After years of meditation on the human condition, I have come to the conclusion that we need to re-incarnate "NARCISSISM". The myth goes: Narcissus was looking at his reflection in a pool of water when the water nymphs seized his soul. As a psychological archetype, I see this as losing ourselves in the mirror and forgetting who we are, the Creators of the mirror. After my near death experience in 1989, I realized that we are made of Love, Love is the energy with which the Universes are made. It seems to me that everyone's dis-eases in life can be traced to a lack of Love, our Source. So I propose we start a new old trend - encourage Self-Love and I mean all of self. All of the things we judge ourselves for and beat ourselves up over. Source is Unconditional Love - when you contemplate that you realize that Love on this plane is usually conditional - 'I'll love you when...I will love you if..." When I went to the light, I experienced complete acceptance that my ego, or small self, did not have. That acceptance was Unconditional Love that sent me soaring into a state of Joy. I think if we all cultivated Self-Love and engineered ourselves into a state of Joy we would heal and subsequently, the Earth would heal because Love does conquers All!
The narcissist is probably the most dangerous of all psychopaths. However one cannot love others until one loves and respects oneself. The danger comes when one believes one is the centre of the universe and everyone else is a means to an end... All is vanity....the ego is false.
self obsession is a complete, nongratifying waste, of whatever we put into it. if it isn't voluntary, then no sense beating ourselves over the head about it, but it's still a completely nongratifying waste. =^^= .../\...
The ego is an artificial construct, the persona, that we create to role play, to be recognized, an identification card. It's only dangerous when we forget who we truly are and think it's us. So we go from being cause to being the effect of our creation. I see vanity as a lower frequency of self-love; like you're trying to convince yourself and others of your worth but you don't really believe it yourself.