As always, true self arises as ego dies.

I am no"thing". I simply "am".

Challenging someone else's ego does not facilitate enlightenment, it only manifests knee-jerk reactions of fear and hostility.

Enlightenment can not be withheld or given away, it can only be accepted from within.

Interactions between humans are characterized by conscious, semi-conscious and unconscious behavior dependent upon the degree of true self (consciousness) present in the moment. There is never dialogue between ego and true self because true self arises as ego dies.

Robert Fripp said, "Tuning a Mellotron doesn't."

Woodchuck Pirate says, "Talking to ego isn't."

Ego is just a story, it isn't real. Sooner or later conscious people realize ego doesn't listen because ego can't listen, only true self listens because only true self is real. Mankind is largely unconscious and the answer is only found within not without. Such is the nature of freewill.

Woodchuck Pirate
aka Raymond J Raupers Jr USA
woodchuckpirate.com