To Brown and the Season of Lights

We walked across a mountain valley towards a beautiful stream we called ‘The Medicine’.  As we moved silently towards our destination the movements of the earth seemed to come alive.

For a moment I was suspended in time and nothing else existed.  I wanted to hold forever this fleeting moment and the ceremony of ‘Going To water’.  I knew that my blessing was with this old elder and his life teachings.  No words can fully describe this experience.

After years of living in harmony with the earth he had an insight to life that is rarely witnessed today.  His very movements were Hers.  He spoke of Her with a sacredness that left one feeling as if you were in the very presence of the Creators own.  He described in minute detail life and its glories.

“The water is the earths blood”, he would say “and it is our duty not to pollute Her arteries and veins”.  He told how all water is related no matter where on earth you find it.  That life is precious and full of mystery.

As our hands touched the waters of The Medicine I realized that in that moment he was aware of everything.  He was at one with every living thing.  “Like the river in its natural course all things must freely pass through us” he would say and finish with “it is our healing”.

He often compared humans to a river that has been damned up.  He would continue.  “Life does not freely flow through them, their minds and bodies have become stagnate like a river whose waters have been blocked”.

I remember this as if it were yesterday.  I can still see, feel, hear, taste and smell that experience.  The Medicine still flowing through my body, mind and spirit unrestricted.    

In The Season of the Lights, the Winter Solstice I remember many years ago the blessings of an elder named Brown.  One who once walked from the path and then returned to bless the younger generations like myself.

Every mountain, stream, meadow, tree, squirrel, sunrise or sunset brings to mind how blessed we are.  Every moment is a breath and every breath is a life.  Like winter to spring and summer to fall we are ever moving and changing.  Let us not forget our many blessings, most of all let us remember life. 

Yona Unega

All Things Are As They Should Be - The Walk Of The Bear Part Two (Khotani List #27)

Each of us is where we are supposed to be.  We come here with the knowledge and tools to accomplish the task.  However, we are here to overcome our shortcomings, so that we can advance in our walk.  The path that we choose to take in getting where we should be is based upon our past lives and present circumstance.
  
In the human kingdom we see a multitude of personalities and types.  Modern man attempts to categorize these traits by placing them into neat little boxes with defined characteristics.  However, nature’s law continually upsets our neat and tidy definitions of physical, psychological, vital and spiritual traits.  Why?
  
The answer is quite simple.  Humans choose to define their life through a physical process.  Everything is run through the thinking apparatus called the mind.  If it cannot be rationalized then it is non-existent or unexplainable phenomena.
  
Nature, on the other hand has its own set of rules where each aspect (physical, mental, vital and spiritual) has a specific order governed by rules within its domain.  For instance a physical rule cannot govern in the mental world and that of the Spirit follows a set of natural laws that are different than those that function in the vital world.
  
In Khotani tradition we see humans as multi-faceted beings that are very complex.  Humans are made up of numerous entities, each playing a role that contributes to the whole of our earthly being.   However, for there to be a human there must first be an operational structure governed by a Divine hand.
  
In ‘The Walk of The Bear’ we are taught that human nature is the product of ‘The Body Khotani.’  It is this body also referred to as the twenty four elders that is responsible for the manifestation of all four kingdoms mineral, plant, animal and human.  In each kingdom are innumerable types within the physical, mental, vital and spiritual aspect of our being.  We see that the human tendency is based upon numerous external influences that affect us according to our own nature.
  
For instance, look at a crowd of people at a ball game, lecture, concert etc.  Each individual is played upon by the external atmosphere.  No different than every day life.  However, at these events the forces of other worlds become magnified because of us.  Every emotion, feeling, thought etc. is put into a subtle field by thousands all at one time and in one place.  Entities from the other planes of existence act upon our unconscious movements.
  
People have asked why we relate things through the eyes of nature.  Little do they realize that our humanity would not exist outside of the law of nature.  For instance, the element of water has many characteristics to its nature.  An elder takes us to the water many times to teach us of its ways.  It has a close relationship to the moon and in our teachings is of a lunar nature.  It is the very blood of the earth.  Waters’ characteristics are seen in the lunar parts of our mind.  Many of the emotions are water and lunar related.  We know that the heavier emotions that attach someone to something are of a water nature.
  
