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A friend once referred to our ego-centric views of the world as the “illusion of the central position.” I didn’t get the meaning immediately, but with a bit of reflection I understood his point.

We humans repeatedly see ourselves as having the best idea and wanting to put our perspective at the center of what needs to happen. But maturity is, in part, getting beyond this illusion. Essential as ego development is in childhood, staying there only assures that in adulthood we will use childish ways of seeing the world to describe reality. 

When we live the illusion of the central position, we see humans, including ourselves, as the culmination of the four and a half billion years evolutionary process. Everything until now has been prelude for our arrival! I’ve heard motivational and self-help speakers put it this way as they seek to stir us into believing we can do what we haven’t yet tackled.

Bur what if it ain’t so? Surely Earth’s processes can generate a species of human capacities or greater that can work with her instead of destroy her? If the central position is illusion, what would you say is reality?

I believe there are far more profound psychic spaces to locate our identity than our egos. Wouldn’t all of Creation rejoice if we did?

Comments

[Chris]

Well Put!