Ego - The Greatest Monster of All?
"As the hydra-headed beast crept slowly upon me, approaching as it
seemed from from every side I held up my ****eld to protect my body
while simultaneously raising high my sword to fight off its
potentially deadly blows . . . . "
Sound familiar? Nope, not a sci-fi story you read lately, though it
should sound that familiar. It's you, it's all of us, fighting off the
deadly enemies or foes our ego has to invent for itself every day just
to keep itself busy, most particularly the worst enemy of all - FEAR
Itself.
I can't tell you how many people ask me to remove their ego chakras
believing incorrectly that their ego is the source of all their
problems. They are almost always taken aback when my Guidance tells
them bluntly that their ego is not the problem. They are, instead,
looking for 'a quick fix' to all the millions and millions of
unresolved energy strands or pathways that connect them to every event
they have experieinced and every person they have met throughout both
this current lifetime and all their past lifetimes as well.
It is these unresolved issues and a Soul's attachment to them that
help form the basis of the current attitudes we walk around with every
day, creating just about every experience we have or will have until
each of these 'karmic' circles find its resolution and closure. And
what is it that most keeps these karmic beginnings unfinished and
unresolved?
The answer is Attachment. Attachment holds all these threads of this
and all out past lives running on into the present and eventually also
in our long distant futures, if w eallow them to. The worst of all
the attachments is the attachment to who we think we are. This is why
we think ego is the central issue to be overcome because we believe
ego is having a high opinion of ourselves and not the right amount of
humility. It's not. Ego is the combined arsenal of defense mechanisms
we have ac***ulated over this lifetime, centered usually around some
early issue or trauma in our lives when we first found ourselves and
who we KNEW ourselves to be, being attacked by some outside force
such as parents or 'cruel loved ones', friends or even strangers.
This first event forms a weakness or 'bucket' in our energy field . .
a chakra or energy center then forms that then can ac***ulate all the
subsequent defense mechanisms we find ourselves accruing over the
years, thinking that we need them just to survive. And yes, sometimes
we do. These defense mechanisms then become ingrained patterns in our
psyche that then form 'grooves' in our subsequent energy fields and
attitudes that the world is this and we are that and everyone else is
out to get us - spiritual paranoia, so to speak. And it is these
attitudes we've formed over lifetimes upon lifetimes that we then
refuse to see for what they are, untruths. We learn to compare
ourselves by some imaginary scale of accomplishment or the so-called
accomplishments and attributes of others, judged arbitrarily by
society's false premises. Along the way we never once accept the fact
that we are us and they are them and we're all on our own separate but
equal path of spiritual discovery and enlightenment. To judge
ourselves or to allow ourselves to be judged is to try and live
someone else's spiritual journey.
Now input is always handy, particularly by someone we see and KNOW has
'been there done that' before us. But always is is we who have to walk
the path, and no one else fits as well in our shoes as we do. No one
else knows where they rub, where they pinch, where those comfortable
patches are on the soles. When we allow ourselves to be judged or to
judge ourselves by others, for us, false standards, then it is we need
bigger and more potent defense mechanisms that when all combined,
people call ego.
There is a spiritual law that if we are attached to anything, Spirit
will take it away from us to show us we don't NEED it. We can have
almost anything our heart's desire, as long as we do not get attached
to things. (http://www.4truthseekers.org/articles/how_to_change.php).
The highest form of master****p is the Master****p of the Vairag,
detachment. When we are detached from outcomes and simply walk our own
path, following moment-by-moment Guidance, then we are always doing
the best we can and then allowing Spirit and the Higher Will to
determine the correct outcome of what it is we do --for both us and
everyone else concerned.
In Albuquerque, New Mexico, it is always amazing to see how many
people have wrought-iron bars on their windows and doors to keep
potential enemies out. Just like those people living in their own
little self-created prisons, each one of us have our ego defenses we
hide behind, peering out at the world from a safe little place inside
ourselves, keeping the world at bay and never fully embracing
anything.
As Guidance said through me in a recent article, it is the ones that
easily give in to ego desires that begin to further lose
consciousness. They are then even more easy to control. Ego Itself is
the birth of control . . . ( from Being Ready for the Higher Worlds
Message #3238)
Gandhi also addresses this very same issue in his Top 10 Fundamentals
for Changing the World. In fact it is number one upon the list.
1. Change yourself.
"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to
remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being
able to remake ourselves."
"If you change yourself you will change your world. If you change how
you think then you will change how you feel and what actions you take.
And so the world around you will change. Not only because you are now
viewing your environment through new lenses of thoughts and emotions
but also because the change within can allow you to take action in
ways you wouldn't have =96 or maybe even have thought about =96 while
stuck in your old thought patterns.
"And the problem with changing your outer world without changing
yourself is that you will still be you when you reach that change you
have strived for. You will still have your flaws, anger, negativity,
self-sabotaging tendencies etc. intact.
"And so in this new situation you will still not find what you hoped
for since your mind is still seeping with that negative stuff. And if
you get more without having some insight into and distance from your
ego it may grow more powerful. Since your ego loves to divide things,
to find enemies and to create separation it may start to try to create
even more problems and conflicts in your life and world.(from Gandhi's
Top 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World
<http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2008/05/09/gandhis-top-10-
funda\mentals-for-changing-the-world/> )
Hence, following those wise words it is our ways of thinking and our
lack of spontaneity of the heart that then cause us even to need more
and more defense mechanisms, just as the U.S. military always seems to
need bigger and better weapons.Is that because America has an ego-
identity crisis. or is just poorly misinformed as to how the world is
really supposed to be?
I once removed a woman's ego chakra and because all her attitudes
stemmed from having been very very wealthy, her ego was totally
enmeshed in everya spect of her Being. Removing it almost killed her,
though Guidance managed eventually to keep her safe. When you have a
very, very knotted ball of twine you have to either patiently unravel
it or simply take a pair of scissors and cut your way through the
mess. Removing the ego chakra is like taking up the pair of scissors
and snipping away. Seems like it solves all the problems but all we
are really left with when we do that is a whole lot more loose ends to
be fixed.
The more we educate ourselves as to the reality of the world based on
spiritual understandings, the more those old visions of how everything
works and the attitudes we've formed to cope with these misguided
beliefs, will then naturally unravel and we won't ever again allow
ourselves to create new and unwanted connections. Our longused defense
arsenal will also then not be needed and we will find ourselves
naturally throwing it away piece by piece as we move forward,
confident of who we are, what we're doing here and what it is we are
ALL connected to - one way or the other.
In service, Peter
www.4truthseekers.org
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