LIFE SELF

Behind Your Entire Worldview Lie the Life Forces

Try to imagine what it takes to see something and have an experience from it. Four things are required:

1. Something that is seen

2. Something that can see (perceive)

3. Something that can derive an experience from what is seen/perceived

4. A longing for the experience

These four elements are at work in your life every single second. When you experience something, you perceive it and are able to derive an experience from it. So there is perception, something to be perceived, and the ability to experience. And behind it all, there is the underlying longing for the experience.

All of these elements are governed by the Life Forces—forces that transcend your individual self. This means that your experience of life and of yourself is shaped by something greater than you. You are not personally responsible for these overarching forces.

The Life Forces create within you the capacity for experience and the ability to perceive life—which includes your personality structure, your consciousness, subconscious, and superconscious.

The Life Forces also fundamentally govern how you experience life. In principle, we could encounter life in many fundamentally different ways—but we don’t. The reason is that our experience is shaped by overarching themes. I call these the Life Themes.

Life Themes are a central part of my worldview.

The Life Themes establish the overarching rules under which your life experience, your beliefs, and your moral values are organized. All of this happens in the name of evolution, because when your life aligns with the Life Themes, it optimally supports your development.

Most of your life is essentially about trying to live in accordance with these themes—and when you succeed, you always feel happiness and a sense of meaning. When you don’t, complexes and traumas are created. Your complexes, traumas, and repressions often arise from a conflict with a Life Theme.

Right now, the Life Themes are taking a form that focuses on supporting the development of the Ego, as well as the new consciousness emerging within you (“Heart consciousness” – the unity-oriented worldview). This means that the Life Themes currently share much in common with what C. G. Jung described as archetypes. A Life Theme might be, for example, the theme of “Religion,” or “The Parent,” “The Wise One,” “The Hero,” “Persona,” and so on.

Behind all of this is the part of you that longs for the experience itself. I call this the “Life-Self”—which also inspired the name of this website.

You can read much more about the Life Themes, Life Forces, Life Laws, and the Life-Self here on the site and in my books.

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