Palehorse and I were discussing some of his older writing while I was asking his opinion on what to link to in my latest article. I’d refered to a post from May of last year about the ego. Palehorse felt that it was out of date and “wrong” given his recent discoveries.
It’s a bit like reading your old diaries.. ever do that and cringe at what you wrote? Hell, I have, and then I’d ripped out the pages and disposed of them.. which is why I no longer keep a diary.
I put forward that life is a journey, as is getting to know oneself, and that our ideas form, grow and change with time and experience. While we may look back and think “oh shit, was I wrong!”, the experiences we had at that point may still help others who are at the same life stage. The older posts on our blog document events and discoveries that shaped us at that time. They are part of who we are and while maybe not quite in line with current thinking here at Beyond Within, they are a record of how we got where we are at today.
One cannot go from one to sixty without passing through two, three, four……fifty-eight, and fifty-nine. Or maybe you could, but you’d not understand the principle of acceleration.. a car journey would be a magical thing, but that made no sense to you. Self-improvement is like that.. you can’t wave a glittery wand (unless you are a Pop New-Ager) and have everything just go Zzzzap! ..You need to make sense of the process and the work you do.. else it isn’t conscious living is it? 
I’m confident our “old” material is still of value.. it is *experience*, and something that is best shared.
So, read through your diaries.. and don’t be embarrassed at the you from five years ago who believed in unicorns and the Great Cosmic Cash Machine. Look how far you have come, and appreciate the deep and rich understanding you have gained in that time, of yourself and the journey of life.
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