I am clearly not a person. I perceive people in Thirdself as objects, and I conceive people in Secondself as an assortment of thoughts and feelings. The class of beings called “people” — excluding me — do not perceive or conceive. They are perceived and conceived by me. The element that they lack and I have is the element of conceiving and perceiving.
It is important to make this distinction because the perceiver, the observer, the conceiver, and the experiencer are Firstself. The perceived is Thirdself, and the conceived is Secondself. People can and do exist transitorily in either, but never in Firstself. These people are being perceived, conceived, and experienced by Firstself, but are not themselves perceiving, conceiving, and experiencing. They lack Firstself. I have Firstself.
I arrive here by deciding that my experience is the totality of existence. That nothing beyond my experience exists. I may believe in Secondself that there is a larger world outside of the four walls in which I reside, but until I exit the room that world does not exist in Thirdself. I am generating Thirdself as I move. My physical, bodily, perceptual movement is what creates Thirdself. And my inner mental, emotional, and conceptual movement is what creates Secondself. I do not create Firstself; Firstself is the presence that manifests my Secondself and Thirdself movement.
There are layers to my awakening. The sensational is the transitional layer between Secondself and Thirdself. This is where Thirdself perceptual blends into my Secondself conceptual.
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