More Spiritual Ego Blathering (mine and theirs)

So if reality is nothing more than a conceptual fantasy conjured up in the individual and collective mind, why does it really suck at times? I mean, why can’t you simply conceptualize into consciousness pure unadulterated bliss? Why shouldn’t you be able to conceptualize eternal fame and fortune?

Well, the problem begins with the concept we refer to, and idolize, as “ego.” The ego was manufactured mentally to give you a sense of “sefldom” or a ‘sovereignty’ over all you survey. Actually, that’s not really a problem. The real problem is that to be an ego requires that there be other egos all living in your sovereign ‘world.” Because, let’s face it, if there were no other egos living in the world, who and what would you assert your ego against in order to confirm your ego even exists and, make no mistake, egos NEED to exist (as opposed to the BEING of mind).

This tends to diminish your sovereignty, since there must be other egos for which to accentuate and assert your ego (attain recognition) and those egos are doing the same asserting and that sucks for “you.” This results in all manner of competitive ego games. The most absurd being the "awakening game" in which those who proclaim winning an ego game assert that they have, in fact, overcome their ego. They are blissfully egoless and thus, they are winners. But, note that they cannot claim themselves as winning and require others to make such a proclamation. Thus, I could easily assert that I am an 'Enlightened Egoless Master' but unless I get a few thousand (or million) to agree with me, my assertion would be as credible as proclaiming Donald Duck an "enlightened master."

Even though all games are all simply conceptualized in consciousness, nonetheless, ego has informed the mind that this all is so very real and the mind then conceptualizes some serious stuff, like death, war, disease, religion, government, spiritual practices, etc, etc. You see, the mind is innocent and always has been since it does retain a timeless quality. Yet, in its manufacture of an ego, the mind then sentenced itself to a life of guilt by oonceptualizing space/time. This negated perfect equality thereby arranging 'levels and 'degrees' in space/time. levels and degress denote dualism and now we have all kinds of inequality.

So why did the mind make the ego in the first place?

Well, here we’re entering into the game of non-conceptuality and that’s an infinite game. I suppose the best way to put it, is that the timeless mind NEVER made the ego in time because for it, time doesn't even exist and, thus, the ego doesn’t exist either. Now this is some pretty enlightening sheit… for someone who is not ruled by an ego. For an ego, it is simply hilarious! (do you hear your ego laughing).

You see the ego doesn’t know why the mind made it (in it’s dream of complete sovereignty, it believes it made itself!) and really doesn’t care for that matter. What it does care about is that the mind never find out why the ego exists, because if it did learn why the ego exists, then the mind may not want it anymore. That’s a frightening concept for the ego to consider and, therefore, it strives to insure that you do NOT consider it. Thus, we have so many finite games to play for distraction.

'Why' is an infinite game that has no outcome and egos would rather not play games they cannot win. They prefer more worldly finite games in which they can win prizes and stuff. Just look around you at your world and you will clearly see egos asserting themselves in winning finite games. Not to win would indicate a diminished ego and a diminished ego is tantamount to a dead one. Since the ego demands existence, any sense of diminishing return is evaluated as a threat to survival. This is why we have so many depressed people in the world, who have eventually come to evaluate their egos as losing in the finite games the world plays.

Ego finite games are very serious biz! Obviously, if the games were not taken seriously, then the ego would not play because the ego's only reason for existing is simply to assert itself against other egos. It has absolutely no other purpose than to magnify itself and it requires that everyone participate in its magnification. Because if everyone did not participate, who would declare it a winner?

In fact, some egos are very cunning and actually assert themselves in a game called spiritual humility. The object of this game is for the ego to present itself as making great sacrifices for others, while reaping subtle rewards for itself, as in "gee, you're so 'selfless'!" You will find this rule in many religious and spiritual games.

Of course, for the ego to play these sorts of games requires other egos to play as well and to play by the rules as agreed on. Not all egos can win in all games, but there are so many finite games to be played, the ego almost always finds some game to win at.

However, as I stated above, the mind manufactures an ego and the ego requires the mind never understand why. It seems that before time (or the concept of “time”) the mind was completely centered and focused on what I like to call Deep Spirit (others call it that too). Its called Deep Spirit because the mind has become almost completely distracted by the ego, thus, leaving Spirit to recede deep into the background, whereas before, the mind’s attention was blissfully consumed by this Spirit and nothing else.

This is why all “awakening” games tend to be co-opted by ego, because the very idea of retrieving or renewing correspondence with Deep Spirit is frightening to the ego. So the ego takes control of that game and we wind up with all kinds of crazy gurus and hip modern masters like Osho, and Adi Da, Andrew Cohen, Ken Wilber, etc, etc.

The objective of the ego’s spiritual game for many is to pretend that Deep Spirit has replaced the ego's blathering. When this happens, other ego’s immediately go “woooo, did you hear what he said, that couldn’t be ego talking, so it must be the Truth of Deep Spirit.” (of course, spiritual ego games are played by both men and women. However, men are much more adept at egoic magnification and, so, most of our most prolific gurus tend to be male).

This is a winning strategy for ego, which has then asserted itself as “guru” or “master teacher” and in finite games there is only room for so many gurus or masters. Not everybody can be a guru or master. Therefore, the rules state that those who sound and act like gurus (requiring incredible marketing programs) MUST be gurus. What the game then requires is that all who wish to play must conform to the rules if they, too, want to be “awakened gurus.”

Here’s a few examples:

"I Cannot Leave, For My Transcendentally Spiritually "Bright" Divine Spherical Self-Domain Is Not Some "Where" To "Go To". My Divine Self-Domain Is Eternal. I Am Eternal, and I Am Always Already Merely Present-here, and every "where" In The Cosmic Domain.” By Means Of My Divine Avataric Incarnation here, I Have Given you My Divine Secret. My Divine Secret Is This: I Am Eternally Present, and I Am Omni-Present.” (Adi Da, Adidam.org)

"The life-embracing capacity of the highly developed soul comes directly from the transformative spiritual experience of oneness, wholeness, and completeness. When the self has directly seen that its own deepest depths are absolutely full to overflowing, all existential doubt is extinguished and we are freed to embrace the life process without reservation. But even then, our conviction and our surrender will be tested, again and again and again." (Andrew Cohen, Soul Development)

"Yes, maybe they are crazy, these divine fools. Maybe they are mumbling idiots in the face of the Abyss. Maybe they need a nice, understanding therapist. Yes, I'm sure that would help. But then, I wonder. Maybe the evolutionary sequence really is from matter to body to mind to soul to spirit, each transcending and including, each with a greater depth and greater consciousness and wider embrace. And in the highest reaches of evolution, maybe, just maybe, an individual's consciousness does indeed touch infinity—a total embrace of the entire Kosmos—a Kosmic consciousness that is Spirit awakened to its own true nature." (Ken Wilber, WIKI)

"I am not much of a religious person, I am not a saint, I have nothing to do with spirituality. All those categories are irrelevant about me. You cannot categorize me, you cannot pigeonhole me. But one thing can be said, that my whole effort is to help you release the energy called love-intelligence. If love-intelligence is released, you are healed." (Osho Quotes)

As you can see, these are some crazy-serious dudes!

Obviously, my ego is rapturously enjoying the exposing of other egos and expects you will applaud my efforts by sending more adoring emails, as opposed to the hate mail I seem to be currently receiving. Otherwise, how else will I win in comparison to others losing. Unless, of course, I actually have no intention of winning but simply wish to keep the game in play (unfortunately, my ego will have none of that! HA!)

Peace Angels,
mikeS