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Some similarities between "God" and "Self". (Self used in the way Alan Watt's uses it in his book The Book)

Faith in Self/God require dedication and skill. Things can auto-magically "just happen", but just like in a Flow state, you have to have put in the practice so that you can "trust" in "other".

Both are difficult to trust because they're hard to legibly pin down and define. We often expect miracles of them to prove their existence yet that very desire for miracle-as-spectacle disrupts the mechanism. Eg failing to guilt/shame self into doing sth and losing faith in self

The models of both are refined through life experience and while the models gain in size, they don't improve very much in clarity. E.g. like knowing "more" about something illegible despite it staying illegible. ("systems thinking"?)

Increased understanding protects against larger and larger degrees of loneliness. (hermit, wanderer, etc..)