Sooner or later, one gets the feeling that introspection does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. Answers to questions like “Who am I?” are far from apparent from a cursory inspection of our own consciousness. On the other hand, the unexamined life is not worth living. So we need to be a bit more sophisticated in exploring our own inner geography, for which, a map of the psychic cosmos would come handy. Now, a good atlas of the earth gives us different kinds of information: data about cities and countries details the spatial distribution of human inhabitation and political boundaries, contours of the earth’s surface show us the distribution of mountain tops and oceans trenches and maps of minerals and vegetation give us the distribution of natural and organic substances.
A Map of my Mind, Part 1: Fifteen Books
A Map of my Mind, Part 1: Fifteen Books
A Map of my Mind, Part 1: Fifteen Books
Sooner or later, one gets the feeling that introspection does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. Answers to questions like “Who am I?” are far from apparent from a cursory inspection of our own consciousness. On the other hand, the unexamined life is not worth living. So we need to be a bit more sophisticated in exploring our own inner geography, for which, a map of the psychic cosmos would come handy. Now, a good atlas of the earth gives us different kinds of information: data about cities and countries details the spatial distribution of human inhabitation and political boundaries, contours of the earth’s surface show us the distribution of mountain tops and oceans trenches and maps of minerals and vegetation give us the distribution of natural and organic substances.