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	reverie of heartfulness gary e. davis	May 10, 2024 April 5, 2025

In a flow of selfless immersion, one’s “non”conscious playing of a game, an en- thralling scene, etc., is not as immersion, playing, enthrall. One is immersion, playing, enthrall. Then, self-reflectively, one is that immersion, playing, enthrall. To think or say “I” am doing that represents one as “me.” I-ing of Flow is what “I” denotes: me, “me.” Non-conscious (“selfless”) engaging is my heartful Self being, with which I readily identify, integral for myself—Self entailing “me” (who I am to myself); and self- identity implying engaged being, presencing my present awareness. Call it the I/me difference, which philosopher William James did (and which researchers of child development have empirically identified). Call it the Self/self difference of implicit capability and want which years of individuation have backgrounded for interests of activity, even Purpose for one’s life: lifepsychal feeling for one’s Time in appeal of horizons. Times of happy presence, as if one is melded with wholly living one’s life, show the resonance of oneSelf in a present sense of there being one’s life, being one lifepsychal, lifecycle Self-ful, “selfless” presence of living—including love of again losing oneself engaged in horizonal finding of oneSelf newly through venturing and creative appeals. “I” is in ever-receding horizons of my times there, being. In depths of horizoning, being may feel merged with all Time: my Inner Child again reborn there, primal interality calling in depths of there being the appeal, even intimating primordial discovery in free association letting whatever emerge. Self, Selfness (the conception of oneSelf) is partly mirrored in (troped by) the appeal “of” another apart from their engagement. Value “of” another (be it need of “you”/it or desire of you/it) shows as their appeal (unwittingly, “naturally”). Being affected by the appeallant value of another is feeling for it. Selfness ordinarily shows as implicitly effective (overriding?) feeling of what happens (default receptiveness, “rc” for short) and automatic enactivity (default responsiveness, “rs” for short). For autonomous life (or inasmuch as free capability is in play), Self isn’t basically subjective because open intentionality (rc) and apt intentionality (rs) work purposively. This is why improvisation may work well; or rapport is good. Autonomous intents of (by) oneself are derived modes of oneSelf (individuated intentionality). But subjectivity of intents to intentionality (subjection of self to Self)—overwhelming feeling or want—belongs to underdeveloped capability—and maybe belonging to “over”developed (non-fruitful) fabulative relations with oneSelf, echoing early individuation’s overwhelming need/desire fusions. But well-managed giving way to free play in fabulation can lead to distinct creativity. (In mental disorder, primal congestions inhibit emergence of novel options, which psychotherapy seeks to decongest.) Focal (atttentive intent of) openness may find phenomenal presence [as if] it’s presenting itself, presencing itself, giving value from itself (inasmuch as it shows itself), mirroring one’s implicit preferring, which may show newly: more highly, broadly, deeply, or heartuflly. So, Selfness may be usefully said to interally show as receptive/responsive phenomena, others, things. An appeal is Selfal because we want selfidentical values (Values) which implicate one’s sense of living. So, “Self”-relevance (i.e., articulation as of oneSelf) modifies presence as integral for oneSelf. Primal appeal is Selfal, as if being there is part of oneself: interally integral, integrally interal. Fundamental appeal (lifecycle Purpose, conceptual constitution) may feel prim- ordial, as for one’s sense of being. Feeling may articulate itself as if constitutive of being, ultimately interal, like communion in/with one’s “Nature.” One’s conceivability may feel in play, as interal being itself: being of being. So, there’s point to a generalizing notion of Selfality: interal being in Time. It’s one’s worldliness of horizonality (World) mirroring one’s conceivability so far (Worlding). Life gives one time. Purpose gives lifecycleness value. Time gives lifepsychality lifecycleness. It gives Time for oneself’s differentiable Self, there and here: oneSself.

 

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