Ineffable Ontological Detanglement > Base Manual

The core. The you that perceives, the you that navigates. It is the decision maker, it is the problem solver, it is the actor. It is the spark of personality that governs the construction of your ego, this spark of personality is inherent, you're not getting rid of it no matter how hard you try, you're not adding to it no matter how hard you try. The construction of your ego will govern how you utilize your inherent spark of personality. Where did this spark of personality come from? Why have I had it my entire life? It's mysterious...

While your conditions are foundational, your conditions are not core. The core sits behind your conditions which help govern the construction of your ego.

The ego is the construction of thoughts and memories. Everything you've learned, everything you have built with your life, this is the ego. We ignore Sigmund Freud, we pretend that never happened, we go with where Carl Jung took it. However, he declared it solid, he declared the ego the solid seat of self awareness, the decision maker, the problem solver, the actor, we are removing this aspect of his understanding along with our modern psychedelic enlightenment. The ego is not solid, the ego is guided by the core. Observe the death of your ego and know that you still exist, you are still aware.

I'm Sigmund Freud I thought of it from the Greeks first, yes? Yes? No, this is the term we were already using, since the Greeks, before then it basically goes back to Egypt as ren. However you most certainly gave us a bank of new information on this subject, unfortunately we're pretty sure this information only applies to you.

You don't come into this world without an ego, you still have enough conscious and semi-conscious mind to declare the ego, the ego is established in utero. Even animals, technically, have an ego, however their ego barely registers, all the way down to fruit fly technically, technically there is still an ego. They have no semi-conscious awareness of their existence, but, technically. Any semblance of awareness of existence whatsoever pretty much stops at bat, bat is about the stupidest thing to still sorta almost understand on some level it exists it's behind a pair of eyes. That's semi-conscious understanding of exists, it's not the same thing as us wandering around recognizing the space and ourselves and therefor our own conscious existence. Technically, however, still an ego.

Ego Investment: Foreword by Kit Carruthers

The persona is the face you wear in public, the thing that keeps the ego safe from the other egos, in some situations the very core safe from the other egos.

Drug culture likes to hate on the persona. Well, that's only because you come from a culture that utilizes the persona incorrectly. If used correctly, it's just a thing, it doesn't matter. Wishing to break it all the way into non-existence causes a repulsive non-functioning society.