Akasha
in Spirituality ·
Everything orbiting the core is part of the program and can be uploaded, but once it jumps off track, it’s officially out of control.
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casualtiger2 said:The ego—it’s basically just a container, a shape, a structure where pure consciousness gets molded into something specific.
Then you have the functional ego—that part of us responsible for actually navigating life, keeping us oriented in time and space so we don't spend our days trying to walk through brick walls.
Then there’s the status ego—this imaginary persona. It’s loosely tied to who we really are, but it’s essentially a fake center of self-awareness that constantly tries to force its way through a wall
(whether it's our own or someone else's).
Once we become aware of how fleeting everything is—our own mortality—this part of our personality tries to grab onto the whole world out of pure fear, thinking maybe it can finally feel secure. It's a lost cause.
Since spirituality is really about finding your true Self, it naturally leads to freedom from that status-seeking ego.
That particular slice of the ego is definitely a problem, and it’s responsible for a huge chunk of the suffering in this world.
By "problem," I mean it stalls our evolution—even if, at some point early on, it was actually the thing driving us forward.
A functional ego—incorporating all those physical, emotional, intellectual, and willpower qualities—is necessary for anyone. In fact, a spiritual person should, in theory, be working to develop that side of themselves as much as possible.
Jacob Cooper5 said:Priests have basically hijacked the concept of the ego, stripping away everything useful and turning it into this purely negative symbol. Seriously, if you bring up the word "ego" to any Priest, they immediately translate it as something inherently sinful or broken.
It’s just like when someone refuses to see anything but the flaws in another person—that classic, reductive Black and White world mentality.
In actual psychology, there's a much more nuanced and logical way to understand the ego, which is a far cry from the mindless chanting you hear in spiritual circles.
The ego is simply self-awareness. It's that internal third-person perspective on your own existence... your identity.
If you want to be able to judge what's right or wrong in your life, you first need a sense of who you actually are. That’s the ego—it's your perception of your own traits..
As an individual navigating the world, you build your beliefs about yourself and your capabilities through constant interaction with your environment. Your ego is essentially forged by the intersection of your circumstances and how you react to them.
So, when some Priest starts preaching about "liberating yourself from the ego," they either have absolutely no clue what they're talking about, or it's just a clever tactic to empty out your head... making room so they can fill it up with whatever their own minds decide you should believe.
Thomas Nelson25 said:You talking about people in general, or specifically the spiritual crowd?
David Ross3 said:Anyone ever messed around with this "technique"? If you have, how often are we talking—and did it actually work to manifest what you wanted by just acting like you already had it? Esther Hicks has a bunch of videos on this under the "telling a new story" vibe... She says the universe doesn't care if you physically have the thing yet or not; it’s all about getting that vibration to line up... 🤔
She also mentions that writing about your desires in the present tense is just as solid a way to create.
Anyway, I'm curious to hear what you guys think about all this. 🙂