1.2. Ego and Inner Self

The basic condition for a being – in our case human being – to be able to exist on Earth is embedded in the principal natural law requiring each being to be able to function independently and in harmony with the laws of nature, or in other words with God or the universe. This is dualism in nature, with two commands influencing humans: our convictions and functioning based on the knowledge gained and independent life experience, and activities in our body tied to the soul, guardian angel, inner self.

The above cases involving the desire to acquire material wealth emerge under direct influence of independent decision-making, under the influence of ego. People build a house or buy a yacht etc. At the end they die and do not take anything with them. They leave their property to the heirs, who often fight about the division of the inheritance, developing incurable hatred between themselves. In most cases, ego controls people – people work, think, decide and function in their environment based on the knowledge and experience gained since their birth. This programme defines the functioning of individuals and enables them to participate in work processes on the basis of the knowledge gained. The level of education and experience determines their status in the society and at work, as well as their relationships in the environment they live in. Everybody needs ego, otherwise they would lose their personality and would not be able to get included in the society and life on Earth.

On the other hand, the existing natural laws do not allow people to realise the processes that oppose the principles of the universe, laws of nature. Any violation of these natural laws results in the punishment of the physical body, manifested as the cause of illness. The guardian angel or inner self is a helping hand of the natural laws which warns people and their egos not to oppose to the laws of nature. In principle, people find it difficult to listen to the guardian angel, and mostly decide of their own will according to the knowledge they posses. Therefore, life brings us to a situation where the guardian angel, our soul, our consciousness is under direct influence of ego. Unjustifiably taking control from the guardian angel or the soul, ego commands our body and does not allow the inner self to assess and decide. The inner self or the soul lost its right to take decisions through the fast technological development of the society, with most of the work processes and subsistence activities of individuals being now performed by machines, organisations, associations, rules on life in urban environments, human laws and the like. Individuals surrendered their education, personal protection, defence, nutrition, transport and so on to organisations in the society, thus losing the need to develop intuition for feeling safe and seeking for food, which they can now find in shops with large billboards displaying cleverly devised advertisements. The technological development of the society enables an individual to manage and command its personality by means of ego and not to observe the competences of the inner self, which is now repressed, somewhat hurt and, one can say, humiliated. Ego’s revolt against the attempts of the inner self to get activated is mostly expressed as negative traits of a person manifested in the form of hatred, dominance, evil, doing of black magic, violence, crime. These personal traits are under direct control of ego. The worst form of the negative state is destruction of health or poor functioning of the physical body. The excessive desire of ego leads the body to a difficult situation and need for the use of drugs, alcohol, violence, dissatisfaction, and in the end often even to suicide.

Extreme cases where individuals exclusively allow their ego to assume control are shown in them becoming successful in gaining material goods and positions in the society and establishing special relations with people around them. Such persons do not choose their means to achieve high material status. They are no stranger to deceit, lies and crime. One can say that such individuals are at a low reincarnation level, that their humane characteristics have not yet formed and do not have their value. In other words, these people have not developed these characteristic in their lives. They find it easy to achieve their goals over the bodies of others. This group of people can rarely progress spiritually and achieve spiritual qualities. Their efforts always turn in the opposite direction of doing evil and getting involved in black magic. Unfortunately, any society includes many members of this population, so it is no surprise that all societies have written so many laws to protect their citizens.

On the other hand, individuals with highly developed inner self or the soul who appreciate spiritual characteristics and are not interested much in material wealth and status in the society are not accepted by the people with developed ego and are not in harmony with their material goals. They find it difficult to participate in social activities and can only be successful in areas where the society does not influence them directly, such as independent work or joining special esoteric groups, work in ashrams, life in the mountains far from urban centres and similar environments. This group includes spiritually developed individuals at high reincarnation level. They can be identified by them being successful scientists and experts, or they are known as lecturers on spirituality or write books. Many of them are able to heal.

These two extreme groups with such characteristics are still small compared to the entire population on Earth, but they are visible. Usually, these groups of people do not prevent other individuals outside the groups to choose to learn about energy levels and pursue personal spiritual development. We practically live in the world of ego and its characteristics, with occasional listening to the inner self – mostly in relation to the functions in the organism that we are not aware of. We can only listen to the guardian angel, the soul, when we known the goal and when we control the functioning of ego which produces fear and trauma in such case. We therefore need to intentionally control the functioning of ego and enable the transfer of insights communicated by our soul. Unfortunately, in the material world, ego operates everywhere, in all structures of the society: family, company, political parties, the government and the like. Individuals led by ego are identified by their dominant behaviour. They use their education degree to achieve social status, they are masters in showing authority, prone to cheating and tend to systematically gain wealth. Ultimately, ego’s influence on individuals in the material world is not something wrong. It is even necessary if we are aware that money is not life, but only means of living. Money gives the possibility to comfortably manage subsistence needs in the physical world and helps up to fulfil the requirements of our host, the Earth.

Each of us must be aware that ego is indispensable in the material world. On the other hand, if we want to develop spiritually, we urgently need the spiritual component of the body, the inner self, the soul. When passing to the spiritual state, from the state of ego to the state of energy components, we are always hindered by ego’s dominance. Indeed, in the beginning the desire for spiritual progress is always triggered by ego, which wants to use spiritual knowledge and skills for its own affirmation. Individuals express this state through their lofty feeling that they will become something special, know something more than others, that the society will respect them and that using of spiritual principles will bring them material wealth – that they will get rich. In this initial stage of spiritual development, ego almost always sets a trap, leading us to goals under its control, pursuit of material wealth and comfortable life. Any individual in this stage of spiritual development must be careful and aware that use of spiritual principles in the material world does not lead to spiritual development, but results in development in the opposite direction, the way to black magic.

The right way to spiritual development is achieved when ego does not disturb us when training and investing energy. Although ego enabled us to begin to invest energy in spiritual goods, it must be blocked, prevented from influencing our spiritual path. In this stage, ego must systematically be eliminated, but should not be hurt and humiliated. Ego is indispensable in our daily lives. We cannot be without our personality in our environment, in the society. We would not be able to adjust to the society and, as such, we would be unacceptable to it. These are two states: the one where ego is indispensable for our daily needs, and the state of spiritual progress where ego is not necessary.

I described the system of how to invest energy in spiritual development in my first book on healing with life-cosmic energy. In the first case, ego is needed for our daily functioning, while in the second case ego is not necessary because we are in the spiritual state, the world of energies. In the book I defined this exchange between ego and inner self as the “switch-on/ switch-off” system. I can say that this “switch-on/switch-off” procedure is very acceptable to all of us who live in the material world in the period of technical development on Earth. It is only necessary to learn how to use it at the right moment. We are “switched-on” when we function under the control and leadership of the inner self and operate with energies, perform transformations, mantras, meditate, pray or train – invest energy in our spiritual development. “Switch-off” means return from the state where we are controlled and led by our inner self to the normal position with ego dominance, to the daily functioning of our personality.

On the average one can say that this passing from one state of consciousness to another is more acceptable to all nations in the Western hemisphere, especially Christians, as they are not adjusted, trained to be able to daily meditate for a long time and persist in the state of meditation.