It’s a good job ego is a short word, as you would otherwise get shot down before you could even finish saying it.
Like the word artificial, EGO more often than not seems to attract a bad press. But why?
You could say that artificial was at one time a short word, having its roots in the word ART. What is it then at play which turns a creative natural activity into one which is openly derided — and quite severely from some quarters?
Thinking MORE-Dimensionally
To borrow a saying from Doc Brown, and tweak it a little, we have to start getting into the habit of thinking more-dimensionally before we can make any progress here.
To help us do this we can use a parallel framework that I hope we are all generally familiar with — money and business — and by thinking more-dimensionally come to understand what it means to manage your economy well.
Or should I say… manage your egonomy well? 😉
From Boom-and-Bust to a Smooth Operator
So what we are looking to do is turn this more volatile boom-and-bust pattern of egonomic activity …
… into this more tuneful and timeful smooth-and-curved pattern of egonomic activity …
The very coarse and uncomfortable boom-and-bust patterning happens because we are not thinking more-dimensionally, or to be more correct we have for some reason dropped into thinking less-dimensionally from a more whole state of mind and outlook.
To explain this in a relatable way, money markets and economies experience boom-and-bust cycles because we have narrowed our mind to only focus on the two-dimensional up-and-down movement, with the upward movement being the only movement we want to see happen, because this obviously relates to investments going up in value.
It is believed that this is ‘good’ and so we do everything in our power to move the markets in that direction only.
Yet, the market which demonstrates a proper FLUX CAPACITY is the one with the smooth-and-curved pattern which, when viewed in three-dimensions resembles a spiralling form of movement — imagine picking up a slinky, stretching it out and looking at it sideways on.
Here we already have an issue recognising the difference between two-dimensions and three-dimensions, so have to deal with this first before we can get anywhere going from three-dimensions to four-dimensions (ie accessing true space-time and time travel).
Beliefs & Expectations
We have now then revealed several critical points about the ego which can help us progress our understanding, and so start to make dimensional shifts in our outlook and experience:
- Our ego is not primarily our whole self — our ego is what we might call our business end, our commercial aspect of mind, our energy trader in everyday matters
- Our ego operates or ‘trades’ on behalf of our whole self, with the authority of the whole self, according to the beliefs and expectations we program it with
- It is our whole self who is responsible for maintaining the validity of our beliefs and expectations, not the ego, as our whole self is more-dimensional than the ego and so is better placed to see the ‘bigger picture’
- An ego which is taught to encourage the ‘down’ movements as much as it is taught to encourage the ‘up’ movements — translated in three dimensions as going around-and-around — will overall provide a better and more enduring quality of life than one which is taught otherwise
- The above teaching also helps the whole self start to align itself better with the portals of the higher time dimensions — accessing certain space-time coordinates which can only be found through primarily thinking in a qualitative way rather than thinking in a quantitative way — knowing that when you think in a qualititative way then the quantities, including the quantity of money, will take care of themselves and find their own healthy balance without intervention
Entanglement
[Doc explaining that he didn’t invent the time machine for financial gain — instead to help answer the ‘why?’ questions about humanity and quality of life]
[note on Marty getting entangled in the world according to Biff]
To be continued…