Fire is different.  It is sun related and has a moving force within it.  All fire is related to the Ancient White Fire or the original fire of creation.  Fire is central to the formation of creation just as it is within us.  It is through fire that we process food and perceive things to be.  Fire within the mind is responsible for clear thinking.  However, if our body fires are contaminated our perceptions become much clouded.
  
What does this have to do with a crowd of people at a concert?  Each element is related to the five sense energies, earth and universal minds and many other things.  Our individual makeup (physical, mental and vital) responds according to its nature.  Let us consider for the moment just the physical aspect of our being.  Someone who is predominately of a water nature will react different than a fire dominate person.  A song for instance will move them in a different direction.
  
The vibrations or energies behind the song will cause reactions within these two people that can be opposite in nature.  A fire nature love is different than a water nature love.  A love song will cause responses within these two that are of opposite natures and often times at odds with each other.  A third person might be a combination of the two which adds another response that is different from the first two.
  
Physically speaking someone who is Ama Gageda (of a cloudy water nature) has a view of life that is more family oriented than someone of an Acherra (fire nature).  The Acherra nature is usually more driven to accomplishment.  Neither one is wrong.
  
There are seven types of physical characteristics, numerous mental and the vital aspects that make up our being.  All play an equal role in manifesting the person that others see.  These two were just used as an example.  The other physical types are Unole (air), the three dual types of Unole/Acherra, Unole/Ama Gageda and Acherra/Ama Gageda and one that is all three.   The mental types are quiet numerous and play as much of a role in who we are as the physical characteristics do.
  
The vital nature of our being is composed of all the desires, emotions and feelings that we have.  Most people are in bondage to the vital part of our being, especially in today’s society where we are driven by the emotions and feelings.  It takes many years to understand their inner workings and the affect that they have on our life. 
   
Our Spiritual side is the Soul and its soul travel using the spiritual or soul body.  It is the only knower of truth.  As I have written many times it is the Soul that actually travels from life time to life time.  The Soul forms the spiritual or soul body to travel with it.  The inner being that we refer to is the center of our existence.  The Soul is the foundation that our center is built upon.  The Soul is the spark of the Ancient White Fire.   
  
Our entire being receives via the universe subtle vibrations all the time.  These vibrations are of many natures.  Our elders taught us that the spirits operated in other worlds.  These spirits or entities interact with us at all times.  What we think, speak and act out attracts to us the attention of these beings from other worlds.  However, most people are oblivious to this and continue down a path that self-destructs.
  
We have all seen people act out of the emotions and desires of anger, hatred, lust, sorrow, depression, joy, happiness, kindness, generosity etc.  Yet, how many of us know or knew that each emotion was a response to external forces and our own inner workings?  Most of us believe that our actions are solely our own.  In the elder teachings this is considered a false idea.
  
There is an interchange of energy between all livings things.  This interchange is not bound by geographical or worldly boundaries.  In our teachings the otherworldly entities are interacting with us as well.  Therefore, it was considered important to teach our children ‘The Way of Universe.’  Grandfather and Grandmother Spirit has always been a key to our understanding of this great family of entities.
  
In traditional culture nature and nature’s law are inseparable from the Breath Master and Grandfather and Grandmother Spirit.  By seeing and associating life through the eyes of the natural world we see our true nature, bringing enlightenment to not only ourselves but those around us.  It is only when we see our natural self as opposed to the inorganic person that we begin to truly grasp life.
  
Our nature is understood through the law of nature.  This organic law cannot be understood from a strictly mental concept.  It must be experienced at all of its levels.  There is a reason that our ancestors had us experience silence, sweat and other ceremonies, nature observation and communing with Spirit.  It is only through these different mediums that we can communicate in the language of their world.
  
Someone called by the name Hawk at one time understood who they were and how their natural characteristics were that of the Hawk.  A name once meant so much more than it does today.  Everything in the natural world corresponds with us.  Everything interacts constantly with everything else.  However, the other worlds play upon these energies based upon their world and its operations.
  
