John to Steve: My idea is that belief, like dogma, is a possession of our ego. It's something we own - MY belief.
Andre: Just interjecting John...hope you don't mind, or do I believe you won't mind? I don't know! Let's just say I have faith that you won't mind. You appear to use 'ego' and 'self' interchangeably, as though they refer to the same concept. Reanney has , I believe provided a useful distinction between the two when he argues: 'EGO IS A MENTAL CONSTRUCTION. And the essence of ego is SEPARATION. You are not just a self, you are a SEPARATE self.' (Reanney's emphasis). Hence, you say, it is MY belief and I own it. He goes on to argue: 'Self is an imaginal reality and it is one that, by and large, serves us well. Each of us is a valid and significant part of creation, we are sons and daughters of the stars and we have a right to be here. So long as we see ourselves in this light, as co-creative partners in the collective enterprise of consciousness, we are both whole and wholesome. But ego is a corruption of that sense of self, flawed fatally by its central feature, which is to see itself as all-important, not an organic part of the world but the reason why the world exists' (p 118). I hope you didn't mind the interjection but I don't have much faith in it. Still...you seem to be a reasonable sort of fellow...yeah, I believe that. Andre Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
