Freedom From Fear and Isolation
It is fashionable in spiritual circles, to believe that to become ‘enlightened’ we must destroy our ‘ego’. The word ego is used by different people to mean different things, which is a source of much confusion.
If the word ego is used to signify the matrix of negative personal habits which keep us unconscious in the life-dream, then the ego is indeed something which stands in the way of our awakening. It is a psychic knot we need to untie.
But often the word ego is used to signify our individuality generally. In this case the ego is not something to destroy, but something to emancipate from its illusionary isolation, so that we experience our individual identity as a part of the greater whole.
Awakening is not eradicating our personality and living a bland, boring existence as some sort of saintly zombie. Awakening is consciously being all that we are and having fun as a person in the life-dream, free from debilitating fear and isolation.
Awakening doesn’t diminish our individuality. It enhances and fulfills it. In this sense, lucid living is the celebration of the ego, not its destruction. But this celebration of our individuality is possible because we have transformed ourselves from an isolated self into an integrated self.
From, The Laughing Jesus by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy. To see an in-depth interview with Tim by MarkMolaro Click Here.
