The selfist model expresses the entirety of existence in terms of my two places and my three selves.
My two places are my state of asleepening and awakening, respectively. When I am sleeping, I am in the first place. When I am awake, I am in the second place. My existence is the sense of moving between these two places.
In the first place, there is no division, no experience, no existence.
My three selves emerge when I awaken from the first place into the second place.
My firstself is the unmoving and unchanging point of awareness I sense inside my head, behind my eyes, and all around me. My first self is always with me when I am in the second place, and I can sense it by closing my eyes; it is the infinite, boundary-less expanse in which I seem to be cradled. My firstself is that I am, my presence.
My secondself is a fixed space within my firstself. It comprises all of my thoughts, ideas, feelings, and abstract sensations I sense confined within a vessel I call my body.
My thirdself is the innermost and smallest space within my secondself. It is the sensational projection of people, places, and things occurring in the ovular window.
My first-, second-, and thirdselves together form the totality of the second place. I sense them as three layers: a space within a space within a space. My thirdself within my secondself within my firstself.
These words are all Me speaking to Myself, trying to throw a life raft to the part of me which has become lost in this wound I awaken into. I must grab that raft and follow it Home.
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