All people have two main aspects of self;
Your non-physical self,
and your physical self.
many people call the physical self the temporal self,
and the non physical self the higher self,
People also call the non-physical self, the soul,
and the physical self, the ego.
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The Transcendental Power Trip
Your temporal self, your ego
is the seat of personality.
But personality is fragmented.
To understand this in depth, you can watch my video titled:
Fragmentation (The Worldwide Disease)
This fragmentation makes it difficult to distinguish
between your actual "higher self"
and parts of your own personality.
Fragments that are in fact, mimicking the higher self.
What this means, essentially,
is that it's actually difficult, due to fragmentation,
to recognize or distinguish the difference between
your higher self and your ego.
The ego, which is essentially your self-concept,
wants to distinguish itself.
It wants to be things like good, right, better, superior and more.
There's nothing inherently wrong with this drive,
but most people are not aware of this element of ego
to integrate it or consciously work with it.
As a result, their non-physical self and physical self
are not engaging in an aligned relationship.
Instead, their ego is subconsciously running the show.
This is the case all over the world,
but in spiritual communities
there is a special shadow;
In spiritual communities the ego can run the show
by thinking, speaking and acting
like what that person imagines a transcendental enlightened person
would think, speak and act like.
In the spiritual communities,
a person who is seen as "spiritually superior"
is obviously seen as good, right, better and more.
This naturally creates an impulse in the human ego
to adopt that identity.
On top of this,
so many people turn to spirituality and to the spiritual field
in order to escape some kind of suffering or pain.
As a result, spirituality can, in essence
be what somebody's turning to in order to stay safe.
This means that any behavior
that would mimic a spiritually transcendent person
can actually just be a way of a person
protecting themselves from pain.
In other words, it's only natural
that a spiritual way of thinking, speaking and acting
can be developed as a protector personality
so as to keep an individual safe.
If you want to understand this in depth, watch my video titled:
The Sad Truth About Most Gurus
When an aspect of a person's ego
adopts this identity
of being spiritually transcendent and above it all,
most people actually mistake that fragment of their personality
for their higher self.
They mistake this personality fragment that acts in all the ways
that they imagine a spiritually superior being would act.
Things like above and beyond it all, transcendental, non-reactive,
always seeing the beauty in what is, forgiving, egoless, etc...
for their true self,
for who they really are.
They become selectively identified
with the spiritually transcendent part of themselves
and often slip into the practice of suppressing
all other less "woke" parts of themselves.
The ego has hijacked their spiritual practice
without them knowing it,
because it has come in the disguise of their higher self
and they fell for it.
When this happens,
a person enters a kind of transcendental power trip.
Only now, things that put the ego in that power trip
are things like being more loving,
more positive,
more wise,
more intuitive,
more open...
You catch my drift.
Oh wait! Did I mention?...
More non-reactive.
Spiritual superiority
becomes the ego's new power game.
I'm gonna give you an example of what I mean.
I want you to imagine a little girl
who grew up with a dictatorial single mother.
She was completely powerless to this woman.
there was no way for her to gain power in the relationship
until, her ego found a way
to be jesus-like,
to use things like unconditional love
and deciding that she will be the one to teach her mother how to love
and kindness, no matter how she's treated.
In order to feel superior to her mother.
This made her ego feel like it was in a position of power.
Really, she just found a creative way to win at this power struggle
that she was experiencing with her mother.
All of these spiritually transcendent qualities
became a part of her ego trip,
but because these qualities
are qualities that she associated with the higher self,
she fell for this whole thing,
and imagined herself to be operating, relative to her mother,
from the position of her higher self.
But this was not the case.
And so what do we find?
She actually went further away from being able to integrate
any of her non-physical and physical aspects together
in order to achieve a state of alignment within herself.
Number 1.
Number 2:
Underneath this whole thing is an ego power trip
that she's using relative to her mother,
which her mother could feel.
So, do you think their relationship got better or worse?
You guessed it. Worse.
Also, she actually did have a highly abusive mother
who she decided to continue living with
for a long period of time.
Why? Because staying in that abusive environment
was suddenly fueling her own ego and self-concept.
It's a reality that certain individuals are more tapped into the non-physical,
are more conscious, are more aware,
are more able to consciously love, etc...
in the same way that there are people walking the earth
who are more athletic, are able to jump higher,
run faster and go further.
It's important to be in this reality about this,
instead of to imagine that equality exists relative to these things.
The thing is, when your ego is identified
with being spiritually transcendent,
you will have a hard time accurately perceiving this reality,
and will instead, imagine yourself to be more conscious,
more developed, more aware,
more knowing more able to love,
more forgiving, etc...
than you actually are.
