| Question: | | | | with it, and move on with your life. |
| The “problem” with spirituality as I see it is that it | | | | There is a difference between being cautious and |
| is not enough to know what to do, it is all experiential. | | | | getting attached. |
| We have to see for ourselves and learn the lessons | | | | Caution is simply common sense. It’s knowing that |
| ourselves to really understand. And this is one big | | | | something may be detrimental and thus avoiding it. It |
| difference between religion and spirituality in my opinion. | | | | often comes in through your intuition or gut feeling. |
| Most religious people I have met only do what they do | | | | Emotional attachment is when the mind gets its hooks |
| because they have been told by someone else that it | | | | into something potentially dangerous and starts spinning |
| is the right thing to do. They are blindly following | | | | its wheels on the subject, often making you think of |
| guidelines because “God” says it’s right. Their | | | | potential “what if” scenarios so that you can be |
| ego’s are so tightly glued to their beliefs that any | | | | better prepared… just in case! |
| reasoning with them they take as an attack on | | | | Is it possible to live without an ego? Do you and your |
| themselves and they get angry. | | | | body literally die once the ego is completely |
| Of course they do. It’s their whole story, it is who | | | | transcended? Simply look at enlightened masters for |
| they think they are. Who would they be if all of a | | | | your answer. |
| sudden everything they thought they are would | | | | “Love your neighbor as you Love yourself.” |
| dissolve? You see, the ego provides a very useful | | | | Remember that loving yourself includes honoring and |
| function in our lives on this planet. | | | | taking care of yourself. You Love all and take care of |
| How else would we know to protect ourselves? How | | | | all. It’s not that you suddenly stop taking care of |
| else would we know to feed ourselves? How else | | | | things and you forget how to eat, breathe, and brush |
| would we know to not put our hands in the fire, stay | | | | your teeth once you drop the ego. |
| away from things that makes us ill, gather food for the | | | | Two guys were once walking down the street. The |
| winter, dress ourselves warmly, spread our genes to | | | | first stated that the whole world is an illusion and that |
| ensure that the species lives on and fight when we | | | | none of it was real. The second guy, being a very |
| have to? | | | | intellectual yet skeptical man, took a rock and threw it |
| Ask yourself this question: Where would you be | | | | at the first man, drawing blood. As the first man cried |
| without your ego? Probably dead. Long time ago. | | | | out in pain, the second man said, “Why are you |
| Spend some time thinking about that one if you | | | | screaming? The pain is an illusion! The rock is an illusion! |
| haven’t before. Use 5DC on your own ego. | | | | You are an illusion!” |
| So one of the functions of the ego is to ensure the | | | | This is a very logical conclusion that the mind makes, |
| survival of this body that we are in. It does so that we | | | | but it’s a radical misunderstanding of the nature of |
| think that we are our thoughts, our minds, our body, | | | | “illusion.” |
| emotions, the stuff we do, the things we have and | | | | Illusion does not mean “This does not exist.” in |
| everything else. Without the sense of self, there would | | | | the traditional sense of the word and thus is |
| be nothing to protect. If there was no other, there | | | | unexperiencable. Rather, it means, “What you see |
| would be nothing to fear and we’d have become | | | | is not how things actually are. There’s more to the |
| extinct long time ago. | | | | world than meets the eye. There is something beyond |
| My response: | | | | what we are consciously aware of. This is not it.” |
| First off, props to you for realizing that you do indeed | | | | As you deepen your connection to your Higher Self |
| have to EXPERIENCE Truth in order to know it. Simply | | | | and strengthen your connection to Source, higher level |
| intellectualizing or believing, buying into any structured | | | | Truths such as “Time is an illusion” or “This is |
| external belief system of any sort will necessarily hold | | | | better than that” or “Love is all there is” |
| you apart from the highest Truth. | | | | become radically apparently, experiential truths. No |
| Truth can not be verbalized, only known. Whenever | | | | amount of mental debate can ever bring you to the |
| you put it into words, you are filtering down the infinite | | | | same level of certainty or understanding. |
| vastness of all that is into a few letters and sounds. | | | | By transcending the ego, you will come to know these |
| The word “apple” is not the same thing as | | | | truths, even if you had never heard of them. |
| eating an actual apple. | | | | It truly has to be experienced to be understood. |
| Interestingly, you brought up this point and then went | | | | From there, the state is SO clearly real that, just like |
| straight back into imagining (read, going to the mind for | | | | looking back at a dream when you wake up in the |
| answers) as to what life without the ego would be like. | | | | morning, it becomes obvious that this physical |
| You’re directly going against exactly the issue you | | | | existence we live in is pure illusion. |
| just brought up. | | | | It truly is possible to be in this world, but not of it. To be |
| Intellectually wondering what life would be like without | | | | “not of it” means to not be sourced in the |
| an ego, while STILL coming from a place of ego will | | | | domain of duality, of ego. Rather, it means to be |
| not work. You can’t transcend duality through | | | | sourced in the energy of your higher spiritual self. From |
| duality. You have to reach Oneness by going to | | | | this place and ONLY from this place can you truly |
| Oneness, not by going through the world of illusion. | | | | come to know (as opposed to merely knowing about) |
| Living in this world is like dreaming while you’re | | | | the realm of Oneness, to truly experience Unconditional |
| asleep. When you’re asleep, everything feels real | | | | Love towards One and All, towards everyone and |
| and you know it to be so. You can’t say this is just | | | | everything you meet. |
| a dream because you have nothing to compare it to. | | | | To know and to know about are two totally different |
| | | | things. To know you must experience. To know about |
| It is only when you wake up that you can look back at | | | | you can read about or hear about, but until you |
| the dream and accurately determine that it was all a | | | | experience, you will not know. |
| dream, all a made up illusion in your mind. | | | | So, let’s experience it. |
| This life we live in is the SAME thing. In order to | | | | It is only from the place of being completely beyond |
| experience it as a dream, to see the world of illusion | | | | ego that you will realize that the ego is truly is not |
| as illusion, you have to first WAKE UP and then once | | | | necessary for survival. It must be surrendered |
| you have awakened, look back at the dream and | | | | eventually. |
| identify it as such. | | | | Yes, the individualized “you” that exists right now |
| You don’t need the ego to survive. The idea that | | | | will die with that happens. The dream will “die” |
| you do is one of its BIGGEST lies. It’s sourced in | | | | when you awaken, yet you will realize that nothing real |
| the ego’s fear of death. | | | | actually ceased to exist. Quite to the contrary, you will |
| You know that leaving your hand in a fire will lead it | | | | realize that you always have been, always are, and |
| getting burned. There is a caution system built into the | | | | always will be. And even more accurately, because |
| body so that it protects itself. The ego is what takes | | | | time is an illusion, you simply are. |
| this caution and spins it into worry, guilt, regret, and | | | | The real you is simply asleep, but You can not die. You |
| anxiety, basically neurotic fear in the past and future. | | | | can either be asleep or awake. |
| You can have awareness of bacteria so you wash | | | | Time to wake up. |
| your hands before you eat. You acknowledge it, deal | | | | Thanks for your question. |