EGO vs Consciousness

We can measure our physical strength, our IQ or mental processing capacity. We can also measure whether we have been successful in our professional career, our personal life, and our relationships with others.
This set of things could define how we see ourselves, which may or may not align with how others think or see us.
This summarizes that we define ourselves with adjectives like good, intelligent, lucky, predestined, and other qualifiers that can be both positive and negative. It all depends on the moment when we evaluate them.

Let’s step out of our daily lives and the results of our thoughts, communication, and actions that lead us to define ourselves or be defined in any given way.

Beyond all that, how would we define our level of consciousness?
Our level of consciousness has little to do with all the adjectives mentioned above.

Let’s analyze the following:

A person who achieves a certain elevated state of consciousness will not be limited by the conditioning we face daily in this realm.
A monk who has secluded himself to develop his consciousness takes care of cultivating his food, preparing it, healing himself with plants, meditating, and reading inspiring material to achieve a state of integration with the whole.
This monk might not feel cold even if he’s poorly dressed and in freezing temperatures.

On the other hand, a yogi can stop his heart, stay confined for a week, and then emerge from that state without external help.
These examples are just to show what a person can accomplish simply by elevating their consciousness, without needing to be intelligent, successful in their career, or have any other attribute mentioned.

Now, those who have decided as a way of life to develop their consciousness have left behind aspects of daily life. They don’t form a family, they have a community life but not a personal one, and they abandon other activities with which we occupy our time.
It’s worth noting that they live a different way of life from what’s normal for us or from what we were taught.

All the goals we have or were programmed for are related to being happy and successful. No one taught us that we had to develop consciousness.

There’s something that opposes the elevation of consciousness, and that is what we call EGO.

The EGO is the “I AM,” but the “I am” not from the standpoint of existence, but from the desire to stand out from others.
The ego is what tells you that everything you possess, or desire is your totality. The more you HAVE, the more you ARE. But more important, yourself above others!

When we look at the examples of two people who have developed their consciousness and they can achieve what seems impossible, it’s because they simply control the behavior of the human body from their mind.
To achieve this, the first thing they had to control was the ego.
When the ego is controlled, one can see beyond oneself, beyond family, beyond profession, it becomes evident that one is part of something greater.
One becomes part of another community, where the person sees themselves as a gear in the great machinery, recognizing their part and not trying to be the machinery itself.

Controlling the ego is not about diminishing oneself; it is about integration.

If you pay attention to all the messages we receive daily, they are meant to divide us. Politics, sports, sex, country, regions within the country, the list is so long that it’s almost endless.

Now, the question is: what are the things that unite us?
What makes us empathetic, what tells us that we are all in the same boat but with different roles?

Has anyone heard, whether from the government or religious groups, that we are all part of the same? That we come from the same source?
The answer is simple: we are all green…lighter green and darker green… There is always a reason to divide.

This happens simply because those who control others’ destinies are very comfortable where they are.
They are part of the machinery, but their ego is so high that they believe they must be where they are, and not the others. Bigger machine, little machine.

The problems happening in the world today, as in the past, are nothing more than ego clashes, but something is changing. When people go out into the streets to protest (without violence), they stop being individuals and merge with others in something common.

They don’t realize, but they are elevating their consciousness by doing so.

The egos that dominate see unity as a threat and will try to counteract that unity with methods already known, such as fear, uncertainty, and the use of force.

In 2019, protests worldwide were widespread, and at the height of this, the pandemic emerged.

Coincidentally, at that time, the Yellow Vests in France were supporting the democratic movement rising in Hong Kong, which had a different vision of democracy from central China.
The virus came out of China, spread around the world, and by the time the scene ended, no one was thinking or talking about the Yellow Vests, democracy in Hong Kong, or global protests anymore. Everyone was recovering from the confinement.

We are now in 2019, version 2, with many more complications between countries, something that didn’t exist in the previous time. It’s possible that now, the collective level of consciousness will be higher, and we won’t repeat 2020’s experience. I don’t believe a pandemic will occur because it would fail, but perhaps a global war, extraterrestrial arrival, or who knows what else.

My expectations are that this time we will pass the test that we flunk in 2020.