Interpretation is to Have Your Identity in an Absence

A rock carving near Tintagel, Cornwall, and a 15th century illuminated manuscript

We don´t know how we unprejudiced can observe a problem. We want to deduce a result from the problem. We want an answer.

Identification with something is one of the most hypocritical conditions

You can identify yourself with the poor or the rich, with a house, a family, a country, or the whole of the planet – it is one of the tricks Man uses in order to simulate unity.

Identity begins with the Ego, the Ego-centric person. Then the feeling of identity can expand to family and society, a socio-centric identity. And the identity can expand to embrace the planet – a planetarian identity.

Identification with something is one of the most hypocritical conditions.

To identify yourself with a group in the name of unity, and still remain alone, is one of the favorite tricks of Man, in order to deceive loneliness.

Or you identify yourself with your faith in such extreme degree, that you are this faith. And that is a neurotic condition.

Death is the unknown, the landscape that can't be mapped

When we speak about life we usually mean life as a continuation-process, where there happens an identification.

When we say life, we often mean I and my house, I and my wife, I and my bank account, I and the experiences I have collected.

To live is therefore a process whereby something is continued in memory, conscious as unconscious, with the multifold struggles of the process, all the quarrels, episodes, experiences.

It is all this we call life.

Opposite is standing death, which means, that all this is being brought to an end.

Therefore, we create an opposition, life and death. Life is the known, the perspective we have created on the background of the images of time. Death is the unknown, the landscape that can't be mapped.

We are the past, and there is no freedom in the past

We have our identity in an absence.

This is consequently the way of our lives; a constant struggle, the past which, modified by the present, moves into the future – and that will say that it still is the past, the self-image and the world-image, which is moving, though modified.

As long as this movement takes place, Man can never be free, he must always live in conflict, in sorrow and confusion, in wretchedness and misery.

The question becomes whether the past´s reaction can be delayed, so that there not immediately is formed an image?

The authentic person is a person who has his identity in a presence, and who has a philosophical life-practice

Philosophical counseling will be oriented towards an understanding of the images of life, which are lying under the person´s conception and way of living.

So, it is some images of life, a self-image and a world-image, which is based on time and its images as such - that is: both personal, collective and universal images - which are lying under, or which are a thought-created presumption for the person´s feelings and motivations, and which manifest themselves in a certain image of life and way of living.

To have his identity in an absence means that the person is identified with his perspective on himself and the world, and this is an expression of an un-authentic person; that is: the person who has some images of life, but no philosophical life-practice.

The authentic person is the person who has his identity in a presence, and who has a philosophical life-practice.

Death is the landscape which meditation enters into

When we speak about life we usually mean life as a continuation-process, where there happens an identification.

When we say life, we often mean I and my house, I and my wife, I and my bank account, I and the experiences I have collected.

To live is therefore a process whereby something is continued in memory, conscious as unconscious, with the multifold struggles of the process, all the quarrels, episodes, experiences. It is all this we call life.

Opposite is standing death, which means, that all this is being brought to an end.

Therefore, we create an opposition, life and death. Life is the known, the perspective we have created on the background of the images of time. Death is the unknown, the landscape that can't be mapped.

This landscape is what meditation enters into.

Anxiety is anxiety of nothing, anxiety of an uncertain threat

Anxiety is to have your identity in an absence, in the constant becoming something.

In this self-production there is no being. Anxiety is therefore anxiety of nothing, anxiety of an uncertain threat. The uncertain threat paralyses the identity, precisely because it is uncertain. The inhibition in the anxiety is lying in the paralysation.

Because the identity is paralysed in the anxiety, it is suspended. The hold, the grip of the world, which the identity is, is suspended. Anxiety is therefore an experience of an identity crisis. The whole of the situation is paralysed, and the space narrows around you.

As a Philosophical Globetrotter, you must therefore study the whole structure of the thinking, and see what place the thought has, see where it isn´t a necessity, and only then you will discover, that the mind functions in a reasonable way, both when the thought isn´t active, and when the thought has to be active.

A person is what relates to inner and outer powers; that is to say: can be them present or absent

A person is what relates to inner and outer powers; that is to say: can be them present or absent.

Identity, for example, you can have either in an absence or in a presence.

And if you have your identity in an absence, you can very well say, that you are a result of a line of challenges and reactions.

But the thought about challenge and reaction is, for the Idler, much more composite, and has a communicative character. You are not only challenged within a certain area, but from life as a wholeness.

And what you are is due to the way in which you relate to yourself.

Existential movement gives life colour, or it is life in its colour-richness

The happy movement is characterized by that awareness and being go together.

Existential movement gives life colour, or it is life in its colour-richness.

It is life-giving, or it is the identity in its life-giving form.

Movement creates light in the identity, gets it to light up.

There is in it an energy, which is spreading as liveliness in the identity.

It is the flowering of the essence of Man.

The movement is so to speak a radiance of life.

It is the thinking, which has been transparent in being: self-forgetful thinking

Existential movement is connected with Man, with identity and personality

We know movement and change from the outside world.

