Now, see here, Ralph…
I love you, Mr Emerson, but can you please a little clearer on what you mean by “the self”?
I think it was an indirect, non-religious way to refer to the immortal soul, the kind that we share with God and everything else in the world. He was a transcendentalist and a lot of his ideas cross over with Vedanta, a philosophical branch of Hinduism.
In Vedanta, there’s God (as an otherworldly immortal energy in the universe) and there’s the Self (our immortal soul, temporarily distinct from God or the universal energy). And that’s what/why we’re always trying to reconnect to.
