| When someone comes to you and wants to tell | | | | accurately the ego would destroy itself. With |
| you about a thing you do not know about, why | | | | power comes responsibility most of us are not |
| are you so defensive? | | | | ready or willing to accept. With the knowledge |
| When you go to someone and ask them about a | | | | you could fly off the top of a 20 story |
| thing you know nothing about, why are you eager | | | | building-would you take the responsibility to do it. |
| to hear everything they say? It is because of | | | | Yet it is in the knowing you can do it, that |
| fear-not fear about learning something new, but | | | | commands the spirit to make it so. |
| fear of a realization of what we knew as no | | | | It is much easier for the ego to accept it would |
| longer our being. It is the ego fearing for its | | | | be stupid to jump off a building and expect to fly |
| existence. The ego relies on what it knows to | | | | than to know it could fly. It is a built-in safety |
| assure itself of its own immortality. When | | | | protocol that imprisons it and protects it within its |
| someone tries to teach us something new, there | | | | limited awareness. Even if one witnesses another |
| is natural resistance to the information. The ego | | | | doing it, the ego will not believe it. Because it goes |
| does not want to replace what it knows as real | | | | so much against what the ego knows as its |
| with something that may invalidate or deny what | | | | truth-as how it sees itself-it will even deny what is |
| it has experienced, because it would deny its own | | | | presented to it in three dimensional colour. |
| awareness of self. | | | | You have the power to create anything you |
| The ego clings to physical things to assure itself | | | | desire. You have the power to create and |
| of its existence. The ego is reluctant to know of | | | | destroy worlds. You have the power to create |
| things it has not experienced, the abstract is | | | | life and destroy it. Yet you are limited by your |
| something it can not hold on to as real. When | | | | ego who says you do not! It is the ego afraid to |
| someone comes to us with information we did | | | | let go, afraid to accept new information, afraid of |
| not ask for, our arms go up in a posture of | | | | its own vulnerability and presence which controls |
| defensiveness. And once again it is about fear, we | | | | you. The ego is a whimpering child afraid of the |
| are afraid what we already know will not being | | | | dark, wallowing in its dirty diaper-in control of |
| able to stand up to the new information. So in | | | | unlimited massive power. |
| other words, what we knew in the past may not | | | | If I come to you and told you you are God, how |
| be real, or perhaps a lie and it invalidates what we | | | | would your ego respond to this new information? |
| believe to be our good sense of judgment and | | | | Would you need proof, or could you accept it? If |
| our very existence. | | | | I told you I am God and everyone around you is |
| However, when we seek new information it is a | | | | God, would your ego fight for equilibrium? Could |
| sign the ego has matured and is ready to move | | | | you even accept there might be a possibility I am |
| into a place of new awareness. The ego has | | | | correct? How you answer this question will give |
| taken charge of its own destiny and is creating it. | | | | you an exact estimate of whom and were you |
| From ignorance, the ego does not understand its | | | | are in your spiritual evolution. It will give you an |
| relationship to all other things. The ego sees itself | | | | exact indication of your fear level. It will tell you |
| separate from spirit, and does not realize it has | | | | exactly why your life is the way it is now, and |
| the power, or it is the power that commands the | | | | how far you have to go. If you see this |
| spirit to create. For most, we do not want to | | | | information as an assault on your intelligence then |
| know we have the power to command, nor do | | | | you are in denial. If you see it as an opportunity, |
| we want the responsibility for it. What if we | | | | then it is a symbol of higher awareness. It doesn't |
| realized we could change the world into anything | | | | really matter whether the information is valid or |
| we desired? And in doing so we made a mistake, | | | | not-it is all about how you perceive it. It is about |
| what if we did it wrong? Could we live with what | | | | accepting your power or denying it. |
| we have created? | | | | This may just be a dumb little article, but it is also |
| The power to create is within each and every | | | | a gift and opportunity to validate what you |
| one of us. There are no worlds or circumstances | | | | already know-it was written for a purpose-your |
| we could not create. In the immature mind, this | | | | purpose, because it is you who is reading it, and it |
| information could destroy the ego, or even more | | | | is no accident or coincidence. |