Thanks for all of your kind words, love and appreciation.
I am sending it all right back to you! Being on this journey can definitely feel challenging and I am SO appreciative that you are here willing to keep opening to the light and the love that is the essence of you.
Ready to keep going with the 7 powers of the ego?
So far, we have explored: darkness, desire, ignorance and zeal for death.
Today we’re diving into the realm of the flesh (whatever that means) and the foolish wisdom of the flesh. Here goes…
Realm of the Flesh
This veil is about identification. It’s when we identify exclusively with being a body and forget that we are also a soul/spirit.
Again, Watterson links it with one of the deadly sins. This time it’s lust. And again, like gluttony, she refines it.
Having lust, being enthusiastic and passionate about life, living large and with gusto are all inherently good qualities as long as we remember that the body, and this life, are servants of the soul.
It’s when this is forgotten and the body becomes the idol – and the lust for power becomes unstoppable- that it’s problematic.
Like: Power over, dominance, forced submission… you get the idea. And you can certainly look around and see it playing out, yes?
On an individual level, how does this show up for you? Are there certain people or situations that activate this part of you? Or, perhaps you’ve mostly experienced this from someone else?
The sixth veil is Foolish Wisdom of the Flesh, or as Watterson writes, “the false peace of the flesh.”
Huh?
Watterson goes on to explain that this aspect of ego has been interpreted as slothfulness.
Full disclosure, I happen to love sloths. Once, while deep in the Amazon, I watched one slide up a tree for nearly an hour, and was completely enraptured.
However, when we take this idea of slothfulness and apply it to human behavior, it’s about unhealthy inertia. How we resist change, especially things we know we need to do for ourselves. And, let’s be honest, we can feel this in our bodies, if we tune into them.
The body always wants to be in harmony and be healed.
Is there something you could do right now – something you know you need to do or want to do and have been avoiding- that would help with your growth or healing?
Pick one thing.
Now do it.
This is how we face slothfulness. By taking a single step towards what we want.
You can do it.
Next week, we’ll do the final one!
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