One of the best posts about the New Age Ego from Aalif over at Superaalifragilistic – insightful and funny!!
The ego, as you know, is clever, very clever.It can utilize everything for its own protection and perpetuation – including spirituality. With the very tools created for its dissolution, it can etch out a new version of itself. And since the old big-bad-ego has got more bad press than Kim Jong-un, it has been reinventing itself across the world in a new avatar: the new-age-ego. Since it is even more deceptive in this crystal-addicted, incense-sniffing guise, GD and me had a sit down to identify this new-age-ego in all its new-age glory. At the end of our hilarious session, we identified its eleven most important commandments, which are active below the surface at all times.
- THOU SHALT NOT REST
Speed is one of the most under-appreciated tricks of the new-age-ego. Busyness, anxiety, rushing are all hallmarks of a superlative ego at work. Of course, the new-age-ego chases new-age goals…
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Thanks for sharing that, Val. Hysterical.
#3 brought images of Tony Robbins to mind ~ or maybe the Monk Who Drove A Ferrari. After all, if “The Secret” doesn’t allow us to manifest more materialistic material to satisfy our “spiritual” desires, what good is it? 😛
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Great Nancy! It made me think of a few people that’s for sure!!
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