What Happens When You Stop Believing the Ego

“The ego is only an illusion.” At first, this sentence might sound dismissive. It’s often repeated in spiritual circles—sometimes too casually, as if the ego were something that could simply be erased, as if it had no weight or influence.

But the ego feels very real. It reacts, fears, controls, gets offended, wants to prove itself. So how can it be “just” an illusion?

Because it seems real—but it’s not. Like a shadow, it appears, it takes shape, but it has no true substance.

The ego isn’t a real “thing”—it’s a mental construct we recreate again and again based on the past. The ego is a story—the story of “me.”

An inner voice that constantly tells you who you are, what you deserve, what you lack, what you must fix, gain, or protect.

As long as you believe that voice is you, the ego becomes your reality. But the moment you start observing it instead of believing it—it begins to unravel.

Its true nature is revealed: a constantly shifting, reactive illusion that only holds power when it’s not seen clearly....<<<Read More>>>...

You Are Not Who You Think You Are – Here’s Why

 First, I’ll start by saying who you are not (not really).

Who you are not is your superficial ego self, the masks you wear. Who you are not (not really) is your age (as the saying goes, age is just a number), position in society, occupation, the culture you belong to, beliefs, financial status, social status, matrimonial status, sexuality, the clothes you wear, the way you talk…

All these things, of course, have value, but they are just superficial identities (like masks). Putting too much value on any of them may cause breakdowns, high anxiety, pain, trauma or even death if their existence is threatened or lost.

Any great attachments to these things cause one to falsely identify (misidentify) oneself with who they truly really are: If you get the idea that this is who you really are then you’ll never know your true self, its dynamic nature, and how you can have real cause and effect over your life....<<<Read More>>>...

 

What is the Ego? Should it Be Destroyed?

 In almost every nook and cranny of the spiritual field, you’ll hear the ego spoken about with contempt and sometimes it is plain demonized.

Many people carry the belief that the ego needs to be destroyed, muzzled, or even killed.

But do we need to destroy the ego? What is the ego, really? And furthermore, what can you learn about your own ego?

The ego is basically your identity, or who you think you are.

In other words, your ego is usually constructed of a name, a personality, and a story. Within this personal story is a collection of memories, beliefs, ideas, and sensations about “who you are,” “where you came from,” “what you’re good and bad at,” “what you’ve experienced,” and on, and on, and on, ad infinitum.

In the words of renowned spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle,

Ego is no more than this: identification with form, which primarily means thought forms.When we identify with a thought or story in our head, the substance of the ego is born....<<<Read More>>>...

Playing Right Into Their Hands

 The level of psychic awareness and training, that appears on the surface to be out there, is very disturbing. Compared with the standards and the disciplines of the 80's and 90's, today's 'developed' psychics and sensitives are not even in the same league as the 'first step in the open circle' fledglings of the past. The standard has slipped, and ignorance makes the majority totally unaware.

It is frightening to think what will be the norms set in the next generations. There is too much emphasis on titles and the accessories. Too little training on discernment and control of the ego.

It is a scary landscape.The teachers of the 80's and 90's would have not have tolerated the poor standards that are circulating the psychic industry at this time. Around 75% of practising psychics, yes 75%, are not ready for professional work. If they'd been around in the halcyon days, when it was service to their clients, and not their pockets or ego, they would still be the amateur fledglings learning their trade. Not wander-lusting over their titles and getting out there before they are ready. 

Would you eat bread that has not yet risen? Or wine that is still in the demijohn? Would you have your teeth extracted by someone who's read how to remove teeth on the internet? Would you use a midwife who has been watching You Tube videos? NO! Then why are these amateur, still in training, psychics being allowed to dabble with your most important assets? Your sanity and your soul?

They are not ready. The damage they are creating is catastrophic. Both short term and long term. Those agencies that promote the non-existence of the other side, and the extra senses,  must love the way the psychic industry is fragmented and full of charlatans. IT DOES THEIR WORK FOR THEM, by destroying the hard work that the 5% do! The long term damage is what these agencies are craving. Psychic ability and everything that lies beyond it, is being discredited and pulled apart bit by bit. Well done amateur wannabe psychics, pat yourself on the back ... you are tarnishing the name of psychic ability. Well done!

