The Ego And The Sacred Self By Richard Blackstone At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

When God created the relative world she created a world of dualities. Nothing is absolute in the relative world except change. All things are temporal and temporary.

The way we understand and define things is how they relate to what they are not. We define hot as not being cold. Tall is not short. Light-dark, fast-slow, young-old, male-female are all in relationship so that we can experience in physical form what we know as concepts.

God, at her core, is love, but in order for her to experience this aspect of herself she had to create the exact opposite of love, which is fear. So the core of God, which is love, is defined in our human experience as that which is not fear. We know, understand and create fear in our lives to experience what love is not, in order to know what love is.

When God created us as her spirit children, she made an agreement with us that we would forget all that we know (which is the same as all that God knows) upon entering the physical world. Doing this would allow us to experience whatever we choose, in the moment, without the knowledge of how it will ultimately serve us, which would taint what we chose if we had this knowledge in advance.

It is a wonderful collaboration because it allows us complete freedom and doesn't put any limits on what we get to experience. Only when we start forming societies do we limit our freedoms and our right to choice.

In this collaboration with God we voluntarily chose to forget who we really are. But we are still one with God, and we are all in this together, so God allowed that she would continue to be in contact with us not only through our creations but also as a part of the three-part being that we are. We inhabit this planet as a mind, body and spirit (soul).

Our link to God, the way that we can be in direct communication with God, is through our soul. This sacred part of us, that we will call our sacred self is that part of us that communicates to us as a voice in our heads. The general location of this voice is in the middle of the head, a bit above the eyes; in the control center we call the third eye.

Like everything in the world of the relative we need a counter balancing force for this sacred self to not be in order for the sacred self to be. The counter balancing force that God created is called the ego.

If the sacred self existed in our heads by itself, God could observe what we were doing, communicate to us that what we just created was not serving us, and we could change our behavior accordingly. What then would be the purpose of our lives? We would be constantly reminded of our compass direction and rarely go off course. So we (God) would miss all the experiences of uncharted waters. The ego was created as the opposite of our sacred self so that we could experience who we are not, in order to determine who we are. Along with the love-fear polarity, the ego-sacred self polarity is one of the things in the relative human experience that really makes this life on earth interesting. If there were such a thing as the devil, the ego would be the closest thing that would describe him.

The sacred self holds the tenets of joy, truth and love while the ego is based in sadness, deceit and fear. The ego fits in perfectly with the concept of separation. The ego plays on the separation mentality like a concert virtuoso. The idea of being separate from God, other humans, and the planet is the fertile soil from which the ego bears its fruit. If you are living unconsciously and are unaware of what you create, you are easy pickings for the ego to exploit. Without awareness of who you really are, you assume that you are your body. Your body is the physical manifestation of yourself. The body lives in the external world and deals with external stimuli and experiences external events.

The ego is comfortable with this emphasis on the body, because it knows that when we focus our attention outward into the external physical world we become so occupied with its demands that we become unconcerned with introspection and analysis of our values.

Living externally keeps us focused on how we can best serve ourselves to the detriment of others (who are separate from us) and our environment (which we are separate from). Winning in the game of life is the top priority and losing is to be avoided. We rely on learning the rules of the game through our experiences, and once we establish our own rules we become very inflexible about changing them. We go internally to our memory in order to make present moment decisions, and we rely on the voice in our heads to help us implement those decisions in order to win the game of life.

The question you must ask yourself is this, “When I am listening to the voice in my head, am I listening to my ego or my sacred self?” It is the same voice but it will be a different message depending on whether it is the ego talking or the sacred self talking. Discernment is critical in order to determine if you are being served by the voice. The ego speaks from fear and the sacred self speaks from love. Ask yourself, “What would Love do now?”

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