EGO

There is an instinct for survival, whether a piece of consciousness is a plant, an animal or a human. The ego, too has an instinct for survival built into its structure.

Egos are chronic dreamers that elude and delude. They do not fulfill promises, but they do control through the pleasure and pain principle. While violating an ego standard causes pain, unfortunately many humans at various points in their lives, are enwrapped, self-esteem wise, with ego processes. "My value and worth comes from my appearance," or "My value and worth comes from being recognized by others that I select of a certain kind, who are superior or some other that is valued." But worth really has nothing to do with such egotistical things. You are worthy by existing. End of communication on that subject. Until this is realized, all other searchings for truth are moot. The reality is you are worthy. It is your birthright. There are certain challenges in growth and development that are entwined with the search for the full self-realization of worth, but worth does not only come from having a self, but as well from a selflessness. Worth comes from both, neither are excluded.

There is a way of tearing down resistance without experiencing a demolition derby on the identity that is voluntary. By intentionally inducing a personality meltdown under controlled circumstances and what you might call elemental variables, quality control, it is possible to free the survival instinct from egotistical complexes that warp and pervert natural consciousness expansion. The warped consciousness expansion is responsible for addictive psychological and sociological habits that essentially entrap and perpetuate the cycle of poverty of mind, spirit, soul and finances.

Spiritual growth often involves dealing with abreactions to realities that, in truth, may confront the egotistical self-sense. Spiritual practices will uncover hidden values, standards and beliefs that are sabotaging one's earnest attempts at self-evolution. Fear complexes and desire complexes will also be discovered, and one's eccentric method of manipulating these two variables, in an introverted psychological sense. One learns how to identify at will and dis-identify at will, to ultimately empower the true self, and not the small self.

The small self is the portion of the self trapped within the flows of the all pervasively, omni-ever present highly manipulative ego that attaches itself to the survival drive within the entitological design. Having done this, it assures its continuing existence; it will temporarily hide behind various masks and facades and cause the perception that true change has occurred. But unless true change has occurred, circumstances will remain very resistant to improvement and enhancement. One will automatically forget or not be in the mood to follow through with various types of commitments. Distastefulness will suddenly be developed or reoccur to certain activities. Avoidance behaviors may be stimulated. The ego will push a sequence of psychological buttons, and through various psychological technologies and spiritual technologies it is very observable to witness this and easy to see in all of one's friends and acquaintances. The attempt, however, is not to play God, as is well known, but to allow the Higher Power to work through the open mind and infinitely receptive self in a controlled environment to induce constructive change that liberates the self from ego enslavement. Ego enslavement is a big, precociously and audaciously objective and abstract word that has little meaning to the masses at large, much like the word psychotherapist. Ego enslavement is enslavement from within produced by perception that is influenced by unconscious processes, or conditioned perception, and to those who understand what it means it is indeed a term of empowerment.