The Sly Pirate!

[Goddess Lily Seymour]

Archangel Zadkiel has said that the "ego is a sly pirate" and will steal your peace and joy through manipulating your emotions and attention. How does this happen?

When Spirit manifested into an individualized form, the ego was designed to be its servant. This individualized energy identifies with your body. And its job is to help keep you safe.

The ego is actually a 'living tissue' that actually permeates your cellular structure. Over time, due to some interference energies, the ego grew and captured the identity of the consciousness. Thus, many people do not know the difference between their Soul energy and their Personality-Self (ego). The brain and the ego have become active partners, thus thoughts, emotions and bodily sensations all offer the ego a sense of identity.

Awakening is the process of discovering that your Authentic Being is an energy, not a body or a mind. It requires that we dissolve the investment we made by identifying with the ego as self. Thus we begin to awaken to our true identity!

Spiritual growth is a process of allowing the Authentic Self to come forward while the ego declines in its influence. This can take time due to the patterns of belief structures, emotional wounds and the emotional attachments that we all create along the path of our life. The work of conscious traveler is to become aware of the signals from the soul and to differentiate those from the signals of the ego-self.
Archangel Zadkiel also reminds us: If it does not bring you Joy, then why are you doing it? This beautiful quotation carries with it the reminder that we have a choice! All authentic action begins with an intentional choice.

To awaken to our true power means that we emphasize our soul and detach in gratitude
from the ego.

Remember, the ego is part of having a body, so it is along for the ride. There is no need to be at war with your ego. There is also no need to dwell in pain-based emotions, which are the sole creation of the ego. The ego was birthed from the energy of separation while the soul is birthed of the energy of Union. In Union there is deep peace and Joy.

The ego, as a sly pirate, will always color your perception (and thus your emotions) to suit it's personal agenda, which is to maintain control over consciousness. The ego does not mind if you feel pain, because it believes that its limited perceptions are valid. When we move into soul-based living, we discover more transcendent perspectives that the ego can not initially comprehend.

The spiritual journey is thus one of living a Soul-based life.

This means we "thank" the ego every time we find ourselves not experiencing Peace, Love or Joy. Yes, by saying "thank you" to the ego, we acknowledge it as a servant and are grateful for its reminder to make a new conscious choice.

In 2012 Atlantean revelations, we introduce the concept of a "Joy Elevator". Joy is the signal from the soul that you are where you are meant to be...that you are doing exactly what you ought to be doing. Even temporarily uncomfortable experiences can be held in the energy of Joy when you recognize that the experience is a temporary stepping stone resulting from the integration of soul-decision in an ego-based world!

The ego must learn to love the Soul; to do so takes the development of trust and the relaxation of the need to control. Joy is a indeed choice. The path of Self-Ascension offers many practices and reminders that help us strengthen our capacity to move through the illusions of separation and realign with the Joy of Union with the Soul.

Source: TOSA Center For Enlightened Living/Weekly Newsletter/www.selfascension.com