This is the essence of what has happened and is happening on an ever-increasing basis to mankind as a whole, but also in an individual sense.
Essence - the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, especially something abstract, which determines its character.
In ancient times, it was thought that the eyes had two features. One was inward-looking, the right eye, and the left was the outward-looking eye. The witness to reality.
The metaphor for the one-eyed beast is someone who refuses to judge himself morally and take a subjective view of his own imagined self. Therefore this one right eye in essence is shriveled up in this respect, leaving the left eye to judge the material world as the only reality, denying its own scientific cause and effect duality.
If an emotion occurs, it is because a memory of the first same emotion is evoked. A repressed, unknown association with the old previous event. This is not wilful and therefore can be triggered by outside sources beyond your control. In fact, your identity is based on the continuation of your identity in previous moments of your life. Maintaining the self-image.
You hold on to concepts which describe you to yourself as a cozy blanket, so as not to feel verloren (lost). You refresh your image of yourself by looking in the mirror as often as possible, even if you are happy to do that once or twice a day, it is to maintain the foundation of the personal image you have of yourself and nothing else. You apply make-up and dress up, but look at yourself more than anyone else.
That is worshipping the residual-image-of-self. You may be real, but what you see of yourself is the illusion. The one-eyed beast.
