EGO ENLIGHTENMENT AND LIBERATION Volume (4) |Episode (51)
January 22, 2018
Host: Sheryl Glick R.M.T.
Special Guest: Cate Montana
Sheryl Glick host of Healing From Within” and author of Life Is No Coincidence and The Living Spirit a tale of people learning to recognize and use spiritual communication for healing, for miracles, and as a guide to soul awareness. Sheryl is delighted to have Cate Montana author of The E-Word:Ego Englightenment and Other Essentials join us today to help listeners discover that the ego we hear so much about is really a great friend and helper for living our best life and a guide for discovering the real “you “within.
Listeners of “Healing From Within” have found over the years that Sheryl’s guests and she explore physical qualities of life and spiritual attributes in hopes of discovering who we truly are and how we may through self-investigation and self-mastery of feelings and emotions improve the quality of life, personally and collectively. The world both “within and outside” are parts of the circle of eternal life. When they are seen not as separate but unified the oneness of being allow many possibilities for miracles, joy and love to manifest.
Cate Montana a top network TV Editor embarked on an intensive quest to find the answers to what was missing in her life and indeed what is missing in most people’s lives. Cate exposes the dysfunctional nature of the personal ego and shows how our sense of Self can be expanded into a more evolved level of functioning called Transpersonal Consciousness. We can discover what the ego really is and how to strip away ego perpetuated illusions about religion, spirituality, and enlightenment.
Cate shares with us that the passing of her dear friend Rhiannon from cancer and though materially she had everything, she was basically and profoundly unhappy and angry. Cate hoped to find a way to help others find more fulfillment and happiness in their lives. It is often a great love or loss that opens the soul to the mysteries of life and brings answers to our deepest held questions.
Of course understanding who we are and how we function in relationship to the world is the first step in a quest for personal growth. Cate describes the ego as a mental program and the vehicle of identity we use to operate in the world. We couldn’t function in a healthy way without it. Problems only arise when we’re ignorant of the nature and purpose of the ego and unaware of the fact that some inaccurate sensory perceptions we experience through the human body end up programming us to think and act in certain highly limited and destruction ways.
Sheryl shares with Cate that she is aware that perhaps as many as 80 percent of the population are functioning without a clear understanding of the programming/labeling nature of the ego. The ego keeps them in a state of fear limitation and suffering: making them believe it is the only way to survive or thrive in a physical world. Many are therefore unable to remember another part of their life force: their inner intuitive soul wisdom which could help them know themselves, others and humanity in an awe inspiring way. Many think of the ego as an enemy to be conquered, but Cate sees the ego as a necessary component for being able to function in the world, or the dream of the world to be more exact, without a coherent sense of self. The ego is a vehicle for consciousness. It is a tool that enables us to interact and have the human experience. It can however be evolved to become a vehicle for an ever-expanding consciousness of the I AM, for tremendous soul growth.
Cate shows us what human perceptions are inaccurate and problematic. “If we perceive the world as some “thing” outside of us; if we perceive other people as outside of us and disconnected from us, if we perceive ourselves as purely physical and mortal, then we can only expect a world filled with insecure, self-protective, competitive,
