Bernadette Roberts

"...The true nature of “self” is the major faculty (or function) of the human soul. As the awareness of his own existence, this function is responsible for individuating man’s common human nature into individual selves – every man knowing and experiencing “I am”, “I exist”. So the function of self-awareness or consciousness is to individuate man’s universal human nature into individual selves or persons, none are alike and all are different. So while “human nature” defines every human being, “person” defines “who” a particular individual is. Thus we could define “Self” as the state of being an individual person – “person” being what it means to be unique, incommunicable – different. While no man created human nature, it is how he uses the faculties he has been given that creates or determines the person he becomes – “who” he is...

Without this, man as we know him would not exist...
There is really great mystery about “self” or man’s self-awareness. The real mystery is the true nature of “what” remains when it is gone – has ceased to function. With the cessation of self-awareness all the experiential effects it generated are gone in the blink of an eye... Now there is no center (God) and no circumference (self)... No idea in the mind could ever come up with a satisfactory answer to this mystery, only God can reveal the true nature of “what” remains beyond all self and individuation. Since only the Creator knows the true essence of man’s common human nature, only God can reveal its eternal oneness with God. I have written a book about this revelation, its title being The Real Christ." - Bernadette Roberts

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