The Illusion of Power

            The article two weeks ago was about dealing with fear. An episode of over-the-top fear was passing here and there was a sense that this was more of ego’s conditioning falling away and truth would emerge further from behind it. And this is what happened. This is the pattern that has been observed here for the past few years.

Before ego fell away (The Break), the pattern was truth would briefly rise to conscious awareness as an insight or an answer or a shift toward peace and this was followed by what Liz here called ego backlash. This would feel like an “ego attack”, meaning darkness, lack, guilt, and fear in their various forms would seem to take over Liz’s mind. Liz learned to deal with this by simply allowing it and letting it pass. Over time, as Liz’s awareness of truth grew, these episodes were shorter and less intense. But they were sure to follow any experience of truth, no matter how brief or mild. Ego seemed powerful, maybe not, ultimately, more powerful than truth, but powerful enough to hold truth at bay and close over any experience of it.

Since ego fell away, a conditioned ego response arising intensely indicates more of ego is to fall away and will be followed by information, insights, and a greater awareness of truth. And each time, ego’s conditioning is weakened. It seems “smaller”. It is certainly less powerful. So, pretty much the opposite of what occurred before ego fell away occurs now. This reveals how conscious awareness works. When ego was the center of conscious awareness here, it might ebb when truth broke into conscious awareness, but it would flow back in again. The contrast made it seem like an “attack”, but it was just ego being ego. There was nothing to be done about this but observe it and let it occur because while ego was the center of conscious awareness, it held sway. It was the boss, the arbiter of truth, the god of this conscious awareness. There was no way to make it fall away. It had to run its course, play itself out. Ego is not real; it is only an idea being expressed in consciousness. Because it isn’t real, it comes to an end, either through truth breaking into conscious awareness causing it to fall away or with the body’s death.

“Why is ego so powerful if it isn’t real?” clients and readers will ask. Only to ego does ego and its myriad experiences seem powerful. To truth—pure consciousness—ego is only an idea appearing that will inevitably pass because it is not true. In fact, power is an illusion, too. It was expected here that the power of ego would be overcome by a greater power, a “higher” power, but this never showed up. Instead, what is seen here now is that while to ego the power of something appearing is proof of its reality, to truth, power is an illusory appearance, too. Truth is not powerful. It is not forceful; it does not assert. Truth just is. That power is real and that there is a power greater than ego were illusions of a truth made in ego’s image. These illusions are the latest to fall after the intense episode of fear a few weeks ago.

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