Unbecoming: A mirror, not a method
Hi all,
l've written a short book called Unbecoming: A mirror, not a method. It's a series of vignettes of everyday examples of the patterns of psychological becoming - A mirror to the self-referential thinking process which causes so much suffering.
When we seek to escape or improve what we are - psychologically - we prevent holistic self-awareness by swapping the fact for an ideal. The fact is what is actually happening, whereas the ideal exists only in imagination-- but we chase the ideal and escape the fact.
The intention of 'Unbecoming' is to encourage one to turn in on oneself to look at their own patterns of thought, instead of using their patterns of thought to look.
It is suggested that this form of meta-awareness has profound implications for the brain and one's consciousness.
The observer attempting to change what he or she observes is thought dividing itself in two, which creates and sustains the very conflict it seeks to escape. But the observer is not seperate from that which he/she observes. It is part of the same movement.
The collapse of the observer is a radical realisation for the brain - first a shock, then a kind of freedom. The observer is invisible while it's operating, which is why I designed the entire book as the observer acting out, to expose its patterns, as opposed to offering another method or a path which are so often are hijacked by the observer.
Unbecoming is available on Amazon in paperback and kindle.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unbecoming-Mirror-Method-Sam-Arden/dp/B0GWJ6SX28
Much love,
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