The EGO: Lego an adult construction game as easy as a child’s play

The ego (Lego) can be perceived as an adult construction game but actually, it is more a fruit of destruction when it is badly used. In fact, it is partially true. Ego is a great servant but is a bad master.

What is it concretely?

The baby in front of the mirror will think it is another baby, a potential friend (never an enemy because before 3 years old, a human being cannot emit hate, which is really symbolic). He does not realize that the reflected image is himself. He has no self: let’s say no conscious self. The key word is self. But even though this word, there is an ambiguity. We have to distinguish the self and the Self with a capital letter.

Let’s use synonyms to explore these definitions. The Self would be the soul, the true you, the real essence of you, your eternal part, the infinite (divine) the drop which is part of the Source.

The self would be associated with personality, identity, and individuality.

When we grow up we shape our self, we build it. The personality is the result of this long process. “Persona” in Greek means “the masks” referring to the theater.

These masks represent the layers (and also liars) of your true self, your true you, your true nature. They exist due to your environment, your education, your social origins, your beliefs… You gathered them from the outer world. You adhered to some ideas which are not yours initially and identify all these thoughts to what you are. But this identity is not you, just an illusion or reflection, the mirrors of the others but not really you.

“Identity” in Latin comes from “idem” which means “same”. Actually, it implies a notion of a standard/pattern of the ego: we are just “same same but different” as Asian use to say. We are a bit different by picking up some elements of existing behaviors: the parents, the environment, the mentors, the boss as examples, source of inspiration or counter-example and tool to improve.

Individuality etymologically speaking in Latin means “indivisible”. This is really interesting because there are two ways of appreciating this point. 1-the self is separated and well distinct from the whole, the environment or 2-it is an indivisible part of the whole implying that the self is still subtly a part of the whole.

Both are true, to be frank, according to your beliefs. If you are materialistic and rationalist you are separated and if you are more in a process of awakening you start to understand and to realize that the separation is an illusion. And far from me the idea to separate science and spirituality (I invite you to refer the article: “Science & Spirituality a Hidden Love Story”).

Thus just three quotes of the great scientist to show that the awakening process is not linked exclusively to spirituality but also science as I always say: all the roads lead to Rome, and to home”.

Max Planck the father of quantum mechanics and Pride Nobel of physics in 1918 said “All matter comes from a force and exists only by it. We must assume the existence, under this force, of a conscious and intelligent Spirit. This Spirit is the matrix of all matter “. It means there is a kind of common thread interlocking, interconnecting everything: physical matter (4% of our visible world), dark matter (27% of our universe but invisible to our eyes) and dark energy (69% of our universe).

 As the second quote from Einstein “What we have called ‘matter’ is energy, the vibration of which has been greatly reduced in order to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.”

Precision if I can afford it is a matter of fact, we are as a human being made of organs, made of atoms, the subatomic atoms made at the end of only energy and vibration.

Thus 3^rd quote from an amazing scientist Jean-Emile Charon “In the universe, every atom is connected to every other atom, through the substance (spirit) of antimatter, and every knowledge is potentially accessible to every atom of the universe.”

Thus that’s why I am saying that the Self is a part of something higher, even if a part of society denies it, on the other way round modern science tends to admit it more and more.

Actually, since Rene Descartes in the 17^th century (the father of rationality, Cartesianism…) the Ego has been separated from the environment with his famous “I think therefore I am”. Which is absolutely partially true. I am sorry but The Self is the proof of the contrary. Who is thinking about breathing? About giving orders to your cells or your organs to organize your digestion, your blood pressure…? Your consciousness, your self? Have you ever thought about this? This is your unconscious part, your higher self, the automatic pilot inside and outside you: the “night watchman” as I call it. If he was not there, you would die when you sleep: chocked or suffocated.

Just a short aside, Descartes used to define the pineal gland (the third eye) as the “seat of the soul”, he was really a believer and even was closed to Rosicrucian current. Why do I precise that? Because his behavior and his approach were not completely cartesian, the only History pretended he was as it is always easier to be Manichean that’s to say “it is black or white”, but life is a rainbow full of shades of colors…

Ego can be seen as a chance to realize by going beyond the materialist approach that it does not matter which created consciousness but consciousness that creates matter. Ultimately consciousness is independent on the ego. For deepening this complex and large topic I invite you to read the article entitled: “Are you ready to explore and approach the gateless gate of Consciousness?”

In our modern society led by hyper-consumerism and a materialist approach, it is hard to admit that ego limits your higher consciousness as all are made to create homo deus. We could say we go to a Selfish, Selfy, golden fish, jellyfish society navel-gazing. What does it mean?

1-Selfish: the modern society is a matter of fact more and more, individualist

2-Selfy: it is a symbol, some many people spend their life by taking selfies (which is a new trend coming from Asia 10 years ago), which is not bad but when it is extreme, it can be just a prison. You just focus on you, your image, your envelope, not the letter itself, the content anymore (what’s inside: the heart beating, beyond that the eternal soul). Selfy is by extension the all narcissistic dimension. You just focus on yourself. This is good to be confident, to have cleaned your traumas, to be grateful for what you are, what you have, but it is also good to be aware of the fact there is something beyond of you that we call the world.

