The Ego

We tend to be convinced that we are a single person within ourselves. That it depends on the events of life how we react.... and that .... We simply "are like that".

However, when an in-depth study of an individual's psyche is carried out, it turns out to be multiple in its psychology. It is as if the sum of many people were living together within themselves, vying to remain in the foreground and negotiating for control of the senses, attention and consciousness.

When reading these lines, the reader might assume that we are referring to an individual with a "multiple personality disorder", but in reality we are referring to the average individual.

According to Gnostic psychology studies every individual is to a greater or lesser degree "fragmented" in their psychology.

Let us look at two examples to demonstrate this.

Let's imagine that a car driver is driving on the road and reaches a "traffic jam". This traffic jam is due to a major accident in which the people involved have died. The first thought is often "What happened? And after this it is common for the individual to feel impatient, and this impatience sometimes reaches the limit of desperation, especially if he is in a hurry because he is late for work.

This traffic jam is actually caused by curiosity, as the accident is not blocking the road, it is on the side of it.

So our impatient driver, desperate to get out of the traffic jam, continues his slow drive until he reaches the accident. There is a moment where he forgets about work and his impatience, and by slowing down his vehicle even more, he satisfies his curiosity, in turn causing more traffic jams.

Are we sure we are always the same person?

Second example:

Pedrito marries Juanita and professes eternal love for her. Over the years they build a life together, have children and everything seems to be going very well. One day Pedrito begins to feel attracted to a colleague at work. At first everything seems to be under control, but as the months go by, the attraction and desire become unbearable until they start an "affair".

First contradiction: Pedrito feels guilty about his double life, but at the same time he is unable to leave his lover. When he is at home he convinces himself to leave the affair, but once he is out of the house, all he can think about is seeing his lover.

Which of the two is Pedrito, or is it both?

Second contradiction: In the end Juanita discovers Pedrito's affair and gives him "the show of the century". From the first moment of the complaint, Pedrito feels as if he has been split in two by a bolt of lightning. His heart compresses, he gets tachycardia, and he is in "Shock", perhaps thinking "I lost my house, my car, my wife will remarry and I will have to share my children with a bigger, stronger and prettier man than me, I am left in the street, I lost everything". That's when he ends the affair and for the next 3 months he cries to Juanita in true repentance, that he was a fool and that she is the only one he ever loved.

Analysis

• How can you be doing something that you understand to be wrong or to have potentially catastrophic consequences but on the other hand not have the strength to stop?

(This also applies to any vice)

• Apparently the truly repentant Pedrito is the same as when he was in the throes of his romantic conquest... but is he really the same?

Obviously two opposite aspects cannot be the same aspect.

Thus it is that the Gnostic Culture, based on the recognition of thoughts, emotions, actions and instincts that flow from the unconscious to the conscious area and vice versa, comes to the conclusion that the human being is "Multiple in his psychology".

Each psychological aspect that has its own way of thinking, feeling and acting, we call "Ego".

So we claim that we have many "egos", each negotiating to stay in the conscious aspect longer.

It may sound crazy, but a meditator The expert can listen to them conversing on subconscious planes and see it "with his own eyes".

The concrete way, dear reader, in which you can verify this for yourself in a simple way, is to learn the technique of "Self-Observation".

Self-observation technique

It consists of relating normally with our family, in society, in our work, etc. And at the same time observing our emotions, thoughts and attitudes.

In this way the individual begins to discover in himself, certain elements that harm him, such as anger, greed, jealousy, the desire for the evil of others, etc. It is then that we discover that we are not as saintly as we thought we were, since there are subtle elements of great perversity, and that although we maintain an exemplary life, we do not change what we really are within ourselves.

One of the aims of Gnostic Culture is to teach us to discover who we really are. "They say that a wise soldier does not die in war. So for example in the example of Pedrito, he could have found his lust before being trapped by it. Or in the first example, our driver would have asked himself .... why am I stressing out if by stressing out I don't blow up this car over the others? If I stress out, will I get there faster? ....

There is within each individual an "inner light" .... Consciousness.

The Gnostic Culture teaches to create a "centre of gravity" in consciousness, displacing the contradictory "egos", thus allowing the person to be the best version of him or herself. At the same time freeing him from the aspects that unconsciously hold him down, thus having a positive impact on all those around him and on himself.

So it is that the Gnostic Culture brings light where there is only darkness. This is why we invite you to go deeper into these studies, to make a positive change in your life, a change that is perennial in death.