The Seven Labyrinths: Walking the post ego path

Remarkably, I have observed that just a few weeks after a post-egoan takes a stand — if only an imaginary one — against his/her/their toilet training, they will usually achieve what we call full liberation.

we are taking instructions from this unreliable narrator, whether he’s a clown or a madman or a bragger or a naif or just an ordinary liar.

This two-part unreliability—1) things you report having experienced, seen. And 2) things you claim about your behavior—is the two-part labyrinth of everybody’s ego when it comes to truth.

Our inability to question the claims of our own ego is directly related to this delusion we have of ourselves as being special, the only rational creatures on a planet populated by irrational beasts. The man vs. beast dichotomy is the biggest and most important lie in your thoughts. You need to get rid of it right away. The human being is not “abov

The ego has this characteristic of liar, fabulist, inventor of stories, spinner of yarns—in other words, the consummate bullshitter. It seems that the things it is saying are true and valid and its “advice” must be heeded. But the things that it’s saying are often quite false. And the “advice” it is giving is not advice at all—it is a command.

Post ego is the idea that you are not the self that is thinking, but it is the thoughts that are thinking you.

The puzzles Each of the labyrinths begin with a puzzle. It’s important for you to actually try to solve the puzzle. It helps develop the “outside the box” thinking that is important for understanding post-ego. Somewhere in the chapter I will give you the answer to the puzzle. It’s true, you might come up with a better solution to the puzzle than I

Ever since that time, we have attached a great deal of drama to your every feeling, a drama that constructs a so-called emotional self that is no more reliable than your unreliable thought self. We still have emotions mind you. The improvement of post ego is that we have liberated the emotions from the cauldron of fantasy that is the self. Once you

It is very obvious that we cling to our ego through our most basic emotions of helplessness and fear and so on. It’s a desperate move that an infant or a toddler made when we were young, and we had very little to say about it.