"Getting rid of" your ego is just another way of "one-upping" everyone else i.e. an ego trip. If you desire to kill your ego, you are still driven by desire. If instead you lack all desire, ego disappears by itself.
I have it. rather crazy book and wonderful all at once.
For me, the ego is the wrong method to promote personal growth. It is striving to succeed out of fear of failure and ridicule. Without ego, one can approach a task without fear with only the thought to do the best of one's own ability. And I'm not talking about 'a close enough for government work' type of effort, but a real, honest try. Of course this follows with a little Yoda philosophy. 'Do or do not. There is no try.' Which has some honesty to that statement as well.
I respectfully disagree.
Your questions are disjointed. Try to come up with one clear, simple question, without the rambling, and use that as a foundation from which to venture forth. Fanciful questions produce fanciful answers. I know you're sincerely searching for something, but you're all over the place...you don't really know what. What is that bulls-eye that you're shooting for? Killing your ego is too nebulous a concept; the ego is the I, and you can't kill the I. You don't want to. It is your whole universe.
It all depends on one important thing - MOTIVES. If you say to yourself "ego is getting in my way. If I kill it, I will be so much better off. I will be free of desire. I will be nice to people. I will feel no sadness, no regret. I must kill my ego." - then your ego is actually tricking you. You DESIRE to become this "perfect" human being - a role model, a hero, a demigod. That's your ego talking.
After listening to Rogan vs Crowder, I question the value of psychedelics for ego reduction. Maybe it was the booze, but Rogan didn't seem very humble at all.