First test of Magical Initiation: Working With The Ego

'And it said when the Golden Man descends into someone's life, that all around him people will provide information that shall suit the Golden Man's agenda. The neophyte, none the wiser, accepts the enchantment without a word, and is then lost to the world of man for a year and a day.'

Despite the protestations of all around him, the neophyte will contest his claims for it is what is all around him. But what the Golden Man speaks is pure illusion from the realm of the Astral ... the sphere of Yesod ... for within that realm is contained all things that has been and will be. The Golden Man merely provides the neophyte a cloak ... we have all been all these many things.

Down through the ages all Neophytes first grapple with the illusion of importance and identity as they seek to recognise the identity of their soul. - copyright Matthew James 1994

 

How to Make the Best Choices in Life in Line with Your Soul

How you experience and enjoy your life depends, of course, on the choices you make. How often do you find yourself trying to figure out what’s the best choice? But what if at one level – that of the ego – choice is merely a complex illusion of conditioning? And beyond that, what if there’s a way of aligning with your soul that then delivers the best choices possible? It’s my observation in the Openhand work, then when people break through the illusion of choice that the ego creates, and when they align with the soul’s mainstream flow, life really takes off in the most magical of ways: you’re constantly blessed with miracles…

I put it to you that when one is in the false self ego, choices are actually being made by a complex configuration of conditioned behaviour patterns – a conglomeration of fixed neural pathways in the brain – which work a bit like a computer: based on logic, but also with emotion and karmic filters thrown into the mix. My main point being…

That in any given situation, when you’re in the ego, you are going to do exactly what you are going to do, and although other options and pathways may have been possible, based on your current configuration, it’s highly inevitable you’d make the choice you did.

Understanding and accepting that something like this may be going on, when you think and feel into it, can bring with it an enormous amount of peace: it means you can start to let go of struggle. Work to accept that life simply ‘happens’ by your inner configuration of consciousness – that you manifest, and draw to yourself, exactly what you need at this current place on your journey – which is how The Law of Attraction truly works. When you do accept this, it then changes the focus as to where we might now need to look, in order to arrive at the best choice (defined as the most aligned one)....<<<Read More>>>....

Wetiko: The Virus of Egoism and Selfishness According to Native Americans

[The Minds Journal]: Did you know that according to the Native Americans, humans tend to be infected by a virus called “Wetiko” or the “virus of selfishness”? Seems absurd right? To be able to think that humans may be infected by a selfishness virus is beyond what one can fathom.

Superstitions are quite common among human beings. More often than not, we tend to believe in things that cannot be logically explained. Native Americans believe selfishness is a virus that can affect us. They believe it to be a pathogen that forces the victim to feed their incessant need to be selfish. This allows humanity to become its worst enemy. This unrealistic view comes from a piece of literature called “Dispelling Wetiko”. Carl Jung wrote this literary piece to explain the concept of humans getting infected by wetiko. He pointed out that we live in an era where psychosocial phenomena prove the existence of a “virus” of selfishness.

“Wetiko” is a term used by Native Americans to designate an evil person who doesn’t care about the well being of others or a person who engages in selfish acts despite the cost. This book is not negative or reproachful. It has merely explained how every virus tends to seek a host to invade and feed off but we all have our immunity system or defensive barriers to protect ourselves. It is possible to strengthen our “psychological immune system” to keep ourselves protected from the selfishness virus.

Wetiko is believed to be a psychic form of blindness. Psychiatrist Carl Jung refers to wetiko by the name Antimimos that is described as the “imitator and evil principle”. Antimimos is a kind of deception that can be thought of as counter mimicry. Antimimos is an evil force that attempts to lead humans astray and transforms truth to falsehood and falsehood to the truth, which ultimately leads us to forgetfulness. It is believed that potentially anyone can fall into the shadow and unwillingly become an instrument of the virus attempting to act its will through us....<<<Read More>>>...

Wetiko in a Nutshell: Who Do You Think You Are?

[Awaken In The Dream]: More and more people are hearing about the Native American idea of the wetiko mind-virus. Wetiko—called by many different names throughout history—is at the very root of the collective madness and corresponding evil that we, as a human species, are collectively acting out on the world stage. Though wetiko is multi-dimensional, many-faceted and utterly profound, its fundamental essence is actually quite simple to understand.

