What this entails is uncovering the 'self', and then working out what the steps to that process are. Perhaps we might best approach this using a deductive line of reasoning. In other words, let us determine what the 'self' is not.

I am not merely a physical organism, a body, although that is surely part of my self. We usually refer to the body as something that 'belongs' to me: my face, my hair, by body.

Nor am I my brain located within this body.

Others refer to me by my name, but that too is simply a sign representing me, two words: 'Stephen' and 'Carter'. That certainly is not who I am.

My self is not the matrix of environmental forces that contribute to my experience of being a 'self' (physical, family, social, political). 

Lastly, I am not the totality of my thoughts, if such an infinite quantity could be enumerated. I am more than a producer of thoughts.

If I am none of these identities, then what's left? This mysterious 'I' can perhaps only be referred to as that-which-we-cannot-know, a soul, a non-physical spirit.

According to the theory of the Law of Attraction, my 'self' separates into two minds: the identity-deciding activity of the objective mind, and the trans-dimensional communicating activity of the subjective mind. The latter operates as the satellite dish of the subconscious, directed to the 'Formless Substance' that permeates the material universe. The objective mind 'decides' who it is, and the subjective mind obeys this directive.

I am led to conclude that 'I' therefore am my objective mind, an entity that treasures its own independence above all else, but which, ironically, depends utterly on its vital connection to the universal subjective mind dispersed throughout the Formless Substance.

Self -discovery is coming to understand that the self is therefore a brilliant collaboration of two minds, working in superb harmony as the visible part of the iceberg of my individual human soul.