152 actas del ii congreso internacional de literatura mística accommodates transpersonal psychological dimensions of experience such as ‘larger-than-self ’ or ‘no self ’; and body schema relatedness denotes the psychological phenomena that emerge in association with specific locations in the body schema. When the organ of spiritual cognition is unactualized, it is suggested that the self-image, which is recast in early childhood into the false self-image, becomes the basic psychic structure. The invented self-image, (which invariably develops from the false and imputed self-image), is multifarious and intense, and identification with it is equally intense and profound. After consolidation in childhood, the invented self-image provides the individual with a sense of personal identity, and determines: (a) sense of being; (b) inner experience; (c) subsequent experience(s) of the self, life, and the environment; and (d) everything else about and/or related to the self. The invented selfimage is constituted by the self-boundaries created and established by the individual, which include spatial and essential boundaries, and all of the boundaries that determine the ranges of experience, awareness, perception, and actions. For example, an invented self-image might include certain aspects of powerlessness, victimization, inherent failure, and rejection, (which were invariably learned, imputed, and adopted in early childhood through cultural, educational, and socialization processes). These can sometimes serve as obstacles, or the source of ‘stuckness’, especially in the areas related to the setting of goals on the road to spiritual, psychic, and mental health. The structuralization of the invented self-image in childhood, reinforced by life experience(s), is believed to lead to the diminishing of space as part of experience, which can dissolve the invented selfimage as a rigid structure, that bounds experience. Along with space, and due to other factors, essence in its various aspects is also diminished. Consequently, the self-image begins to minimize space and emptiness and the fullness of essence as alternative categories of experience. This affects the experiencings related to God, the cosmos, others, inanimate things or objects, and the self. The individual then spends more and more time trying to ‘figure things out’, order and make sense of them, and fit them into his/her invented self-image mold while becoming more and more distanced from space and essence experience. Nevertheless, Buddhism, Eastern Orthodox Christianity,
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