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psychic inheritance. To finally achieve peace
and authenticity, you need to go with the flow
and immerse yourself in the ever-changing and
fluid world-flux in which we all swim.
Where all your present problems began…
To find out how you’ve arrived at where you
find yourself right now, you need to go back to
earliest childhood. As an infant, although you
were labelled with a given name just a few
days after you were born, it would have taken
about eighteen months before you were able
to identify yourself with that name. Before
that, first gurgling in your cot and then
experimenting with movement, you had no
perception of yourself as a separate being.
Then, gradually, you would have begun to
associate yourself with your given name.
Around this time, if you were to have been sat
down in front of a mirror, you would have
pointed to your reflection and identified it as
‘me’. Or, to put it another way: you as a baby
