10-29-2011, 09:28 PM
(10-29-2011, 06:37 PM)3DMonkey Wrote: I think we hope Ra is right. We hope individuating will improve us.But Icaro's take is a fitting definition.
'We' don't 'hope' individuating will 'improve' us. We know it offers more ability to do work, to take responsibility and ownership of self.
The individuation process is the process of acceptance of self. Part of that self is the logos. Through this experience we see, demonstrably, the process and the outcome as law (of the logos). That's 'faith'. There is no necessity of 'hope' in that regard - it doesn't fit. Hope is invoked as a coping mechanism - it distances self from self through attachment to (identification with) an unreal idea. That idea just hangs around until it becomes obsolete.