Elders have said to me many times “we are surrounded by spirits.  Most cannot see them, however some of us do.  There are good and bad spirits and each of them wants to attach to you.  Be careful of your words and thoughts, for they are like lights sent out in search of others like themselves.”
  
These thoughts, words and actions speak a language that most of humanity does not understand.  They are based upon our natural characteristics whose origins are in our past lives and present life circumstances.  This is why our elders dedicated their lives to teaching us to ‘know who we are.’
  
Today we see a humanity that for the most part has not cared to dedicate them selves to learning who they really are.  However, times are changing and more and more people are seeking to know the deeper things of Spirit.  The elders have said over the years that Elohi (earth) waits for man to come home.  It is the way of earth that directs us to our inner most being and all truth.

Yona Unega
     

All Things Are As They Should Be - The Walk Of The Bear (Khotani List #27)

The universe makes no mistakes, the earth makes no mistakes and most certainly the Creator makes no mistakes.  On the other hand man is seen as imperfect, full of flaws.  Is this the way it should be?
   
Each kingdom mineral, plant, animal and human knows a form of perfection.  However, it is only within the human kingdom that we see a myriad of imperfections.  We see man and all of his flawed thoughts, words and actions as less than everything else.  It is only within the human kingdom that we place such high standards.  The necessity to judge that which appears to be of a higher form is ingrained within our inner minds.
   
Man and his religions attempts to define himself as that which is of a higher order, an entity that God chooses above all other living things.  In our ignorance we grope in the darkness to find answers to life’s questions.  According to religious thought, of all living things only man is created in the image of God and he alone hears the voice of his Maker.
   
The ‘Walk of The Bear’ shows us ‘The Way’ and how ‘all things are as they should be.’  Within each kingdom deeper truths are revealed to us.  But first you must understand that your Soul walk has taken you through all other kingdoms.  You must see that in God’s wisdom it was paramount that for true understanding to occur we must take ‘The Walk of The Bear.’  The world would be a different place if we were taught the Breath Masters predetermined ‘Walk of The Bear.’
   
What is this walk that the elders refer to?  All things are as they should be.  Do you understand this?  Religion has programmed man to such a degree that his mind refuses the idea that everything is perfect or exactly as it should be.  Religion likens growing pains to the work of the devil.  Suffering is caused by entities external to our self.  Religion has no place for or understanding of the law of attraction.
   
In each kingdom we advance through, another layer of ignorance is removed.   We are taught that as our Soul walks this path of truth we attain a greater and greater understanding of life and its purpose.  Once we reach a certain level of knowledge we no longer walk in that particular kingdom, but return to the next.  Every step of Soul walking reveals deeper insights to life and when our Soul enters the human kingdom we now have the power of determining right from wrong.  Thus, man becomes responsible for his actions in a completely different way than required in the other kingdoms.
   
A great master once said “because the tiger acts according to his nature and knows not anything else, therefore he is divine and there is no evil in him.  If he questioned himself, then he would be a criminal.”     

How accurate these words are.  There is a general nature in all kingdoms, yes; we have individual natures as well.  However, it is the ignorance in the general nature of each kingdom that we shed before we attain the next kingdom.  The power of the knowledge of right and wrong only comes when our Soul, clothed in a physical body advances to the human kingdom.
   
So are humans imperfect and all other kingdoms perfect?  Man is perfect in his natural place, his imperfection being revealed through the law of the general nature of the human kingdom.  We are now responsible for our thoughts, words and actions as humans, where we were not in the other kingdoms.
   
In the human kingdom we become a completely thinking entity, conscious of at least our outer workings.  It is in this kingdom where we become co-creators.  An Tri becomes active only in the human form, giving us the power of creating worlds every moment of every day.  Our perfection becomes imperfection much as a child falling while trying to walk for the first time.  Imperfection is the predecessor to the perfected being.  Through our imperfections we eventually attain the level of ‘The Ancient White Bear.’
   
All things are as they should be.  Everything exists for a specific reason.  All thoughts, words and actions are entities that we give power of life to.  They become living beings whose force of power is determined by our physical and spiritual wills.  Most of us are completely oblivious to this law of the universe, creating for ourselves lives that are less than desirable.  Each of us has advanced through the other kingdoms by our Souls force of will.  We are not helpless humans, ignorant of life.
   
