Waking Up in a Busy World: Blasphemy or Ego's Hold?

Your ego is where God should be.

Michael A. Singer

Do you believe that statement?

I remember hearing this many times from Wayne Dyer:

E.G.O= Edging God Out

I have come to see that we are either experiencing Life through ego or through God. Most of us are experiencing Life through ego because we are conditioned to do so.

I don't think we can experience God (in whatever way that Truth becomes the 'felt experience' for us) as long as we are focusing on this little "ego" that is never okay, and that is constantly telling us we need to get to someplace up there in the future where "everything good" is to be okay. Yet, when we try to "get to this somewhere", "doing" what we need to do...we do not get anywhere.

Why? Ego is in the way. And you know what the conditioned ego tells us? "Goodness/joy/peace/love (=God )is way over there and you are here...you are this "seperate, little me" and God is something so grand you can never get too close even though it is your human mission to do so".

Kind of mixed messaging, isn't it? "It is your duty in this life time to return to God and all that is 'good' but you can not really return because God is too far away both physical distance wise and hierarchy wise."

Is this truth?

First of all, I see clearly now that we never left God and we couldn't if we tried. We were just conditioned to believe we did. We use this amazing consciousness to create this distance between God and us. We use this amazing consciousness that is God to make this seperation and to shine it down on ego. We are, in a sense, edging God out to focus on ego.

Why do we do that? Ego is absolutely nuts and will never be okay, never! As long as we focus on ego, seeing it as who we are, our insides will be a mess. We will be constantly trying to protect it, defend it, build it up, listen to it, do its bidding etc. Man, it is crazy.

The consciousness is addicted to staring at the mind, the body, the emotions and the tiny, tiny bit of the universe you get to experience.

But we have come to believe it is better to live as sick little egos than it is to recognize that God is not 'over there' but 'in here'. We think our focus on ego is the "holy" thing to do- that we are suppose to see ourselves as pitiful little bodies and personalities that need to worship and revere something that is so far from us in distance and grandeur. If we dare think we are not removed from God, that we are Sat Chit Ananda (existence, consciousness, and bliss), then we are being blasphemous!

Blasphemy?

What is that? We are said to be blasphemous when we profanely insult God. It is a word often heard in religion. It is a word I have been thinking a lot about lately.

I also heard it yesterday when I was watching yet another cult show (a bit addicted). There is a recording of Jim Jones saying to his followers who he literally detained at Jonestown, "You want to leave here? That is blaspehmy!! Blaspehmy!!"

Did these people who wanted to leave their imprisonment insult God, do you think? Or did they insult the very unwell ego of the leader that was holding all their passports? Is blaspemy about ego or God? Isn't it only an ego that can be insulted? Do you really believe God has an ego that can be insulted? I don't.

Are we insulting God, then, when we recognize the Ananda body within us...knowing it isn't out there but within us...hidden underneath ego? Are we insulting God when we remove our attention from this self made construct-the sick personality- and place it back on that holy place within? Is it really blasphemous to recognize who we are? Or is it just the egos of others who throw that word around in fear we will abandon their egos and our own? Is "blasphemy" ego's word or God's?

"I am this little thing!"

..."You are not. You are staring at this tiny little thing."

We are staring at the wrong thing. Ego has photo bombed too many of our moments thus far by jumping in in front of God with words like "blasphemy". We need to take this amazing light of consciousness and look beyond the ego to what is there, was there, and always will be there. That is where we should be focusing our lens. Ego is going to jump around in the forefront causing all kinds of noise and distraction. We don't have to beat it up or yell at it to get it out of the way. We do not punish it for doing what we created it to do. We simply say, "I have already got so many great shots of you Ego, thank you. Now would you stand over there while I continue my shoot. It's time to shoot the backdrop...the landscape...the sky...the background that contains all there is. " We put and keep our focus there.

Hmmm!

I did up this video a day or so ago, ironically at a time when I was pondering the word, "blaspemy."