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< self-referential slitherings
I've never understood the oroborus -- to me it's a symbol of self-destruction, but I've seen it referenced as renewal/healing.
Then again, the mind might convince itself that it's bettering itself with habit A, when it's just enabling itself. Yeah okay, it fits.
There's a certain uncomfortable weirdness to phenomena (e.g. you or me) attempting to re-present/model/describe the recursion of the source of atten-tion atten-ding to the source of attention.
At some point this here "me" began wondering if seeming phenomena were merely what might be called "a fractal of re-presentation (aka mind)" emergent when attention/consciousness re-presents, re-flects upon other than its ineffable Self, therein generating the seeming whoosh/winds (i.e. appearance) of the but-a-dream-ness of ALL THIS unto A YOU.
The hope is the direction is reversible.
Can't see how a mere phenomenon in the dream could reverse the dream, though. Seems like no matter how us seeming instantiations of free-willed selfhood *will* (hehe), well... (quoting Robert Smith of The Cure) "it's always the same" (see also: "same old shit", "same old same old").
And the suffering (i.e. enduring of time) ends the instant the seeming instantiation does....