A Story of Consciousness

Abstract

The basic idea or postulation of the above displayed, and by Dietrich developed Diagram of Transrational Peace, is that a persona can be described as consisting of several intra-personal dimensions or layers, where closest to the material surface of the persona lies the sexual layer, followed by the socio-emotional layer, the mental layer, the spiritual layer, the awareness layer and finally the epicenter (see above and cf. Dietrich 2011, 355-356). Following the tantric principle of correspondence “as within so without” each of these intra-personal layers is further described as corresponding to an inter-personal dimension in a coherent way, where every layer deeper within corresponds to a continuous wider without (or exterior). The material surface of the persona thus corresponds to the immediate episode on the contact border (the direct interaction), while the sexual layer corresponds to the family as the next wider inter-personal dimension, the socio-emotional to community, mental to society, spiritual to policitary, awareness to global, and finally the intra-personal epicenter to a complementary inter-personal epicenter.