Let us see how the Self becomes a Self. How Someone is born.

In my theory, I define Self-perception as that which was before existence.

Someone will define it as God, the Creator Being.

But, if I use the term Self-perception it is not because of a preference of mine. No.

I do it for a reason.

My research led me from the present moment to a possible origin.

And, for me it was vital that what I observed in the present, was part of where we come from.

That is to say, that the appearance of Consciousness had a logical explanation.

Thus, that from which Consciousness was born, should also be a capacity that gave birth to life.

A capacity that defined Presence.

And, of course, I deduced that this capacity was the capacity to perceive oneself.

Nothing more than that. Self-perception, which we could simplify it as feeling oneself, is the only certainty we have.

I say it is the only certainty we have and I include everything we think we know.

Presence is the only thing we can really validate.

Look, you don't know a dream from reality.

Even if you think you do, you don't. While you dream, you think that's what you know. While you're dreaming, you think that's reality. And, while you are awake, you also believe that is reality.

When you dream you don't know that there is a reality after waking up. And, when you are awake, you know that what you dream is not real, but you know it now, not while you were dreaming.

You don't know if there is something other than you. Because you are certain that you exist based on a fundamental principle.

Beyond logic, beyond what you think you know about the world around you, you feel yourself.

But you feel no one else.

So in a dream you talk to other people with the conviction that they exist. And when you wake up, you realize that it was not so.

Because neither awake nor asleep can you verify that someone other than yourself exists.

Even the room where you sleep is not real.

If you looked at it under a microscope, you would not see the shapes you think it has. They would be atoms, and your mind turns them into a bed, walls, a table, etc....

But that's not real. It is imagined by your mind.

The Reality we experience always goes from the inside out.

That is why, when a person faints, the outside shuts down and his Reality changes.

He will start dreaming and that will be his experience. If he sees something terrible in the dream, he will react to it with fear.

If you faint in the middle of a war, you will not experience the war, but, what you dream.

The subjectivity of experience is something inherent in every form of life.

When you decide to move an arm, you move only your own, not anyone else's. For you have control over only that which you have control over.

Because you only have control over what you feel. And what you feel is what is inside your body.

That which is outside your body you cannot verify if it exists.

You can only affirm your existence because you feel the Presence that is in you.

Well, in the beginning there was only the Presence.

But, for the Presence to become Someone, something must happen.

Because Self-perception (Presence) is only that which feels itself.

Nothing more than that.

Now, if that Presence were to fragment What would happen?

Imagine that, by fragmenting, it could not feel itself in that other half.

That is, it would feel itself in one half, but not in the other half, which would remain beyond its self-perception.

This would happen in both halves.

From half A I do not feel B, and from half B I do not feel A.

But, and this is the most important thing, at the beginning there was only the Presence. Nothing else.

So, Presence is the same as totality. A single totality.

Totality cannot conceive of there being anything that escapes its Self-perception. That is, there cannot be anything that it is not capable of sensing.

Each half extends its Self-perception beyond the limit that separates them.

That is when Perception is born.

I no longer Self-Perceive, since I feel.

But now I perceive, that is, I recognize that there is something beyond me, which I cannot access through my self-perception.

Perception is to imagine something external to me. Everything that I am not able to feel.

And, in this way I draw a scenario and locate that which is not me.

This concept, that of something that is not Me, has an immediate consequence.

Identification.

If there is something that is not Me, then it is that I am different from everything else.

What is I? That which I can feel.

What is not I? That which I cannot feel.

What am I? That which is within me.

What am I not? All that is on the outside of me.

If I am not the rest, then I identify myself with respect to everything that is not Me.

Identity has just been born.

The "I" has just been born.

When there is only I, when I am the totality and there is nothing beyond me, I do not identify myself.

I only identify myself when there is something that is not Me. If I occupy the totality, then I must not differentiate myself from something that is not Me.

Therefore, the I does not exist without fragmentation.

We continue.

After fragmentation, by perceiving something external to me, which is not I, I have just restored the totality that I am.

Because Self-perception cannot conceive that there is anything that is not It.

Thus, I, added to that which is not I, form the Totality.

By perceiving, Wholeness has been restored.

And Identity has been born.

This, obviously, has happened in both Self-perceived parts at the same time.

Because Self-perception has tried to feel itself from both halves at the same time, because it is both at the same time.

Thus, the first two Identities have just been born.

Someone has just been born.

Two Some Ones that initiate existence.

Perception generates the Universe.

And, we cannot forget an important detail.

Self-Perception is Totality and, although it believes it has fragmented, this cannot happen.

Fragmentation is a belief, not a fact.

Therefore, Self-perception, in reality, remains intact.

Whatever happens, since there is nothing that is not It, will happen within It.

Always within it.

As something she imagines, as a kind of illusion or dream.

Now, as she begins to Perceive, Mind and thoughts are also initiated.

Mind being a characteristic of Presence, which is initiated when Totality believes that it is no longer total.

Each Self-perceived part is It (Totality), but by extending Perception beyond its limit, Identity is born.

Thus, Identity is different in each Self-perceived part, but Self-perception is the same in all.

It is the Presence.

Well, this may seem strange to you.

I imagine it is very strange.

But analyze yourself.

You feel yourself, but you don't feel anything outside your body.

Your Identity is different from that of any other living being. You have your own Self, and all other beings have their own Self.

Another human, a dog, a bird, a plant... They have their own Self.

You perceive from your center and you build the Universe from that part that seems to be located behind your eyes.

You do it when you are awake and when you sleep. You do it when you imagine or remember.

You always do it from a 100% subjective experience.

The Identity, that "I" with respect to the outside, will give rise to Consciousness.

What is Consciousness?

It is just the experience of a Self at every instant. Just that.

From here, from this beginning, we will be able to understand what life is and what our role in it is.

And, if we extend it further, we will know what is the destination, the end of the journey.

Applying the same logic.

A logic that makes that what happened in the origin can explain what I see today.