Egocentricity,coenocentrism, and the nature of human fulfillment

This essay explores the reasons why human beings suffer unnecessarily and suggests the means by which that suffering may be alleviated. Normal psychological functioning isegocentric, a mode of being that derives from a profound sense of deficiency and proceeds with a quest to prove being and worth in face of the world.Coenocentrism is an awareness of inner commonality and relatedness that relieves a person's feelings of isolation, separateness, and difference from others. Coenocentrism requires a transformation of the self through ecstatic experience and a relinquishing of one's own basic tendencies and understandings of the self and world.