Jonathan Evatt Online

In many spiritual teachings and also through the words of people I know and meet, I discern what I would best describe as  form of multiple personality disorder in relationship to the ego. What I observe is an approach which perpetuates an apparent split between the “Self” within Man, and with the so-called “ego” (which is the "I" within Man). What is this ego that is talked about as some kind of entity separate to the Self that is identifying it and talking about it? Often I hear the ego being talked about in third person — this is me and that is my ego, "Oh, my ego really wanted me to get that new car... but I thought the better of it". Who was it thinking the better of it?