I\u2019ve become increasingly aware that I\u2019m only part-way between me and not-me. There are parts of me that are spontaneous, and realistically speaking I should not take credit for these parts or their products. I\u2019m tempted to say, like Jack Horner in the nursery rhyme, \u201cOh, what a good boy am I!\u201d But a couple of moment\u2019s reflection shows me that much of what \u201cI\u201d do isn\u2019t done by my working out the words\u2014either in writing or speaking.<\/p>\n
Oh, indeed, I have the illusion that I do it, but then again I have that illusion in dreams, too! I know often I didn\u2019t plan to do whatever I get credit for\u2014amusing, clever, etc. (For that matter I get blamed or forgiven for things again which I don\u2019t plan.) Innumerable are the behaviors that are mine\u2014only in that they\u2019re no one else\u2019s\u2014but again I didn\u2019t try to do either wonderful, bright, or foolish things.<\/p>\n
Then who? Well, there are many physiological functions that I hardly do, or only partially do\u2014 but rather are done \u201cautomatically\u201d by my higher\u2014or lower\u2014self. Who is this \u201cself\u201d that takes credit for what I haven\u2019t planned or consciously done\u2014but wants to avoid blame for some other things with the same provenance. <\/p>\n
The point is that there are dimensions of \u201cself\u201d (in quotations) that are hardly self. Some are instinctive, automatic, built-in or learned early, un-willed. That building-in may come from higher or wiser self than ever we ourselves could do. Other abilities may arise more from \u201chigher\u201d dimensions. The real point is that it\u2019s not from that part of ourselves that we associate with \u201cour will.\u201d It\u2019s also more than mere \u201chabit\u201d born of practice. There may be parts of \u201cus\u201d which are significantly \u201cgreater\u201d than us! Whoa!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019ve become increasingly aware that I\u2019m only part-way between me and not-me. There are parts of me that are spontaneous, and realistically speaking I should not take credit for these parts or their products. I\u2019m tempted to say, like Jack Horner in the nursery rhyme, \u201cOh, what a good boy am I!\u201d But a couple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,11,26,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-literacy","category-psychology","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2614,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions\/2614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}