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Recieved: 2000/05/22 06:53
Subject: [K-list] Ego
From: Mrstoast
On 2000/05/22 06:53, Mrstoast posted thus to the K-list:
OK folks.
My Websters New World Dictionary:
ego n. (Latin, I) 1. the self; the individual as self-aware. 2. egotism. 3. Ps
ychoanalysis that part of the psyche which governs action rationally.
I really want to hear reasons why I should attempt to loose my ego, as tho it
were a red-headed step-child. I keep reading here on the list and hearing
from "evolving" sorts that the ego must be dissolved, escaped, etc. I rather
think of ego as the first definition above: that mechanism which allows for
self-awareness. Definition 3 seems to contradict, or at least confine,
definition 1 to only rational action.
As I was dozing off last night during the delightful thunderstorm, this
definition of ego popped into my head: the propulsion between inspiration and
manifestation, i.e. Free Will. Or as free as you choose to believe yourself
as independent of Divine Will. If this is so, what the hell is "wrong" with
that???? Ego is a Divine Gift, as much as our bodies, our minds, our spirit.
Just because it can be a source of discomfort if given too much weighted,
unbalanced importance (as much as our bodies, our minds or our spirits), does
not mean that it should be avoided at all costs???? Isn't Ego perhaps the
flavor of God/dess that we are given to play with??? Isn't it mutable,
pliant, a servant to our connection to the Divine? Seems to me than many
folks jump on the Shuck Yer Ego bandwagon just because they've heard it over
and over . . .
Surrender is good stuff, made exponentially more so combined with Forgiveness
. . both are actions of the Ego, no? Ego is the source of resistance, the
source of emotional wounding, but it is also the vehicle to transcending
resistance and victimhood. And Ego is ultimately the vehicle for releasing
control, judgement. When one Surrenders, does that whittle away at the Ego,
making it less? No. Compression and expansion, magnetism and repulsion are
the life's breath of the Universe. The compression, the surrender, is
followed by the expansion. It feels very much to me that the Ego raises,
riding tides of energy in the expansion, opening like a flower from what had
perhaps judged itself a weed.
If I, one day, decided that I had gotten all I need from my left kidney, that
it was only holding me back on my spiritual journey, would that kidney go
away? quit working? And if so, would my "wisdom" in not seeing all
potentials and variables serve me well? On a person level, it might make for
some rough times. On a God/dess level, all is perfection. Ask and ye shall
receive.
Mystress, more please on Chi and Ego . ..
My confrontational stance here is only a mirror of the stance within myself
with myself, not directed in particular at anyone. Only, to get it out,
warts and all, I have to let that aspect have it's full voice.
Melissa
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