Spencer Heath Archive

Item 467

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Man begins with his consciousness. He knows by direct intuition that he exists and by necessary corollary that there also is an indefinite totality which includes him but with which he interacts and from which he thus exists apart. He knows that the being and acting part of him is hedged with limitations but that in the thinking and conceiving part of him these limits indefinitely expand. His relations to his outer world of experience are definitely perceived as being severely limited but his imagination can expand these limited perceptions into conceptions of any magnitude or extent whether of terror or of exaltation in ideal dreams. He thus dwells in two worlds: One of them is the world called objective with which he interacts yet which affords him alternatives both unfavorable and favorable to the continuity of his life. His other world is his world within, which reflects bit by bit the outer (objective) world (of its origin)…