...The ego, as Individual Self, is scaffolding for what we can call superself or the memeplex

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Scaffolding is a necessary part of any construction project but for the last couple of hundred years we've all been encouraged to mistake the scaffolding for the building...

...Magicians who have successfully "crossed" the Abyss are considered no longer human, in the sense that survival of this ordeal necessitates the breaking down of SELF into multiple personality complexes...