How to understand the fine line between an ego takeover and spiritual awakening?

This podcast episode continues my story of my own Spiritual Awakening in 1995. Though, in this episode I make the distinction that we have many awakenings throughout our lifetime. There is usually one, though, that stands out from the rest. The one that makes a huge impact and shifts your entire being and thought processes. This topic is especially relevant these days as many people are experiencing their awakenings due in large consequence of the pandemic. We were able to slow down and look at our lives.

As someone who has had the big Holy A (a capital A - awakening), and then going back into a spiritual closet for 25+ years I know how obstructive this dance of ego vs. spiritual awakening can be if we aren’t mindful of our experience and how we integrate it. Here are the main themes of this particular episode:

• Ego - and my opinion of how to work with it

• Spiritual Awakening/s

• Psychic Abilities

• Mental Illness

“EGO is Edging God Out.” Wayne Dyer

First I give you a little context and well, my opinion, about EGO and how we can navigate WITH it. I am not a believer in killing it or for that matter making it something we should be ashamed of. It’s part of our human experience. In fact inside the episode I say,

 

“I don't think you could take me seriously if I was my higher divine self. You know we wouldn't even need words. Actually. It's important to remember that, yes we are divine beings. We have a higher self who sits up in a different dimension, and part of it sits in our bodies. But we chose to come into a human body. We decided to walk the Earth. And when you do that, you also invite an ego into that journey. Okay, I'm going to get off the soapbox. I think what I like or who I like to remember in this moment about ego is Wayne Dyer. He took the acronym.He took the word made into an acronym. Ego is Edging God Out."

I also talk about my journey specifically to give context on how the ego was driving the deal and not necessarily my awakening or spiritual intuitive psychic gifts, per se. I remember that night when everything got really scary. And I take you through that moment to show that I was really not well. Admittedly, I was on such a HIGH from being constantly guided I couldn’t see my own ego at work! I also wasn’t taken very good care of myself. I was completely ignoring things because it felt so good to be in this high vibration ALL. THE. TIME.

It is a slippery slope we travel when we have awakened to our gifts. One can get easily confused if we are on our own with our thoughts, feelings, senses and psychic experiences. I think it is important to note that the Ego work is always an ongoing and important thing we must do. Ego’s grow as we grow. They are cunning and deceptive. And if you think ahhh finally I nabbed that one! Sure enough you will see it’s still very much alive. Egos can also facilitate our healing. They are very good in showing us what needs our attention. But we don’t have to give into the Ego. That is the REAL path to spiritual enlightenment: To be aware of the Ego but not to succumb to it.

 

Well, I believe, without understanding everything that was going on, my Ego took over at one point. Or many points. I was accepting so much on full faith and openness I wasn’t really living in this realm.

I know a lot of us want to escape it. We want to go to a different dimension. Us, light bringers and workers. It’s hard to be here. And it’s especially hard to be here when you know all these things. You are given all this information.

What are we supposed to do with it on this planet? Ya know, when most people will just call you crazy. Right? It’s hard to step up and give a voice to these things. It was definitely damn hard in 1995.

Doing this work alone was very much what was REAL for me in 1995. But it doesn’t have to be that way now. Many --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/guided-intuitive-em/message