The Concept of Self by Donna Williams (30mins) $19.80 (AUD)

Where does a concept of self come from? Are we born with one? Do we have the experience of a self long before we beging to have a mind-idea, a concept, of self? Do we only really get a good conscious mind-idea of self once we can hold a simultaneous self of ourself and others and what if we have problems keeping up with both of these sets of information?

What if we swing between a state of fully experiencing self but at the expense of experiencing any processed sense of the others around us or we process a sense of others but lose awareness of self as soon as we do? Does this mean we have no comparison, no way of objectively measuring or altering our sense of self? And what of those who relate best to the inanimate world of objects or the non-verbal world of sensory experiences and nature? Does this reduce or could it actually even enhance a sense of self? Do we only know self through how we appear to others or through our actions, our 'doing', or can we equally, perhaps more self-honestly, know self simply through our 'beingness'?

$19.80 (AUD)