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MotherWhen one experiences himself as Being, the internalized image
of mother becomes of no use for support or soothing... However,
when one experiences oneself as Being one is no longer the self-image.
One's sense of being a human individual is now based not on the
internalized self-image, but on pure beingness, beyond all images
of mind. This means that this new sense of oneself is not in relation
to mother's image. It is not dependent on past object relations,
and is not a reliving of them. This is the autonomy of Being...
The mother's image is completely irrelevant to this sense of being
oneself. It is in fact in a completely different dimension of
experience. One is living on the Being level, while mother's image
and all mental representations are on the mind level. These representations
are experienced as mere thoughts, concepts, images and of no fundamental
reality. (The Pearl Beyond Price, pg 218) |
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