The Seven Labyrinths: Walking the post ego path
I don’t want you to think you need to be some kind of genius to walk the labyrinths. You just need to enter the conversation. For instance, it is of course quite logical to think that the ego uses thoughts to construct itself in your head.
Clem Samson • The Seven Labyrinths: Walking the post ego path
This wisdom is more the wisdom of “returning to our original state.” It takes very little wisdom to return to our original territory.
Clem Samson • The Seven Labyrinths: Walking the post ego path
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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.
Clem Samson • The Seven Labyrinths: Walking the post ego path
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.
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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
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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.
Clem Samson • The Seven Labyrinths: Walking the post ego path
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
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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.
Clem Samson • The Seven Labyrinths: Walking the post ego path
Post ego is the idea that you are not the self that is thinking, but it is the thoughts that are thinking you.