Some notes from this article:

https://open.substack.com/pub/beiner/p/the-ego-doesnt-die-why-western-spirituality

The Bigger Picture (https://open.substack.com/pub/beiner/p/the-ego-doesnt-die-why-western-spirituality)

• existence is a vast relational unfolding.
• "ego-death" as an idea is both outdated and dangerous. "My soul basking in this space" implies a subject engaging with an object
• ego-reframe: process of you widening your perceptual frame of who and what you are. relate in a new way.

What is ego, they say:

• Freud described the ego as the conscious aspect of our psyche that mediates between our id, our underlying unconscious desires, and the world around us.
• “Jung saw the ego as the centre of the field of consciousness which contains our conscious awareness of existing and a continuing sense of personal identity. It is the organiser of our thoughts and intuitions, feelings, and sensations, and has access to memories which are not repressed. The ego is the bearer of personality and stands at the junction between the inner and outer worlds.”

:

comments always welcome

notes from the talk he gave at edge esmeralda and this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs9Ls0m5QVE

consciousness:

• the process that creates our mental universe.
• creates a bubble of nowness
• forms on a substrate
• creation of coherence. minimization of constraint violations in a dynamic model.