is doing.

You are as much yourself as you are the big bang. The process of the big bang is still going on; if you want to see what it looks like, look around you.

Nothing can be studied just as an individual piece without also studying the environment around it. By this logic, you and I are simply a part of everything and not an island in a strange, terrifying place.

On the subject of will; the will is not an external influence or entity unto itself; it is simply the 'radar' that we all use to interact with the universe around us. It is a part of you just as your hand is a part of you. And just as the hand is not the entire body, your mind is not your entire self. There is the deep self, the unconscious, and behind that there is the 'oversoul'; the connection everything has with all other things by way of you simply being a piece of the great drama that is the universe.

Lastly, the 'spirit' of a human is not any greater than the 'spirit' of an insect. Both can inhabit the other vessel since that is already occurring. The ant's perspective on reality is just as important as yours, since it also contains a piece of the 'oversoul' and is just another way the universe is experiencing itself.

So, to answer your question; my will is as strong as yours. This is because we have the same strength within us from the 'oversoul' and can tap that to literally will ourselves into a state of nirvana. I wouldn't stay there too long, though, it gets boring being so detached from everything else.

>>19572608
Bump

>>19573275
Sounds like what I was saying except you claim our wills can inhabit animals too.