Living outside of your ego and experiencing incarnation

[Timeless]

When your mind evolves and the ego steps in, this can be a very confusing place. The conditioned reaction is to panic or just disregard it completely and choose to not be conscious of it. What I have found though, is that I can just be aware of these feelings of fear and just watch them all lose power. For me to be myself completely, I need to get out of my head and be careful of what I let into it.

Know where you are coming from. There really is no you that resides in your thoughts. For me to communicate from a place of inner desire, and not just my ego, is to really come from a place of understanding. The world is our mirror. If you cannot see yourself in all other people, then you are living too much in your ego and in your head.

As far as my experience goes, my true self is not my name, my background, where I grew up, or any of that. My true self is very subtle in nature. The atoms that make up my body are the same atoms that make up the universe. We are the creator and also the actor.

[Michelle11]

Originally Posted by Timeless

We are the creator and also the actor.

I like this. I was told once by my guide that life is a show. Nicely said.

[keokutah]

You are all that is, part of a giant interconnected grid of oneness.

So you can't exclude anything from that which you claim to be.

[CrystalSong]

We are ego too - someone has to drive the vehicle and pay the bills after all :)
The key seems to be to get all the aspects of the self playing together nicely as a well-honed team....not to exclude any one aspect of that team as 'less than'. Spirit doesn't get to play in the 3rd dimension without a body and a brain - so they too should be respected for the incredible gift they are.
That said, many people could benefit from discovering the other aspects of themselves beside just the thinking mind/Ego.

Originally Posted by Timeless

When your mind evolves and the ego steps in, this can be a very confusing place. The conditioned reaction is to panic or just disregard it completely and choose to not be conscious of it. What I have found though, is that I can just be aware of these feelings of fear and just watch them all lose power. For me to be myself completely, I need to get out of my head and be careful of what I let into it.

Speak for yourself, though. Are you projecting yourself or trying to persuade others
that that's how it is or should be? It isn't the case with me. Fear is a
pretty malleable term. Perhaps my earlier psychedelic experiences did a lot
to allay fears of the unknown/unexpected. One's mind is always expanding
and will always refer back to "the ego" to become aware of the expansion.

Surprising that we still use Freud's old model of how we tick. Ego is a
meaningless term to me other than as the processing that allows us to
interface with other (as minds, people, whatever), our public front that we
adjust to engage with different situations. In the absence of an encounter,
like when we're on our own our out-front repertoire (ego, I suppose) is a
summation. We tend to reflect on encounters and pull ideas forth about
different ways of dealing with it (isn't hindsight wonderful?!) or how we might
if it reoccurs or how we might deal with a situation yet to happen, perhaps
rehearsing possibilities (a job interview, a date, a business deal).

So it's impossible to look on ego as static. It grows as one's mind evolves.

Originally Posted by Michelle11

I like this. I was told once by my guide that life is a show. Nicely said.

Shakespeare said something like the same in "All the world's a stage..."

♥

[Visitor]

Originally Posted by Timeless

...As far as my experience goes, my true self is not my name, my background, where I grew up, or any of that. My true self is very subtle in nature...

What is the purpose of your true self?