Scientists tell us of the different spheres that encircle our home planet, from the ionosphere to the magnetosphere, and one we could add is the egosphere. Although unreal, it affects us just as much, if not more, than the other spheres.
When we clearly start to see just how the ego affects all activity on this planet, it becomes easy to see how distorted our perception of reality has become. People rarely look at this or even realize that this is not the natural way of seeing. We have been so lost in the ego process for so long, we take it as the only way one can function. But we must start to clearly understand just what is taking place and why if we ever expect to live sane lives.
This is not some abstract concept about what is happening. It is there for anyone who deeply wants to understand to see as clearly as the sun. People have to open their minds and observe what is really taking place within them selves. Not to be an observer in the normal sense of that word, but just be aware without carrying any past ideas or beliefs with you.
As it has been pointed out throughout these essays, what we think we are, as this thinking/feeling being, is an illusion. It was created as the human brain evolved and started to feed back information in such a way as to make the mind feel it was a separate entity, ‘me’. This does not mean there are no individuals with different talents, capacities, and intelligence. It does mean that within our individual creative being there is a process of misinformation that has been creating problems for eons.
The ego sense has developed totally out of images. Images of who we think we are, how we respond to life, what values we look at life through, and every other image that helps the dream to continue. We think we are being objective, yet we are looking through such a dense fog of our own conditioned ideas that we rarely see anything truly objectively.
Subconsciously, we sense this process is unreal and this brings about a deep-seated fear and insecurity. So we aren’t just trying to see life through all of our images and conditioning, we are at the same time always trying to protect and project our illusory selves. This has created all the conflict we see in our lives.
Someone says something to us that does not support our self-image and we get hurt, angry, dislike and even hatred for the one who dares to say such a thing to us. We do our best to control all of the situations we have to deal with so we can feel secure, yet we never feel completely secure and never will as ego.
We only want those who are supportive of our beliefs to be around us. We end up not being real to anyone and they are rarely real with us. We play so many ego games to keep from facing the truth. We lie constantly to ourselves, and all those we deal with. Most of the time we may feel we are being honest, but we cannot be truly honest while still lost in the illusion of ego.
Our games vary according to our conditioning and our place in life. Women have been conditioned to play their roles and men theirs. The poor play their roles and the rich theirs. We like to believe in the west that we have no class system but we do. It is not a formal system, but it is the same. The poor try to get out of poverty and the rich try to constantly add to their bank accounts. In both cases the ego is the driving force behind most of our actions. The rich are perhaps more insecure than the poor. They have something to lose, while the poor just want to survive. Yet at the core they are both the same. It isn’t belongings and money that is to real problem, but the way we respond to life.
What we do as individual egos is also reflected in our nationalism, racism, our ethnocentric lifestyles, and cultural differences. One nation responds to another in just the same way as does our ego in our family and work life. We are willing to destroy a nation over things that could be worked out by reasonable people. Nationalism is not reasonable or sane. We blindly follow our leaders into war in which human beings are killed and maimed and we hurt the environment while the leaders sit on their butts in safety far from any actions they have caused. Wars will not end until people see clearly and it is not a matter of education as much as it is transformation. We need to awaken to our own madness.
In business we see the same things happening. Corporations are so based in greed and driven by insecurity that they have mostly lost sight of the results of their actions. The shareholders of most corporations are as greedy as the companies they own part of and for the same deep seated cause, insecurity.
Most of the environmental problems we face can be traced back to the actions of corporations pushing their garbage on to the world for profit while we don’t see the whole cost of what it is doing to the natural world.
Our education systems are also ego based. How could they be otherwise when all of the people working in education have the same illusion operating within them? Education has become just another business. We fail to educate our young to live sane lives because we don’t know what that would even be.
Our health systems, being based in profit motives, don’t help the whole person. We pay more for everything yet get less real health. We see how drug companies push their products on us before they are safely tested and overcharge us for the poison they sell. As long as our health systems are ran from the ego perspective, we will not be healthy people.
Religions, while acting so holy and good, are causing untold suffering to the world while being completely based in illusion. We have seen so many millions of people killed over pure nonsense, yet we keep those dreams going out of our ego-based insecurity. We have blindly been led to believe we must trust in god and he will make it all better. How silly can we get? In all the thousands of years we have believed in such madness, have we gotten any better? Is the world a more loving or safe place to be? Do we have less illness or suffering? Do we really treat others with the love and care we should our brothers and sisters? Religion feeds the ego a false sense of security and gives the religious leaders a sense of power and control. We have gotten so lost in this dream that we will fight to the death to defend our ideas of what is the right religion or who god really cares for. It is all ego dreams. Until we awaken to this nonsense we will not be free. There is no security to be found in religion. In fact there is less because of it.
As you can see, we live in images. We project on the world our beliefs and conditioning. Those beliefs and conditioning are based in insanity. Is it any wonder what a mess the world is in today? This problem is not new. It has been going on for many thousands of years. Our history is one of the ego process and its actions. We have suffered greatly throughout history and learned very little about the real cause of the problem. We see how our actions interact with one another has become global and that it really is like an egosphere. Here we have the natural world, which was living in perfect balance, being destroyed by a mass illusion. We have become so lost in images that we can find no freedom anywhere in the world. We cannot find it within ourselves, so how will we ever find it outside of us?
We live in two worlds. The first, and only real one, is nature itself. Then we have a covering of ideas, ideals, dreams, illusions, beliefs and conditioning created by the dream of ego. Which would you prefer to live in?
Note: I realize that what I have written about educators, medical professionals, and corporations is overly simplistic and that there are wonderful caring people working hard to help us live better lives, but the problem is still there. We need these professionals in many ways, but when it comes to religion, we do not need them at all. I realize there are also many wonderful caring people within all religions that are doing what they can to help those in need and to make the world a better place to live. But the distortions, the guilt and lack of being truly open-minded, have and will continue to cause far more suffering than good.
