We, Me, and Thee

I am always looking for new ways to analyze old problems. It seems that shaking ideas around in my mind sometimes results in a residue of understanding, and the We/Me/Thee paradigm I've developed is taking me to some interesting places. For starters:

Like a ripple in still water, when you see movement on the surface of your life, you can use that as a guide to look for what is going on in another deeper plane. For example, if you are in a parental/teaching role in your visible "We" life, you should look for a parallel in your private "Me" life. Perhaps you are a person who truly is intended to be a teacher/helper and you are happiest when you can be doing those tasks. Or alternatively, perhaps you have only taken on that role in your We life as an expediency, so that in your Me life you want nothing to do with those behaviors. In both cases the situation is important, a key to understanding your own happiness here in this lifetime. If you want to consider WHY you are here in this lifetime, you can use that self-knowledge of the importance of the teaching role to consider, then, your "Thee."

I need to define here what I mean by We, Me, and Thee. Freud would call the first two Ego and Id, although my version of Id is hardly the snarling monster his admirer's conceive.

We (Ego) incorporates with Me (Id) the roles we take in social interaction, our compromised behavior to find and maintain functional joy in the corporeal world. Relationships, commitments, environment, all require interactions that are performed by our Egos, our Wes. This is the field of engagement,  what most of us think of as life, and living it will consume all our credulity and belief if no effort is made to keep in touch with our true self, our Me. Since Me can be repressed so easily, We needs to keep checking in with Me to make sure We is not creating deeper distress.

Me is the golden road to devotion, the true self that we bring with our bodies when we are born; our innocence, if you will. I am appalled that religions of all ilk have feared our natural inclinations so completely as to try to distort and control every urge with iron-clad cultural rules, but it seems this has been the course of history (see Freud!). Another discussion for another time. For this one, Me is the part of us that must be satisfied with the compromises and commitments of We in order to be happy. As our true nature, it is the pathway and connection to Thee, the spirit as it roams unchained by mortality.

Thee is the term I apply to that of which I am a part, the spirit/soul that maintains beyond this mortal coil.  The religious overtones are deliberate, although my meaning is far closer to Emerson's Oversoul than to Christianity's deity. Thee is the animus, the spirit whose scope is much larger than one single lifetime, the soul to which we return when we die. In life, our major mode of communication with our soul is dreaming, where all things of the spirit are real and we can have direct, if coded, experience of the soul. By understanding Me I gain fluency in the language of dreams and insight into Thee's motivations; and ultimately I am enabled to make changes in We that will align all three parts in a more harmonious existence.

I would love it if some of you wanted to comment on this new approach. . .