Comments on: Ego, Spiritual Transformation, and the Paradox of Transpersonal Psychology

By: Frank Luke

Frank Luke — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:19:01 +0000

Has it been said enough already? For anyone interested in higher consciousness and becoming truly Awakened, the ego must become transformed into Ego, transpersonal. This means not being focused on self but on the higher Self, connected and united with fellow beings and all of Creation, including the non-human sentient beings as well. In the past, enlightenment may have been more about personal attainment and salvation, a ticket into the kingdom of heaven. Enlightenment Next realizes that humanity is totally connected and we each are a unit in a web but also resposible for our own realization, becoming Awake and committed to a life practicing the tenets of Perennial Wisdom including the Golden Rule, of Being and helping to realize the world of that understanding of loving kindness. May it come to pass! Aloha,

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By: gillian ross

gillian ross — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:57:53 +0000

That was a great interview. I loved Kaisa’s responses to the questions- transpersonal consciousness in action!
On the paradox of the Engler quote I find Steiners distinction between Ego with capital ‘E’” and ego with small ‘e’ helpful. The little ego is , to quote Alan Watts ” nothing more than a bundle of muscular contractions! ” a victim of social conditioning and experience, a puppet without will. It is, in other words, as the Buddhists say, a false self, an illusion. Spiritual work is all about transforming this false sense of ego into the Ego proper which is the manifestation of the Divine( the evolutionary impulse in Enlightennext terms) within us and, critical to this perspective is the understanding that the EGO LOVES TO SERVE THE BIGGER PICTURE. The Engler paradox is that you have to go through the little ego identification before you can discover the transpersonal Self or Ego and of course you can so easily get stuck on it . We all need an authentic spiritual teacher and a few sound psychological processes to heal our emotional scars I feel to help us through that one! The delight is I think that once you have a taste of Ego, the process has a momentum of its own because the realization is so opening and rewarding – the opposite of muscular contractions! . Service is indeed perfect freedom . In Jean Houston’s words ‘ there is no returning to being a little green apple after you have gotten the blush of the Beloved upon you”.

By: jim

jim — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:02:30 +0000

it seems to me that the urge to “progress” on the journey is both egoic and essential to being and becoming that transcends egoic needs. the soul needs guides (maps), i think, and i’ve found that the most helpful guides allow the soul to render them useless. such guides assist the soul in observing and attending to itself, its authentic experience. non judging, non rejecting, non blaming listening to one’s experience is, for me at least, the way of becoming the new creation. such attending and listening, it seems to me, is compassion. as we offer it to our own soul, perhaps we find the wisdom to offer it to others, becoming, maybe, a guide (map) for their journey. for in the end aren’t we all beggars sharing with others where bread might be found?