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Recently read Julian Baggini's "The Ego Trick".  A brilliant book which looks at the nature of self in an entertaining and comprehensive, easily understandable way. http://julianbaggini.blogspot.com/2011/03/ego-trick.html Definately recommended for anyone interested in exploring what it means to be 'you'. Read and enjoy below, then buy the book. Has inspired the following from me (200 words or less and short poem on theme of 'glass'. Thought Experiment Imagine yourself as created all at once, yet perfect and whole. But your sight has been veiled from the external. Do your feelings then come from the soul? As you fall without any resistance through the void. Each body part separate, untouched. Then reflect in the glass of experience and affirm the existence of self. Ref: “Floating Man” – Avicenna  cited in "The Ego Trick" Julian Baggini Diving for Pearls What you see is what you get. That’s what I used to tell people, but lately that’s not ...

Yesterday I went on the first of an 8 week "Condition Management Programme". I knew how the day was going to be - been there done it loads of times over the years on various study courses, training things etc, but sometimes you just have to "play the game". The first "activity" was "breaking the ice". I immediately said - oh, are we going to ask each other what animal we would choose to be ? To which I was told..no, no ! Its not that sort of thing ! Well it was that sort of thing, only we told our partners our fave food, film, who we would like to meet, where we would choose to be and then reported back our partners info. I know I am cynical about most things (and I really have done this stuff TOO many times) but still can't get over how others define us, or why we feel the need to define people. By just chatting naturally, we could easily have broken the ice, I am sure, but now I am "Brenda who likes salad, would like to be in her back...