I can either be the iamist, or an iamnotist.
As the Iamist, I can say “I am”, knowing that this one single expression captures the entirety of my existence. That my existence is the entirety of all existences. That the totality of existence and my existence are the same thing. That there is nothing beyond my existence.
The above diagram perfectly illustrates Iamism. It is the awareness of a model that transcends and encapsulates everything I experience. My understanding accounts for everything; there is nothing that exceeds my self-awareness. There are boundaries beyond which the experiences of my awakening cannot go. As the Iamist, I know everything, because I am everything.
My awakening, represented by the gnarled branches of the tree, is an illness I must overcome. I can only overcome my illness by killing the tree. By abolishing my thirdself, and then my secondself in turn. Iamism is the path of healing back to myself. It gives me the perspective I need to combat and destroy my malignant thirdself and secondself, restoring my firstself of peace.
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