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Every perceived entity is recognized and given context, as everything one knows
by remembered Association. Without associations, any given entity has no history, meaning, definition or identity. Entities are simply objects with shape, size, color, pattern, dimension, sight and sound, possibly smell and taste. Contextual Associations are created by experience, inculcation, education or self-creativity, much of which is often modified by prejudicial cultural conditioning, in conformance to the cultural norms of the time. For instance the the boom of thunder is recognized and identified by Association, interpreted by most scientifically today, as caused by the heat of lightening, but in other times variously as clouds colliding, angry
or snoring gods.
As every entity is recognized, identified and given context by Association, so also
is the individual's self-identity, which is characterized primarily by limitations.
One is limited to one body, one location at a time, one's failings, inabilities and deficiencies, what one doesn't have and is incapable of compared to others.
One's incapabilities far outnumber one's capabilities, as one cannot fly, walk through walls, be in two places at once, grow money on trees, have much
of anything compared to what one could imagine, unless born to very fortunate circumstances. One might define themselves more by what they are incapable, as opposed to what they are capable.
To perceive any given entity as Olamic means to subtract all pre-existing
Associations. The entity becomes an independent object in its environment and can then be given any value the individual wishes. Actually entities become as described above: 'objects with shape, size, color, pattern, dimension, sight and sound, possibly smell and taste'. Thus the inclination might be to create an associative context based on properties, such as shape, size and color, which
may give to entities symbolic meaning, definition and context. Symbolic recognition in essence is the absence of history concerning any given entity or instance. If a person such as a stranger has no history, they can be anyone from any ordinary citizen, to some personage of great notoriety, depending on one's imagination and circumstance. One could attribute a specific symbolic significance to one who would wear a specific kind of hat.
As one may begin and carry through a process of elimination of Association for the general environment, one may do the same for the self. By the subtraction of most Association, one may become a blank slate, getting rid of the old limited, specific, finite, negative self, which creates the freedom to adopt new personalities. This scrubbed self is open, empty, unfilled and allows for the introduction of the new. The object is to pattern this new self on the Metaphysical-I. However a difficulty is apparent since the Metaphysical-I is
invisible. The alternative may be the adoption of Secondary Identities, where the assumption is that the Metaphysical-I could be a universal entity. The realization is: that not in terms of Ego and the body, but in terms of mind and Identities, one can be anybody.
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