houses of cards

One of the main reasons people start working to "dissolve the ego" is to disengage from dysfunctional and reactive patterns developed in childhood. In the space that emerges as it's grip is loosened, a new ego can then be created and deployed to replace it. Most come to identify with this new ego but we don't need to be it, we can just use it. In the act of asserting a boundary for example, ego is used to repel an outside force from our psychic space by providing a clear sense of self and not-...