Sloww Sunday: Mature Ego, Awakening Stages, Open Individualism, & More

The shift to Evolutionary-Teal happens when we learn to disidentify from our own ego.

All spiritual work is a matter of gradually learning to shift our self-identification (who we believe we are) to the higher self and to learn to identify, but not identify with, the mask and the lower self.

As we drop our defenses and embrace all of who we are, we come to know our true identity as God-inspired beings. We embrace our free will and choose harmony, love, and respect over divisiveness, fear, and destruction. We choose both connection and individuation, rather than separation or self-denial.

Every time we relax into the feared or denied part of ourselves we go through a kind of “death”—of our idealized self-image, or who we thought we were—which leads us to a new, deeper level of inner life. Each such “death” prepares us for the great death, the death of the ego’s separation from God, where we come to the center of our own being, the p