01-05-2016, 09:33 AM
(01-04-2016, 08:42 PM)Verum Occultum Wrote: The Ego is very important. Perhaps you have heard a condescending attitude towards the Ego in many circles of spiritual seekers, stigmatizing it as a negative or a bad thing causing all the pain and suffering in the world. This is simply not true.
I personally would use the term 'ego' to reference those tendencies which lean towards a separated self. That is in no way bad in itself; it just is what it is. But that's my own preferencing of using the term - strongly influenced by A Course in Miracles of course
(01-04-2016, 08:42 PM)Verum Occultum Wrote: Gauge deeper, and you will find that the Ego is an invaluable portion of your identity totality as a soul, a being of infinite intelligence. Identity, although permanent as an aspect of your beingness, is nevertheless in a state of perpetual transformation and transmutation. Such an epitome is seen when viewing an incarnation in retrospect.
I think what you are describing is the process of Individuation. Individuation is a necessary and vital part of the evolving self. Individuation is done through the forming (and recording) of biases.
(01-04-2016, 08:42 PM)Verum Occultum Wrote: You are not the same 'person' you were ten years ago let alone a second ago. The sense of identity can become more loose or what would be called impersonal, but it can never truly vanish, not even at the higher densities of consciousness. Were it not for the Ego, you would not be able to have a physical experience as a centralized entity.
I suspect that what you describe here and in the rest of the OP is something very close to the Hierophant - the Significator of the Mind.
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"The mind itself became an actor possessed of free will and, more especially, will. As the Significator of the mind, the Hierophant has the will to know, but what shall it do with its knowledge, and for what reasons does it seek? The potential[s] of a complex significator are manifold."
"The mind/body/spirit complex which is an infant has one highly developed portion which may be best studied by viewing the Significators of Mind and Body. You notice we do not include the spirit. That portion of a mind/body/spirit complex is not reliably developed in each and every mind/body/spirit complex. Thusly the infant’s significant self, which is the harvest of biases of all previous incarnational experiences, offers to this infant biases with which to meet new experience."