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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  Consider your first question, "Does God have an ego?" You're asking whether a perspective-independent concept has a perspective. That's an strangely phrased question. |
No, I'm not asking if God has an Ego. I'm asking if the thing that you call Consciousness is Ego. My point was that it must, otherwise it would be God (which is Egoless).
If I don't understand what you mean by Consciousness, God, Ego, "You", then it's hard to understand your articles. If for example by Consciousness you mean God / Universe / Pure Spirit that's different than a Consciousness that has an Ego.
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Your remaining questions continue along the line of thinking of one consciousness, one fixed perspective. That's IMO an unreasonable and limiting assumption, both from an SR and OR perspective.
You seem to equate consciousness and ego, but I don't equate them any more than I equate time with apples. Consciousness is perspective-independent, while ego is a perspective.
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From this I would venture a guess that when you say the word "Consciousness" you're referring to God. Meaning, the thing that just IS, has no duality, no fear, nothing to learn, etc. It just IS.
My definition of consciousness is more closer to the definition found in "A Course in Miracles" which labels consciousness as the domain of the Ego. Meaning, it is a part of God that looked at itself from a dualistic point of view and became conscious of itself and thus began to exist. Consciousness is conscious (SELF aware), while God just IS. Meaning, God doesn't look at himself and say "I am God", he just says "I AM".
Kind of hard to explain.