Within each of us lies the complete knowledge of life, just as the Creator planned it.  Our lack of true understanding is simply because of our own ignorance.  However, we know that one day the Light will shine fully upon our darkened minds and we will be the Light Bearers to our brothers and sisters in all the kingdoms.  Just as those masters have done for us we will be the immense glow on a darkened road that leads those less advanced in their Soul’s walk.

ALL THINGS ARE AS THEY SHOULD BE – THE WALK OF THE BEAR
   
Yona Unega

The Vision (Khotani List #25)

Volumes could be written on this one subject.  Vision Quest is the most often used English term when referring to the Vision of Spirit.  It was and still should be intimately connected to ones understanding of The Four Legs of The Panther.

         

The Spirits vision for our life is our Souls purpose for being.  Each of us walks the path of the Soul.  Soul walking can be likened to walking a mountain trail with a purpose.  You have a starting point, mid point and ending destination.  The list of your journey could be quite detailed.  The purpose for your journey could be a number of things.  You fill in the blanks.

         

Each time our Soul incarnates we are a little further down the mountain trail and closer to our final destination.  Yet, do most of us know when, why and where?  The so-called Vision Quest was once a much disciplined act.  From a small child you were instructed in ‘The Way’ of Spirit.  By the time of our Vision Quest we had an understating of The Four Legs of the Buffalo, Panther, Four Log Fire, Creation etc., etc.  We were now ready to hear from Spirit.

         

This is where we get all turned around.  Hearing from Spirit is not necessarily an audible voice originating outside of ones being.  On the contrary, it is the voice of inner being, the Soul.  However, for one to understand this they must have some grasp of ‘The Way.’

         

Man looks for the miraculous outside of himself.  He has been programmed to believe that only those that have so-called miraculous physical manifestations have attained Medicine status.  This could not be further from the truth.  In fact, for most traditional societies there were at least three main levels of becoming a master.  Actually there are dozens of levels.  However, for simplicity reasons we will look at three levels.  The levels we speak of are for those called to ‘walk the path of Khotani.’  Each level takes many years to master as there are levels within levels.

         

The first level is the ceremonialists.  Their function is to perform and maintain all things that pertain to our traditional ceremonies.  The second level is those that have transcended ceremony and have attained proficiency in shape-shifting, astral travel etc.  They no longer have a need to perform ceremony.  The third level is individuals that have mastered life.  They are self contained and need neither ceremony nor any external aspect of life.  The master is in communication with the Divine universe.

         

Today the masters are not much celebrated.  Therefore, the Vision Quest has become a futile attempt at getting God to perform the so-called miraculous, so that man can FEEL close to the Creator and thus have his so called vision for his life.  Yet, man suffers more today than ever before.  Caught in the illusion he struggles to free himself.  Through the ‘false idea’ he continues processing truth through the darkened mind.  It reminds me of the song ‘The Dark Night of the Soul.’

         

The Spirits Vision for our life is all about our place within The Four Legs of The Panther and its relationship to The Four Legs of The Buffalo.  Without this understanding man seeks out and follows a path foreign to his inner being.  Few of us today can say with a certainty that we are doing exactly what our Soul is meant to do.

         

The understanding must come after we have a grasp of the minds, the physical, the vital and the Spirit.  Without knowing the source we listen to one of these others.  For instance, there is a mind semi attuned to the things of Spirit, however, it is not the Soul.  The mind therefore can lead us down a false path. 

         

Thought for most people originates within the minds.  If thought is not of the Soul then it is of a lesser entity within our being.  Vision Quest is easily manipulated by thoughts originating from numerous sources inside and outside of our being.  Yet, thought attuned to and originating from Spirit is a very powerful tool of a Divine nature. 

         

A great master once said “thought is not essential to existence nor its cause, but it is an instrument for becoming; I become what I see in myself.  All that thought suggests to me, I can do; all that thought reveals in me, I can become.  This should be man’s unshakable faith in himself, because God dwells in him”.

