I sometimes look at the website stats to see which search queries caused people to land on certain subjects on the website – not who searched but what term they entered into google or whichever search engine they used. I was struck by one in particular this week which was a search for “Ego death is it necessary”.
If you have a soul connection, for instance, you are already being forced to go through at least some of this process
Now I’m sure there will be those out there who’ve had more than enough of this topic but please excuse the indulgence as I offer something to that person whomever it is.. I know this is a subject thats dismissed in a global “we need our ego” way by many and promoted frequently by people like me and, so it can be very confusing… However it was, is and remains, the single most important element to spiritual progression and the one gateway we must all navigate…
If you doubt that then simply study some of the more advanced spiritual development methods, techniques or religions and see how it underpins so much; where in order to find real self we must lose conceptualized self
When we refer to the ego in this context we don’t mean the whole thing, we simply mean that part of self knowledge that is predictive, judgmental and intrinsically defaults to negative and defeatest. One of the great secrets we learn from working the techniques on our spiritual journey is that this “ego self” isnt US its HOW we have become not WHO we are.. Every ego in every person has this same capability, its not a judgment of the person its a consequence, an aspect of being human, and until its disempowered has the nature to want to gain increasing control
Where “ego death” comes from is from the observation that ego ( the part of it i described earlier ) causes problems because we give it power.
Nobody is questioning the human rights to have likes and dislikes, choices and freedom, thats not the issue here. BUT what we do is we give it even more power than that – we give it a power greater than the universe when we allow it to judge our self worth – overiding a decision that is a clear and definite act of divine creation.
Much of the work I offer has seeds in ancient practises and techniques that link to martial arts, healing disciplines and even dealing with things like addiction where we often describe this phenomenon using the word “insanity” to observe how we can become so programmed to self defeat the ‘self’ through our judgment of self.
When i say ego-death, i mean the ending of the “God in the brain” that is so powerful it can have the audacity to not only judge your own self, but your future and everything associated with it – so much it can make your life unhappy at best, miserable at worst….
People who’ve been through ego death don’t stop thinking, they simply make clearer more objective choices..
People who’ve been through ego death don’t stop feeling they start feeling, but real feelings not old triggers, theyre no longer walking the tightrope of “what if”.
People who’ve been through ego death haven’t been taught to believe or think anything, they’ve been taught to be who they are with every cell of their being and to be in touch with it entirely.
For example, in soul connections, the pain comes mainly from this tearing between ego-self and energy self. No accident, as the universe tries to teach us the divine state of acceptance of love and of absence of need, the stuff of ego satiation. It’s from this lack of satiation comes the pain, not from the love.
So my answer to the person who asked the question is make your choice – but its the loss of that infernal mechanism that always tends towards the negative, makes every event personal, every event important, and loves to make significant links between unrelated things; will set you free to be who you are..
If you want to know what thats like, its like when you were 2 or 3 years old, laughed when happy and cried when sad, but the next day or even the next hour everything was ok again and you were open free and fascinated with the world.
A quick note for all those fans of the symbolism in the movie “The Matrix” yes it really is talking about ego death
