A next step

And are these free, internal resources, which allow for a measure of distanciation and perspective onto this mechanical assemblage of responses and stimuli, equally accessible to each and all, or is their availability also dependent on another sort of determinisms? Yet it is on the conscious development of these resources that will depend not only the orientation of the individual’s existence but also its realizations. These resource s, we customarily call them “inner’, to differentiate them from the complex, intricate patchwork that constitutes our frontal, or “outer” personality. Without them, without the access they give us to freer, more profound and absolute states of awareness, we remain entirely subjected to the conjugated action of all the determinisms that are entangled and involved in the flux of human physical existence.

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