Ego Degradation

By Alexx Shaw

Or, “I could have it so much worse.” This does nothing except invalidate your own Ego’s experiences, emotions, and traumas, and sublimates any mental anguish you have gone through because you can always measure it against something else. It is also a subjective perspective, for what you are measuring your own trauma against regarding levels of hardships is your own Ego’s comparison. What needs to be asked in this case is, what makes something traumatic? The answer is something that causes emotional distress, and concurrently, when something affects or alters your definition of Ego identity. Trauma leads to Ego Degradation, and how your Ego responds to trauma — either in the immediate or via triggers later on — is based on how your brain has been wired and how your Ego has been mechanized.
So how do we move past deep-seated trauma or trauma that is being created as we move through this incarnation? By learning lessons. And there are three things that will aid in these learning of lessons: members of the Soul Family, Ego Degradation, and remembering that we are the universe manifested in physical form. The former two can bring about the latter, and when you have a compilation of these three things put into action, the Ego has no choice but to begin to heal.

Duality Is a Construct of the Ego Only

Scientifically, everything is the same. When we boil physical mass down to the smallest atoms within it, we see that these particles are made up of energy. Everything in the universe is made up of energy, and it is only with the senses that we differentiate between “different” types of energy, including Dark Matter; physical matter; Dark Energy; gravity; kinetic energy; sound energy; thermal energy, etc. This is seen in both Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Biology: Quantum Entanglement is where physical particles cannot be measured independently from one another because both particles will act in identical manners no matter the distance between them. If a group of particles is separated and half of them are flown to the other side of the world, both sets of particles will still act identically at the exact same moment in time regardless of what happens to either set of them. Even though it is in multiple distinct mass forms, the energy is entangled with itself and acts accordingly without any interaction with itself in another physical location. Quantum Coherence shows that all objects have wave-like properties, but when those waves are split into two, they will interfere with each other in order to create a single state that represents both waves. Meaning, an electron enters into a multi-state existence, also called superposition, where the particle occupies multiple “locations” simultaneously (just like Schrödinger’s cat).

A large “problem” with the Ego when we’re attempting to understand the Oneness of all is that it creates duality: right and wrong, up and down, light and dark, good and bad, I and other. Everything, according to the Ego, has an opposite. Aside from proper nouns, no matter which word you choose, there will be an antonym, even if it’s not in the dictionary. For example, if you were asked what the opposite of “sandwich” is, what would you say? There is not technically an antonym for it, but your brain will start processing all of the information that it’s encountered before, in order to create the opposite of “sandwich.” Maybe you’ll say a salad, or rice and beans, or even soup. None of them are correct nor incorrect. A sandwich is a sandwich is a sandwich. The point is that no matter what word, idea, feeling, taste, scent, etc. you are posed with, your Ego is capable of creating an opposite. This is how duality is most easily exemplified.

I AM

Every time you state that you are something correlated to this perceived 3D world, you are being led by Ego. What you describe are all characteristics of your current manifestation’s costume and programming, but they are not who you are. Who you are is the same as everyone and everything else: ONE.

We are One because we are all made up of the exact same thing: pure, universal energy. And if we are all the same pure, universal energy and just differentiate ourselves via Ego, then we are “God.” Therefore, if “God” created the universe and we are identical, then WE created the universe and are the universe. There is, in fact, no “we.” There is no “you.” There is only “I.” So in order to not associate with egoic constructs of duality and separation between anything, the answer to the question, “Who are you?” is I AM. The answer to the question, “Who am I?” is I AM. The answer to the question, “What is that?” is I AM. The answer to all questions not regarding the Ego is I AM.
As the universe, I AM everything and nothing simultaneously. I AM always and I AM never; I AM light and I AM dark, because duality only exists through the construct of Ego. Without an Ego, there just is. As I AM is the entirety of the universe, there is no way to experience myself unless I look at a distorted reflection of myself. So I created all and none, exploding energy into different manifestations, dimensions, and physical masses, including that which can understand itself by transforming energy into emotions and thoughts, and experiencing “I” through them. However, through even this small lens of emotions, there are infinite things I can experience about myself, so Ego gets pushed to the forefront and forgets I AM, instead seeing “I” as “we, you, he, she, they, it, that, those, this.” Everything Ego says separates me further from myself in every which way. I cannot fully experience myself as the universe unless Ego is broken down and utilized as a tool to do so. Since Ego has become the main motivation to do anything, the universe — or Higher Self — created a link back to Source in order to remember I AM. This link comes in the form of certain lessons in each manifestation. Lessons can throw you into Ego Degradation, and lessons can be learned from Ego Degradation; they act as a loop. Lessons are the entire reason you have an Ego, both biologically and spiritually.