         

Thoughts have many aspects.  A thought originating from the purely physical mind is not necessarily bad; it is just not necessarily of a Divine Nature.  However, the bad or negative thought greatly affects the outcome of the Vision Quest and our entire life.  Another great master said regarding bad thoughts “one must not admit bad thoughts into oneself under the pretext that they are merely thoughts.  They are tools of execution.  And one should not allow them to exist in oneself if one doesn’t want them to do their work of destruction.”

         

The Spirits Vision for our life is an individual endeavor.  Each and every one of us plays a role and has a unique purpose in life.  The Vision Quest is a key to unlocking that purpose.  However, much like ceremony today there is little to no instruction leading up to and through the Vision Quest.  We have become the false embodiment of the illusion.

         

It is not difficult to throw off the artificial coverings and see truth.  An earnest desire within each of us attracts those of like mind.  Our focused thoughts, words and actions cause the universe to respond accordingly.  Man just needs to start changing his perspective.  Most of the information that we entertain is of a negative nature.  Change and the universe will respond.  It is a universal law.

Yona Unega

           

IT

Everyday we see and hear the things that make up life.  And everyday we present ourselves to an unseen audience, yet recognize only the visible.   Much to our displeasure we prepare ourselves for that which is physically present before us, oblivious to the real substance of IT all.

A subtle energy moves freely throughout the universe, speaking a language of the heart.  The language is not one of emotion or feeling, rather a small vibration emanating from the center of our being.  IT is often referred to as ‘a gut feeling’, ‘an intuition’, ‘a knowing’ or ‘a small still voice’.

IT is everywhere at all times.  IT always is and will always be.  IT is the God of religion, the Great Spirit of traditional cultures, Eochaid Ollathair The Father, The Sacred Tree Bile, The Way of Life, The Fire Within and IT is you.

Everything seen or unseen exists because of IT.  Everything is a mere reflection of IT, manifestations materializing before our eyes.  IT is causal, IT is subtle, and IT is physical.  Circular in ITS motion IT dwells at the center of three concentric rings.

At one time we all had an intimate relationship with the land.  And at times of the year we participated in the celebration of life through ceremony.  The Yule season is one such ceremony.  IT is about the Light, because IT is the Light.  The Light is the Fire and IT is the force behind both Light and its manifestation Fire.

IT is the patience of the Soul and the redeeming nature of our Higher Self.  IT is the salvation that many seek.  IT is the peace that we desire and the force that causes all things to be.  IT is my heart and yours and his and hers and theirs.

IT is our abiding faith.  IT is the sole of both moccasin and boot.  IT is our reason for being.  IT is The Dagda, The White Buffalo Calf Woman, Brahma, The Buddha, The Christ, Krishna, Vishnu and Shiva and The Four Faces of Creator.  IT is Cause and Effect because IT IS.........

Conn Niul 

The Path of the Grandparents – ‘The Way’ (Khotani List #23)

Long ago traditional people followed ‘The Way’ of Grandmother and Grandfather.  The clan system was highly organized and established to maintain equilibrium.  ‘The Way’ of earth and the moon was considered the path of Grandmother and ‘The Way’ of the universe and the sun the path of Grandfather.  Together they formed the complete system of ‘The Way’, each path consisting of both solar and lunar aspects.
  
Today, people are cutoff from the old way.  Each generation like a river, cuts through the granite walls of tradition, creating an ever widening chasm.  ‘The Way’ has become an archaic path that is relegated to dusty old discussions of history that have no relevance in modern society; being traditional means having historical knowledge of an ancient non-functioning society.  Only a handful truly knows the power and relevance of ‘The Way.’
  
What happened?  Material man set out to create that which opposes ‘The Way.’  All one has to do is look at religion.  The three big religions of the world are out of balance, yet man does not see it.  Below is a very short example.

1. God is male
2. Trace the blood through the male line
3. Woman caused man to fall
  
I could go on and on.  Let us take a moment and look at these three.  God is male, absolutely absurd.  Creator is neither male nor female.  Creator is the embodiment of all that exists within the universe.  Poles, the positive (male) and negative (female) flow from Creator and into the universe.  The essence of material creation starts with the solar energy (male) as thought vibrations and manifests through the lunar energy (woman) of form.  Therefore, creation is equally dependant upon the two opposite polls that have a common origin, Creator.
  
