Thursday, March 25, 2010

Resurrecting out of the tomb of our Ego.

Resurrecting our consciousness!

The last few weeks has been the spiritual season of Lenten in the Christian church, a traditional time to reflect and to refresh ones perspective, and basically soul search. Instead, of seeing it the way I was taught in my Catholic background, where I had to go to confession and participate in traditional rituals, such as not eating meat on Friday, giving up some type of outer pleasure, etc. I have decided that I will personally resurrect myself by looking at the issues that keep coming up that cause me to see life as a never ending struggle. Knowing that it is just the ego that wants the pain and suffering. By taking full responsibility for every aspect of my life and journey, I know I will rise above the negativity. So, even old doctrines and traditions can be a way to practice clearing ones mind and body, and its not only about giving something up from the "outside" like chocolate or television, but the negativity we indulge in on a daily basis.


I have begun to see the traditional "church" Lenten season as a yet another opportunity for myself, as a spiritual seeker, to leave the ego self behind, in the tomb and move towards a higher level of consciousness. It isn't fear based or about contracting oneself, instead it expands oneself and transforms one's consciousness. We might ask, "What are the benefits to feeling guilty, weak, and shameful sinners'? Their are no benefits, except for those powers that want to remain in control of our souls (the heads of the Church). The Christian church mainly encourages us to feel guilty to discourage us from moving away from fear, at least from my personal experience. These negative thoughts and feelings only prevent our freedom so we need to look at them.

Idolizing Jesus has nothing to do with true religion or the spiritual responsibility of all humanity, and it is time we stopped glorifying the martyrdom of this great spiritual teacher. The victim mentality has served the Christian church well and fed its appetite for power and control. The cult of idolatry has hindered the progression of humanity for many centuries and has prevented the true spiritual seekers from finding the truth, in between the lines of scripture, and within one's hearts.This means that we need to take all of our power to expand and rise up. The persecution and assassination of Jesus by the hypocritical religious cultists truly was unfortunate, and a prime example of the ignorant, unenlightened, and aggressive mentality that still characterizes much of human society to this day. Its time to move beyond the established status quo. So, using the idea of the resurrection as a means to purify ourselves so we won't be crucified with all the negativity that only pollutes and distorts our perceptions and causes suffering.


Choosing to see the events as the crucifixion and resurrection in an empowering and inspiring way leads us to shed the old, lower vibrating self into a higher, resurrected state of purity and higher awareness where we can see that we aren't separate beings but interconnected. We can only resurrect ourselves by undoing all that has kept us bound. As Jesus quoted, "Except a man be born of water and of spirit, that person cannot enter into the Kingdom of God". So until we let the mortal ego identity die, we cannot be reborn into our true spiritual identity as co-creators with the Creator.

2 comments:

  1. Ego = The I or self of any person; a thinking, feeling, and conscious being, able to distinguish itself from other selves.
    That is the definition of ego, according to Webster dictionary.

    Seems every where I look, houses of worship, books, and all rocks I have looked under I hear the mantra, the problem of mankind is the ego. Our human identity is the problem. Enough to make one wonder if the universe made a mistake in our very existence. Religion says humans are an inferior product, while Buddhism just says "kill the ego". Can a human being raise to the level of magnificence that is inherent within, when its very being is at civil war with itself? The collective consciousness of the human race has championed the idea that the ego is the problem. If it is true the ego is our biggest problem then it is just as true it is our greatest solution.
    We are born with innate desires, yet the Buddhist says become desire less. How can that make sense to go against our very nature? We start making moral decisions around the age of six, and from there on have the knowledge of having ideals that expand as we grow older. Ideals that are always a quest to achieve resulting in the feeling of being less that we desire to be, IF we consent to thinking there is something wrong with us. That something that we are taught is wrong is our human nature identified as the ego. If we buy into that idea, which is a intellectual trap, it shifts our attention from becoming to overcoming. Much of our potential is spent trying to overcome our own nature rather than working within our nature to develop our growing spiritual nature.
    When we are born, we are new creatures in the universe. Growing as a human being trying to understand our life, trying to understand the universe, it is common knowledge we will make many mistakes. How we view ourselves making mistakes has monumental effect on how much of our potential we can achieve. Castigating ourselves, and others for making mistakes has a detrimental result on our growth, and can lead to such hazardous consequence as a painful existence or even suicide. By seeing our human nature (ego) as a problem we see mistakes as being proof of imperfection rather than as a natural course of events. It often leads us to think negative thoughts toward ourselves, and others. Rather than enhance the reverence for life, it cheapens our view of life, and can lead to loathing of self, and others.
    If we were to see human nature as a wonderful beginning in the universe, and things such as the instinct for survival, selfishness, as something good to build on, not as a flaw of nature, respect of self, and others would be a natural by product. Reverence for life would be the norm. As long as the collective consciousness of mankind continues to see human nature (ego) as undesirable the animosity toward self, and others will continue unabated.

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  2. Thank you for the very thoughtful discourse Jerry, I appreciate it. +
    You make much sense, the ego gets a bad rap, I know that our collective consciousness will not raise up unless the ego bashing desists. I have tended viewing the ego as my "enemy", but I know that that only creates more loathing. I agree with you and love the question you pose "Can a human being raise to the level of magnificence that is inherent within, when its very being is at civil war with itself"? Balance is the key for sure, between our higher and lower being. I will write about that soon, I'm trying to get more balanced within.

    I read this in an article recently on lifesherpa.com----"trekking the mountain of life" magazine.

    "The ego is not our enemy. The ego is our strongest ally. But it must go through a psychic change. There is a powerful transcendence that happens when the ego confesses to how it has misled us. Once there is a true coming to terms with the ego, many people experience a breakthrough. Coming to honest terms with self is the first step in the spiritual experience, just as the caterpillar must spend time in a cocoon before becoming a butterfly. When you confront your ego, you can have a happier, freer life".
    I am so glad I bookmarked that, and your comment helps me to remember that I need to stop seeing the ego as an enemy.

    Bless you and much appreciation!

    Blessings!

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