The Evolution and Function of the Ego The ego, or personal self, is a product of millions of years of evolution. Its primary function is to create a sense of individuality by personalising the non-personal events occurring in your body and mind. This process transforms raw experiences into personal narratives: Early Development and the Emergence … Read more
Q: I don’t understand how one can realise one’s true self and then find after a while that somehow the ‘self’ starts to arise again. How can the belief in a separate self remain, even whenyou’ve seen it? Yes. It’s quite simple. It’s because the mind is a habit. The mind has been rehearsing the … Read more
The setup of everyone’s life is a dramatic confrontation of opposites. The conventional tags we apply to this clash of opposites—pleasure versus pain, good versus evil, light versus darkness, love versus fear, God versus the Devil—are mind-made. Viewed cosmically, there is either evolution or entropy. Entropy is on the side of decay and destruction, but … Read more