Leave the Hive Mind for Infinite and Unique Creative Intelligence
A student asks: Does ego death mean relinquishing your personality, like a bee that is part of the hive mind of God, with the same mission and identity as every other soul? And if so, why did God make us individuals in the first place? Answer: No. This is a misunderstanding of Self-realization.
Related Teachings
Shiva and Shakti Invite You on a Divine Adventure!
The Eschaton is a new beginning. A heavenly world is being prepared for those souls with the courage to attain the deathless consciousness that is revealed once the false ego has been jettisoned. The cosmos is a dream in the Mind of Shakti, the energy of the God-Self. Now, She is ending this dream that has become a nightmare and returning to Shiva, the unmanifest Supreme Intelligence. Then, in joyous union, Shiva and Shakti will dream a wondrous new adventure, a magical Golden Age inhabited by gods and goddesses with astonishing powers beyond our current imagination. Your passport to that miraculous realm is the Light of Grace you will receive in the instant of Self-realization. This is the focus of our upcoming retreat.
The Ego Prison Will Not Release the Soul
So long as there is identification with the body and its mental operating system, consciousness resists its own liberation from the bondage of suffering, for the sake of its petty and momentary enjoyments. And yet, all that is illusory, a mere hallucination. The Self is always free!
Just Be Curious About the Unknown Potentials of Consciousness
It is not useful to try to silence the mind. Instead, become curious about how much you could expand your consciousness, how much more intelligence you could activate, and what new wisdom you could download. Or perhaps you might wonder how it feels to encounter the Presence of God. Or you might want to know the experience of divine grace, or becoming divinized. Any of these interests will lead you beyond thought to the Stillness of the Absolute.
Develop the Power to Reconsider All Beliefs
God has gifted us all with the power of self-reflective awareness, which includes the ability to let go of obsolete, false, and delusional beliefs—and to question even those beliefs and assumptions that are most cherished by the ego. In fact, the ego itself is just a delusional belief system that deep reflection will dissolve.
Timely Questions, Timeless Answers
A potpourri of questions (and sometimes strange or shocking answers) on a variety of subjects related to the contemplative life is shared in this small harvest of crazy wisdom transmitted by Shunyamurti.
Don’t Be Blind to the Need for a Vision Quest
Truth is poison to the ego. Therefore, an egocentric culture does away with authentic rites of passage, misunderstands the hero’s journey and suppresses the need for vision quests. Wisdom schools are either mocked, destroyed, or corrupted. The only option lies in turning within and passing through voluntary ego death.