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Post Ego

Everyday Post-Ego Practice For The Permanent Natural High

The simple path to inner peace

Clem Samson
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9 min readAug 3, 2024
Photo by Iva Rajović on Unsplash

Anybody can do it. You don’t even need to have read the post-ego bible, which is available here in the link at the end of the article.

After you do this practice and experience the transcendent state of post ego, you might want to explore further the philosophy that underpins this practice. But it is not necessary.

This practice is a gift to mankind, free for all to share, in hopes that we can transcend our selfish, myopic and insane way of being and perhaps survive for a few more generations.

Right now, it’s not looking so good, I’ll admit it. There are madmen saber rattling with nuclear weapons. There is the climate change debacle. And there is not a lot of optimism in the world.

But we should be optimistic. We’ve made it this far as a species. We just need to make one subtle shift in our psychological point of view. That is the shift to post ego from ego.

How do we do it?

We work the seven labyrinths.

The way our ego captures us and imprisons us in falsehood has been deconstructed. These are the prisons

  1. Thought
  2. Emotion
  3. Ambition
  4. Relationships
  5. Time
  6. Impermanence

After you make it through those six labyrinths, you find yourself at the seventh labyrinth: Post Ego. Yes, transcendence is somewhat of a maze itself. It’s easy to get lost in the boundlessness. It’s confusing to be suddenly non-dual. We treat the liberation of self as its own potential prison. (Spiritual materialism.)

Anyhow, here is the method. Sit down in a comfortable chair and go through the labyrinths one by one. To find your way out of each labyrinth, you will begin to use that non-linguistic part of your thinking, that part of your brain that is capable of solving puzzles and paradoxes. This type of thinking is often called intuition. We call it puzzle breathing. Breathe deeply and slowly as you begin to try to solve the puzzle of your particular imprisonment on this day. After you solve it and…

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A Place to Be Funny Without Being a Jerk

Clem Samson
Clem Samson

Written by Clem Samson

Humorist, satirist, poetist, journalist. Creative Writing Prof. Buy his The Seven Labyrinths here and go post ego! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3Q2CWS2

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