THE LIMINAL FIELD: Anthropomorphic
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Short Description A critique of the anthropomorphic misconception of the Self. The text explains why imagining the Self as a “super‑I” blocks its presence in daily life and describes how recognizing oneself as energy enables the Self to operate within the human experience. Abstract Anthropomorphic dismantles the idea that the Self is an enhanced human figure. It argues that this misconception prevents the incarnated I from functioning as the operative interface of the Self. The text expands the perspective of life beyond human physicality, proposing that the human must first conceive itself as energy. Once this occurs, the Self can participate in daily life through a combined action in which the Self directs and the human executes. The work distinguishes between contact‑energy and animation‑energy, situating the soul within the deeper animic field that becomes accessible when the sense of life transcends the anthropomorphic view. OpenAIRE Description This work analyzes the conceptual barrier created by anthropomorphic interpretations of the Self. It proposes an energetic ontology in which the human being must conceive itself as energy to allow the Self to operate within daily life. The text distinguishes material, energetic, and animic fields, emphasizing the role of animation‑energy and the soul in transcending physical limitations. Relevant to studies of consciousness, energetic ontology, animic fields, and expanded models of identity. Extended Description Anthropomorphic addresses a foundational misunderstanding in human self‑conception: the tendency to imagine the Self as a superior human figure. This anthropomorphic projection prevents the incarnated I from accessing the deeper energetic and animic dimensions of existence. The text argues that the human being must first conceive itself as energy, thereby enabling a structural shift in which the Self becomes present in everyday life. The work expands the notion of life beyond physicality, suggesting that non‑human and extra‑physical forms of life may be purely energetic. This broader perspective reframes human existence within a universe whose structure exceeds anthropocentric interpretation. Once the human recognizes energy as its structural foundation, death becomes a surpassed concept, and the Self can direct action through an integrated mode of operation. The text introduces a distinction between contact‑energy—associated with matter and its underlying energetic field—and animation‑energy, which belongs to the deeper animic field that animates both matter and energy. The soul is presented as the manifestation of this animic field. The emergence of the sense of life activates this field, bringing the Self into daily experience and allowing the human to operate from a deeper, non‑anthropomorphic dimension of identity.
Author: FMOO, Oliva
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7203882952
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