Copyright 2001, Colin C. Tipping

2. The Ego As Loving Guide:
This other, more friendly way of looking at the Ego — which
I find equally tenable — holds that, far from being our en-
emy, the Ego is a part of our soul: a part that splits off to
play a guidance role in the World of Humanity in abso-
lutely perfect and purposeful opposition to the Higher Self.
That role is to provide the anchor in the World of Human-
ity that would fully test our ability to be a spiritual being
having a truly human experience. The only value in having
the human experience is precisely to experience such
things as the Ego provides: belief in duality, separate-
ness, and fear. Furthermore, we need to experience these
feelings fully at the feeling level in order to wake up and
remember that the opposites are true.
Our Ego then, in this model, is the guide that will take us
on all these journeys into the illusion and try to teach us
many false lessons that will keep us stuck in the illusion.
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But it does so not out of malice nor even for the sake of its
own survival but because it loves us and knows that we
need this experience for our spiritual growth.
But the Ego does not do this alone. The Higher Self is
our other guide who waits patiently while we journey into
the illusion with the Ego until we are ready to hear the
truth. It is through the gentle whispers of the Higher Self
God is VERY
Angry With
Us
We Are
Inherently
BAD
God Will
Eventually
Punish Us
We Chose
To Separate
From
GOD
We Must
Fear God
TERROR
GUILT
SHAME
The Original
SIN
We Must
Repress
The Pain
We Can Project
It All Onto
'Scapegoats'
We Must Be
Angry With
Them
We Must
Defend Against
Them
We Are
ALL
Victims