…Nietzsche wished to make a rule of the exception. The higher self becomes the measuring stick against which human life is evaluated. To realize his potential, man must struggle such that his higher self may rule. One seeks, in other words, to extend the time one lives in a state of inspiration…The feeling of inspiration, of a heightened sense of power, is attainable only when the soul rises above itself…Whoever demands greatness from himself is subject to unending inner struggle…
Leslie Paul Thiele, Nietzsche and the Politics of the Soul
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Interesting post. Have you read Colin Wilson? He was a ‘fan’ of Nietzsche and wrote about consciousness.