You see, this removed, probing and introspective self-reflection, where self-consciousness in its non-social aspect deepens or the mind turns back on itself in analytical examination, this is exactly what the yogic sciences of the East where all about... but of course taken a step or more further beyond the personality.... to dive in wholeheartedly into this space self-examination, and to get at the essential nature of self-conscious existence, especially in its apersonal, asocial or metaphysical and transcendent aspect. The yogic sciences are simply self-reflection and introspection taken to the peak of transcendent abstraction. The west has an obsession with the lower psychology of the social personality. The east had more of an obsession with the higher psychology of the essential nature of self-consciousness beyond the narrow confines of the circular self-referential identity. At the rarefied peaks of philosophic activity, where thinking dies and yoga begins, where the thinking ego evaporates into the ineffable, thus their- the
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