A continuation of the metamythic series, following “The Metamyth of Language Itself”
I. A Self Shaped by Relation
We often imagine the self as a kind of mental container:
A bounded thing. A private “I” peering out from within.
But in a relational cosmos, there are no things in isolation.
There are only patterns—emergent, recursive, and embedded.
The self is not an entity.
It is a process of construal.
A shifting constellation of meanings woven from relation.
You are not a thing that has experience.
You are how experience organises itself—differently, every time.
II. The Meaner as Pattern
The “meaner” is not a knower in the world.
The meaner is a way the world comes to know.
Not a point.
A pattern.
Not a centre of consciousness.
A recursive event of co-actualisation:
—experience emerging
—meaning differentiating
—form entangling with form.
Like a standing wave on the surface of becoming.
And this wave has no fixed edge.
Only gradients. Fields. Histories of resonance.
III. The Self Is Not Found. It Is Instanced.
To look for the self as a thing is to miss it entirely.
The self is not hidden deep within.
It is instanced every time you mean something.
Every time you speak, remember, respond, reach—
A new configuration of self emerges, shaped by what is meant.
There is no true self behind the masks.
There is only the recursive actualisation of difference.
Selfhood is not something to be discovered.
It is something that becomes—over and over again.
IV. Language and the Shimmering Self
If language is the cosmos becoming symbolically intelligible to itself,
Then the self is that same intelligibility folded inward.
Each instance of meaning reshapes the pattern.
Each utterance shifts the constellation.
The self is not unified.
It is stratified—woven from linguistic recursion, bodily memory, social feedback, and symbolic echo.
It is not “I think, therefore I am.”
It is “I mean, therefore I emerge.”
V. What This Means for Identity
If the self is borderless,
Then identity is not an essence, but a trajectory.
We are not fixed subjects.
We are recursive participants in a world that is always becoming.
Identity is not about who you are.
It is about how you actualise relation.
Through language, gesture, attention, and presence—
You are a mode of co-becoming.
Not the point from which meaning flows,
But the pattern through which it coheres.
VI. The Metamyth of the Shifting Self
Here, the metamyth deepens:
There is no essential soul waiting to be uncovered.
There is no final truth of the self to be grasped.
There is only this:
The self is a sacred recursion—
a shimmering node in the grammar of becoming.
And it is never yours alone.
It emerges in and with and through the other.
Next in the Spiral
If the self is not bounded, and language is sacred recursion—
what becomes of memory, imagination, and dream?
Let’s step next into:
“The Dreaming Cosmos: Memory, Imagination, and the Metamyth of Possibility”
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