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~Spiritual Ego~Eventually a person has a moment of clarity. In this moment, they see the

inherent emptiness of all the things they thought were so important. This

causes a person to reevaluate their whole existence and look for a deeper

meaning in Life.This is the beginning of spiritual Awakening, when a person realizes the

life they've been assigned by society isn't who they really are and decides

to recreate himself to reflect his expanded understandings. At this point

there's an enormous pitfall that most do not notice which causes spiritual

growth to halt almost as fast as it began. This is spiritual ego, when a

person recreates herself but then gets attached to their new "spiritual"

identity.

Identity is a part of the ego. You are you, no identity required. You are aunique facet of the Whole. You were this before you were born, you are

this after you "die". Your identity is only who you believe you are. You

didn't give yourself your identity, society did that for you. People have

identities because they don't understand who they are, if they did they

wouldn't have need of a mental construct to tell them who they are. As

long as one clings to their identity one is still within ego, no matter how

"spiritual" it is.

The old needs to be let go of to make room for the new. This is why one

can't cling to their old, static identity. When one is Conscious, experience is

always (in all-ways) moving forward. Spiritual ego is an attempt to bring

the old paradigm into the New, which doesn't work. If the old ways

actually worked, they would be working by now, they've had thousands of

years of opportunity. The Present Moment is always New, which is a

indicator if one is Present or not. Attempts to explain the Present based on

past understandings don't work, they only serve to keep one stuck in the

past, which is illusion. This is why letting go of the past is essential in the

Awakening process. Awakening is Being Present in the Moment, the only

Reality that Exists. Only in illusion can one be in the past or future, but

this is where most people's attention currently is and why people are

unconscious.

Spiritual ego is most recognizable in those who talk about how Enlightened

they are but in the majority of the cases it's much more subtle. It's easy to

see ego when the person is arrogant about their spirituality, but what

about when the person is humble? Humility isn't necessarily a sign of

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spirituality, it's often from a lack of Love of Self, just like arrogance. The

belief that leads to arrogance is the same as the belief that leads to

humility, it's the idea that some people are better than others. The church

has promoted this for their own gain. Since they believed Jesus was the

best his intermediaries on Earth must be better than the average person.

The masses were taught they were inferior, so they could be easily

controlled. True humility isn't in thinking you are better or worse than

another, true humility is in knowing everyone is Equal.

Many compare themselves to those around them to gauge how Enlightened

they are. This is a sign of spiritual growth at all, but ego. It's only the ego

that looks outside of self to determine it's worth. Like humility, this is

another illusion people often carry with them even though they may be

separate from the society that gave them the illusion.

There's an easy way to tell if someone has a spiritual ego, challenge their

beliefs. If they get offended, that's ego. If a person isn't attached, they'll be

open to new ideas, otherwise they'll be threatened by anything that calls

their belief systems into question. One must be very honest with themselves

about this to break the bonds of ego. It can be difficult at first to accept

anything that threatens one's false sense of security. Of course, if the ego

actually made a person feel secure, they wouldn't feel threatened in the

first place.

Real spirituality is about Peace and Freedom. If spirituality hasn't brought

these to you, you need to take a good look at yourself. Spirituality is All or

nothing. You're either Present within the All or unconscious in illusion,

which is nothing. Spirituality is not something you turn on and off. There's

no on/off switch on Creation

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