Barbara Symons - Immortality and the role of the ego...

Barbara Symons Author of: Escaping Christianity ~ Finding Christ and Musings From an Ex Christian Fundamentalist Immortality and the role of the ego... The ego is THE mechanism that can focus thought and emotion for the human in the material worlds. As such it is vital in order for Spirit to have experience and residence while occupying a physical body. We have been inoculated by Spirit. The virgin soil of humanity (symbolized by Mary being overshadowed) was penetrated and this eternal bliss entered into limitation and even death as it was seeking for a helpmate through which it might navigate and occupy physical worlds. Without the human partner, this was not possible. A biological form was evolved and when the time came Spirit pierced our DNA. Eternity is now resident within us. Ah, but the EGO is given the task to self-protect and largely, is anything but self-less. This is our journey then, to surrender willingly to “death” as master of the bo