The Seven Labyrinths: Walking the post ego path
After many meetings and being together trying to create the culture of post ego, we learned that the post ego state can be “puzzled out.”
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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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.
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.
Clem Samson • The Seven Labyrinths: Walking the post ego path
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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
What is it that allows us to solve puzzles? Wisdom, of course.
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
Post ego is the idea that you are not the self that is thinking, but it is the thoughts that are thinking you.
Clem Samson • 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.