*The Ego*



Q:  I have a question about ego.

B:  Ego.

Q:  I hear so much about ego.  I know you've talked about it to some
degree.

B:  Oh, yes.

Q:  And I hear so many people talking about it... I'd like some
clarification as to what /is/ ego.

B:  All right.

Q:  Positive ego, negative ego...

B:  Yes.

Q:  ... and how it pertains to channeling.

B:  Yes.

Q:   And including the idea of getting the ego out of the way, which
everyone talks about.

B:  Oh, all right, all right.  It is not so much that you get it out of the
way; it is that you incorporate it evenly, /equally/.  The idea of just plain
ego is that it has a job to do.  The ego's job is to keep your
consciousness focused into the physical reality you have said you want to
be focused into.  That's its job; that's it.

Negative ego is simply when you give over your power to that particular
portion that you have created yourself to be, to run the whole show.
That's not its job.  Its job is to simply provide a /focus/, not to do the
thinking.

Q:  All right.

B:  So negative ego is when the totality, or a large part of your
consciousness is stuffed into the idea of your thoughts, your analysis,
your mentality, in such a way as to allow it to think that /it/ has to run
the whole show.  And in giving it more power than it is due, it tends to
wobble and lose its balance. It tends to get erratic and eccentric, as you
may say.  And it tends, therefore, to create filters, structures,
limitations, to bolster itself, fortify itself, so it won't keel over and
die and collapse under the weight you have given it.

Q:  Okay.

B:  So the idea is to lighten up upon the ego, lighten up upon the self.
Take full responsibility for the creations in your reality; trust that if
you know you wish to be of positive service, then you will be.  And in that
sense, you do not have to watch yourself so closely, assuming that
something could reach out and drag you down from within yourself.

Q:  Right.

B:  All right.  Now, the idea, therefore, is that simply, if you are
operating generally in a mode of trust, and in a mode of desire of service,
then your typical ego structure will know that when you want to defocus
yourself to allow yourself to expand, you aren't killing the ego.  So it
won't have to panic; it won't think that you're taking its job away from
it.  You are simply saying, integrate from within me, in a different
fashion, from a different point of view.  Keep me focused, but in a
different way.

Allow it to do its job, do not take its job away.  That's when it becomes
insecure.  So the idea is to simply recognize that the ego will simply
become a broader perspective ego - which seems to translate into your
society as egolessness.

Q:  Yes.

B:  Simply because it smoothes itself out, it shifts its focus from a
limited one to a broader one.  The ego, or let us say, awareness of
individuality is still there.  But it simply becomes that you know you are
supporting the whole, and you are simply trusting that in supporting the
whole - because you are a part of the whole - you will be automatically
supported.

So you do not have the idea of the panic in the negative ego of, "Well, all
right.  Well, what's in it for me?  I'd better control this carefully, or
otherwise I could be forgotten."

Q:  Yes.

B:  That's basically the whole idea in a nutshell.  Does that assist you,
or is there some other specific that you wish to discuss?

Q:  Can you say something about the idea of re-filtering, as such, to
become clearer?

B:  Well, the idea, again, involves trust.  Simply that the more you trust
that what you are doing is for a positive reason, the more feedback and
circumstances and synchronicity you will get in your life, to allow you to
keep doing it in a more accelerated way.  So your trust will clear you, if
you act on it.  If you doubt on it, that's when you fog up the picture.

Q:  Yes.

B:  There is no reason to doubt yourself.  If you know what your intentions
are, you will always give yourself the guidance - or attract the guidance
that you need - to allow you to remain, in your estimation, on track.

And even if you momentarily seem to get off track - which is not really
ultimately possible - then you will always allow yourself to know that
there is something you will learn from it in a positive way.  And the
learning of it, rather than the judging of it, will allow you to know that
you haven't really left the track at all.  You have simply expanded the
track wider.

Q:  Yes.  The idea of being emotionless, or becoming emotionless:  does
that make sense at all?

B:  It is simply that when you balance and blend out all polarities within
you, to your society it may seem that you become an emotionless being.  But
it isn't that you become cold; it is simply that you don't exhibit the
extremes of emotionality that your society, more often than not, takes for
a living being.

The idea, simply, is that as you blend and balance them out, they all blend
into ultimate and unconditional love and compassion.  You simply know what
you are doing, and therefore, there is no reason to exhibit the extremes
that usually indicated doubt or uncertainty.

It isn't that you become cold; it's that /you become all embracing/.  But
since you trust ultimately, then it is simply that people are seeing the
absolute certainty and conviction within you.  That does not bring with it
the idea of an extreme range of emotionality.  Doesn't mean you can't be
happy.  Does that answer the question?

Q:  Very much, thank you.

B:  Thank you very much for your expression of yourself.

Q:  Thank you.