Investigating the nature of Self

In a recent meditation I was encouraged to ponder further on the nature of Self and coincidently, while looking through a bookcase for some old documents, I found a document I had compiled and bound some years ago on the major arcana cards of the Egyptian tarot as archetypal representations of the elements of the self. There are some online resources(1) available that investigate these concepts.

This might seem to be a bit obscure, but one of the initial premises of the concepts presented here, of consciousness embedded with light throughout creation, is that as the light coalesces into increasingly complex forms and relationships, so too does the complexity of consciousness increase and the processes for its development. Part 6 very briefly describes that the motivations for self-realisation can be conceived of in terms of archetypal constructs within the personality elements of Mind, Body and Spirit, as shown below.

 

As can be seen from this diagram, the interactions of archetypes are complex within each aspect of Mind, Body and Spirit, which combine together to form the Mind-Body-Spirit complex we experience as ourselves in this existence. The means by which development of individual entities is assured is through the dynamic interaction between these archetype concepts and was summarised in Part 6 as:

… the basis of ensuring and stimulating the motivation for attainment or realisation of potential exists within the fabric of existence. Through the capacities that are pre-existent and the potentials established for that existence (karmic and otherwise), work is guaranteed to occur through catalytic action that leads to experience, that informs and in turn transforms, propelling oneself on the great way of progress.
 

From reviewing my previously compiled material, I can add that as the interpretation of the significance of one's experience compels one to transform, direct interaction with the other archetypes can provide a positive feedback to accelerate the transformative potentials and experiences of one's existence, as indicated by the dotted lines.

This diagram is exemplary only and is really not original, coming as it does from the explanations of the original Egyptian Tarot provided through the Ra contact (2) and work done by that contact group, but it does provide a reference model for how one is a compound of complexities that interact together to provide unavoidable experiences that are interpreted through the Mind, Body and Spirit. In that, there is a trinity of aspects to ones beingness that require nurturing to maintain a balanced development and transcend the limitations of this mortal existence.

But what is meant by these concepts of Mind, Body and Spirit? This bears some explanation so that the reader may more closely interpret that which is indicated.

• Mind – Is that which is aware, interprets, comprehends and chooses.
• Body – Is the physically constructed and chemically based vehicle through which we interact with this world with the 5 senses of sight, sound, smell, taste and touch.
• Spirit – Is the all-pervasive, animating principle that one's existence is but a singular focus of, connecting one with all.

With a perspective derived from the path of progression described in the symbolism of the Ankh, one can see the eradication of ignorance is facilitated through the processing of catalyst of the Mind, Body and Spirit to create experiences through which the significance interpreted that leads to transformation. In this manner, the processing of catalyst by the Mind, facilitates the transformation of the Mind, that processed by the Body transforms the Body and that processed by the Spirit transforms the Spirit. It is through such transformations that ignorance is eradicated. This defines the necessity for balancing such efforts of developing Wisdom across each of the aspects of the Mind-Body-Spirit complex that makes up the Self. In the symbolism of the Ankh, that is the development path of the vertical axis.

The horizontal axis of the Ankh speaks to the principle of polarity that permeates the material experience and the need to eradicate one's attachment to one's subjective conceptualisations. This then is indicative of the transformative efficiency of the Significator in processing catalyst and interpreting experiences. An overtly negative interpretation, or an overtly positive interpretation, reinforces one's attachment to polarising concepts and cognitive biases. Whereas, the practice of equanimity, detachment and compassion as the lens of interpreting the significance of experiences and processing catalyst is the most efficient transformative path.

May we each realise the transformative potentials in every moment.

Namaste.

1. Archetypes Study Guide, http://archetypalmind.wordpress.com/
   
2. LL Research, The Law of One, http://www.llresearch.org/