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Happy
Birthday Ego - 4,000 Years-Old
©Excerpt based on the book: The Uncommon
Path, O-Books, June 2009.
Mick Quinn's work is also published as
Poder Y
Gracia, Spain - June 2007.
P: As I learn to act with power and grace in community with other
people, is it unreasonable to expect that the ego-mind
will kindly step aside as the primary custodian
of my destiny?
MQ: Yes, and here’s why: It’s taken us 14 billion years to get
to this point in our evolution. A new earth is not
simply going to appear by the end of next month. And
remember, the
ego-mind is not the enemy, just your attachment to its
commands.
P:
But, where did it come from in the first place?
MQ:
God made the ego at the end of the sixth day. But, he
wasn’t happy with it so he fed it to a fish he’d
created the previous day. The ego, however, was smart,
so it broke free from the belly of the fish and has
tormented humanity ever since.
P:
Get outta here!
MQ:
Seriously though, the evolution of the separate
sense-of-self and the ego-mind, were all positive
emergences in consciousness, despite the bad rap they
often get. Let’s look at a brief summary of that
development, based on a broad consensus of cultural
anthropologists and historians.
P:
Sounds good.
MQ:
We find anatomically modern humans first appearing in
fossil records about 200,000 years ago. But,
for a long, long time if ‘you’ and ‘I’ met,
by the entrance of the cave for instance,
there would be no-thing
to say. The fact that ‘you’ and ‘I’ were
preverbal also meant that we were pretty much
thought-less. We were stuck in an unconscious ‘now’.
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Mick Quinn, All Rights Reserved
Mick
Quinn is the author of The
Uncommon Path and Poder Y Gracia
and the founder of Choice
for Enlightened Living Foundation. Mick's work
is quoted in The LA Times, Yahoo!, CNN
Living, and Woman's World. Gary
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House) author said this book is "informative
and gripping". Raquel
Torrent
– Psychologist
and founder of the Spanish Integral Association
said, “Mick Quinn’s style is clear and direct -
like silence making music”. Mick lives in Utah
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