“Me:- a name I call myself”-The “Doh, Re, Mi” song, The Sound of Music
When we say the words “me, myself and I”
to ourselves we experience a containment, a familiarity and a censor from the
outer world. We begin at the beginning,
as it were, with that innate sense of privacy which we dwell in, of that
Sanctus, cordoned, rarefied soul-space .... singular to being, yet arterially
defined in Father God.
Our
sense of such being, in conscious wakefulness and urging, needs be that first
reference from which all actions thereafter flow. And although this appears to
be a given and most obvious to the fact, it is not largely occurring in ‘modern
Man’ today.
In
contradiction to all that has been obtained in fledgling egohood there has been
a loss of continuity that the soul awareness once gave us. In past
consciousness there was not the capacity for such selfhood as distinguished and
contrasted in the singular, for the comprehension of a man saw his being
implied most everywhere, and the outer world with all of its history implied
and living within him as well.
However, there was this accompanying continuity
known by him which gave him his selfhood also. Because he found his self to be
in totem and meaning, in living and binding relationships most everywhere, his
‘I’ and his being were relevantly and apparently real to him. This World was his being, and the outer Cosmos his
parent soul.
Now
by comparison, the gift of the modern ego equips us with the powers to
distinguish the detailed differences which exist within this one Creation. We
are also, most importantly, going through a process of discrimination whereby
we are actively deciding what there is in the world, that we should prefer to be dominant
within our own selfhood, and have choice also as to
that which we would willingly cast away. We are no longer given to everything. Just as a man who has moved
from an entire house into a little room, with the narrowing of our
consciousness we are sorting out and making space for those things which we
hold most important to us and not bringing over the rest.
In
order to begin to qualify our lives in this manner, and to do so productively
as far as our future selves are concerned, each individual has to answer for
themselves, from themselves.
The
point of saying that we need to refer firstly in conference with our own being
is essential insofar as we are not living to merely decorate our inner chambers
with but a nonsense to the soul within. That which goes to form our lives needs
be connected to the reality of both heart and reason that it be maintained in a
living fashion to our inner life. If we are to refer to others (to social law,
to popular opinion, to demands set upon us from other individuals who would
have us do as they do) before that of our own decree, then we have no living
connection to that of our own future.
Without a desire that comes right out from
our own being for that which we take to ourselves, there is no living spiritual
thread that can be maintained and worked upon.
Equally it can be said: What we do
and live and become within the outer world, directly persists within us inwardly
and marks out our future lives to come. If
we are not respecters of our own sense of being and give over our lives to the
choosings of others our ‘congeniality gone-too-far’ will betray us. For example:
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