from Letter Four “Imbued with Light”

...Enlightenment means that formlessness is taking deliberate form in you. It is giving
you a profound sense of appreciation for the objects and essences around you. It is
infusing and radiating out from you into other beings and objects, lifting them,
energizing them and sensitizing them. It clarifies the understanding of integrated life
and wholeness among all creatures. This, incidentally, does not guarantee great
intelligence, but it does bring resourcefulness and vision.

“Can’t intelligence come out of ego as well?”

Indeed, it can and did repeatedly in human culture. Ego can be, and was a huge
stimulus to creativity and development of increased awareness. Let me take this
opportunity to clarify what I’m saying about the ego. Your age was so dominated by
it, both collectively and individually, that it is the major feature we remember of
your civilization. Ego conditioned everything you thought, and thought about—your
entire identity. In my time, we still have vestigial egos, not unlike the appendix in
your body, but it never dominates us or governs our identity. What it does for us is
trigger early development, and later it spices up our lives, in small doses; we can see
it quite clearly and turn it on or off, as desired.

Any time you live in a duality system, there will be at least remnants and semblances
of separation from Source. In these letters I will speak of egoless or ego-free qualities,
but nothing is absolute on the physical planes. Thinking, acting and speaking are
always done in relative terms.

“All right. It’s good to know that. But how can your egos coexist with holistic
awareness?"

In vigilan society, we have a phase of our lives where ego plays a part, longer for
some than others. It is in our youth, when we need to differentiate from the oneness
to a degree. Even so, it is never dominant over appreciation. During this period, the
ego assists in the development of individuality, in ways similar to humans. It is
useful in giving us a face to the outer world—a personality, if you will. As part of this
process, we establish our sense of destiny and desires for engaging life. In youth we
explore our passions more overtly and actively, as we explore our newly manifesting
being. A small amount of ego is very helpful in this...


Copyright © 2009 by Robert Potter