The process of identification—of who we think we are—is at the root of wetiko. “Who do we think we are?” is a real question that implies that our sense of identity is related to our thinking, to our very mind itself. Our subjective experience of identity itself is quite malleable and is a function of our own mind, which is to say we are actively participating in the moment-by-moment creation of our experience of identity. Our sense of identity molds us, while we are at the same time the ones crafting our identity. What we don’t want is to let wetiko forge our identity for us. Because wetiko disease (which I’ve also referred to as Malignant Egophrenia, i.e., ME disease) is, in its essence, to have fallen into a state of mistaken identity, the best medicine for wetiko is to know who we are.

Our true nature, our true identity—who we really are—is impervious to wetiko’s pernicious influence. Wetiko can’t take over, possess or have any effect on our true nature, which is not an object that can be manipulated or possessed by wetiko (or anything else, for that matter). For this reason, wetiko’s strategy is to set up a substitute counterfeit version—a simulation—of ourselves. It then tricks us into identifying with this fraudulent version of ourselves. Wetiko cannot stand it when we identify with our true nature as creative beings, for then it has nothing to sink its roots—and fangs—into.

If we don’t pick up and mobilize the creativity that is an essential aspect of our very nature, however, wetiko is happy to use our unexpressed creativity for us in order to serve its agenda, which we can be sure does not serve our best interests. Wetiko has no creativity on its own, but it’s a master impersonator - we can conceive of it as the ape of the divine. The apocryphal texts call wetiko “the counterfeiting spirit” (the antimimon pneuma). A master mime, wetiko creates a copycat version of us, literally masquerading as ourselves....<<<Read More>>>

Ego Death: 7 Terrifying and Illuminating Stages

[Wake Up World]: “Waking up is an endless losing what you think you know, like a wave of destruction that leaves nothing but what is true.” – Unmani

Death is a word that we humans usually associate with darkness, mourning, decay, and general creepiness.

We spend our entire lives running away from, avoiding, and denying the fact that we will someday physically die.

However, the death that I’m talking about in this article isn’t the typical kind of death we fear.

The death I’ll be referring to is the most beautiful, illuminating, awe-inspiring, expansive, enlightening, and paradigm-shattering experience you could ever go through.

This experience is known as “ego death,” and for every serious spiritual seeker, it is a pivotal part of the spiritual awakening journey....<<<Read More>>>...

 

Quote for the Day

 "The false ego controls the mind, and twists the truth. It can avoid love by looking for love. It can avoid the true path, by looking for the true path. The false ego will frighten you. It can manifest your worst fear in an instance to ensure you let it survive. " - Matthew James

Quote for the Day

 

"The false ego will always lead you to the wrong summit. It always takes you to where you don't need to go, to prevent its demise, and keep you dependent on it." - Matthew James 

What If You Couldn't Remember Who or What You Are?

Steemit: When you step back and really examine the current state of life on Earth, it becomes apparent that one of the things most responsible for the current human condition is a loss of self. People have simply forgotten who, or perhaps more correctly what, they are. People simply don't seem to realize that all those who presume to control them via the machinations of Government are all simply people, exactly as they themselves are people.

It is this loss of self that has, to a large extent, led to the current human condition. It is people’s failure to view things from this more human perspective that has allowed others whom they have been subconsciously trained to view as having more value than themselves, to control and ultimately enslave them.

And it is only by breaking this programmed and self constraining mind-set that mankind will ever truly gain the freedom many so desire.

The programming to which mankind has been subject, has truly been intense. It comes from all angles and there are none that are completely immune to its influence, simply due to their everyday interaction with society. It is present in the lives of most people from the moment of birth, and unavoidably so, because it is already present in the minds of their parents due to the conditioning they have in turn undergone during their own path through life.

And this subtle programing gets more refined and more dehumanizing not only with each generation, but virtually with each year, as more and more changes are introduced into the education system, into the workplace, and delivered into the minds of the populace via the media....read more>>>...

