The Ego - A Journey Into Fear

Going to take a slight detour to post Chapter 2 from Ken Carey's "Return of the Bird Tribes". The chapter is entitled "Carved in Stone". Will post in segments in order to keep the length reasonable .

Part I

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"...Recalled in the folk traditions of every earth people, we are the Bird Tribes, the Solar Clan, the Children of the Stars. We are the source of all nativity, the way that spirit creativity comes into form in this world and in all higher worlds. Individuated. Intelligent. In spirit-being form, we are the tangible influence of an all-powerful Creator interfacing with a material world.

Releasing our identities in the burst of joy that translated them into light, we flew outward from our source stars, riding waves of light across the sea of space until we reached this world. Each of us came from a different star. Yet our being is the source of every star.

In the early days, our work was to catalyze biological activity in the oceans of this world and to oversee the growth and development of incarnate creatures. We did this both when clothed in physical form and when remaining luminous beings of pure light. Throughout all of earth's early ages, when it was necessary to clothe ourselves in physical form, we did so through a conscious process of materialization, a process that allowed us to draw into our luminous fields, in a very few moments, the atoms and molecules that would dress us in matter.

The forms we assumed during those early ages were of human shape, though lighter and less substantial than the bodies you wear today. The drawback of materialization, however, was that it took much of our energy and attention to maintain the bodies in which we dressed. So, though we had the advantage of physical instruments through which to create, sustaining those instruments was both awkward and distracting. We wanted to devote more of our attention to our creative activities and less to sustaining the bodies through which we were creating.

The solution, of course, was to create physical bodies that were self-sufficient, physical bodies that would have physical identities to care for them -- egos, designed to work intimately with us, both in the maintenance of our human projections and in our continuing work of creation upon the physical plane.

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Spirits required material bodies to operate in the material realms. However, they needed the body to basically "run on automatic" so that they could concentrate on the more important work of creating the flora and fauna that would populate the earth. And so, the ego was developed. Its job, its only job, was to serve Spirit by supervising the bodily functions and processes.

This partnership worked well...for a time.

~~ g