Freud was helpful laying out the concepts but "the psychology of man" are the key words here and german/austrian culture man would be most appropriate .He had such contempt for the feminine and was well seated in his culture's belief systems for the time. I enjoyed Jung's work the million years ago that I read it.

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Sigmund Freud was pretty good till he got strung out on drugs and that did him in. His concept of the Ego or ID the basic needs of pleasure for mankind ------the then Super EGO education and the provision for use of the conscience to over ride the pleasures sought out wrongly. Was and is today the fundamentals for understanding the psychology of man. Of course that is just the onset and there is much more to man than just the working of his brain.

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The Self adds nothing to a situation that is not already there. You can help your Self by transcending the limitations of the concepts inherent in the mind at its inception in this life, and habituate the mind to fathom and accept its own range of existence, from the infinite, unbounded field of pure, silent awareness within to the infinitely dynamic potential of activity. This is nothing short of enlightenment, the God-given birthright of every human being on earth. It is your choice, and you can claim it by taking the opportunity to expand your mind to its full potential.

"Inner man is divine." --Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

It is true that he has passed on but the reality of his state of life and the efficacy of his knowledge still exist and are pertinent to our spiritual growth. He drew together knowledge from Vedic texts from millennia and applied it to our contemporary need to develop higher states of consciousness, so that tendencies in the world would be peaceful, power would be ussed for good and life-supporting purposes. Transcendental Meditation is an experiential technique that enhances the capacity of the mind for new and greater understanding, creativity, expression and enjoyment of broader principles and ways of behaving among friends. The reciprocity of influence when one grows helps both sides, creates more willingness to appreciate others' views. The ground for peace is created.
The greatest gift of a saint is his life on earth.

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Kai,
Deepak will have a lot more to answer for than Freud. Where is any foundation or evidence for what Deepak offers? The great spiritual masters he refers to are all dead and buried but Jesus died and rose again.
If Jesus was wrong, none of have anything to lose. But if Deepak is wrong, you have everything to lose.

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Kai: ego means one's sense of self, mean, sweet,healthy or crippled, it's one's sense of self. It's a concept and concepts are handles with which we grasp ideas.A whole psyche is made of different parts, conceptualized by the hideous Freud but useful nonetheless to discuss how the different parts of a personality work together or against each other. All the parts are necessary for a full healthy life for the mortal persona that is our vehicle for experience in this world. Though we are immortal souls, never to be divided from Deity the source of all life, we are only the person we are now this one time only,though we return to this world until our immortal self is satisfied that it has gained all it meant to as mortal human, the personality structure is always different to provide different challenges and widest diversity of experience. Spirit is what we are and Spirit decides to return to University Humanity to accelerate SPIRITUAL growth by matriculating in the whole program,from young soul to mature and old, with all those different needs and responses and multiple personality structures to operate through creating unique life experiences .If a person (persona, personality) is seeing the frontal part of the personality,ego, as being in conflict with spirituality there is a need for rebalancing so all parts work together well.In a healthy body all parts work together and this should be the model for the persona too,Spirit experiencing through transient ego,all is one.

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What is the ego? Where did it come from? How did it evolve into what people call ego, a very convenient term but where does it reside? Can it be said to exist at all or is it a fabrication of thinking based on other people's thinking, a kind of caricature. Someone said they 'prefer to be spiritual', this is ego talking. Fine. Why should it bother me? Instincts tell me this is dumb, as are the superficial ramblings of psychology. Freud has a lot to answer for, giving us 'lay-people' these convenient but meaningless explanations. Someone else's view can never be our own, never mind how plausible. Maybe there is something to be gleaned from the bottom of the barrel but I have never understood why ego is such a dirty word, to be controlled, confined and beaten back. The lady above said 'ban it successfully from being inappropriately in charge of ones life'. Who says it is inappropriate, except the ego itself, a kind of double-speak, a game within oneself. The ego decides to be spiritual, and what is meant by spiritual? What is spiritual, and why on earth should this be an aim to have at all? Whichever way we look at it, we are always staring in the mirror. It's always the mind at work. I see the point of letting go of fear. Sometimes I see the movement of it being set up, like setting oneself up for a fall. At this point we stand a chance of changing direction, because it is uncomfortable to remain there but who is uncomfortable with oneself, except oneself, or ego/mind?

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Pride goes before a fall. I'd like to sit under the falls and watch where it is safe. foflol

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"Knowledge is different in different states of consciousness."

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I had some good comments to make but one is here that likes to send me packing so maybe another day. CHEERS

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I prefer being spiritual

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