Copyright 2001, Colin C. Tipping

Assumption:
While our bodies and our senses tell
us we are separate individuals, in truth we are all
one. We all individually vibrate as part of a single
whole.
We are not our bodies. We are not our Egos. We are
not our personality selves or the roles we play each day.
Believing we are these things serves to further rein-
force our belief in separation. Upholding this belief
makes it impossible for us to remember who we really
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are — an individual soul created as part of God and
existing in oneness with God.
Assumption:
When we all were one with God, we
experimented with a thought that separation was
possible. We became trapped in that thought,
which became the dream that we now live. It is a
dream because the separation did not actually
happen. We only think it did — and that thought
gave birth to the belief system we call the Ego.
Once we were completely enfolded in the All That Is —
God. We were formless, unchanging, immortal, and
knew only love. Then, we had a thought. What would it
be like, we wondered, if we were to descend into physi-
cal reality and experience the opposite energies — such
as form, change, separation, fear, death, limitation, and
duality? We played with the idea for a while, always
thinking we could withdraw from the experiment any time
we wished, should we indeed decide to put the thought
into action. We saw no danger.
Thus, the decision was made, and we lowered our en-
ergetic vibration to condense our energy into physical
form. In the process, we forgot our connection to God
and imagined
 
we had actually separated from God and
that we had no way back to the All That Is.
This dream became very real for us, and we then grew
extremely guilt ridden for committing this 
(original) 
sin
of separating from God. We became fearful that God
would bring his wrath down upon us for having done
so. This powerful belief in sin, guilt and fear became
the Ego, and it became such a powerful force in our
lives that it created in our minds a world dominated by
fear
. 
Our world is still one where fear, rather than love,
is the driving force.
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Though we tend to personify it, the Ego is not an entity
in and of itself. Neither does it represent our personal-
ity. The Ego represents a set of deeply-held beliefs
that keep us totally convinced of our separateness from
God. The extreme power exerted by these subcon-
scious beliefs through the dynamics of guilt, fear, re-
pression, and projection create the appearance that
the Ego 
lives
in us. The Ego keeps us stuck in the World
of Humanity and asleep (unconscious), dreaming that
we have separated from God.