What, then, becomes of man or the self at the end of that experience?
A. Although Value is man’s essential reality, his sense of it is provisional, as a negate separated from its absolute Source. The experiential values realized by each individual in life are a manifestation of the undifferentiated Essence which is denied to existents. Every person freely identifies with a unique configuration of essent-values during his or her lifetime, and it is this value complement rather than the individuated self that is restored to its primary (unconditional) status upon the cessation of biological life. Thus, the human individual is an autonomous agent that affirms in otherness its denied value in Essencenot as a “part” of Essence but in the immutable Oneness of Essence. Q.
