Patrick Brinksma
The human race loves the blame game. Something or someone has to be blamed for the shadows in us. For centuries we had the devil to blame. The red guy with the two pointy horns and the tail with an arrow-shaped tip. He represented our dark side, and for many of us still does. With the upcoming discovery of our true Self we realized the horny red man actually does not really exist. But if we can not blame him, who will represent our shadows, our dark side? As god and the devil are true opposites it is evident we need something that is the opposite of our higher self. Well, that is easy: our lower self. Or even better: our local self, the ego.
The spiritual growth of the human race is something I truly cherish. I believe this will only accelerate in the coming years and we will be more connected as individually unique as ever before. But we need to stop bashing the ego, our ego. Why are we still playing that blame game? If you truly understand the concept of the higher self, which represents unconditional love, you will appreciate and love the ego, your ego.
Your ego is that part of the energy of your higher self focused in this time-space reality, the third dimension. And because it is so strongly focused it has a narrow-minded perspective in comparison to our true self. It represents the anger and fear we feel feel, our survival instinct, or in other words: the desire to stay focused. If you keep bashing it and blaming it for everything you define as evil its anger and fear will only grow stronger. But when you appreciate your ego (your shadows), cherish it, talk to it from the perspective of higher self it will relax and you will experience a lot more joy in your life.
Have fun and love your ego. It’s the very reason why you are here in this time-space reality, the third dimension.
Originally posted here: http://300words.posterous.com/stop-bashing-your-ego
martijnlinssen
June 30th, 2010 at 8:43 pm
Interesting post Patrick!I certainly agree on not paying too much attention to the ego, and now see where your dialogues with @stevetheseeker were all about. I concur with you on not shifting the attention from the person of Satan to Evil in general to finally ego – that's all very False Core – False Self like (http://www.martijnlinssen.com/p/stephen-wolinsk...)
Give everything in this Life the place it needs. Don't underestimate your Self, don't overestimate your ego, just balance. To many people this means bashing their ego though, which is okay as a process or means, but not as a goal. Again, when matters get complex, means are con-fused with goals and perceived as goals themselves