Selected Writings Vol-1

Alan Anderson Christopher

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A collection of the author's earlier writings which includes: I Am: A Personal History--The Formation of a Sexual Consciousness; The New Trinity; Man and Woman Forever; The Balanced Budget: A Way of Life; Why I Am Not A(n):; The Defense Rests: A Freeman's Bill of Rights; The Abyss and Sexual Creation; Choice; and Thinking About Thinking. "We have yet to walk upon the bridge of our sexuality because we have yet to know what our unique sexualities, male as to female, constitute in regard to each other in this creative enterprise called life. Mankind has yet to discover that deepest part of himself, his or her distinct sexual purpose as male or female. Let us know this now. Let us know the essence of male and the essence of female and their purpose together in existence. I say, to know this is to know all things." Selected Writings

Sujets

• Dating
• Mind
• Christianity
• Body

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• Publié par: First Edition Design Publishing
• Date de parution: 02 octobre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781622871810
• Langue: English

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Selected Writings
Christopher Alan Anderson


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Selected Writings



Christopher Alan Anderson
Selected Writings
Copyright 2012 Christopher Alan Anderson

ISBN 978-1622871-81-0

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Preface
This selection of writings was written to provide support to my longer more intensive works. Each of these covers a topic of concern and is directly or indirectly connected to the man and woman relationship as a creative process.
Initially, these works were published as pamphlets in 1985 and 1987, except Thinking About Thinking which is new to this volume. As I continued in my metaphysical pursuit and my writings took further shape, I felt that these work would best serve as a volume of selected writings. Although the topics of the writings are quite different, I find the volume as a whole fits well together.

C.A.A.— April 13, 1988
Santa Rosa, California
Table of Contents
· I AM: A Personal History--The Formation of a Sexual Consciousness
· The New Trinity
· Man and Woman Forever
· The Balanced Budget: A Way of Life
· Why I Am Not A(n):
· The Defense Rests: A Freeman’s Bill of Rights
· The Abyss and Sexual Creation
· Choice
· Thinking About Thinking
I AM: A Personal History--The Formation of a Sexual Consciousness




Preface
The question, “Who am I?” has been upon us since the dawn of consciousness. How much progress has been made in answering this question seems uncertain.
In this work, I attempt to answer the question, “Who am I?” I attempt to do this in a historical way, through a line of thinkers that have had an influence on my own conception of myself.
Essentially, I am directing my own thought through these thinkers, touching upon an aspect of them that they represent to form a progression from one to the next. I have used my own leeway in my interpretation of these thinkers in forming this progression, as this is my own personal history and is by no means what may be called an objective account of their thought.
The progression is, for the most part, chronological and evolutionary. Towards the end the chronology breaks down as the focus on the chain of thought I am seeking to develop takes priority. Also, flexibility must be given considering the evolutionary aspect. Some thinkers in their focus actually envelop others, while some focused on specific aspects which they considered crucial before any conception of the self can even be considered.
One may notice that most of these thinkers are philosophers. My own progression, though, turns away from philosophy at Freud. Philosophy at this point, to my way of thinking, proceeded into a more analytical mode. Another person may not make this turn. In fact, another may not even begin a progression of thought in the philosophic arena but in the religious, scientific, or even artistic realm. This is only my own attempt to answer for myself, “Who am I?” You own thoughts may progress and conclude very differently. My attempt is only to have one give thought to their own conception of themselves.
List of Thinkers Forming a Progression of Consciousness

