James Arthur Ray on ego and spirituality
Excerpts from article by James Ray:
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 6 months, you’ve most likely heard the buzz around A New Earth.
I applaud Eckhart Tolle for putting forth the time and energy to make such a positive impact on the world. The things he’s teaching are powerful… and yet as I travel around the globe, I still find misconceptions, misinterpretations and confusion.
It’s obvious that most people have a lack of understanding regarding one of the key concepts regarding the human ego. And because of that, the ego gets a bad rap.
Anyone who’s been exposed to even a small amount of traditional spiritual teachings, particularly from the East, has heard all the ways that the human ego gets debased and despised.
To most, the ego is a selfish, materialistic, stingy, controlling monster that must be at least controlled and at best destroyed. This is ignorance and a lack of understanding of something that will never be actualized.
From article A bigger ego is the only way to truly create “A New Earth” – by James Arthur Ray.
[Staged photo of Charlize Theron, from my article Ego and Creativity]
In his post The War on Ego, Steve Pavlina writes, “Because the egoless state of being can feel so elevated and joyful, some people choose to point fingers at the ego as the cause of all human suffering. They argue that the world would be a much better place if we could simply let go of ego identification and identify ourselves as pure God or Source energy instead… or perhaps relinquish individual identity altogether. Although War on Ego has a positive intention behind it, in practice it’s rather misguided.”