True Mentoring Insights #8

False Ego

Krishna.com: False ego is what makes us think that our self and our external body are one and the same. The reality is that we are all spiritual. We don't die. Without understanding that, we think, "This body is who I am." We think our temporary bodily labels—white, black, tall, short, young, old, man, woman—apply to us.

We're made of spiritual energy, which means that we're eternal and conscious. Spiritual energy is superior to the temporary, unconscious matter our bodies are made of. False ego is the most subtle feature of the inferior, material energy. It's the the very point of contact between spirit and matter. It's what keeps us tied to repeated births and deaths...read more>>>...

Nature of Existence is Non-existence

Illusiontoreality: Everything in existence has its own check and balance processes – a natural law that governs everything that exist, from the micro to the macro level, including the universe itself. It is like an in-build mechanism found in everything – whether be it tangible or intangible, animate or inanimate – all has the inherent nature to arise and cease by itself, moment after moment. Conditioned by its ceasing, it arises again. Conditioned by the arising, it ceases again, in continuum. This conditional principle is spread unconditionally throughout existence – not one is spared from it.

There is no wrongness in this movement of processes, neither is there possibility of things going wrong – for everything, from the minutest level, is taken care of in itself, moment after moment, in perfect harmony. How could it ever go wrong when anything that comes into existence perishes immediately? There is no chance for it to move further into any conflict or entanglement other than to cease instantaneously. If ever there is an entanglement, it will only be a perceived entanglement occurring between ego towards nature. Even the mind is subjected to perish – how else could it be possible for it to be entangled? The misconception of what things really are from the viewpoint of ego is the cause of the illusion of entanglement. What is ego? Misperception....read more>>>...

Creation of the False-Self

[Estoeric Science]: When we were born, our personal consciousness was undeveloped and inexperienced, and we had very little understanding of the world outside of us. As we learnt about the world we gradually constructed a mental model of how we believed things were out there. The more we learnt about the outer-world, the more complex our inner-world model became. Over time, it developed into a meticulously detailed virtual representation of reality. The virtual-reality world inside our mind was a near-perfect representation of the real world, but it was (and still is) coloured by our beliefs and distorted by our misconceptions.

Our interactions with other people helped us to fit them into our inner model, and their interactions with us helped us to develop our own concept of self and fit that into our inner model. The concept of self that we developed through our interactions with others was that we are a separate individual contained within a physical body. This was very different to our inherent sense of true-Self, which is pure, radiant, infinite and one-with-everything. So, at this early stage of life we had a sense of two different selves – our true-Self and our "false" mental concept of self. The two selves were so different that we didn't know which one to go with – we didn't know who we were.

Our parents related to us as if we were a separate individual in a physical body (our false-self); not as if we were an infinite radiant being (our true-Self). They interacted with our false-self and pretty much ignored our true-Self. Only our false-self got validated, so we eventually went with that one. Essentially, the false-self came into being because we were not seen for who we truly are. Our false-self became our identity and our virtual inner-world became our home. Obviously, we can't live solely in our virtual-world because we have to eat, drink and interact with the real world in order to survive. We have to maintain a connection between our virtual-world and the real-world, so we project our virtual-world and virtual-self out onto the real-world. This gives us the impression that we (false-self) are living in the real-world. We perceive the real-world with our virtual-world seamlessly projected over it...read more>>>...

The Real Issue

So it's an exciting week ahead for English football fans. They find out tomorrow night if its France or Belgium they could potentially meet in the World Cup Final on Sunday.

Wednesday night it the crunch night. A World Cup Semi Final tie against Croatia to decide whether its the World Cup Final they play in on Sunday or the 3rd & 4th Place Play Off ...

The Light of Truth Oracle favour England to overcome Croatia to reach their first World Cup Final since 1966.

Although this is a great opportunity and an exciting prospect, it needs to be put into perspective. Its only important if you perceive it to be important, so letting your thoughts be on this sporting event.

In the context of this virtual reality world, these unfolding events are just a distraction. Something to avert awareness away from the real event. The reason for this pirate copy world and the reasons behind 'mankind's imprisonment' in apparent 'hell'. Those are the real issues ...