Existential movement is connected with Man, with identity and personality.

It arises in the individual person´s relationships with the surrounding world.

Movement has to do with human growth and development; it is to be integrated in something which happens, not in whatever, but in something which folds the essence of Man out, contrary to stagnation and paralysation.

It is to have your identity with you in a movement which fills you, enriches you, favours you, promotes you.
Movement is to be involved.

It is an ontological phenomenon, a characteristic of being, not a phenomenon of the mind.

We know the memories about continuity, but the condition where there no continuity is, we don't know

Identity as some images of life, as experience, belief and knowledge, as a striving after becoming something, a will to power, a will to control, master, frame, no matter on what level, is hard to understand and bring up in the light.

We only know continuity, we have no knowledge about non-continuity.

We know the experiences, the memories about the continuity of the events, but the condition where there no continuity is, we don't know.

We call it death, the unknown, the secretiveness etc., and by giving it a name, we hope to be able to maintain it, which again is the desire after continuity, the permanent.

As a Life Artist you must push desire aside; the desire after identification with a person or an idea or a thing

As a Life Artist you must push desire aside; the desire after identifying yourself with a person or an idea or a thing.

This doesn´t lead to harmony, unity or love.

The question then becomes: can you break out of this frame?

How this shall take place in philosophy as an art of life, can´t be answered with a method, the answer rather consists in a voyage of discovery, which perhaps can open the door; just like Faust, who unwraps himself from Mefistoteles´ word-web, by making a journey through it, without knowing where it brings him.

When things are connected with existential necessity they take unnatural forms

The natural needs of our senses have their place, and when you understand them, they don't take the unnatural forms, which they get when they are connected with existential necessity; that is to say: a self-made necessity in order to be able to be alive, to exist, and to have an identity.

To have your identity in an absence is to have your identity in your country

To have your identity in an absence is to have your identity in your country, your furniture, your images, your ambitions, your respectability, your race, your peculiarities and prejudices, your obsessions.

Through all this Man wants to discover truth, God, reality.

And because Man doesn´t know how he shall disentangle from all this, he invents something, an outside power, or he gives life a special meaning.

But this is precisely unreality and falsehood.

What is death?

So what is death?

How can you find out without that it only is a belief you adopt?

Is it possible to be death present in passive listening, not another's death, but your own death?

It demands that you don't identify yourself with something, what of course is very difficult.

Most of us identify ourselves with our furniture, with our house, with our wife or husband, with our government, with our country, with the image we have of ourselves, and we identify ourselves with something greater – the world-image, which perhaps is a tribal feeling that expands to embrace the nation; or you identify yourself with a special property, a special image.

What happens if you don’t identify yourself with all this?

The thinking becomes, when it identifies itself with me and my, time-binding

What you as a Life Artist must study, understand and neutralize, is the Ego´s time-binding characteristic, which identify itself with the memories.

Strong demands, especially the lustful, is about achieving something for the Ego, and it is the memories, which gives ”me and my” an identified continuation.

The thinking, which always is in motion, always streaming, becomes, when it identifies itself with me and my, time-binding, and gives identified continuation to memory, to the Ego.

It is this memory - which always grows and increases - you must give up.

Identification with something is justification, what at the same time means condemnation of something else

Models of society – ideologies -  are very seductive because they have with that feeling of permanence to do, which you get when you identify yourself with something.

Identification with something is justification, acceptance, what at the same time means condemnation, and resistance against something else

We want to deduce a result of a problem. In this way we begin to tackle with the problem

We dont know how we unprejudiced can observe a problem.

We want to deduce a result of the problem, we want an answer, we have set us a goal when we seek to solve it; and we try to interpret the problem from our joy or pain; or we already have an answer to how the problem can be treated.

In this way we begin to tackle with the problem, which always is new, and treat it from an old pattern, our images of life.

And in that way we are the problem absent, we are outside it as theorists, and then you have the opposition between the observer and the observed.

And this is to have your identity in an absence.

Anxiety is to have your identity in an absence, in the constant becoming something

Anxiety is to have your identity in an absence, in the constant becoming something. In this self-production there is no being.

Anxiety is therefore anxiety of nothing, anxiety of an uncertain threat.

The uncertain threat paralyses the identity, precisely because it is uncertain.

The inhibition in the anxiety is lying in the paralysation. Because the identity is paralysed in the anxiety, it is suspended.

The hold, the grip of the world, which the identity is, is suspended.

Anxiety is therefore an experience of an identity crisis. The whole of the situation is paralysed, and the space narrows around you.

The reason why we don´t understand human relationships is because we use them to achieve something

The relationship is in connection with identity the mirror, in which you can discover yourself. Without the relationship you are nothing. To be is to be in relationship, which is the actual life. You only live in relationship, otherwise you don´t live, then life is without meaning.

So it is not because you construct your identity that you live. You live, and have your identity, in the ability to be self-forgetful engaged in the relationship, and it is the lack of ability to understand this, which causes conflict.

The reason why, that there no understanding is of the relationship, is, that you use relationships to achieve something, become something, to be remoulded, to be something else than what you are.