Topic: Ego destruction and "the plan"
I've been thinking of this whole "destroy your ego" thing for a long while now. Personally, to me, it makes no sense. www.dictionary.com defines ago as:
1. The self, especially as distinct from the world and other selves.
2. In psychoanalysis, the division of the psyche that is conscious, most immediately controls thought and behavior, and is most in touch with external reality.
3.
a. An exaggerated sense of self-importance; conceit.
b. Appropriate pride in oneself; self-esteem.
So in essence by saying "you need to destroy your ego", one is saying you need to destroy your conscious mind. This led me to think "why"? Then it occured to me that it might be the way possessions are done. It has been said that human race is heading for a "take-over" and most our souls will be pushed out and the bodies taken over. Perhapse that is the biggest fad and deciet in the new-age scene. They are unconciously working to benefit the lizzies by knocking peoples sense of self worth so down that they wont resist. I can say that for me, one of the true realisations came when i realised it is ME living here, ME writing this and ME doing this.
It is me right now who decided to sit here and write this, it is me who has thought this way. I take a great sense of self worth in that, is that wrong, i dont think it is. When groups like church, qfs, politics, some forms of buddhism are observed through this effect, the so called "Ego center" (Self-Center) then there is a scary realisation that they are all designed to destroy your sense of self. Your ego. Some even say it out loud.
Who would benefit if you destroyd your sense of self, not you, not some high grand good guys, they wouldnt care as long as you do what you like. What about people trying to use you or trying to help others use you, now that is a interesting thought. What if some gurus and people are like shepards, they make sure we dont think of running outside, not because we lack knowledge, we can get knowledge by just looking outside, but because we lack courage. Courage to just run along the fields because our sense of self has been destroyed, we think that we are not worthy of it, that we are not doing the work. That all the credits go to, God, Guides(spirit), Teachers, C's, QFS, Some group, Some person somewhere, etc... But if it is not us creating and doing, then who is it. Who has the right to say to us "This is happening to you now because You decided before you were born that this would happen" What the hell of a kind of defence is that. There is no way to verify it but boy, does it pacify a person. And what right does some intangible me, some part of my soul, have to deny me right to make my own choises. Or even my guides to tell me that i must do or musnt do something. Ofcourse they can recommend, and make observations, but they cant command me, they arent me. If you can only go down a path that is laid out before you then who is really walking the path, you, or the person who laid out the path.
It might be said that the 2 are the same thing, if that is the case then i can just as easily walk away from the path. I made a analogy in another post that might fit here.
Free will is like riding down a hill in sled, you might have been the one that decided to jump down and start riding, you might have even looked at a good route down the hill and said "i'm gonna aim for that" but that does in no way force you to go there. You can change your course, you can even stop but you'll probably be hit by other people riding down the same hill.
If the soul is you, in other words, if it is you that decides to ride down the hill. Then it is your life and you have control over it. You just have to realise that decicions are made right now, not in the past or in the future. But if the entity making the decicion to ride the hill is not you, for example, if it is god wanting a experience of riding down a hill, then it is a very bleak notion. Because surely they realise that life can be very painful, and to force someone to ride the hill is sadistic, if it goes against their will. So in a sense if it is you who is doing it, and riding down a hill, then life is in your hands, you have all the power in the world to decide your fate, you just need knowledge to know what to do. You dont need to know that bigmac's are 50cents off at a shop 2 miles from the hill, but you do need to know that if you want to slow down you have to lean back. Or that you can turn right and guide the sled into a forest nearby and hope it does less damage than keeping up with the riding and ending up in the middle of a driveway.
I hope this makes some sense to someone.
Oh, and on a closing note, I'm not necceserily saying that i wish to "get off this sled" or stop this ride but i am saying that unless i have the power to do so should i desire then its not me doing anything is it 
-Aki
--Cognito, ergo sum
---Cognito, ergo doleo
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). Seriously, though, I think the relationship can easily be 1:1. If someone has a large ego, it's their soul essence being co-opted by the personality self. The larger the ego, the more power or essential energy is available to that person to be co-opted, and it comes from their core (and we're all far more than we realize).
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