KNOW THYSELF
Erle Frayne Argonza
Know thyself!
That sounds like a tall order of a command.
It really is no command but a task, a lifelong task. It fused together ‘know’
and ‘self’, the task being to ‘know the self’ in its totality.
Self-knowledge is knowledge of a very high
order. This we mystics are very much aware of. We regard self-discovery as the
last frontier, the frontier of ‘inner space’. To be able to make adventures in
‘inner space’ and discover truths along the way is the very task of a seeker or
knower.
To take it for granted that you already
know yourself, or pretend that you know yourself 105%, is pure hubris. On the
other hand, to be so disabled from knowing the self, so much that you cannot
even think of qualities that indicate your personality and level of
psychological integration, is a mark of deep fragmentation and disorder. Both
tendencies must be discarded.
It pays to know the self. Today’s gurus of
success are very right in their contention that persons who have greater
insights about themselves get to become more successful than those who don’t.
Robert Kiyosaki and John Maxwell, who are on top of this chain of success
gurus, have declared this contention very explicitly and kept on re-echoing it
in their various writings.
Know the self well, as this is the way to a
more successful future. This is another way of writing the formula. To put it
in mathematical language:
Success = fn (self-insight)
Success = A + B X (Self-insight)
Where A = Goals in life
B= Pace of acknowledgement and absorption
of self-insight
The Teaching is so filled with methods for
self-insight, methods and information that past gurus have already shared to
the world. You can go ahead and study them well.
Take a look at astrology and numerology.
They are examples of methods for self-analysis and insight devised by masters
in antiquity. It pays to study them well. The better if you do the study
yourself rather than rely all the time on an external agent (numerologist,
astrologer) to do the analysis for you. There are information packages that
would be best for you to find out for yourself, as you derive the information
intuitively.
As a young yogi in the making, I did study
numerology and practice its analytical powers on myself and my former students
(1980s, 90s). Numerology, using the combined Pythagorean-Chaldean methods,
worked so wondrously that each person done with a reading exclaimed their
mighty accuracy of up to 90% most often. The lowest self-assessment I received
for efficacy was 80%, with 20% error. The highest was at 95%. That high
precision renders numerology into a great scientific tool!
Learn as many methods as you can. Study
Jung, Freud, Maslow, Erikson, and other personality psychologists. Study also
the methods for examining abnormal psychology, so that you will have an
advanced method of self-integration assessment. Nobody is perfect, each one of
us has degrees of personal fragmentation that’s why we’re here in the physical
plane. So please take pains to study the methods and even undergo psychological
tests from time to time. This is for your own good.
The last thing expected of you is to
declare that you’re perfect okay and other people are very defective. If you
make this self-claim, please see a psychiatrist as you delude yourself with
grandiose states. You may need to be locked up in an institution, the better
for you. Amen.
[Writ
09 June 2008, Quezon City, MetroManila]a
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