The Need for Ego Suppression

By

Roage

The Ego is the fear monger, deceiver, the filter and editor of experience for the
Observer. When one operates from the Self then there is none of this fear,
deception, filtering or editing.

However, the Self controls the Ego and uses the Ego to provide negative
reinforcement in our experience for the benefit of the Observer, until the
Observer decides it has served its purpose and it is placed back to where it
belongs as purely a defense mechanism and not the governor of our experience, the
Ego remains to make the mess it is designed to make. For this reason much of the
negative aspects of our experience are removed as there are positive ways to gain
experience that do no need to rely on fear, pain, suffering and misery to manifest
the lessons.

When one chooses to exist in the Self, the ego is suppressed and one is modified
or altered such that they operate with different perception. The Ego can only
perceive from physical senses, material entities. The Self sees beyond what the
Ego can see and hears what the Ego cannot. The Self is an intuitive tool that
pierces the material facade and can sense meaning and purpose. The Ego sees how
and what. The Self sees why.

The Ego fools the observer into concluding that the observer has control and free
will. Until the Self takes control of the Ego that illusion persists. One of the
primary fixtures and lessons in the game is that one can appear to be controlled
by others when they operate exclusively in the Ego. This is why we are conditioned
to choose to follow in the footsteps of those that came before instead of figuring
out things for ourselves. It is a lesson in laziness and teaches us the proper
focus for our trust. One must know what is being ignored when one is ignorant and
direct that ignoring has on our vision, intellect and wisdom. The Self teaches us
these lessons by allowing us to fool ourself into thinking we are at the mercy of
the majority and others. This is where the idea that we will be delivered into the
hands of the "evil men" if we turn our face from Ø.

When the observer chooses to awaken the Self it takes conscious control and moves
from the background to the foreground. The Self then drives the experience for the
Observer. When this occurs the observer sees the trick the Ego has played on it
and the observer realizes that the Self has always been in complete control for
the benefit of the observer's experience.

Now for the million dollar question: What is the Self and what is the Observer?

This may help:

A Model Revisited

One cannot by force of will suppress the Ego. This is like asking Congress to cut
spending. It cannot tame itself as its function is to maintain control even to the
death of the body in most cases. This suppression must come from outside of the
Ego by a superior governor and mechanism: the Self.

This forms the objective of all the teaching on the Roage site. I know what is
required to suppress the Ego. Once the Ego is suppressed one gains new perceptual
tools and is not hampered by that monkey on the back riding roughshod throughout
one's experience.
Confusion is a desired purposeful product of an experience dominated by the Ego as
a lesson to cause us to look for ways to escape its grip. There is a way to
suppress this menace.

I found that way.