Distill Your Egos — Engage Your Archetypes (QD030)
⁘ Created: 2025-10-11 ⁘ Updated: 2025-10-16
One does not simply get rid of the ego. Why would you? An operational necessity — the essence of your presence. Instead: Perfect your egos into enlightened instruments. Refine them to archetypal class — master your engagement.
So I have a veteran programmer ego in the identity cabinet. You are sure as hell not pushing inane garbage into my repo. I've been at perennial philosophy and practice for 30 years. Yes I will rattle the hollow thrones of upstart spiritualists.
Your have your accumulations and presence in particular fields. Our egos are nothing less and nothing more than exactly what is. These are natural roles in interaction, necessary for your operation. We need not be obsessed with them — nor do we need to eliminate them.
Suppose a mother with a child subscribes to silly spiritual ideas. There is no mother, there is no child, and care-taking is an illusion. An absolutely absurd idea — detrimental across our planes of existence. These fields of our self-reference and engaged presence are imperative.
Consider realms of legend and mythology. In India: Uma, Durga and Kali. The nurturing, protecting, fierce mothers. Is there an ego problem here? Clearly not. These are refined archetypes. These are distilled super-egos. Engage the essence of your incarnations. You host a world of archetypes.
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- ¶ Case Examples – My Egos in Assertive Action ↴
- ¶ Your Necessary Presence — Refine and Engage ↴
- ¶ Myths and Archetypes — No Ego Problem There? ↴
One does not simply get rid of the ego. That is, unless you intend to completely vanish and evaporate. Rather, these egos of ours are necessary instruments for functioning in the world as we know it.
Beyond that, when they are refined, distilled into their primary patterns, they turn into archetypes, the essence of a particular presence. Enlightened egos, if you will.
Case Examples – My Egos in Assertive Action ¶
Case examples. Suppose myself, I have been a coder for the past three decades or so — and you are sure as hell not committing some inane garbage into my codebase without having a fairly decent idea of the underlying architecture and the way the system is wired.
And again, I've been at matters of consciousness, spirituality, philosophy, what have you, also for the past 30 odd years. Do I need to assert it all over the place? No, I don't. But there is a certain accumulation, a certain presence — a certain ego in a manner of speaking.
Then you have all the spiritual upstarts, enlightened just the day before yesterday. Setting themselves up on the stage, harnessing followers, making bombastic claims, all the while having little substance to show for it. Still deeply enmeshed in their egos, unable to transcend the subject.
Does that ego of mine come online? Yes, it certainly will. It will have a couple of questions, and it will issue a couple of reality checks. Because that sort of bullshit shall not pass in the name of the real thing.
Your Necessary Presence — Refine and Engage ¶
So that's all there — and that's all necessary and natural. Your accumulation and presence is nothing less and nothing more than exactly what it is — and it operates in its natural role in interaction with whatever that is going on in this world. Simply, you need not be obsessed with it. Let it function.
Suppose a mother with a child subscribes to some silly spiritual bypass philosophies. Ego death, nothing is real. I am not, my child is not. There is no ego, let it go with the flow. That is simply absurd, you cannot do that. It is detrimental on so many planes of existence. And it will also not lead you into whatever transcendence. It will simply lead you to the realm of the bypassers.
That ego, born of life's course, born of necessity – rather refine it.
Myths and Archetypes — No Ego Problem There? ¶
Look into mythologies, pantheons, archetypes. Say for example in the Indian tradition, we have the divine mother.
Uma as the nurturing mother, Durga as the guardian mother, and Kali as the wrathful mother. So that's all there, and no one is complaining about Durga and Kali having so much ego and Uma being a bit more mellow.
They are all functions, they are all necessary. They need to be operated in their due contexts. And so it is with our egos — we simply need to refine our instruments and detach from those as our singular identities, but engage we must, with what we have, as it is.
So don't be shy of yourself. Fear not the ego that is naturally emergent. Simply see it for what it is and then engage as you must. That's all.