TGOG 2024; 8-31; TEXT 24; SEC II; THE TREACHERY OF SPECIALNESS #2

We are by now not fooled so much by the deceptions of "specialness." Specialness says, "I have a deficiency, and you must fill it." Or, "I see what you lack, and I am here to save you from that." Both approaches focus on the ego's "made up self" that is not whole and complete. Everyone falls into this self-deception at some time in their life. Educational systems are even built on the premise that we are not complete until we "know more" than we do. We are deficient of skills, knowledge, sophistication, etc, and we have to accumulate more "knowledge" to be whole and complete. But the relative knowledge that we accumulate never reaches its fulfillment. We always seem to need "more." What if we are perfect already? We do not need Specialness. We are like our Brothers, God Given as Co-Creators of this entire Universe. We are joined and whole as One. Can we focus on this Oneness, not on our "differences?" We are asked to give up Specialness in this Chapter 24.