Every exploration of our conscious awareness, or consciousness for short, is an ego trip.
The broad nature of this ‘trip’ is decided upon by the ‘soul’ consciousness, your ‘home’ self, leaving room for the ego consciousness to sort through, decide upon and enjoy (or otherwise) the detailed aspects of the ‘trip’, choosing from a relatively infinite list of probable possibilities, many more obviously than any one person has ‘time’ to achieve in one lifetime, hence relatively infinite.
Every ego trip also ‘begins’ and ‘ends’ with the soul, as would any trip where you leave and return ‘home’, though with any journey you can never really say when a trip ‘begins and ends’, especially when each trip itself rides within whilst simultaneously forms an even ‘greater’ trip or life project — a ‘greater’ whole made up of its parts — or ‘superego’ made up of individual egos.
And if you immediately think that every trip is ‘physical’, always remember that no trip is ‘just’ physical, as every trip begins in the mind as an idea, inspired by other ‘trips’ you have seen made physical around you, of which those too began in the mind, the ‘unseen’ or ‘invisible’ part of you.
Our physical world is then our soul in action, and any such ‘action’ that can be seen or sensed in any way, can be called ‘ego’ — it is the part of the soul which we see ‘working’. There is really no difference between the two, the words simply designate different ‘angles’ of self-perception and self-activity, individually and en masse.
The ego is within the soul, and the soul is within the ego — just as the worker self is within the home self, and home self is within the worker self — it is simply a shifting of perception according to what is the ‘task in hand’ — are you at work, or are you at home?
And when you find that you enjoy both home and work, when you make life decisions which put you in a position where you see little difference between the two in a mental and emotional sense — then the perceptions of the soul and the ego come together, the two become one — there is in one sense a ‘supercharging’ effect, which in other circles is referred to as illumination or enlightenment.
In old writings, this ‘optimal’ point of perception is what is referred to as going through the eye of the needle, and indeed also, finding the holy grail. More recently, physicists also have theorised about this ‘state’, calling it a white hole — which is essentially the ‘flip-side’ of a black hole, or a black hole turned inside-out.
There are many such references to this life principle throughout the history (and future) of time — it is not new information, but it is information that always needs to be relayed in the everyday language of the present, otherwise it is more often than not misinterpreted and misapplied at esoteric or ‘leading-edge’ levels, only then serving usually to creating more problems than it is trying to solve. Note here then that creation can also involve destruction — it is still being creative, just in a harmful kind of way — in old writings, this was referred to as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Modern day versions of such outcomes revolve around our nuclear capability, for example, in creating nuclear bombs. The knowledge doesn’t create the bomb, it is the ego’s use of the knowledge which creates the bomb — the knowledge itself is neutral, like any construction tool is. It is its ‘handler’ which then chooses what to do with it.
The reason why the ego has to learn this principle then is because the ego holds the inherent power to become or create a superego — which in simple terms sees and senses an amplification of its existing creative choices, which includes the ‘collapsing’ of time (as we currently experience it). Nature however has quite ingenious safeguards in place which will only truly allow this superego to become enabled once the proper lessons are learnt. In simple terms, you do not give a worker-self access to a power tool until they have mastered the basics of construction using manual tools.
A growing ego, for example, which is having difficulty learning these lessons, will increasingly find themselves in a ‘black hole’ environment of the mind, a mental and emotional black hole. What is useful to remember here though, is that the performance of every ‘apprentice’ ego can be greatly influenced by the performance of every ‘master’ ego. And sadly, there are many ‘master’ egos, many leading-edge explorers and enquirers who are losing their way. For example, in the words of present-day physicist Professor Jim Al-Khalili, there is a large contingent of ‘master’ egos in the field of physics who simply take the knowledge and then behave in a ‘shut-up-and-calculate’ kind of way, whereas the Professor seeks to know more before acting upon the knowledge, in the same way that Einstein also did.
Overall then, you might say here that you should not look to define or stereotype yourself as either an intellectual Adam or an intuitive Eve, but to know that you are both, simultaneously. To focus on one without the other means that you are really only getting and promoting half of the story, like an audio system which is only recording and playing back half of a song — you are missing out on the true quality of something, no matter how much quantity of something you think you have.
Quality is what we seek — quantity, you will find, is a red-herring, and one which can get you into great difficulty if you don’t recognise it for what it is.
Quality is found in the flow of something, and you need very little to learn this principle of life, this key of life. The quantity of things come and go, they rise and fall — it is the quality of things which is the true constant, the eternal aspect — so the key is in learning how to achieve the smooth rising and falling of everything, rather than keep repeating the poorer quality lifecycle experiences of big-bangs-and-black-holes, in physicist’s terms, or equivalent booms-and-busts, in economist’s terms.
Triggering your Multidimensional Nature through Associative Thinking
As time coaches, we are here looking to encourage associative thinking, or multi-directional thinking, and this can be achieved through the use of analogies.
Present day, in a nutshell, we hear the saying that ‘time is money’. Now inadvertently, what has been hit on here is an exceptional truth by way of analogy, for if you were to study the ‘action’ and evolution of money systems, starting simple then getting more and more complex, you will also begin to understand the ‘action’ and evolution of time systems. And when you begin to do this, you then start to trigger certain parts of you, parts of your soul, which will bring you further learning and experience in this field of ‘time’.
Such associative thinking is no different to what quantum physicists do when undertaking ‘thought experiments’. Questions are asked, and the information is given, through insight and revelation, for then the ego’s intellect to deal with as it sees fit. The soul also has an intellect, a kind of broader or deeper intellect, but this has to be channelled through what is often called the intuition — it is essentially aspects of your body’s cellular knowledge ‘rising to the surface’, or at least seeking to meet you half-way.
Einstein, for example, knew how to ‘combine’ both the intuition and the intellect, to experience and express knowledge previously ‘unknown’, so creating an interdependent or supercharged or superego kind of output. Each individual is no different in this regard — the key is focusing on balancing your intellect and intuition, for when they are taken too far out of balance with each other, when they become stereotyped and isolated, that is when problems really start to begin — that is when you start to get into mental and emotional ‘black hole’ territory. To quote a phrase from James Herbert’s science-fiction novel Dune — fear is the mind-killer. Obviously with associative thinking, this statement is not just science fiction, it is also science fact, simultaneously. You simply need to move your mind to understand it from different points of perspective, different angles of perception.
Now let’s say that we are all ‘apprentice’ egos, and that many ‘master’ egos have lost their way in teaching us. What we then have to do is to learn from scratch, and this will involve elements of trial-and-error, and yes certain mistakes will be made in the process. But we can do it, everything is there in our everyday world for us to learn how to reach the crucial interdependent state of intuition-and-intellect, how to become mentally and emotionally supercharged, how to ‘quantum leap’ back to the future of being our multidimensional soul experience, individually and collectively.