VICKI ANDERSON: THE EGO AND THE ID is a prominent paper that was written in 1923 by Dr. Sigmund Freud as an analytical study of the human psyche. It is of fundamental importance in the development of psycho-analytic theory.

In his paper, Freud wrote that the id is our conscious, the ego is our sub-conscious and the super-ego is our Spirit.



If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from Heaven.
I Corinthians 15:44-47

Your ego was created as a survival mechanism when you descended in consciousness during the Fall of Man. But your Spirit is still merged with God. So, as you awaken to this understanding, it is your Spirit who is carrying out God's Divine plan for you.

Often referred to as your 'higher self', your Spirit carries with it the faculties of clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience and intuition. Stored in a quantum state in your DNA, it is the multi-dimensional part of you that never left the Garden. And your sub-conscious mind is the gateway to it.

The man who enters by the Gate is the shepherd of his sheep. The watchman opens the Gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice.
John 10:2-3

As an information processor, the conscious mind can only process forty bits of information per second. But the sub-conscious mind is one million times more powerful. It is the sub-conscious mind that stores the past, but lives in the present. It is this mind that continuously replays in the present the events that have taken place in the past.

The ego is the one who rants, blames, defends, judges, justifies, whines, doesn't forgive, never forgets, expects the worst and trusts no one.
Dr. Sonia Choquette

So the first step in connecting with our higher self is to quiet the ego - the lower self who lives in our sub-conscious. We need to clear from our sub-conscious any energies that we no longer need if we want to leave the old paradigm behind and become one with our Spirit.

We must come to understand that the events that cause our emotional issues are deliberately orchestrated by our Spirit. This is done as part of the Divine plan, both for our own growth and for the growth of humanity. The people who cause our unwanted emotional issues are not really responsible for their actions at all. It is their loving and compassionate Spirit who, from the soul level, agrees for them to play the 'bad guy' in each of the karmic dramas in your life. And your Spirit also agrees for you to play the 'bad guy' from time to time, so they too can grow emotionally and spiritually. Both of these Spirits, yours and theirs, love you more than you can know.

In Zen, a duality between Higher Self and Lower Self is not made because - if you believe in the Higher Self, this is a simple trick of the Lower Self.
Alan Watts