@fresco,
fresco wrote:
No. The believer is driven to attempt to break the infinite regress by evoking the permanence/constancy of "god" and hence the corresponding persistence of "self". Hence the ritual...the repetition...the attempt at anchorage in flux.
The recognition of the myth of a "constant self" ( see Gurdjieff for example) is what liberates what meditators might call "consciousness" from from the constraints of selfhood.
And just how do you think the believer is able to make a judgement in the first place upon what he is to believe ??? In order to permeate himself to any Social paradigm he himself must have an Ontological status...
...how is something to change at all if that very something is not in a defined state at the moment in which he is about to change ?
(stable at least in relation to that particular change, that about to be function)
Concepts of "self" or "God" or any others they all depend at least on two major variables, that which is processing information, its actual state at time X, and the "external" sources from where, the "to be processed information" comes from...
