The Ego is a Surface Dweller Fearful of Depth

Minds are not shared and if they are, it remains surface correspondence and the world communicates little on the surface, which is why lack of understanding causes us to compulsively repeat patterns of war and destruction.

Surface sharing is about the body and this is why sex is considered sacrosanct as the ultimate in sharing (which shares very little, because even abject strangers can share bodies). The ego does not believe any deeper closeness can be achieved.

The ego is unconcerned with the mind, even though the ego-self is nothing more than a belief of the mind. The ego-self even attempts to deny the mind exists by asserting itself as the mind and this is why the mind seems so deeply obsessed with itself by living through a body.

Intimate sharing of the mind can only be cause for fear, since the ego is consistently in doubt of its own existence. Intimate engagement, or the Deep Spirit sharing of 'self,' is threatening to an ego that is consistently preoccupied with self-preservation through concealment. To lose oneself in another is a threat to the belief of self-contained individuality through which the ego defines itself.

As an idea, the ego has no discernible properties and no physical form. Therefore, it must make the body and all the body’s actions profoundly relevant or “sacred.” Two of the most sacred acts the ego idolizes are sex and death, both subordinate the mind by obsessing on bodily existence and the fear of non-existence.

The ego is an idea that must live vicariously through the body and, ironically, because of this it hates the body. Therefore, the egos only real focus is controlling the body and its need for the body to engage in effective actions that increase self-actualization, reinforcing its rather obscure and abstract existence.

But the body can only skim the surface because it is bounded by finite parameters which deteriorate over time (age). Through senility, minds fixated on bodies must follow the body in its deterioration. Only minds can engage in depth because consciousness has no boundaries but what the ego has imposed. The ego-self senses the mind’s lack of limits and works diligently to maintain mental focus on bodily functions, actions and behaviors.As a finite idea, the ego-self can only know boundaries and limits. Yet, it senses the mind’s unbounded potential and rigidly restricts its extension. Hence, you suffer from your own self-imposed rules.

Exploring the mind’s infinite depths demands other minds. Mind cannot explore itself, but it can explore other minds and allow other minds to reveal it to itself. Actually, this mutual engagement was how you came to know your ‘self’ in the first place and how you participated in aiding others in their own self-awareness. But this was only on the surface, as the ego always restricts depth in the name of self-preservation. Allow another too deeply into your ‘self’ and fear will eventually require the need to impose restrictions.

You have yet to embark on this rather miraculous process of discovery. You are still too deeply transfixed on bodies, yours and theirs. But, make no mistake, as you engage in the mutual exploration of mind, the body will recede in awareness and you will suddenly begin to see all bodies differently, since they will lose value in contrast to the mutual extension of minds.

Consciousness is the final frontier. However, it will not be explored through the scientific method, but through the method of Deep Spirit ‘intimacy.’ True intimacy is the sharing of minds and has nothing to do with bodies. In the depth of intimate engagement, bodies tend to recede from view. What is NO longer perceived, simply does NOT exist and may never have existed to begin with…

…and what a surprise that will be!

Artwork by Naoto Hattori - "untitled"