I don’t think this has been mentioned on the forum yet, (to my knowledge, if this conversation is happening I am unaware of it), which I am surprised by considering this is a forum dedicated to energy work. Actually, I suppose it’s not that crazy when you take into account that people resist feeling bad/unpleasant and think something is wrong if they do, and that they need to immediately fix it.
For the record, I speak as someone who is still learning everyday, I don’t by any means know everything, but the things I am writing about here I speak about from my direct experience and they can be verified and tested easily by anyone reading this. Hopefully this will be useful information for most.
If everyone is so seriously dedicated to the alchemy of ones ego, they should know about spiritual bypassing. That is essentially when you use a belief, or mentality to avoid the confrontation of something. You are in a state of resistance and avoidance, which actually prevents you from resolving the original perceived “issue” and the universe will magnify it by default.
If you have trauma, but refuse to ever look at the original wound because you believe focusing on anything negative is bad - that’s spiritual bypassing. And there’s thousands of examples of this, I don’t need to list them all.
You can always combine fields with your natural spiritual practice of awareness, but using them exclusively to avoid yourself might end up creating more you are unaware of about yourself than otherwise. (Although I suspect most on here combine both practices anyway, thankfully).
Also, getting “rid” of your ego as if it’s some kind of parasite, is a very damaging concept in my opinion, because it is just what you are identified with, your sense of self at the moment. It can be anything from being “sexy” to being “suicidal”. The boundary between yourself and other. Then to complicate things your ego is compartmentalized, into smaller egos. Like the ego of an organ. The ego of a cell. The ego of a personality fragment you have, the ego of one of your parents that you adopted in your childhood. If you were one unified being, there would be no inner conflicts, no incongruency, no disharmony, no dis-ease.
The alchemy of the ego, includes it’s refinement and unification, ideally, without rejecting yourself in the process.
Goodluck to everyone on your journey of awareness and spirituality, hopefully each day is only better for you, hopefully someone found this to be helpful, and enlightening.
