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A new sense of self to begin, might be just the desire to change oneself and to adopt a program to do it.
The Russian mystic George Gurdjieff taught the technique of 'Watching Oneself', as represented by the group I was briefly associated with. This is a technique I invented myself before I ever heard of Gurdjieff. Primarily it is just to notice the associations (any particular ones doesn't matter) that one attaches to any given subject.
Having identified a particular association to study, one develops techniques to analyse the history of the association, as to where it came from, of what use it is. Is it true as reality based, or is it adopted from others ? One can examine one's emotional attachment to it. This technique involves free-association or whatever comes to mind. After analysis of an association one can then self-decide, if they
want to keep or discard it.
The discard of associations involves another program which I call self-remembering. Whenever the studied association arises in the mind as one makes a particular associative connection, one
remembers to remember to notice it as it happens.
The ugly duckling. Analysis of how one arrived at such an association. Then to remember to remember whenever the association is made. Then
remember to remember to change the association. No ugly duckling no more.
There are those that stay at home, and the searchers. The stay-at-homes are in general happy with themselves and their lives, called conservative
and internal authority. Then there are those who are unhappy at home, and go on a 'quest' in search of which is external authority. Much to do in literature and film. There is 'no place like home' concluded
Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.
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