Egocentripidy
Of course you don't recognize the word. It isn't one as far as I know. Consider its implications, though. The meaning would indicate an action of spinning toward center. We are constantly spinning inward as we consider choices we encounter as our world 'vibe' becomes more in-tense. There is a statement that a dear friend made, now a member of my Dead Council, that has stuck with me as much as any other to date. The statement was this: 'There is no ego without wego.' Simple and profound isn't it? What does it really mean? I think we learn it as children and teenagers while we are developing our desire and will to succeed. Each of us has this basic mechanism intact at our center.
Think back for a moment to when you were a teenager. With respect to the potential diversity of backgrounds, most of us were peering into the immediate future with trepidation and tenacity, so we bought into the competition game. It was an outward display of our ego, attempting to be as magnificent as it could be in the light of day. On the other hand we were shy and timid, avoiding the obvious harm that we could see the egos of others inflicting on each other. The pure ego enjoyed life, the competition, and the challenge without attachment. It participated in the moment for the shear pleasure of it [the moment] in most cases. Just look at teenagers today if you are forgetting. They are so 'in the moment' focused that life is totally about THEM. WE were just as engaged. Some of us still are unfortunately.
What we had the opportunity of learning was the difference in how it made us feel inside. This was usually never talked about though. We were expected to perform, keep complaints to a minimum, and never talk about our feelings. Now we have a whole generation of rap singers (I cringe at 'singers') that are shouting their feelings at the top of their lungs capacity to project their voices. Why do you think that is happening? You guessed it... our suppression of them in the past. Not the teenagers... the emotions and expression of feelings. Even with the 'make love not war' generation, as intense as it was, was mostly silent in their expression of emotions en masse. We were pissed off about the war, wanting to find love and affection instead, turning on and tuning out. Now we are faced with the results and aren't even aware of what is happening, or why, in some cases.
We do know what is happening though. We are learning about the direction that the ego has to take to truly self-express. We've been taught to deny it, suppress it, go beyond it, put it aside, and stuff it. How about integrating it? It would seem that the ultimate goal of the ego is not self-recognition... Self-recognition instead. Why else would we be so obsessive about ourselves? What about ME? We ALL do it. So let's follow that natural stream of consciousness, spinning inward toward center... or where ever we happen to stop. What do you think we would find there... Center? Right back where we were as teenagers. The difference is now we have the wisdom to recognize that we all have commonality beyond scientific sameness. When we find center, we find others, too. We begin to recognize the natural flow toward collaboration and sharing of energy, time and resources that bring happiness and prosperity to everyone involved. That is the FEELING of WEGO.
Currently there are pockets of people around the world that are working toward achieving a greater connectedness to what allows us all to move beyond polarity paradigms, releasing competition and engaging cooperation. These will grow as me move into our new millennium. People are tired of the senselessness of war and its machinery, mechanisms, and manipulations. We are moving beyond Peace (still indicates a victor and vanquished) to Harmony among people and planet. This is our next evo-leap. Make it so....