3-Golden fish: this animal has a memory of a few minutes. Martin Luther King said about the US Tittytainment (mix of Tits and entertainment, the fruit of Brzezinski) concept: bread and circus. “These people have a memory of 4 days”. It is linked to ignorance, manipulation: the economic system, the false flags, the wars or animosities created artificially…

4-Jellyfish: due to the consumerism, the entertainment (once again the Tittytainment, the brain watch of mainstream media, a lot of people are in the non-action, just swallowing (“following without digesting everything without analyzing the ins and the outs of the situations) the news.

Aldous Huxley said “The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of democracy, a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not dream of escape. A system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, slaves would love their servitude.” ​

 NB: sorry to be a bit dark for the first time but awakening is also at this level.

Ego is a vehicle, like a car, to travel down to earth, in this materialist world but it is not a finality. Except that some people deify their car which is a kind of extension of themselves.

Ego is just a recipient of The Source. So you are just a tiny part of the immensity.

On the Oracle of Delphi, it is written: “Know thyself and thou shall know all the mysteries of the gods and of the universe?” What does it mean? Knowing yourself means that you understood the illusion of the ego, the masks hiding your true nature. In addition, you can access to the Divine Consciousness which is deep inside you. In other words, you access your divine part: the small god in progress. And this process is always inward, never outward. By the way the proof how do we call the enlightened people, the sages? Insider! What does it mean? The knowledge has been taught from outside but the experience is inside.

If I apply the psychoanalysis, you are released of your consciousness (or aware of it) allowing to access to your subconscious which is the springboard to access to collective Consciousness, Plato’s world of ideas, or the morphic field, the Soul of the world, the Akashic records as the Hindus say.

There is in life an infinite reflection as the Emerald tablet remained it: “as above, so below, as below so above”. That’s why Rumi the great Sufi said: “you are not a drop in the ocean you are the entire ocean within a drop”. You are the YOUniverse. God experience Himself through and we experience Him/Her/Itself through us (each other).

Actually, we come from The absolute, the Soul of the world, the YOUnity, the Divine Matrix, the Oneness, then we incarnate to experience the separation of this oneness otherwise being the Oneness you are not aware of it. If you are part of the painting you cannot admire the artistic prowess. You need to extract yourself. That’s why the artist takes distance to have a larger perspective.

This is the reason why the great Sufi Rumi said: “you are not a drop in the ocean you are the entire ocean within a drop”.

There is a Sufi proverb saying “when I am You are no more when You are, I am no longer.
There is no space for both at the same time: your ego and your divine part.

That’s why I like to say: Life is a gigantic puzzle for which each of us, embodies a single piece of it. The enigma seems to be to gather and respect all the pieces in order to seize the beauty of this magnificent masterpiece and thereby and thereby to master peace (inner and outer peace).

To what I always add “YOU are the member of this infinite body that one calls YOUniverse, YOU are now here and nowhere at the same time to re-member it, on the way to reach YOUnity”.

Actually, the self is a kind of cell for which there are two meaning 1-prison for which the walls exist because we decided to give a sense to them and because we are blind by our own fears, our own ghosts and our own darkness in a certain way. That’s why the first step of initiation and awakening is to open up the eyes of this masquerade: the IIlusion of the reality, our own masks and our own distortions of the reality. Embracing our fears and our weaknesses is the first step of the awakening.

The second meaning of “cell” would be a part of a gigantic body. That’s exactly what the Vedas (the Hindu holy texts) reveals: “find the place which is already yours in this cosmic breath”.

Waking up is to enlarge the perspective of our visions: seeing beyond the veil of the illusion. When the “I” of the ego becomes “high” for higher self or the “I” of the eye of consciousness if you access to your double you “w”. That’s why you can see and decipher the magic of the subtle “now here” that we repeat always in meditation. If you shift your “w” (double you) from “nowhere” you obtain “no where”. I invite you to meditate on that, in both senses for meditation. Indeed one of the keys of meditation is to reach fullness thanks to the emptiness which is a paradox. Why? The ego thinks “he knows everything”. He is a bit arrogant most of the time. Ego (he go) and leaves you alone with your own ILLusions.

If you can access to your higher self by giving the proper place of your ego you can access to the Oneness. Then things are reversed and you do not see in a negative way. Instead of thinking “ME” you think “WE”. Have you ever seen that: ME vs WE? But in reality, this is not an opposition but a complementary. This is diluting your ego into the ocean of Consciousness: The Source.

Meditation allows you to come back to your center, etymologically “medium” in Latin means “the center”. Meditation facilitation this access to your true nature, your natural nature: not your little moral ego but your eternal soul.

For those who are more down to earth and need a more rational explanation. Here is the definition of ego by Einstein.

