The Truth About Manifesting
Today we’re going to talk about manifesting, we’re going to debunk the BS behind it, and we’re going to talk about how to really make your dreams come true. I kind of cringe when I hear people talking about manifesting, because when they do, I often get the impression they’re either trying to sell me […]
Beyond Ego
Let’s look now at four long-term strategies for going beyond the ego and all its delusions. One of these strategies is like a playful practice, or a kind of thought experiment, except it’s not mental. Think of it like a life experiment that you enact. This experiement is basically to live as if you weren’t […]
Four Big-Picture Insights Into the Ego
Now that we’ve laid out some of the biggest delusions of our ego, let’s talk about four big-picture insights into how it works. First up: the more developed and conscious you are the less your egoic delusions traps will affect you and the less you’ll fall into them. You start to realize what’s going on […]
Happiness & Self-Centredness
The type of happiness that the ego creates is circumstantial or conditional happiness. It sets conditions on our happiness: once items 1, 2 and 3 are perfect, or items A, B and C are just right, then I’m going to be happy. It’s always conditional. It doesn’t let you be in peace until you check […]
Superiority Complex & Perpetual Seeking
In this post, we look at two further facets of the ego to help you see it more clearly: its superiority complex, and its perpetual seeking. The ego is always looking for ways to perpetuate itself, and a great way to do this is to believe it’s better than other people. It provides good justifications […]
The Ego Defined & Its Biggest Delusion
The ego is our sense of self. We experience it as a collection of self-referential thoughts and images entangled with our physical body, all of which create the appearance of a person that’s behind the eyes, looking out on the world and experiencing it. It has certain delusions it chooses to perpetuate itself and we’ll […]