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Old 08-26-2008, 04:34 PM   #34 (permalink)
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I've messed around with various cosmologies like this for a long time. I think there is an ego trap in creating higher levels of consciousness... some sort of ladder we're all supposed to climb up and proclaim 'I am God. I am enlightened.'
I believe that is one the big catches of enlightenment. You can't have an ego and be enlightened. If you go around bragging to your friends about being enlightened it shows that you are actually not. A person who is truley enlightened does not consider himself enlightened. I don't know about the whole becoming god thing, but spiritual enlightenment itself.
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