Breath Master is no more male than female.  Creator is the embodiment of all that exists.  Yet, man needs to believe in a male dominant system that is governed by a male god sitting upon a masculine throne.  It is pure fiction.
  
Trace the blood through the male line.  Once again man shows his ignorance of universal law.  For traditional people we know that it is the lunar or female energy that creates form or the body that materializes.  All form is of the mother.  Nature’s law teaches us that blood must be traced equally through the female and male lines or we become a weakened diseased entity.  Yet, so-called holy scriptures only mention certain female lines while going on and on endlessly about the male line.
  
Return to nature’s law and nature’s God.  Who is it that framed the stars, sun, moon, planets and constellations?  Nature clearly shows that any plant, animal or human that ignores the pole that gives substance is a weak species that will eventually become diseased and die.  If nature’s law is God’s law then why does man seek to circumvent the Divine?  It is simple; he wants to control you and me.
  
Woman caused man to fall.  Once again, control through divide and conquer.  Man seeks to create an artificial system to control others, yet he realizes that it is a non-living entity.  It cannot maintain itself because it is devoid of key ingredients that produce life.  A seed (negative) is first fertilized (positive) and then the third principal (the manifestation) grows.
  
How can woman be a villain when she is a co-creator?  For this to be we must accept that creation is flawed.  Only the woman carries the creative potential of God.  Her Divine womb seeks to birth a Divine creation.  It is only when man vilifies her that the womb becomes a corrupted place of dark creation.  Sacred Sex becomes the darkened world of perverted sex.  Male dominant religion creates a dark womb.
  
Far from its holy source woman becomes that of her sick male captor.  Needing his covering, protection, advice etc., etc. she becomes nothing more than the false woman of the common law.  This law is not nature’s law, but the imposter of a well thought out plan emanating from the mind of anti-God religionists.
  
Are we to suppose that Breath Master has succumbed to a false way?  Do we suppose that God is dead?  We cannot know the Lunar without the Solar and vise versa.  There is no superior form, rather forms that make up the whole of a Divine system governed by The All knowing, complete in its being.      
  
The ancient clan system worked because it followed ‘The Way’ of God.  Balance was maintained through understanding and following the law of Creator.  Religion sought to bring God’s way down.  Every traditional culture in the world has been assaulted by religionists. History shows what religion has done or attempted to do.  Every time religion conquers a traditional region of the world what follows is alcoholism, drug abuse, spousal abuse, molestation the list is endless.  Male dominant religion DESTROYS.
  
God is balance.  To know the Creator is to know balance.  Man is diseased in his body; his mind functions through a programmed male dominant system that is extremely difficult to overcome.  Our every move is dictated by a mind that has been programmed to filter all things through MALE DOMINANCE.
  
Today we suffer the disease of a male god who is nothing more than an illusion, part and parcel of the matrix.  Every supportive action that we take within this system helps to keep it in place.  We are solar and lunar, producing a third entity within our being.
  
The ‘Great Diamond’ held within that of The Mother is a subtle presence within us men as well.  Every moment in thought, word and action that we honor the center of its existence we participate in overthrowing the death of godless religion.  All ceremonial ground, Asi etc. are a celebration of Grandmother Spirit, that which flows freely from the Creative Force.
  
We are walking embodiments of The Breath Master.  From Grandfather’s first thought waves through Grandmothers subtle manifestation we carry the key principals that make us Divine Sparks of the Ancient White Fire.  Each of us moves because of this ancient fire.  It operates only within that which is truth, universal law.
  
Deep in the center of our being is a knowledge that knows that which TRUTH is, that which SACRED is, that which both SOLAR and LUNAR is, that which defies the illusion of a perverted, sick, diseased male dominant society of religionists.
  
Wake up man and woman.  Divineness is within each of us, we just do not know it.  Throw off all vestiges of that which seeks to enslave and embrace the ‘The Ancient of Ways’, Lehiyugese, Forn Sidhr, Sean Dedma.