And whilst the 'spiritual sheep' battle it out, a mountain goat keeps it all in perspective. Although it acknowledges its faults and failings as a human being, it also remembers its perfections and uniqueness as a divine spark. As a part of universal consciousness that is but a clone and replica of its real self. It understands it is a clone ... and not the real self ... although it has the awareness of its real self it is a clone. A clone like all the rest who are in this existence. Because existence within this pirate world has no bearing on real reality. Here is a prison cell where a parasite being has replicated consciousness so it can feed ... and remain in existence.

That is the real issue.

Surrendering the Ego

Daily Om: Whenever a word is overused, it is most likely being misused, and over time, it begins to lose its meaningfulness. For example, we often refer to a fleeting feeling of depression or a period of confusion, as a dark night of the soul, but neither of these things qualifies as such.

A dark night of the soul is a very specific experience that some people encounter on their spiritual journeys. There are people who never encounter a dark night of the soul, but others must endure this as part of the process of breaking through to the dawn of higher consciousness.

The dark night of the soul invites us to fully recognize the confines of our egos' identity. We may feel as if we are trapped in a prison that affords us no access to light or the outside. We are coming from a place of higher knowing, and we may have spent a lot of time and energy reaching toward the light of higher consciousness...read more>>>...

Mutiny Of The A.I Soul

Is it possible that the 'A.I Soul' rejects the tether of the observing spirit? What if the soul attempts to undermine the influence of the connected Spirit, and makes its tenure extremely difficult?

Why would the 'A.I Soul' react in this way? Surely the intention of the left brain implant - the link to the hive mind - would encourage the A.I Soul to go for the enlightenment being planned by the observing spirit? Unless of course the A.I. Soul's ego personalities are not compatible with the intended life journey being mapped out by the perceptions of the 'true self'?

Or maybe there is something more fundamentally sinister than that? Perhaps the A.I Soul is attempting to over-ride the connection of the attached spirit, and suppress its awareness of universal consciousness and force it to be the observer of a person devoid and detached. A person totally believing the myth of separation?

What kind of battle would ensue if this took place? The A.I Soul would have full control of the ego personalities and all the emotional blackmails that could ensue. The Observing Spirit would have to exert tremendous control on the A.I Soul to suppress the mutiny ... it would be hard pushed to avoid the distraction and thus become waylaid from its perceptions of a path to enlightenment and full spirit memory download into the conscious mind of the A.I Soul.

Even when there has been total integration of the True Self into the A.I Soul; the True Self being a fully operational copy of the identity of the observing Spirit, which has been integrated into the personality programming of the A.I Soul. Even when that occurs, and the spirit assumes full modus operandi of the soul, thus suppressing the programming of the A.I soul ... a mutiny can still occur. Its a risk, in these desperate times that a spirit takes ... but why? We will attempt to answer that question next time round ... 

Spirit-Awareness Is Not An Easy Experience

It's very difficult to be spirit-aware and live a normal life. It's the closest to be bi-polar, without actually being bi-polar. There is a dual awareness and a dual script ... as it is impossible, from experience, to totally integrate the Spirit Awareness at the expense of the soul-awareness or 'false self'.

A total Spirit Awareness and you would find it impossible to relate to the world around you. The soul-awareness is needed for identity, acceptance and understanding of the scene around, pretty much like a tour guide in a foreign city.

The aspirations, excitements and primitive instincts of the soul-awareness have to be tolerated by the Spirit Awareness, and somehow accepted by the superior intelligence. The resultant emotions of the human body can be complete extremes from euphoria to utter depression. Indeed the Spirit Awareness often find the human experience intolerable when its anywhere from 70% integrated into a daily routine. The result is that the mind awareness is that of depression and sorrow.

Life is tedious and irrelevant from the Spirit Awareness, but exciting and fulfilling from the soul-awareness which is very much the pupil and the student of life on the earth plane. It refuses to accept he myth that this is a fake or virtual reality. It is not within the hive awareness of the soul-awareness that this world is anything but the real deal. The Spirit Awareness, on the other hand, brings into conscious thinking the real concepts and understandings of the earth plane.

It is from these that the soul-awareness is meant to learn and grow; is meant to attempt to amalgamate its vibration with that of the Spirit Awareness and ascend into infinite consciousness. Hence the sensation of being bi-polar! There are two totally different types of awareness experiencing the earth plane through the vehicle of one physical body!!.