Interesting article! Ego comes in many facets. Gangaji in her book, “Diamond in your pocket” talks about ego further splitting into two as “ego” and “superego.” The “superego” trying to control the “ego,” saying, “you should not have done that. Look what you did.” and so on. This is the voice in our head chastising us for doing something wrong. Ego is the great dramatist!

Thanks for this article.

Cheers,
Desika

Nice blog, “stumbled” by a few moments ago and while Ken Wilber certainly knows how to turn a phrase – his quotes on the destruction of the ego are about as ironic as Barry Bonds impressions on how steroids have ruined baseball..;-) Try reading “real” wilber stuff – his blog posts, his interaction at Integral Inst. and beyond… not the poetic prose and you will see a brilliant mind, but one perpetually basking in the reflection of his own creative accomplishments. States/stages/levels and lines – they apply even to the guy making the map! Good writing here – liked it a lot.

I think the ego gets a bad rap a lot of the time! The ego is simply the part of us that manages the practical aspects of our third-dimensional existence – it would be terrible to do away with this aspect of ourselves altogether …

The ego must, however, serve our Higher Self. In our society, the ego has become how we identify ourselves, and this identification must shift.

Blessings,
Andrea

Found your blog through the Brazen Careerist site.

Good post. You’ve very succinctly illustrated just how strange the ego is. Mine makes me think I’m either the best at what I do or the worst (negative ego) – and there’s seldom anything in between.

Because I can complicate a straight line, I simply need to get outside of myself and be of service to others to “transcend” my ego.

David