{connect visually in illustrator} the ego is a "protective" layer/program, leftover from the tribal survivalist operating-system. it is a system that can assume the identity of the greater self it is a system that is created by feedback from your environment it is not the true self but a hallucinated idea of an unknowable assumption about how others perceive thee. ego underhandedly tries to control other incarnated beings to "make" them do things to bolster that ego back into safety-mode when it is alarmed by possibilities of death or pain caused by insecurity/dis-integration/un-acceptance, naught else. ego tries to cling to feelings, that is what feeds it, by negatively cycling the feeling until a breaking point is reached and the voyager lashes-out thereby sending violent disruption into social environ and connected beings. it is therefor irrelevant to spirit-ape for the spirit-ape desires peace and freedom to operate closest to its true will, that is: with a minimum of internal friction. the desires of spirit (emotion) transcend the concerns of the physical plane of reality. though "controlling" environment is part of the greater self-illusion and not necessarily egoic (ego is a sub-program of "self" that attempts to save that self from social "depravity"). though all control is illusion, hallucinated-self has ability to "manipulate" under compassion-mode, but is not always the case... awareness of acceptance choice can de-power voyager control-reaction. ego can never know compassion therefor increasing awareness of its methods is all we can do. cannot force compassion upon it - that only bolsters it more as it basks in the attention. ===============EDIT BELOW============= Actions only make attainment more possible, they cannot attain on their own. Honest surrender is a state not an action. Thou wilt attain at the time proper for thine own nature. Which means without neurosis of divisions, without resisting The One True Way. Awareness is tool of true will. Pushing the self to "accept" is the most subversive kind of control! Awareness limited by coincidence control center=spiritcore. achievement: illusory, pride: egoic emanation. true will is placenta connecting goddess to entity... the fluidic connectivity of the lashing Basilisk, up and down it moves its head in response to Her Writhing Love Dance to drink from Her Arched Body to take tiny tastes of succinct succulent subtle sublimity, all-ways to Her. i am the serpent: exemplifying intensity in both directions, wearing and concealing emotion, streamlining and breaking-down antiquated machinery. ======================================== figured out what to say to someone when they say "i'm sorry" if you'd like to be obtuse and express your own feelings: "i'm not" truer (non-egoic) "i" doesn't necessarily need or want to be controlled by sorrow truest "i" not controlled by sorrow in any case self-illusion emanates sorrow egoic veil lashes-out in fear from that sorrowful feeling attempting to socially control others into strengthening itself ego degrades as well as cherishes itself to induce dualed-perpetuation of itself for primate-derived control over social environment current socio-cultural environment creates and enforces egoic worldview due to lack of awareness due to fear of pain which emanates from ego control center peek-a-boo, bestfriend, i see you! ego not enemy ego attempts to protect primate voyager seeing it as such was egos control plan all along (the voyager's un-plan includes all plans of ego) playing with illusion of "effort" on part of the felt-self only enforces it seeing intentionality split perpetuates more splitting true surrender is a state not a method awareness not action but two-way connection to spiritcore only love can take the ego ego trying to protect the primate we don't need it anymore we must not evilify it will of the all emanates love-bonding capability. egoic and later self veil falls if and when it is your One True Will to lose them. Will descends as the self rises up towards loving connection. complete connection of these means Ecstasy of Obliteration burning away irrelevant and antiquated habits of ego control center eye desire more cosmological awareness.... "love under will" means Love as the capability platform and Will as the dynamic aspect of that platform - the going. dualed system necessary to create copies of spiritcore and view ascendence patterns of them as emergent creative light ego not enemy but possibility of novelty infinite singularity/infinite space=1 and 0=duality platform=hadit/nuit playground 1=0 2 (multiplicity) only exists within ego construct within voyager 2=0, 2=1 when personal will is purified by love - true will flows like fountain the self-construct may then emanate purer light and move toward complete integration w/spiritcore=death=life, amen consciousness a holographic copy of godhead with limiting programs called ego it is the ultimate conundrum cosmic giggle it is a game voyager never and always wins alchemical philosophers stone magnum opus is a catch 22 Does attention and affection between people always perpetuate ego? not necessarily, intimate connection can be had without playing off pain-fear of voyagers in question, pleasure still available without attachments. Difference between illusion of perceived-self and egoic programming... ego seeks to manipulate for its illusion of self-benefit. ego seeks to take RESPONSIBILITY for actions which are in actuality pure expressions of the totality of nature, NOT itself. perceived self (the experiencer) does not do this, it just is, it is unified and blames naught.
Credit to J.C. Gold for the "Labyrinth Games" idea. His listing of them in the appendix of American Book of the Dead is both humorous and frightening, my favorite example:
#34. window created, scary shapes appear at window game