The Eight Stages of Ego Death

[Skyhaven]

Yeah I know the feeling... too many perspectives and affirmations and I feel trapped in a cage of thought.

Are you sure you wouldn't rather be a butterfly instead of a bee? A bee has to kind of work for the queen all day...

[joeecho]

Posted by Skyhaven (here)
Yeah I know the feeling... too many perspectives and affirmations and I feel trapped in a cage of thought.

Are you sure you wouldn't rather be a butterfly instead of a bee? A bee has to kind of work his #$* off for the queen all day...

To me, bee works well in the metaphor with 'be' as a .......... reminder of................................without qualification.

[Skyhaven]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hbj4nLOPN8o

[joeecho]

Thoughts are echoes of Thought within ego.

This thought is one of those echoes.

[Skyhaven]

Hans Wilhelm is explaining his perspective of the ego by drawing. I'm very right-brainy so this kind of explanation really gets my focus... I like his acronym of EGO too... Edging God Out

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lF5N1O-6GhU

[joeecho]

Posted by Skyhaven (here)
Hans Wilhelm is explaining his perspective of the ego by drawing. I'm very right-brainy so this kind of explanation really gets my focus... I like his acronym of EGO too... Edging God Out

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lF5N1O-6GhU

In a sense Ego and 'god' are the same. The point being that once you have a 'name' you have an ego.

It's a concept so it can be aborted if you like.