3D to 4D: Sudden or Gradual? A great read...(David Wilcock interview)

[zenmaster]

apparently there are a lot of different interpretations of the word 'ego'. and the dominant one seems to be to interpret it as negative assertiveness, coercion, prickyness.

It's a misunderstanding propagated in new-age thought. The origin seems to have been the introduction of eastern spiritual thought into the western world. It's really a mistranslation and people are plainly too 'lazy' to see that, by definition, they 'are' the ego. The negative qualities attributed to the 'ego' (as if it were a thing) are the necessary psychological 'pathologies' inherent to the third-density condition such as identification and duality. In other words, the ego is mistaken for a psychological condition. It's 'ok' to do that, just recognize the fact. The transpersonal ego is still ego.

Yes, we always have a 'higher' part of ourselves capable of passively witnessing our psychological processes at work. However that is also 'ego' - now with some degree of consciousness applied.

However, now popularized by sheep, 'ego' typically means psychological condition related to identification - such as inflation. It's moronic when you look at it.