When you sign a book or a painting, you mark off yourself. The self is not bad, once again it is a good servant but a bad master. The proof being that at the top of the pyramid of Maslow what do we find? Self-complacency. What does it mean, you are just humbly satisfied with yourself. Then beyond that, it allows seeing the hidden reversed pyramid which shapes the HolY Grail which is deep inside you. This is another topic I will evoke later.

By extension, I can talk about spiritual ego? What does it mean? Basically, it is thinking we are superior to people who are not awakened. Thinking we emit light, we do not emit, we let passing the Light through us, this is what we call the Christic dimension (Christos = the purest metal, this is a metaphor, the Christic dimension is not exclusively reserved to Jesus, Krishna, Buddha (etymologically speaking his name means “the enlightened” or “The Light”).

Apparently enlighten is endless, it is not a diploma, but a never-ending championship for which we win not to struggle not to fight but by enjoying and understanding that there is no ownership and we have a common sense to evolve together. The more you awake the more I do and reversely (referring to the theory of the 100^th monkey). If I discover something or you do, it is not from you. You just download it from The Source, Plato’s world of idea. If the approach of the awakening is just to show off, and to shine you will be blind by the reflection of your own ego as the Ouroboros that’s to say the snake eating its tail.

If one player of a team scores, all team is champion. And do you think his right leg shows off towards his left leg saying: I scored not you, looser!?

In addition, the spiritual ego is also linked to thinking (as we are in a society of “all quick” & “zapping”) I saw a ray of the Light and that’s set. That’s finished. The awakening is endless and it is not so easy.

An Egyptian proverb written in a Luxor temple said: “True teaching is not an accumulation of knowledge; it is an awakening of consciousness which goes through successive stages”.

The great Sufi Rumi said, “Once you conquer your selfish self all your darkness will change to light”.

He said also by complementarity: “Human is something huge. In him, everything is inscribed, but it is the veils and the darkness that prevents him from reading in him this ‘science’. “

That’s why we could see E.G.O as Edge God Out(side). All mystics know well this principle and whatever what you put under this word God: the divine matrix, the YOUniverse, the Soul of the world, the Absolute, TAO/DAO, Big All, Big whole, ALLah, Yhwh…* * “the unpronounceable name”

The mystic Sufis say: “When I am you are not when you are I am not”. This is the full meaning of the famous “I AM”.

Here is a short story “I” invented to reveal some aspects of the ego, those who have some eyes, read between the lines. There are a lot of subtle messages.

“Once upon a time there was a little flame that wanted to shine. One day she protested proudly, God, saying, “I know who I am”.
“Oh yes,” replied God, “I know, too.”
Without even listening to what God had just said she said to him with confidence “I am the light” then was silent.
Strong satisfied but confused by her inner demons sometime later she asked again God: “good, of course, I know who I am but it’s not enough, I’m going to be the light, knowing is good but it’s better to be. I want to feel what it’s like to be the light. ”
“But you are,” replied God. “Actually I did not create anything other than The Light. So it’s hard not to experience what you’re seeing that you’re all in fact. The only possibility would be that you experience what you are not to know what you really are. ”
“How then?” Asked the little flame. “You are God, you can do everything. ”
God says, “I can create darkness. ”
“What is darkness?” Asked the little flame.
You’ll know it when you see it.
Then a small shadow appeared: “Wow, thank God,” said the little shadow. ”
“Hello,” said the little light. “Why do you say thank you?”
The little shadow replied, “I thank God for making you appear in my life: I asked him what the light was, in my world, there is only darkness. So I wanted to see, I asked and you appeared. ”
The little surprise flame replied to God: “But it’s me, it’s me, it’s me God who asked first. ”
“Yes, you two had asked me at the same time. So I answered you here you are. ”
The little shadow gently asked the little flame. “So can I be you a few moments to feel what it’s like to be the light. ”
The little flame accepted and so God made them exchange their state.
The little flame that has become darkness says: “wow, that’s it, I’m now that, I’m here, and you’re here, you’re this, both said in heart” wow incredible, it’s magic “!
When they were tired of playing in their infinite space-time, they asked God. “Can we come back as before? And instantly He heard them.
They laughed loudly: “wow, what an experience! ”
God asked them, do you want to go back to your respective worlds? They both looked at each other and said, “No, just as long as the other stays to remind us what we are not, in case we forget and lose sight of it.”
God says to them: “Your desires are my orders, always keep in mind” what you seek, seeks you too “. I had to separate the unit for you to understand it through segmentation and beyond for you to find this unit. We are the unit, you are me, I am you, I experience myself through you and you experience me through yourselves but this separation is only an illusion and just necessary to better meet and coexist: to exist means to separate. “

Just as a precision a bit more down to earth, etymologically speaking, “existing” in Latin means “to separate”.

If I can afford, personally “I appreciate darkness because it allows me to better admire the beauty of the stars”. In Shambali,  we will help you in many ways, several techniques and tools to find back your higher and to manage properly your ego, both are primordial to access to a profound inner and outer harmony.

Issa ~ AM