{"id":15369,"date":"2015-06-08T14:14:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T21:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=15369"},"modified":"2016-06-07T14:56:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T21:56:35","slug":"whats-it-like-being-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/15369-whats-it-like-being-you","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s It Like Being You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/wilby_jr_quote630.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><br \/>\n#quote\u00a0from\u00a0#WhatsItLikeBeingYou<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s It Like Being You?<\/strong><br \/>\nby John-Roger DSS with Paul Kaye DSS<\/p>\n<p>Socrates said, \u201cKnow thyself.\u201d \u00a0In Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet, Polonius cautions, \u201cTo thine own self be true.\u201d \u00a0But which self are we getting to know? To what self should we be true? Where is the self located anyway? Come to think of it, which self is reading these words?<\/p>\n<p>These are questions that playwrights, philosophers, and other serious thinkers have been pondering since time immemorial. If the answers could be worked out through mathematical calculations or experimental measures, mathematicians and scientists would be the most enlightened people on the planet. But the self continues to elude even the greatest thinkers of our age.<\/p>\n<p>We cannot reduce it to a formula, view it with high-tech, brainimaging machinery, or define it conclusively in words. The self can only be lived and experienced from within. When we ask the ageold questions Who am I? and Why am I here?, we are joining thousands of generations of seekers who have set out to solve the mystery of incarnation, the riddle of human existence.<\/p>\n<p>Keep Reading Chapter One &#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/msiaorg\/docs\/wilby_chapter1\" target=\"_blank\">Click and Read<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Click to purchase What&#8217;s It Like Being You? \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/store\/product.php?productid=3320\" target=\"_blank\">Hard Copy<\/a><\/strong> | <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/store\/product.php?productid=4138\" target=\"_blank\">eBook<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nIf you <strong>click during June 2015<\/strong> &#8211; you&#8217;ll get <strong>50% off!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/wilby_rumi_quote630.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/>#quote\u00a0from\u00a0#WhatsItLikeBeingYou<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#quote\u00a0from\u00a0#WhatsItLikeBeingYou What&#8217;s It Like Being You? by John-Roger DSS with Paul Kaye DSS Socrates said, \u201cKnow thyself.\u201d \u00a0In Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet, Polonius cautions, \u201cTo thine own self be true.\u201d \u00a0But which self are we getting to know? To what self should we be true? Where is the self located anyway? Come to think of it, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":59328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,363],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-john-rogers-current-story","category-tools-techniques"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}