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The Geometry of the Self

Consciousness, therapy, and the movements of the mind

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Ricky Williamson
May 01, 2025
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What is the geometrical relationship between the self and the world?

The centre is imagined, just as the beginning is imagined. The Big Bang, like the self, is a vanishing point… and, it’s in the name, the point, the centre, has vanished. It never arrives. It crescendos into a nothingness. A nothingness which leaves the world untouched.

And yet, we look o…

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