Good morning everybody, Stefan Maloney and FreedomMain, hope you're doing well.

Let's do a nice posture-improving portrait.

Walks today and we are talking about a great question that came in on freedomain.locals.com.

I hope you will check out that platform freedomain.locals.com.

And the question was, what is the ego and why does it matter?

What is the ego, what why does it matter?

Now the ego gets a very bad rap, egoism is considered to be a kind of predatory selfishness

and you say, ah, you must overthrow the ego, you must overcome the ego.

And I don't agree.

That's a foundational principle that I've worked with since the very beginning of certainly

this show and even many years before that.

I think it really came about over the course of therapy when I had the most outrageous dreams

that were truly shocking to me, morally and metaphysically and so on.

And it turned out, low and behold, that those dreams contained great wisdom, truth,

virtue and value about my life and saved my semi-scrony ass.

So there's an old statement from a philosopher, I think he was French, which makes him suspect,

but nonetheless we get a wisdom where we can, which said, nothing human is alien to me.

So I wanted you to try an idea, I wanted to try a thought because this could be one of

these thoughts that really, totally and deeply changes your life, changes your mind.

And the thought goes something like this, what if nothing within you was bad for you?

But if nothing within you was bad for you, isn't that an interesting thought?

Because to say that something that is within you is bad for you, innately no matter what

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