470-399 B.C. Socrates I AM Inquiry
428-348 B.C. Plato I AM Idea
384-322 B.C. Aristotle I AM Purpose
6 B.C.-30 A.D. Jesus I AM Love
354-430 Augustine I AM Separate
1225-1274 Aquinas I AM Rational
1483-1546 Luther I AM Conscience
1596-1650 Descartes I AM Certainty
1632-1677 Spinoza I AM Immanent
1632-1704 Locke I AM Experience
1711-1776 Hume I AM Boundary
1712-1778 Rousseau I AM Natural
1724-1804 Kant I AM Perspective
1770-1831 Hegel I AM Process
1788-1860 Schopenhauer I AM Will
1803-1882 Emerson I AM Spirit
1809-1882 Darwin I AM Evolution
1813-1855 Kierkegaard I AM Choice
1817-1862 Thoreau I AM Solitude
1818-1883 Marx I AM History
1819-1892 Whitman I AM Physical
1828-1910 Tolstoy I AM Peace
1844-1900 Nietzsche I AM Value
1856-1939 Freud I AM Desire
1875-1961 Jung I AM Unity
1905-1982 Ayn Rand I AM Identity
1878-1965 M. Buber I AM Relationship
1897-1957 W. Reich I AM Sexual
1871-1963 W. Russell I AM Order
1885-1930 D.H. Lawrence I AM Conscious
I AM, Socrates
I look outward and so notice that I look out from within myself. What is this sense within me? I do not know as of now but this will be my inquiry.
I ask the question, “Who am I?” I do not know. But I do know that this is the first time I can remember myself being conscious of my asking. Possibly this will be my significance.
I ask, “Who am I?” I am that I am, or so I have heard it said. That repetition can go on forever and not tell me anything. Maybe I will ask others who they consider themselves to be.
“Who are you?” I heard answers such as, “I am a shepherd” or “I am a potter.” I do not mean what do you do but “Who are you?” One man responded that he was a spirit. I asked him what he meant by that. He did not know. Another said he was only his body which disintegrated at death. I asked him how he knew that. He could not tell me. Most people I ask the question to just walk away. They apparently do not like that question, it seems to upset their equilibrium. It upsets mine some, too.
Yes, indeed, “Who am I?” is not an easy question to answer. Nevertheless, I do sense inside myself that if I keep pursing this question that somewhere, sometime, I will come to a correct answer for I, am inquiry .
I AM, Plato
Whenever I inquire into this question “Who am I?” I do so through my thinking. To answer this question will require the use of idea. Without this medium of idea none of us would be able to reflect upon ourselves, to abstract who we are into our conceptions.
Idea is the great discovery of man. It is the mark of a man; it distinguishes man from animal. It is the vehicle of consciousness itself. Without the ability to specify the idea of a something, we would forever be in the dark as to what a thing is, such as ourselves for instance.
Since I can only know myself through idea, as an idea actually, I may conclude that that is what I am. My friend, Aristotle, was to later point out to me that ideas were not without things. He said that universals were not of themselves alone but tied to particulars, that our minds or ideas were coalesced together with our bodies or things. I do not doubt that correlation and, lucky for Aristotle, he has the vehicle of idea through which he can make such conclusions about the nature of things.
Try as I may, I just cannot evade the fact that I must use idea to entertain questions such as “Who am I?” and any answer that I may derive. This I indeed know through idea itself and so I again conclude that I, am idea .
I AM, Aristotle
I would wonder about asking this sort of question, “Who am I?” My thought is that such a question appears static, as if I, or you, are some set determined thing. Evidence would suggest that we are changing things, that life is in flux.
By this, I do not mean to infer that there is not an order or design to the nature of things. I suggest there is. If I may, I shall add to Plato’s use of idea the quality of purpose. Everything that exists seems to be doing something in terms of fulfilling a purpose of its being. There is a teleological aspect to nature. Take a look at a seed, an olive seed, for example. Within that seed, its essence, we may say, is the movement or purpose of becoming an olive tree. A man, who possesses the essence of idea or consciousness in his seed, is in the movement or purpose of becoming a man which for him constitutes consciously realizing himself through his movement.
The reason why it is difficult for man to conceptualize a set answer to the question “Who am I?” is because his own nature of consciousness about his movement makes for a continuum of realizations. Man inquires about and inquires some more, discovering new things all the time. This is his purpose without which he could not survive. He cannot do otherwise and still be a man.
I suppose I could conclude that I am of the self-realizing nature of man, a thinking man, and rightly so, for that is my purpose. More succinctly, my purpose is to express the distinct nature of man as purposive, and I do so because I, am purpose.
I AM, Jesus
I am as I give. I suggest the answer to the question “Who am I?” is no more difficult than that. If a man does not first give of himself, then he has nothing of himself from which to speculate upon.
Our Greek friends would have us seek the answer through inquiry and speculation. I suggest that that is not enough. I am only as I act. It is through action that I live my life, that I affect direction and change. Therefore, I say that I am only as I give of myself.
To give is the first requirement of being. There can be no receiving from life until one first gives to life. Giving is primary. It must be the first act based solely upon its own nature. To give is to bring forth life. For me, this basic action of my giving is my love.
I am as I give. And what is it I give? I give my life, my love. Do you ask for the secret of all things, for the creation of heaven on earth? Love. Do not worry about how your needs will be met. Love one another and your needs will be met. To love is its own reception.
“In the beginning was the word,” and I say the word is love. Love is that which is the Father. God is nothing more than action in love. It is love that brings the light of creation out of the still dark night. Love is life eternal, the first and onl