Heavenletters

“The Master Key to the Universe” – this phrase sends chills down my spine. It kind of sums up the whole of God’s message in the Heavenletters in a nutshell….

But we are also told that our ego hides this wonderful key from us, it invades our heart and “brazenly” takes over, leaving us with powerlessness and easily angered.

I have had a hard time wrapping my mind around how God uses the word “ego” in these letters. My training in psychology and psychiatry had left me feeling that “ego” is a necessary and healthy part of our psyche. After reading this HL, I decided to search the HL archives and try to determine just what God means when He uses the term ego. The following is a summary of what I found and I hope it is helpful to others who may suffer from a similar quandary.

God has nothing good to say to us about ego, it seems. He describes ego as being in a sort of constant tension with our awareness of Truth, being a major factor that binds our heart and blocks the free flow of love through our heart that He desires for us. Clearly, the more ego-bound we are the less of His love we are in touch with. In contrast, our intent to seek His Truth displaces our wayward ego quite effectively. The Truth is always there, but the noise and hysterics of the ego dulls our awareness of it. This is a clear and powerful theme throughout the letters.

But why do we have it and where does ego come from? We all struggle with it, but to what purpose? Answers to this series of questions are not as readily found as the messages that decry ego as the source of much of humanity’s suffering. We get a partial answer in letters that describe ego as a false sense of self. From my survey, I concluded that ego seems to be built and maintained by a structure of errant thoughts. Primarily they are beliefs that we lack what we need, such as a desire for accolades, compliments, wanting to look good, find success in our careers, etc. Not that these things are bad in and of themselves, but our rigid attachment to them thoroughly distracts us from our Truth. The king-pin of all our errant thoughts seems to be our belief in death, since all the other errors seem to link back and stand on this one. The things that we feel we lack are so compelling to us since we instinctively feel that they will help to distance us from our imagined annihilation.

Looked at in this way, our ego can be seen to arise from errant beliefs that quite naturally arise from our experience of the material world and our physical senses. Our job is to transcend this superficial understanding in favor of the Truth that will displace this errant system of ideas, to understand our eternal nature, our unique value and the joy of serving.

I feel in less of a quandary, now.

Love to all……Chuck