Why is an ego bad?

The whole about losing your ego on pyschedellics that I think alot of people misunderstand is, it's not only about losing your ego, it's also about regaining your ego afterwards. You dissolve your ego, you climb to the top of the spiritual peak so that you can see out over the psychic land, clearly and with a broad reaching understanding of everything because it helps you to refine the ego that you will have to go back into once you leave the peak.

I mean, if your going to be a monk, or live out in the woods, or be a saddhu, perhaps you can dissolve your ego, and then keep it gone. But for most people, dissolving the ego is not about removing the ego permanently. Dissolving the ego is about stepping out of your ego, so you can see it, understand it from an external perspective, only so that you can improve it and then go back into it. I do not dissolve my ego to get rid of it, I dissolve my ego to refine it and improve it. Because it's only when your outside of your mind, outside of your ego, that you can truly see what you are and what you need to change. If someone never does that, if someone tries to develop there ego while staying entirely within their ego, they never get an external viewpoint of it, they never see it through eyes that do not hold a bias towards it. Thus they never get a clear view of their own ego, and thus they don't really know what needs to be done to refine it.

So no there is nothing inherently bad about ego. But there can be bad components to ego.

 

because then you end up on an acid forum arguing with people over you're unique beliefs and concepts

 

exactly, kinda like videotaping your golf swing and watching it to see ways to improve

 

I found somebody's ego they lost.

 

I think you are seeking conflict where there is none.

 

Ahhh, I see, thanks for the clear dose of clairvoyance!!, Miagi.

 

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit---to the "conquest" of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.[SIZE=-1]

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i had a bad Eggo once,, It was freezer burn...

 

My Eggo was dissolved once without drugs, I spilled coffee on my it.

 

my ego shrinks in cold water.

 

my ego thrives in cold water...My ego kills itself when in heat

 

Do not be skeptical of my psychic abilities.

 

Do not worries I am being a JKer
Please don't make rocks come smashing down onto my house :|

 

I can't control the rocks I can only read your mind.

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Then you must be enjoying teh elevator music with me

 

Smooth jazz is possibly the greatest genre in all of music.