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"The
unexamined life is not worth
living."
"Know your Self."
- Socrates
Really, the
unexamined life is not
lived at all, but is a mere shadow of a life, without the true freedom,
happiness and power that comes ONLY with full self-realization.
Examining
your life
and self in a deep thorough way is, in fact, the
ONLY way to
full self-realization.
It is the ONLY way to
unfold your
fullest human potential.
It is the ONLY way
to the true freedom, happiness and power from within
that we all long for deep down inside.
This
is because the
true
nature and expression of Self is only unfolded by the Self to itself. "It's all inside
of
you!!"
Meaning, your true Self knows itself and reveals itself to you, but
only when you
look for it in the right place in the right way. Only when you have
TRUE
SELF-REALIZATION.
What Is
Self-Realization?
The
Self-realization that gives you
true freedom, happiness and inner power is
not an achievement. It is a simple
direct
REALIZATION that you
get from inside. You come
to realize something, you become aware of something. It is as simple
and easy as that. But it is a very specific and elusive kind of
awareness that is usually not obvious before the fact. And that is why
people get caught in the trap of searching and striving even though
these activities are futile.
ALL realizations
are
simple and easy, but they may not be obvious
before they happen. One person called a realization "the elusive
obvious." This is illustrated by the anecdote of the person who
discovered his glasses were on his head after having looked everywhere
for them. Someone pointed out to him that they were on his head, and
then came the realization, the simple but surprising awareness of what
was always the case.
You Are
Already That
Self-realization
is just like that. It is a simple but elusive
awareness of something that has always been the case. The true Self is,
and always has been,
who you really are JUST AS YOU ARE
NOW,
and not some mystical or far-off state of consciousness to be achieved.
You
are always already
that, but you may find that realization elusive,
or even find the idea itself preposterous, because your attention is
currently pointed in a
direction (i.e. anywhere but Self) where you will never become aware of
it, never even have the chance of realizing it.
Deep
self-exploration
through DEPTH Dialogue points you to that Self-realization, that
simple
awareness of Self that is already always who
you
truly are, even though you didn't know it a moment ago, couldn't see
it, didn't even have a clue.
Full
Self-Realization
Self-realization
unfolds into Full
Self-realization as more and more simple realizations
about Self reach into every aspect and level of your life. These are
the same kind of simple realizations that come through
self-exploration, and not achievements that come
through work, striving or searching.
Self
unfolds itself to yourself when you direct your attention into
yourself in the very specific way that DEPTH Dialogue guides you to do.
Then it is an easy matter of simple awareness. ANYONE can do
this, with the proper
skilled guidance.
Not Difficult
The old notions
that self-realization is a long process of attainment, or is far away,
difficult and only for the
chosen few, are wrong and now completely obsolete because DEPTH Dialogue
now shows a
clear, unfailing, step-by-step guided path to the simple
awarenesses
that naturally, easily and spontaneously unfold the full realization of
Self in ordinary everyday life, to anyone who cares to do the easy
self-exploration.
ONLY skillful deep
self-exploration can
do this!
None of the following can do this:
No
method of
personal growth, self-improvement, yoga,
tantra, spiritual practice,
"re-programming," mind-control,
dianetics type "rundown" programs, esoteric or occult practices, "new
age" practices or ideas,
meditation of any
kind, chanting, "self-inquiry"
practices, self-analysis,
self-observation,
self-remembering, awareness practices,
"releasing," consciousness exploration practices, subtle energy
awareness, "raising your vibration," breathing practices (such as
rebirthing, etc.), healing,
psychology
or psychotherapy can do it.
No
reading, studying,
searching, following a guru, devotion, prayer, being good or loving,
"unconditional love," forgiveness, "working out karma," "past life
regression," attitude change,
belief change, positive thinking, visualization, imagination, mental
gymnastics,
magic, mysticism, mystery schools, religion or philosophy (including
Platonic or Socratic philosophy) can do this
either.
(This doesn't mean that these methods have no value at all. Some of
them
may have great value in their own spheres. It just means that they are
not useful for the very specific kind of self-exploration that is
needed for full self-realization, as defined here.)
Get
This Straight
Not even the
so-called Socratic Method of teaching and learning (what is sometimes,
wrongly,
called Socratic Dialogue), and
psychological derivatives of this such as "Philosophical Midwifery" or
philosophical counseling can
do this. These are all merely cognitive, mental practices. They don't
go into the depth and essence of inner experiencing. They are no more
useful
than any other personal growth practice or psychotherapy. They are not
the true deep inner Socratic
dialogue.
