2. CONSCIOUSNESS APPREARING AS A HUMAN

All of us say I, it is the most personal word, yet we don’t know what it stands for.  When you don’t
know what you are you go about making an image self, identifying with it, clinging to it, defending
it and seeking fulfillment outside. In seeking to unmask the false self we inquire into its nature,
and confront the many perspectives of ego-I-person.  In seeking the self we also need to trace
consciousness through understanding and experience.  We learn how to look deeply into the mind by
which we know the world. This seminar begins our inquiry into the nature of the Self.  

“On the short path we learn to take advantage of the Overself’s ever present offer of grace.” Paul Brunton

 READINGS FOR SEMINAR 2:

Inspired egoism: paras from the Notebooks

Comments by Anthony from Standing in Your Own Way

"The Secret of the I" chapter from The Wisdom of the Overself

Pathworks Lecture: "The Idealized Self-Image"

Pathworks Lecture: "The Abyss of Illusion"

Pathworks Lecture: "Shame of the Higher Self"

Pathworks Lecure: "The Vicious Circle of Immature Love"

Excerpts from "The Secret Path

Meditation Readings

"Nisargadata Maharaj: from I Am That