If you have been unsafe with people,
or are still unsafe with people,
especially if you feel unsafety around authority,
then on a subconscious level,
what you are going to be going for
is to put yourself in a position on top or above them,
or equal.
Never under, right?
A lot of people who have this obsession with equality
actually are in love with superiority.
They just never want to be under someone else.
And so, when this is the case,
on a subconscious level,
especially if you're spiritual,
you're gonna go about trying to get yourself
on top of or at least equal to other people
through spiritual superiority.
I'm gonna say this right now,
you can use any quality
that somebody would identify as innately spiritual
as a part of a power trip.
For example, forgiveness can be used as a power trip,
love can be used as a power trip,
kindness can be used as a power trip,
awakening can be used as a power trip,
positive thinking can be used as a power trip,
growth can be used as a power trip,
egolessness can be used as a power trip,
inner peace can be used as a power trip,
non-reactivity can be used as a power trip,
compassion can be used as a power trip,
intuition can be used as a power trip,
meditation can be used as a power trip,
we all know yoga can be used as a power trip,
humility can be used as a power trip,
simplicity can be used as a power trip,
personal responsibility could be used as a power trip,
healthy living could be used as a power trip,
and the list goes on and on.
Before you feel like you've got a handle on this whole concept,
i have to explain one thing:
Spiritual egoism is particularly hard to recognize,
because it is so often disguised
as the exact opposite of what it is.
For example,
there are so many people who fall into this trap of spiritual egoism
who are demonstrative about the fact
that they don't care about power.
They're likely to put on an act of humility,
they're likely to say
that they're very aware of their shadow side and also ego.
Why? Because in the spiritual communities
at least most of them now,
being aware of your ego and shadow side
makes you "good", "better", "best".
And guess what?
Especially in the spiritual field,
but in the world in general right now
we're living in a world that's made an enemy out of power.
It's not okay if you like power, right?
The hunger for power is the problem.
That means that wanting power
makes you bad, and wrong, and worse and less than.
So, what does this mean?
Even suggesting that you don't care about power,
I'm probably gonna do a whole other episode on this one,
suggesting that you don't care about power,
now, puts you in power.
So, the person who says:
"My life is not about power,
I'm not concerned with such things",
is a power trip, in and of itself.
Often, people who are stuck in the selective identification process
with a part of themselves that is more spiritually transcendent,
are more obvious to others than they are to themselves,
because being around them feels like they're putting on an act.
You can feel all those "unsavory aspects"
that are being suppressed, denied, rejected and disowned within them.
You can feel the facade.
Being around them will feel like an active gaslight
and on top of that,
underneath it all you can feel this weird like,
"Oh it's weird, I feel like somebody's fighting me for power"
but it doesn't look like that on the surface.
Just be careful to check your own power trip,
when you're perceiving this kind of thing in others.
You should not be trying to get rid of your ego.
To understand more about this, you can watch my video titled:
The Lesson of Christ and Lucifer
The thing you should aim for is to integrate your ego.
And you care about power.
Whether you're able to admit to it or not.
To not fall into this unconsciousness trap, therefore,
you need to see how you are using your spirituality
or self-development, to strengthen your ego specifically.
You need to see what you may be trying to avoid,
suppress, deny, disown, reject or keep safe
by seeing yourself
and trying to get others to see you as spiritually transcendent.
It would benefit every person
who is into spiritual practice of any kind, to do parts work
with the part of themselves that is protecting them
by being spiritually transcendent.
The part of their ego that is disguised as the higher self.
So as to become aware of and integrate
this very real coping mechanism.
To understand more about how to do this,
watch my video titled:
Parts Work (What is Parts Work and How To Do It)
Here's a raw unfiltered truth:
Every single one of us
that identifies in any way with spirituality,
is going to have an ego that is in many ways
identified with any of those aspects
that our particular spiritual practice sees as good,
right, better, superior, more.
Being aware that your ego
absolutely is involved in your spiritual practice
is critical.
And if you're the person who thinks you're the exception to the rule,
you're the problem.
By understanding and really accepting
that your ego is 100% involved in your spiritual practice,
you can actually have a firsthand experience
of your non-physical self.
Even when a spiritually transcendent aspect of your ego construct
steps forward to try to convince you
that it is your only and real and higher self.
Have a good week.
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But I want to personally thank you for taking the initiative
and having the bravery to step into the space of awareness.
Not only for yourself, but for the benefit of those around you.
Subtitles by: Tanya Duarte