And even deep and thorough self-analysis, guided or on your own, won't
do it, because self-reflection is just a way of looking at old
memories, images and representations about experience and self.
It is symbolic and mental,
being about experience rather
than a direct experience itself. It does not go into the depth and
essence of your inner experiencing. It is not the specific kind of
inner Socratic exploration that is needed.
None
of the above will EVER succeed in bringing true freedom, happiness
and power from within you (where they always truly are already) because
they do not help you
with the very specific kind of deep
self-exploration that is required for full self-realization.
"The unexamined
life is not worth living."
"Know your Self."
What Is Needed
What is required
for the full Self-realization that results in true freedom, happiness,
inner power and deep creativity, is self-exploration of the full range
of
your experiences and actions, in depth and in a very specific way
that
brings out your deepest inherent creative forces. It means coming
to know Self in ALL its aspects - its essential Being, it
actions, its
experiencing and its creativity.
The very specific
way that DEPTH Dialogue operates to bring out the deep creative,
formative forces of Self in your ordinary experience is shown in detail
elsewhere in this site, both as knowledge and as practice. But for now,
to state it briefly, it involves deep self-exploration of your
unmediated (non-representational,
non-imaginal), direct, inner bodily feeling sense of experience, and
the deep formative structures that CREATE
your experiences. It is deep exploration of the essence of the inherent
formative inner elements of your inner world that create your every
experience.
Skillful
Guidance Required
This kind of inner experiencing is very different from normal everyday
experiences or actions. Because of this it requires very specific and
skilled guidance even to just get a glimpse of what it is and to start
to touch into it. DEPTH Dialogue is help for you to do this.
(HOW
this deep self-exploration is done through DEPTH Dialogue is
clearly explained in specific detail further on.)
Self-Inquiry?
You could call DEPTH Dialogue a sort of deep self-inquiry practice. But
its specific nature, as shown above, is radically different from all
other forms of self-inquiry. And its scope is much larger also. Other
self-inquiry practices, most noteably those derived from Eastern
spiritual traditions,
only look for the Self's essential Being. This is necessary but it is
NOT ENOUGH. Again, you must come to
know Self in ALL its aspects and in its deepest creative action!!!
Only DEPTH
Dialogue self-exploration
does this.
A Clear
Step-by-Step Path
In
the whole range and
history of human culture, true
deep inner Socratic dialogue
is the only clearly laid out, step-by-step practice that has ever
helped people do
the full deep self-exploration that is necessary for full
self-realization. Deep
Socratic dialogue is not the only way to
do
this deep
self-exploration, but it is the only clear, unfailing, systematically
guided
way.
True
Socratic
dialogue
is deep inwardly
focused Socratic
dialogue.DEPTH Dialogue is the
revival of the
full practice of this inwardly focused Socratic dialogue. It is
the only practice that fully
engages the true inner dynamics of that ancient wisdom practice, and so
it is the only practice that
can unfailingly guide you in a clearly laid out, step-by-step manner
through the deep inner self-exploration that is necessary for full
self-realization.
This
site explains this in detail and shows you how it is done.
Could
You Do
This Yourself?
You could conceivably do this deep self-exploration on your own without
the help of DEPTH Dialogue, but
that path is full of pitfalls, distractions, dead-ends, unnecessary
suffering, and strong resistance held firmly in place by your old ego
structures and by the disintegration and separation anxieties that come
into
play at any major life transition. And the self-transformation that
comes about through true deep self-exploration is a major life transition!
Socrates and Plato went through all this for you thousands of years
ago, and set out a plan to save you from all that wasted life and
effort. In fact, the plan they devised is pleasurable, delightful, fun,
expansive and creatively adventurous. It does not take you into any
suffering at all, because it is based on dynamic repatterning of the
deepest formative elements of your inner experience - for
spontaneous creative breakthroughs into ENTIRELY NEW EXPERIENCES - rather than on wrong-headed, misguided
modern notions of having to work
through old "problems," issues, pains, hurts, etc. The latter is
totally unnecessary because of the deeper, truer Wisdom that they
discovered, developed and perfected. (All
of this is explained in detail elsewhere on this site.)
Deep
inwardly focused Socratic dialogue, DEPTH Dialogue, was designed by
them to bring you through the transition from limited ego to unlimited
transcendent Self in the easiest and most direct way possible.
This is what is being
offered to you here now.
Now,
to read about the benefits of DEPTH Dialgoue go here.
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