Re "How many selves do you have? My angel side, my demon side? My spiritual side, my worldly side?":
How many selves? One! Each of us is that One Self. It's the identical One Self that is incarnating right now as emptybill and S3raph and every other sentient being - including the lost cat that is meowing outside my house now as I type. It is therefore pointless for me to dispute with you as I would be trying to persuade myself to change my own opinion! If I was sitting where emptybill is sitting (which indeed "I" am) I would have an identical take on life as he does - the "take" with which I (my lower self) does not agree. The One Self is the Witness - completely empty (but you knew that!) and without qualities. This is basic Advaita. The simultaneous presence of different "selves" (all those "lower" selves) within each of us is amusing. A man can face a frightening, traumatic situation - say a drunk throwing a punch at him - and experience the appropriate feelings of fear and panic while at the same moment another part of himself can be thinking coldly and objectively: "That was an impressive jab. Not bad. Not bad at all". "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes." (Walt Whitman) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <emptybill@...> wrote : Higher vs Lower? How many selves do you have? What About This Side And That Side? My angel side, my demon side? My spiritual side, my worldly side? They call this scitzoidiz fragmentation.
