Vince: thanks very much for the links :-)

MarieSophie:

Thank you and love to you too :-)

Vince:

I think I see what you mean about doing and the risk of forming a new identity. I'm not on FB but I'll have to look into joining.

MarieSophie:

Hello and thank you!

It’s been helpful to write about this as I now realise that the dream in which thought seemed to stop (which I mentioned in my first post) and the book-and-movie incident (which I mentioned in my last post) were separate events. I wish I could remember the order ...

I think it all starts when a child learns language. Pronouns such as ‘I’ and ‘you’ in everyday english embody implicit theories about selves, as so do our given names. A child unconsciously conjectures that the ‘I’ exists and tries to defend it when anything that he has attached the ‘I’ to is ...

Hello Vince!

Apologies for the delay in replying.

> does an I exist ?

The short answer is: no, 'I' does not exist as I previously experienced and conceived of it. There is no central thinker of thoughts, there are just thoughts. There are also emotions, a brain, some knowledge and skills, a body ...

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My name is Tom and I live in Bristol, UK. I am interested in science and philosophy.

The background and content of my spiritual search includes The Alexander Technique, readings of C.S. Lewis, Eckhart Tolle, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, A Course in Miracles. Also ...