The Ego

What is the ego?

Everyone focuses on the reality they choose, and they create within their reality. Within their reality are merely reflections of their inner reality, and with that, all truths are true within an individual's reality. Although there may be similarities between people's realities and the truths within their realities, they will never be identical.

When you have enough people that come together with similar realities and truths, you then have a society. That society then creates various societal beliefs they strive to abide by. Those societal beliefs create and feed the ego of those born within that society. So in all essence, the beliefs you have subscribed to stem from the realities generated by other people. So these societal beliefs are in all actuality, societal fallacies.

That means you have been living under dogma thus far in your life. For example, when you are born, you are given a race, creed, an ethnicity, a nationality, a political, religious and a financial affiliation, a name, and even a government ID. Your ego then assumes those identities, because they have been drilled into your psyche since birth, and you spend the rest of your life defending a fictitious character that never even existed. However old you are, is how long you have been conditioned.

Your ego determines what gets stored in your subconscious and what gets discarded. Now considering your ego is based on other people's fallacies, it is safe to say your ego is storing garbage in your subconscious and throwing out the good stuff. The garbage it retains, creates addictions, and those addictions create life struggles.

What is a society?

The American Heritage Dictionary defines a society as, "The totality of people regarded as forming a community of interdependent individuals."

Black's Law Dictionary, 1st Ed. 1891 defines society as, "An association or company of persons united together for any mutual or common purpose."

However, these definitions stem from artificial applications man created. The truth is, society is nothing more than an agreed upon cognitive model of reality. It cannot exist without man, for man has created it. As stated above, when you have enough people that come together with similar realities and truths, you then have a society. That society then creates various societal beliefs they strive to abide by.

What are the societal beliefs that create the ego?

That would be everything, which includes but not limited to, politics, organized religion, the education system, the military industrial complex, the medical industry, MSM, superstitions, traditions and so much more. Literally everything that has been created by man is an artificial application, and not a fixed creation.

You cannot fault the ego; its main concern is the preservation of the self and its control over its environment. The ego is trying to keep you safe, and it is just doing its job. The ego is part of the animal brain of reaction and self-preservation. That part of your brain is responsible for the fight, flight, freeze and hide response. This response keeps you in a place of unconscious reaction. You cannot use your higher thinking when you are in this reactionary mode. The ego uses the fear of the animal brain and illusion to project fear into your environment. That fear can show up as a phobia or fear of the unknown. Many people also experience it as anxiety.

What does society offer?

There are multiple universal laws, such as the Law of Vibration, the Law of Attraction and the Law of Cause and Effect, just to name a few. There is also the Law of Free Will.

Everything society offers is fear-based, with the ultimate agenda being to circumvent your free will. By circumventing your free will, you are giving them permission to place you in a constant perpetual state of fear. Living in a constant perpetual state of fear, weakens your immune system, and makes you more apt to give up what freedoms you think you have, and comply. Nothing this society offers benefits the higher good of your four aspects of self; mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual. You have to separate yourself from all of it.

Now keep in mind, I'm stating society offers nothing beneficial, not the world. The world is a beautiful place and could be even more beautiful if man stopped destroying her.

These societal fallacies feed your ego and you experience either fear or temporary pleasure. In either case, it is circumventing your free will. This thwarts your efforts in you realizing who you truly are and what your true potential is. You will forever live under dogmatic rule if you do not tame and control your ego.

How do I know what an addiction is?

When one of your addictions is not fulfilled, you lose your mind, but when it is fulfilled, you simply experience temporary pleasure and nothing more, until the next addiction needs fulfilled. However, when you tame and control the ego, your addictions naturally turn to preferences. Now, when a preference is not fulfilled, you are simply indifferent, but when a preference is fulfilled, you appreciate it more, and experience the beauty in life. What's more, when your addictions naturally turn to preferences, your life struggles naturally dissipate.

What are the four aspects of self?

The four aspects of self are, mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual. You cannot have one without the other three. They are a package deal. If anything in this agreed upon cognitive model of reality does not benefit all four aspects of self in a positive high vibrational manner, then it does not serve your higher good, and therefore, should be released from your ego.

For example, many people solely focus on the physical aspect of self, as this is evident with things like plastic surgeries, social media filters, clothing with quick fix tummy tucks and the like. They feel that if they are comfortable with their physical appearance, then their mental and emotional aspects of self will then be happy. When all they had to do this whole time was simply tame and control their own ego.

Should I kill my ego?

The goal is to NOT kill your ego. It is a part of you. It harbors the natural instincts of fight, flight, freeze, and hide; and you need that. The goal is to tame and control your ego; to release what does not serve your higher good.

It is extremely difficult to tame and control the ego, and release what does not serve your higher good, if you constantly involve yourself with all of the drama, and the artificial applications and divisions society thrusts at you. You have to literally walk away from all of it.

The ego and your subconscious

The subconscious mind is incredibly interesting. It does not innerstand negatives. For example, if you were told to not think of an elephant, you are going to think of an elephant. You consciously know the people around you, but your subconscious only knows you. It relies on your five sense to relay information to it. Your subconscious accepts everything given to it, as it does not have the ability to reject. It does not have the ability to distinguish between what is real and what is imaginary.

The most toxic concept for your subconscious is the ego. What you allow your ego to control, dictates what your subconscious will vibrate at. The vibration you are in, is the frequency that you are operating on. Hence, negative begets negative and positive begets positive. If you want to change the frequency that you are operating on, then you have to change the vibration of your subconscious, and in order to do that, you have to tame and control your ego. It all starts with your ego.

