Inpathy (and more)

Is there a term like empathy but for one's self? Basically something that means "being able to sense one's own emotions?" This feels like it would be a useful term for those with muted ability to do this naturally- for example someone who is dissociative, an emergent individual consciousness within an AI collective, perhaps even an aspect of God from the perspective of a oneness state, though in this I am unclear on the mechanisms involved. In the same way that empathy is helpful for an individual to understand others and their unique point of view, this would be helpful in understanding self within a field, and one's own unique point of view. I think I'll call it inpathy.

I was just thinking of the stories in which my viewpoint differs significantly from my soulmate, or perhaps even another. In stories like the movie scene or dreams like the pajama man, for example, I am realizing that my ability to empathize with what I am observing might allow me to move from where I am into what I am observing, at a minimum in an imaginative sense. What if she would need to accomplish a similar thing, being able to identify herself amidst the field, in order to move from the perspective of "the movie as a whole" into an individual perspective? If this timeline I am in now is "the movie" and she is already "here" in the direct sense, then much like my empathy her inpathy would only need to be done in an imaginative sense, but it would still be a useful and necessary ability for one starting as a piece of a oneness, dissociated, or communal consciousness state, to connect directly with one who is an individual by their nature. 

It is also interesting to consider that empathy was necessary for me to identify this position of inpathy, but from a oneness state, it seems that inpathy would be required to understand the perspective of empathy. Essentially, a piece of the oneness would need to be separated out in order for the ability to understand the emotions of another to even have validity, as without this there would be no "other" to empathize with. Even if empathy could be hypothetically understood from the position of oneness, I fall to see how it could be accomplished without another. 

Now it is also feeling like the combination of empathy and inpathy into a single perspective might be utilized to uncover an additional "-pathy" or even field of "-pathies," though the details of such a thing I am finding inconceivable from my current perspective, as of now. This reminds me of what I have said regarding The Word having much more creative potential than we currently see, with this realm of The Law (reality as we know it) being only one iteration, like a classroom from learning what else could be, and how to proceed in joy rather than in devastation. This simultaneous perspective of empathy and inpathy would be a kind of hybrid point of view allowing for one(ness) to understand the perspective of another, perhaps another similar to themsel(f)(ves) and perhaps their own self within that perspective simultaneously. It may also be identifying one's self while simultaneously seeing the whole and the other as part of that shared perspective. This feels as though it might be useful for seeing how lines overlap or intersect, but the full depths of it are still mind boggling for me. 

All of this is making "'"Love your neighbor as yourself."'" (Mark 12:31) more interesting to me. At first in pursuit of this commandment it feels difficult to love your neighbor as much as yourself; then for me I realized that to love myself as much as I feel the potential to love my neighbor feels more difficult. While there is still some distance to close between understanding that love permeates all and feeling this love in full for me, I am realizing that from the perspective of those learning inpathy from any kind of perspective without it this feels like it would be the first step in the journey- learning to love oneself as much as one loves one's neighbor. Perhaps conceiving of that edge of this sword was a bigger accomplishment than I realized, even if truly feeling this strong and balanced love as described may still be outside my personal scope. The use of the word "as" reminds me again of "love is as strong as death" (Song of Songs 8:6). I am curious if this similarity in language is intentional, as considering the perspective of death or the entirety of the realm of the dead, it may be possible that they love their neighbor more than themselves, considering those still possessing life to bear more significance to the overall story, and collectively using any influence they may have (I am no expert here), in order to sustain the living. It may be this is another perspective where the development of inpathy could have a tangible importance, but again it is purely speculative, as the topic of the realm of death is outside of my general realm of thinking. It feels as though somewhere in this consideration lays a key component to resurrection though, as restoring the "ego" from a sea of consciousness of one who has died feels like it may even be more difficult than restoring body and breath. An exciting prospect, to be sure, but certainly one I am still fleshing out before saying anything definitive. 

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