The Ego, What is It Anyway?
December 30, 2008 by sovereignjohn
The “Son of Man” refers to the “psychological ego” in humans. It was also called the Man of Dust or First Man by St. Paul.
The Son of God refers to the “inner man,” the holy spirit, the Christ, the son or reflection of God. (Your true SELF when not identified with the body and brain).
The Son of God, or inner man, is what one is “born again” into when the psychological ego (first man, man of dust, outer man, etc.) is not identified with. This new life or born again life is called by many names; enlightenment, Satori, Nirvana, union with Tao, heaven, Kingdom of God, Eden, virtue, samadhi, God realization, etc., etc.
We are in training to be nobody special. And it is in that nobody specialness that we can be anybody. The the somebody-ness, the ego or separate mentality. (This condition is the real meaning of disease-dis-ease, ill-at ease.) But we have to start somewhere. It does seem that we have to be somebody before we can become “nobody.” If we started out being nobody at the beginning of this incarnation, we probably wouldn’t have made it this far. For it’s that force of somebody-ness that develops the social and physical survival mechanisms. It is only now having evolved to this point, that we learn to put that somebody-ness, that whole survival kit which is called the ego, into perspective. It’s very far out when we begin not to think or the thinking is going by and, “We’re not identified with being the thinker.” At first we really “think” we’ve lost something. It’s a while before we can appreciate the peace that comes from the simplicity of no-mind, of just emptiness, of not having to be somebody all the time. We’ve been “somebody” long enough. We spend the first half of our lives becoming somebody. Now we can work on becoming “nobody.” (no-body), which is really “somebody special.” For when we become “nobody” there is no tension, no pretense, no one trying to be anyone or anything, and the “natural state of mind” (as consciousness, being, existence) shines through unobstructed. The natural state of the mind is love (non judgmental) which is not other than pure awareness. We’ve finally acknowledged who we really are. We’ve cleared away all of the mind trips that kept us being who we thought we were. We experience love for everyone we meet, we have compassion to let other people be as they need to be. For being nobody, there is nobody were not. (This is how to love thy neighbor as thy SELF – because on the inner spiritual level, thy neighbor is thy SELF.)
-Ram Dass
The SELF CREATED PERSONALITY because of individual SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS, (not to be confused with SELF AWARENESS) of the physical body-brain is know as:
1. The Ego
2. The Ego-I
3. The psychological ego
4. The psychological person-ality
5. The first man (Christian Bible - I Corinthians 15:47-49)
6. The man of dust (I Corinthians 15:48 )
7. Narcissus (Greek Myth)
8. Agnostos
9. Infidel (Islam - An unenlightened person separate from God-union, not just a person who does not believe in God or any faith)
10. Demiurge (The self created false god (the Ego-I) who makes the structures of a materialistic society)
11. Devil (The self created one who tempts the pure self, the soul, you, to rely only on material creation and physical sensory inputs as its master and source of life)
12. Jinns (Arabian mythology)
13. Anti-Christ (The false personality of the body-brain that tempts, possess the soul, or inner you, and keeps the soul entangled in its OWN CENTER (the Ego-I center) from which it (the soul) always seeks truth, love, God and reality but can never unite with what it seeks).
14. Gog and Magog (Egoic leaders & egoic followers - more research required)
The ancient name for the egoic process is the “anti-Christ” (or separate consciousness, i.e., a consciousness that is not one with God).
That which is born of the flesh (the psychological ego) is flesh, and that which is born (born again) of the spirit is spirit. (Spirit which is consciousness prior to thought and inner witness to thought).
-Jesus, John 3:6
The Greek version of the psychological ego, or separated mentality is: “narcissus.”
In the book of the Koran (Islam) a person who has separated their consciousness from the universal consciousness and created their own separate psychological ego is called an “infidel.”
The psychological ego is called by many names; Narcissus, the separate one, fallen angel, devil, anti-Christ, false personality, infidel, Demiurge, Gog and Magog.
No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. For you cannot serve God and mammon. (For a person cannot exist in two conditions at the same time, either in enlightenment and God union, or to be identified with the body-brain.
-Jesus, Matthew 6:24
“And if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.”
-Jesus, Mark 3:25
That is, if the spiritual consciousness of the body, is divided or separated from God union and becomes one with and the psychological ego, that condition or “mistake” is “sin” and that consciousness now separated from God may never find it’s way back to God union, which is a form of spiritual death.
The egoic state is unnatural. It is not in accord with the “law.” That law is oneness at all times and conditions and places and planes of existence. i.e. to remain in a state of spiritual enlightenment under all conditions. Unto thine own inner SPIRITUAL SELF be true.
To “think” that the physical body is the material and that “thoughts” are the spiritual is incorrect. Thoughts are part of the material realm also.
Your greatest enemy are those of your own household.
-Jesus, Matthew 10:36
This statement has two levels of understanding. The first level explains one’s psychological dependence on one’s own family. A deeper understanding and meaning is referring to one’s own body and mind. One’s own concepts and thoughts are like one’s own inner family. When one transcends one’s own concepts and thoughts, one no longer lives in the household of the body-mind-thought but in the body “temple” of the holy spirit. The holy spirit is your “own consciousness” of Self-awareness.
The statements by Jesus and other great teachers were only understood and translated on the psychological level and not the deeper spiritual metaphoric level. This is what has lead to all of the religious problems and conflicts.
The sword that Jesus spoke of was the sword of insight which cuts through, or “sees” the difference between the psychological outer level of existence and the inner spiritual way of living one’s life.
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