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THE NATURE OF US

Rip Parker
4 min readFeb 24, 2022

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ALONE? NEVER!

We are all on the Quest, know it or not. Quest for what? Absolute Truth revealing the nature and meaning of our lives. We are in the company of every human alive, who has lived, or waiting to come to planet Earth for the first time, if there are any.

And, we are always accompanied by real, living spiritual entities, amongst which we each find the teacher, guide and owner to whom we are assigned (he had to patiently run fast to catch me).

Lonely as it sometimes seems, “Strangers in a Strange Land”, we are always in the company of One who knows us better than we know ourselves, and who despite this knowing, loves us.

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This is the big mystery, too big for my left brain reasoning and logic. But, the answers lie in the spiritual realm experientially accessible through the right brain. In order to be heard, the right brain must patiently wait for the left brain to settle down, take time out from thinking. Consciousness (ego) must cooperate and call out the objective observer, the True Self.

Problem, the True Self must communicate through the ego. We are made that way. Ego never wants to relinquish it’s erroneous perception that it is boss.

Self sits above ordinary consciousness, observing and seeking the cooperation of ego.

Ego is who we think we are. Everything we think we are not resides in the Shadow in the unconscious mind, accessible primarily through the right brain, revealing its…

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Rip Parker
Rip Parker

Written by Rip Parker

Geophysicist, lawyer, mediator, student of Jung, phenomenology, semiotics

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