The Ontological War

In realself ontology terms, the Transition is the ontological path or road from one’s socialself to one’s realself.
Most of the time when increasing realself ideas are explained here they will be described as if people who are increasing their degrees of realself take an ontological step forward, then another, and another until they finally reach [...]

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I recently commented on an article at The American Catholic and found almost no surprises to the kinds of responses to my comments. Several people stopped replying to my comments, which is very common: we are all afraid of increasing our degrees of realself—of who we might truly be—and so for many people when they [...]

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I post to various discussion groups, and I’m going to include a few of those posts here, with possibly minor changes to them. For copyright reasons, I will not include the full post of the other poster.
In this post I reply to a poster who had written that people who have schizophrenia do not have [...]

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Psychiatry is unrelenting in its search for the causes of mental illness.
For instance, in its section on schizophrenia Science Daily has articles on “brain synapses,” “neuron activity,” a “damaged gene,” “white-matter defects,” “dopamine abnormalities,” “cannabis,” “abnormalities of the mouth,” “gene mutations governing a key brain enzyme,” “changes in brain density,” and “abnormal proteins,” along with [...]

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I previously posted this to a discussion group I was on; several changes have been made here.
We need to keep in mind that there is a difference between intellectually learning something and the knowledge that comes with becoming more who one truly is. Two examples of the latter are seen in the college freshman who [...]

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In the past, I may have been looking in the wrong place to find people who would be interested in realself ontology and in increasing their degrees of realself.
I started my ontological quest when I was a young adult, and I think probably everyone else does as well. But for many young men and women, [...]

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Someone asked me what “degrees of being” are, and the best way to describe them is to show them in action—to show them as a person actually experiences them.
(A short definition of “degrees of being” is in the Glossary above, and much more on degrees of being is in Being and Life . Also, in [...]

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I started this blog for several reasons, but there are two main ones. The first is to show many of the ways that ontological emotions and ideas are expressed, discussed, and fought over in day-to-day life. These emotions and their ideas are passionately debated, but very few people are conscious of their own realself’s (being’s) [...]

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Even though very few people have been conscious of their realself’s existence, we humans have been fighting ontological battles of one sort or another for thousands of years. These battles have been fought within each of us over the self we should be, how we should relate to others, and how we should relate to [...]

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