In other words, egos only defer on the surface. Deep down, they are all the same. In what way are they all the same? They live on identification and separation.
When you live through the mind made self comprised of thoughts and emotions, let is the ego. The basis of your identity is precarious because thoughts and emotion are by their very nature ephemeral. Ephemeral, meaning they are not permanent. Every ego is continuously struggling for survival, trying to protect and enlarge itself.
To uphold the eye thoughts, it needs to be the opposite thoughts of the other. The conceptual eye cannot survive without the conceptual other. The others are most other when I see them as my enemies. At one end of the scale of this unconscious egoic pattern lies the egoic, but compulsive habit of false finding and complaining about others.
Jesus referred to it when he said, why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? At the other end of the scale, there is physical violence between individuals and warfare between nations. In the Bible, Jesus' question remains unanswered, but the answer is, of course, because when I criticize or condemn another, it makes me feel bigger than superior. Let's that first part, we need to know that ego a little bit and how it operates or it comes from deep down to all the same.
That's why it's called a collective ego. And we're now going to move on to the next chapter. We can go that, it's called role-playing, the many faces of the ego. This first part here is just a page.
So page 85, role-playing, the many faces of the ego. And ego that wants something from another, and what ego doesn't. We'll usually play some kind of role to get its needs met, by be they, okay, let me try it. And ego that wants something from another, and what ego doesn't.
We'll usually play some kind of role to get its needs met. Be they material gain, a sense of power, superiority, or specialness, or some kind of gratification, be it physical or psychological. Usually people are completely unaware of the role they play. They are those roles.
Some roles are subtle, others are blatantly obvious, except to the person playing it. Some roles are designed simply to get attention from others. The ego thrives on others' attention, which is after all a form of psychic energy. The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.
Ask notifications from others, or from accepting from your friends and family and boss and stuff like that. It is not the formless attention which is present that the ego sees, but attention in some form. Such as recognition, praise, admiration, or just to be noticed in some way, to have its existence acknowledged. A shy person who is afraid of the attention of others is not free of ego, but has an ambivalent ego that both wants and fears attention from others.
The fear is that the attention may take the form of disapproval or criticism, that is to say something that diminishes the sense of self, rather than enhances it. So the shy person's fear of attention is greater than his own report, than his or her in need of attention. Shyness often goes with a self-concept that is predominantly negative, the belief of being inadequate. Any conceptual sense of self, seeing myself as this or that is ego.
Whether predominantly positive, I am the greatest, greatest, or negative, I am no good. Behind every positive self-concept is the hidden fear of not being good enough. Behind every negative self-concept is the hidden desire of being the greatest or better than others. Behind the confidence, the behind the confident ego's feeling of, the behind the confident ego's feeling of, ego's feeling of, and continuing the for superiority is the unconscious fear of inferiority.
Conversely, the shy, inadequate ego that feels inferior has a strong hidden desire for superiority. Many people fluctuate between feelings of inferiority and superiority, depending on situations where the people they come into contact with. All you need to know and observe in yourself is this. Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.
Does that make sense? Yeah. Yeah, it makes no sense. What is those thoughts and feelings that we carry inside those feelings can also be ego.
That we carry inside that are either making us feel like we're less more than anyone. Better or worse, good enough, not good enough. And depending on how you use your thoughts in the advantage of presence is how you express yourself. Because ego is running through you.
This is what you not only will feel and think, but you will also express it. Yeah, it's trying to explain that. Use ego while it was weird. That ego tends to disappear when you are thinking that you're using a positive self-currentment.
You're better than them. You're better than them. Depends. Depends, right?
Because you can also talk to you about yourself and not have any surface of ego, right? Because you can have a clear goal. You can have a clear vision of something you want to accomplish emotionally or professionally or whatever it is. And when you have that clear goal, you know what you need to do to become those things.
You have to say it is ask that girl out, right? What you do is you have to manage whatever manning up means, right? You have to figure out how to build a confidence in yourself, which is a good thing, right? It's a good thing to become yourself with your own user, your own yourself to others.
That's when you're going to go try. Yeah, that's when you go try. Perfect. Yeah.
To add something to the segments, there's a sub-genre, sub-genre, sub-title that is called the collective ego. And I should have seen that in the first section of this podcast. But I don't know. This is important because he speaks directly about the collective ego, which makes sense to include...
Sorry. How hard is it to live with yourself? One of the ways in which the ego attempts to escape the unsatisfactoryness of personal selfhood is to enlarge and strengthen its sense of self by identifying with a group, a nation, political party, a corporation, institution, sect, club, gang, and football team. In some cases, the personal ego seems to dissolve completely as someone dedicates his or her life to working selflessly for the greater good of the collective without demanding personal rewards, recognition, or a grand decisement.
What a relief to be freed of the dreadful burden of personal self. The members of the collective feel happy and fulfilled. No matter how hard they work, how many sacrifices they make. They appear to have gone beyond ego.
The question is, how they truly become free or has the ego simply shifted from the personal to the collective? A collective ego manifests the same characteristics as the personal ego, such as the need for conflict in enemies, the need for more, the need to be right against others who are wrong, and so on. Sooner or later, the collective will come into conflict with other collectives because it unconsciously seeks conflict and it needs opposition to define its boundary and thus its identity. Its members will then experience the suffering that inevitably comes in the wake of an ego-motivated action.
At that point, they may wake up and realize that their collective has a strong element of insanity. It can be painful at first to suddenly wake up and realize that the collective you had identified with and worked for is actually insane. Some people at that point become cynical or bitter and henceforth deny all values all worth. This means that they quickly adopted another belief system when the previous ones was recognized as illusory and therefore collapsed.
They didn't face the death of their ego but ran away and reincarnated into anyone. A collective ego is usually more unconscious than the individuals that make up that ego. For example, crowds which are temporary collective egoic entities are capable of committing atrocities that the individual away from the crowd would not be. Nations not infrequently engage in behavior that would be immediately recognizable as psychopathic, psychopathic, and in an individual.
As the new consciousness emerges, some people will feel called upon to form groups that reflect the enlightened consciousness. These groups will not be collective egos. The individuals who wake up these groups will have no need to define their identity through them. They no longer look at any form to define who they are.
If the members that make up those groups are not totally free of ego yet, there will be enough awareness in them to recognize the ego in themselves or in others as soon as it appears. However, constant alertness is required since the ego will try to make over and reassert itself in any way it can. Dissolving the human ego by bringing it into the light of awareness, this will be one of the main purposes of these groups, whether they be enlightened businesses, charitable organizations, schools, or communities of people living together. Enlightened to collectives will fulfill an important function in the arising of the new consciousness.
Just as the egoic collectives pull you into unconsciousness and suffering, the enlightened collective can be a vortex for consciousness that will accelerate to the planetary shift.