The Self as we know ourselves consists of an idea of who we are. This idea of who we are is not who we are, at least it is not the entirety of who we are. The soul of humankind is well hidden, as if eclipsed by the Ego. Although it is present at all times, it if far easier to see the idea of ourselves which we have invented through the years than it is to see the spirit that connects us with all other sentient beings.
The idea that we are alone is an idea that stems from the Ego. It comes into belief because as we grow to experience the world we perceive, wrongly that we are separate from all else that we see. This feeling of separation appears to be the reality of the human condition; but in fact it is a rather elaborate distortion that clamps onto our consciousness and prevents us from seeing the most elaborate miracle of life–that we are all connected in a oneness, that we are all a member of the stuff that the universe is made of. We are not separate, we are not only witnesses to the universe, we are the universe.
This idea that we are one with the universe does not reconcile with the idea of the ego that it is a separate condition and as such must protect itself from connections with other sentient beings. In fact this separation is the source of fear.
In this essay i would like to demonstrate that the closer we become to the nature of our spirit, the less we need the ambitions of the ego. By not needing the ambitions of the ego we become free to experience the wonders of the universe from within rather experiencing the world as if it was entirely outside of us.
This slight shift in perception organizes our minds in such a manner that what is seen is experienced as part of the oneness of the universe. The need for fear is lessened and the condition of the spirit takes over where the self-creation of our ego was previously in total control.
It may seem strange to some readers that the act of writing which is a product of the ego can lend itself to accessing the soul or the spirit hidden in the shadow of the ego. But writing being just another form of thought production has the capacity to view the internal spirit as well as the external world. In part this is the case because writing can become an automatic condition. Some writers have declared that their writing has come to them in the form of a dictation. They might say that it feels as if the words were be dictated and the hand is simply taking dictation.
In this form of automatic writing, the ego has little to do with what is being produced. As such the material that that emits from the process is one in which the ego has had little or no contact with its content. When writers speak of this kind of automatic writing they frequently consider that an entity outside of them is communicating. I do not agree with this perception.
The dictation comes from within as if it were coming from the ego, but the source of the dictation is from spirit not from ego. At first it may seem to the writer that the words are not so different than when writing from the ego, but in time a subtle difference occurs and the language become more precise, the words are less deliberate and the product can seem to the author as if it were written by someone else. In fact in rereading what is written, it can feel to the author as if he were reading this for the first time. The uncanny feeling of thinking that the material has come from another source can be one of the first indications that this kind of automatic writing is taking place and that the ego has been temporarily displaced.
In these situation there appears to be no censor. There is no judgement taking place that demands of the author that he/she change anything. Instead the words keep coming and the pages fill themselves up with words and phrases that eventually concludes in a finished product that is unrecognizable to the ego, but nonetheless feels very familiar.
In this way, writing can act as a bridge to the spirit, to that knowledge that is built into the very fabric of being. There is no need to attempt to do away with the ego as if it were a bad energy. The ego has its place in our individual worlds and is the source of important human dimensions such as language. The ego because of its central place in our psyche maintains a default position. In other words we do not need to deliberately invite in the ego. It is there as a consequence of our birth and our DNA.
The spirit on the other hand, can only become visible to us when we intentionally invite it in. Consider the Spirit as that which function between you and another sentient being, be that another human, an angel, a god or your dog or cat. The Spirit is the dynamic that exist between you and the other. It is invisible tissue in the same way that a thought has no matter and a feeling has no matter, but we nonetheless experience thoughts because there is “spirit” that connects that thought to you in some permanent manner.
