Question: If the ego is biologically-rooted, genetically propagated, societally reinforced, and strongly reprogrammed, how can it be overcome? Answer: It can be transcended. More important is not the nature of the ego but the problem of identification with it as the me, the I, or myself. The ego was inherited as an it, and is actually an impersonal it. The problem arises because one personalizes and identifies with it. That it of the ego structure is not unique or individual, and it is relatively similar, with karmic variations, in everyone. What really varies from individual to individual is the degree to which one is enslaved by its programs. The degree of dominance is therefore determined by the extent to which one identifies with it. Inherently, it has no power, and the power to decline the egos programs increases exponentially as one progresses spiritually. That is the real meaning of the Scale of Consciousness. I. Reality and Subjectivity, S. 112, 2003
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