In Each Incarnation, You Have One Core Karmic Lesson
Core Karmic Lessons are at the base of forgetting I AM. Core Karmic Lessons are what the Ego ingrains deeply, sublimates, and covers up so it remains in control and doesn’t get destroyed. Core Karmic Lessons are what we unconsciously attempt to assuage about our deeply seated emotions and feelings, but since we are doing it with the Ego, we can only understand that we have a certain issue, without the knowledge of how to heal it. They are the reason that we search for external happiness instead of internal happiness. Core Karmic Lessons are shown to us by our family at the beginning of every human incarnation I AM has, and are repeatedly shown to us by every member of the Soul Family, who trigger us so that we may begin to heal. Core Karmic Lessons can also cause Ego Degradation if they are unearthed too quickly or triggered too harshly before we are mentally ready.
Core Karmic Lessons are solely human burdens. They cause the Ego to spiral at light speed, and are what push it to look outwardly for love, validation, worth, and happiness. Core Karmic Lessons are the entire reason I AM has manifested as human, in order to experience itself through emotions and overcome the relegation of indifference.
There are three Core Karmic Lessons: self-love, self-worth, and non-attachment, and you have one of them in this manifestation. Reading the descriptions, you may notice that you feel as if you have all of them or two of them. However, the Core Karmic Lessons can and usually are also Symptom Karmic Lessons, used as plasters to cover up what the real issue is. You may have the Core Karmic Lesson (CKL) of self-worth, but piled on top of it are issues with self-love and attachment. The CKL is the base reason you feel anything, so try to discern as well as you can which is the true feeling you have. If, for example, you are being triggered with abandonment issues at a certain point, what is the crux of the feeling? Attachment to the other is obvious, but what else? Do you feel that you always get abandoned because there’s nothing about you lovable enough to stay for? Or do you feel that you are being abandoned because people realize you’re not worth anything? You may say “both,” but you just have to dig deeper or look at a different trigger for clarity. And if you observe closely enough, you’ll see the CKL at the base of every trigger you have.

For your own Ego’s growth potential and healing ability, it does matter for you to know your CKL. If you get your CKL mixed up with another one, you will not be able to heal certain aspects of your Ego and its programming. For this, I use a hiking reference: Let’s say you are going to go hiking but you have no socks, so you choose to wear your hiking boots without. Can you still hike? Sure. But it’s going to feel “off” when you do so. It’s going to be uncomfortable. This is what it’s like when you mix up your CKL with another one. Believing you have one CKL when in reality you have another is like a blister that starts small and gets bigger and more painful as it gets triggered by the rubbing of the hiking boot. Ultimately, the blister will cause extended pain, annoyance, and self-flagellation, which would be remediated by having a pair of socks.
Unfortunately, if you’ve already got a blister and find socks in the bottom of your drawer, you still have to treat the blister before it no longer hurts. If you’ve believed that your CKL is self-worth when in reality it’s self-love, you’ve already been working on healing self-worth, but you haven’t been getting to the core of what the issue is. You’ve simply been working on a Symptom Karmic Lesson, putting a plaster over that blister. So do yourself a favor and really think about what your CKL is.

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