God/Religion a creation of the powerfull human mind ?/! Options

[YoungS]

This is a forum about the human brain so I think i'm at the right place to suggest to start a topic about this.

[Joesus]

Now, perhaps we need to dialogue on the question: What is the role of the ego? Is the ego an evil part of our nature? Is it possible to be a loving ego?

The ego is not an evil thing, however it is the only thing that will attach itself to everything that is determined to be evil.
When it comes to love, there is attached love which is love that likes and dislikes and is based on conditions. And unconditional love which is not based on attachment to conditions.
The spiritual teachings of Jesus were about unconditional love. The Love of God which supports all of creation regardless of its nature, and that includes the love for man who is attached to love of evil.

The ego identifies itself and its love according to what it wants to see and maintain in a world it calls real.
Jesus said "I and my Father are one, and my father is spirit." This meant that God the Father (whom man was made in his image), was not a thing, or an object but consciousness itself. He was eluding to the fact that the relative world was a temporary creation and that the permanent image was that of consciousness.

Micah 7
1 Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.

When man has lost his innocence he becomes withered, hardened and conditioned to internal programs of identity and attachment to what personality calls good and evil. For this man segregation is a way of life.
Jesus is saying woe is me for I have come to find the image of God tightly wound in belief, fear and separation. This is the epitome of ego that has become the master to man rather than the servant.
See the following verses..

2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

4 The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.

5 Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

Here he says trust not in a friend being that anyone who is bound to the identifications of ego will not be thinking clearly but with a mind that is attached to feelings and emotions. Clear discernment cannot be gained by a mind that is emotional, for the emotions will prejudice a mans discernment of any situation, especially reality.
The friend Jesus refers to and that which lies in thy bosom which is referred to as 'she' is the ego, that is conditional love, and the emotions

6 For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.

This is the culmination of conditional love. Even in ones own house or family a son will turn against a father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter in law against her mother, for a mans enemies are chosen through the ego's attachments to likes and dislikes, beliefs and emotional attachments to self serving ideas that may go against the growth of the whole family. This is self evident in the many beliefs, religions and political ideals that become the cornerstone for the position man takes in defending and fighting for, in and amongst the individual ego identity that is the reality of each other.

7 Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

Therefore I will look unto the Lord, (Spirit, the Voice of God, The holy spirit, the creator of ego).




The example of Adam and Eve (intellect and emotions) being thrown out of the garden of Eden is based on the development of the ego as the foundation for perceptions of self. When the image becomes the master rather than the servant. When the Hermaphroditic spirit becomes divided by emotional love in its attachment to the earthly senses and one becomes lost to ones own nature.

"Our birth is but a sleep and forgetting: / The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting, / And cometh from afar:
Not an entire forgetfulness, / And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come / From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy! / Shades of the prison-house begin to close
Upon the growing Boy, / But He beholds the light, and whence it flows,
He sees it in his joy; / The Youth, who daily farther from the east
Must travel, still is Nature's Priest,
And by the vision splendid / Is on his way attended;
At length the Man perceives it die away, / And fade into the light of common day...."

-Wordsworth, "Intimations of Immortality"