Self-awareness

One of the main objectives of Gnostic knowledge is to know oneself, but what does this mean? Do we know ourselves?

A person often believes that he knows himself, because he knows what he likes, he knows his daily habits, what annoys him, what makes him happy, etc. However, in fact, he only knows a small part, usually, of his life, of himself. 

If a person really knew himself, just as he knows the residence where he lives, the objects he owns, etc., he would know the psychological origin of a certain thought or feeling. For example, he would know the psychological origin of a certain thought or feeling. But generally he does not know the origin of these. They are processed within the person without much order, only by psychological association.

Self-awareness test

We can also do a self-knowledge test: we propose you to stop thinking for 5 minutes.

If this is not possible, let's try to stop thinking for 1 minute, or maybe 30 seconds. So ... was it possible?

If not, it is because we do not know how the mind works and we do not know how our inner universe works.

There are many things that happen in our external life, family, work, daily routines, relationship with people, etc. And there are also many things that happen in our inner life, thoughts, feelings, psychological states, joys, bad, good states, etc. So just as it is interesting for us to know the (outer) world, we should also consider it important to know ourselves.

Why do we need self-awareness?

One of the important aspects of this is that when we look at society, at all times, even today, we are confronted with situations that are very difficult to understand. Because there is violence, dishonesty, social dramas, wars, situations of all kinds, etc. However, when the Human Being understands how the psychological mechanism of his own inner self works, he also begins to understand the psychological mechanisms of Society, because they are very similar.

The human being is a miniature Universe, a Microcosm, where the laws and phenomena of the Macrocosm are contained. That is why the ancient Greeks so correctly said "Man, know thyself and thou shalt know the Universe...". In the same vein, Galileo Galilei said: "The greatest wisdom there is is to know thyself".