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Ego and the Evolution of Consciousness

Is your Ego getting in the way of your growth in Consciousness? What Does Your Ego Have To Do With The Evolution of Consciousness  by Anja Sagan Is the ego as bad as they say? Sometimes we’re not even aware we have one. Sometimes it feels annoying, like a mosquito flying around us and other times it’s like a whirlwind that blows things way out of perspective based on childhood fears, past life traumas, cellular memories and more. When we fear something, we often try to run from it, fight it or end up leaking our power to it. Many spiritual practices teach that the ego must be subjugated or even eliminated entirely to reach higher levels of spiritual consciousness. It is the unwanted party guest we would love to rid ourselves of, yet it remains. But is it necessarily something we need to eliminate, or can it still hold some purpose or function? When living on an egoic level, survival, sex, and greed are the main driving factors.  There is little room for higher spiritual evolution and, we remain in a ‘crabs in the bucket’ kind-of existence. Spiritual teachers have told us everything that exists is an aspect of the Divine and therefore serves some purpose.  If so, then how can the ego help us? The ego, in its correct position, helps us translate infinite consciousness into communication through thought and language with others. It acts as a sort-of interface software decoding spirit into matter. It has served us as a species since its’ inception at the fight-or-flight level, but optimally, we must surrender it to the position of co-pilot rather than the captain of our ship. We see it in the negative just because it is in an incorrect position relative to the soul. When it functions properly,...

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