Posted in Perceptions on Sep 16th, 2008 1 Comment »
What is the Ego Self?
Is the ego self something we need to reject?
The ego self is what most refer to when they say – me, I, me self, you, her, him, and etc. The ego self is the sense of self that most people have any awareness of.
That awareness is usually very vague. Very few [...]
Posted in Questions on Jun 8th, 2008 6 Comments »
Loss of Self – What does it mean? What is lost? Is the experience similar to being lost?
Buddhism and other non-dual teachings say there is no self to lose. Others say the self is an ontolgical reality that has various levels or degrees of manifestation including those bound and confined within the world of object [...]
Posted in Questions on Mar 6th, 2008 1 Comment »
Narcissistic injury is one of those loaded psychological terms. In fact, all things narcissistic seem to be. I think that is because the word narcissism or narcissistic is generally used to describe pathology and not the over-arching reality that everyone with an ego (everyone) is a narcissist.
Narcissistic defenses are present to some degree in all [...]
