Book Recommendations on the Ego?

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Normal conscious experience will always first be viewed through the ego, or perhaps it is best said that the more imbalanced you are the more polarized your thoughts will be, therefore subjecting more of its influence. It seems the ego is an intimate part of the mind complex (probably a large part of the complex itself), since it is responsible for emphasizing polarized thought. So yes, what you said! It is best to break down all the concepts of creation, rather than trying to explain the ego as a thing in itself, so that's probably why Ra didn't want to approach it in the manner asked.

In the past, many only recognized the ego and 'I Am', believing that the ego must be transcended in order to always remain in the I Am state. When people would take psychedelics for instance, experiencing the present more clearly, they would attribute the loss of self as death of the ego because you enter into a realm of pure 'being'. There is some truth to the idea of ego death because there are intimate relationships with being, but it is not that simplistic. So the psychedelic era created some confusion around the subject. The proper understanding is that there is a Self in relation to the other two, and it is who we really are in the moment. The ego seems to stand in between the Self and the Logos in terms of perception. Unified Logos (pure being)-->Ego-->Self..where Self is an individual aspect of the Logos.