Saga Yashkah       
     

 

The Matrix and Ego (Khotani List #22)

The matrix is not man made.  Much has been written about the artificial system many are referring to as the matrix, artificial intelligence etc.  People have the false idea that the origin of this system is man.  Everything that appears to be evil, dark, unholy or unnatural is credited to man.  What of God?
  
Religionists have put many a false spin on truth in their endeavors to control the masses.  As long as people believe that man is capable of ‘Original Creation’ is as long as they will be enslaved.
  
Yes, I have said many times that we are co-creators.  I have also said that we create our own worlds.  However, in the creation process we are never the Originator.  We are simply tapping into the fabric that is already in place.  The material makeup of the matrix existed before man.  Human beings simply learn to manipulate the substance.
  
One of the keys to understanding the matrix is ego.  However, most westerners have a false idea or definition of ego based upon the false definition given by those seeking to control others.  Western man takes an allopathic approach and points to the symptoms of ego much like western doctors defining disease.  The manifestation of a boastful or arrogant nature is not ego, but an imbalance of the ego principal.  I will not bore you with mindless definitions of our modern society’s idea of ego.  However, we will take a moment and look at the ancient teaching on this subject.
  
I once had someone say to me that ego meant “edging God out.”  This is obviously one of those neat little ditties that cause us to spend endless hours chasing our tail.  The following excerpt is from the future book ‘The Art Of Being – Khotani.’
  
“The seeds of differentiation existing in Cosmic Intelligence (Sacred Mind) begin their manifestation at the next level known as Ego.  Through Ego, division occurs in nature, a stage in evolution.  This division of individual realities is not the true essence of the living thing (animal, human, tree etc.) but the point of focus of the Ego that Grandmother (Ulisi) and the Divine Mind use to manifest.  Through this point of focus the qualities of nature are able to diversify, manifesting the five sense organs, the organs of action and the five elements.”
  
This simply states that ego is a natural part of the creation process.  Ego allows for there to be differentiation in the universe.  We would not have a world without it.  There would be no mineral, plant, animal or human kingdoms nor their unique differences within each kingdom without it.  Simply stated, ego is the beginning of all that we see in the material world.
  
Ego is a necessary process of creation to remain in continuum.  Yet, it is also something that we are to eventually overcome.  First we must see and recognize our uniqueness, an individual separate from all other humans, animals, plants and minerals.  We must become familiar with that which we are or think we are.  After numerous times returning in our Soul Walk we begin to discover the illusion of separateness.
  
This is accomplished over a long period of time.  Sooner or later we start to recognize the commonality in all things.  This only happens once the Spiritual Body has matured sufficiently enough to influence the other members of our being like the minds.
  
Ego then is not a symptom but a much needed cause.  It is a necessary aspect of our creation story.  Without ego we fail to see the Source of our Self.  Ego allows for the Spiritual Body to mature on its journey.  All that is good is first seen and recognized through ego.  By identifying ourselves as separate we are moved by the generosity of that which is not of our being.
  
Man manipulates us into believing that it is to be praised or hated.  Those with a lot of ego conquer the world and those that slay it know God.  Both are the twisted view of man’s desire to control others.  The matrix is nothing more than man injecting ego into the web of universal law.  Once man believes that ego is either supreme or evil he is susceptible to the matrix.
  
The matrix existence is solely dependent upon an organized universe subject to Divine law.  Much energy is given to the matrix/artificial intelligence etc. and it’s so called strangle hold on man.  This only perpetuates the system by applying universal law, thinking, speaking and acting (An Tri) feeds the subject of An Tri.
  
It is true that the masses will always feed the false system.  However, in traditional thinking the false system is totally dependent upon Truth for its very existence.  A false system only exists because man knowingly or unknowingly manipulates a universal material that is the original substance of all creation. 
  
Ego is not evil nor is it the ultimate in mastering ourselves.  However, it is a necessary ingredient to all that we know in the world that we hear, see, feel, taste and smell.  It is one of the twenty-four elders of our creation story.  In fact, most religions speak of the twenty-four elders or principals.  Without ego there would be no world and the matrix would be non-existent.

Yona Unega