The ego and love

The ego believes this materialistic world is all there is. It believes in death, that your organic body can be hurt, your life struggles are always someone else's fault, etc. It believes that I am separate from you; that we are all separate individuals. That is because the predominant emotion of the ego is fear. Most people constantly live in this state of fear in one way or another. The ego desperately tries to hang on to what it has and believes in; out of fear. This is what creates the life struggles one experiences.

Most of the things people are scrambling around and trying to do or accomplish, is based off the mindset of fear. For example, most people are afraid of death. So they work diligently in an effort to make a name for themselves and become a legend so people will remember them, or they hurry to have children so they will carry their name, or maybe even scramble to acquire materialistic things in an attempt to accomplish a goal before they die.

However...

The predominant emotion of self is love. It believes we are all connected; that we are bound together, along with everything else in the Universe. It is not afraid to let go of things that do not serve its higher good. It looks at experiences as just that, experiences. The self regulates its thoughts, emotions and actions based off love, not only for self, but everything.

Resistance of the ego can be formidable. The closer you are to self, the more afraid the ego becomes because it knows it will lose power over you. But the closer you get to self, the self's emotion of love, overpowers the ego's emotion of fear. Your life struggles naturally dissipate and you no longer live in fear. You become more connected to the Universe and oneness.

TV Analogy

To bat this home a little more, I would like to use the analogy of a TV and it's channels.

A TV has a plethora of channels you can choose from. If you want to watch something in particular, you know you have to find the channel it is on, and turn your TV to that channel.

The TV represents you; your real self as a spiritual being. All of those channels, represents the infinite number of realities you can choose to experience. Now choosing which channel you want represents where you are choosing to put your awareness, and the show you choose represents what you assume to be true.

All the other channels (realities) on the TV (your spiritual self) exist even though you are not watching (experiencing) them. Those other realities are always there, but you only experience the one you chose.

You only experience the reality you put your awareness on and what you assume to be true. It is not about resisting any reality you don't want to experience. It is about choosing the one you want to experience, focus on, believe in and assume its truth.

But too many people identify with one particular channel (reality). If that one channel (reality) was all there was, then the TV (your spiritual self) would be limited. So technically speaking, you are confined to the limitations that you believe in and experience because you are identifying with only one experience.

You are not only the one experiencing the experience, but you are also the one creating the experience. If you want to experience a better reality for yourself, simply turn the channel. There are many to choose from.

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The ego and your chakras

We live in a society that wants instant gratification and immediate satisfaction. We see this with plastic surgeries, social media filters, liposuction, lotteries and more. Unfortunately, we also see it within the spiritual community.

In the spiritual community, there is much talk about healing, cleansing, and raising the vibrations around the self, but little talk about healing, cleansing, and raising the vibrations of the the self. Many speak of techniques to immediately open the third eye chakra but very few speak of the importance of starting with your root chakra.

As cited from our own website, "The three lower chakras, which are the Root, Sacral and the Solar Plexus, are the earthly chakras. They are also known as, The Chakras of Matter. They are directly connected to the body and Earth. They correspond with the nerve centers in your physical body. When you concentrate on them, it not only stirs you spiritually, but also rouses you physically."

For more information on your chakras, visit our chakra page HERE.

Your three lower earthly chakras are also directly correlated to your ego. When you work on your ego, you are working on your lower chakras and vice versa. By foregoing your root chakra and opening your third eye chakra first, it creates a major problem. When you open your third eye chakra, you will attain downloads, new information, knowledge and wisdom. This is called claircognizance. However, because you did not contend with your three lower earthly chakras (correlated to your ego) first, all of that new knowledge and wisdom will be in contrast to what your ego believes. This leaves you in a constant battle with self. You will have wisdom battling the concepts your ego is not willing to let go of. This directly leads to spiritual egoism and spiritual narcissism.

Just to reiterate, your three lower earthly chakras are directly correlated to your ego. You should always start with your root chakra and NOT the third eye chakra.

What can I do about the ego?

Here is a technique that I have used, which worked for me. Now it may, or may not work for you, but give it a try.

Imagine walking into a zoo, like you would with your family on any other day. Look off to your left, and you see a huge cage with a sign in front of it that says "Politics". In that cage, you see all the politicians from local, state, and federal governments, in their expensive Armani suits, wearing all the jewelry, paid for by the taxpayer, and they are reaching their arms out through the cage begging and pleading for you to release them. Now ask yourself, "Do politics benefit my higher good on a mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual manner?" The answer would be an emphatic no. So you leave them all caged up.

Now you look around you, and you see the medical industry in their lab coats and scrubs, and they are doing the same thing, begging and pleading for you to release them. You ask yourself that same question, and then leave them caged up. The same concept goes for every other artificial application, or social construct, created by man in this agreed upon cognitive model of reality, called society.

Now keep in mind something here, it has to benefit your higher self in a positive, high vibrational manner, in "all four aspects of self", not just one or two of them, but all four, because they are a package deal. By the time you get to the end of the zoo, you will look back, and realize that you left every one of them locked up.

You have to literally walk away from all of it. Stop watching cable TV and get rid of it. Stop following politics. Take your kids out of public education and homeschool them. Live naturally, and find home remedies, instead of running to the doctor every time you have the sniffles.

All of your life's woes stem from your ego; every bit of it. When you walk away from everything that does not serve your higher good, and you work diligently on your shadow work, you will eventually experience a level of inner peace you never thought was possible. But it all starts with you.

So how bad do you want it? That is the ultimate question.

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