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The Ego represents more the commonality of experience, while the Identities generally, but not always represent individualities. Commonalities of experience produce a similarity of interpretive associations and Interpretive Context. Thus thunder and lightening will evoke similar associations for everyone.
Most people should be able to relate to others on the Ego level, as what the body universally experiences. Various Egos have more in common than dissimilarity. Everyone eats in some way and somehow. Many if not most differences come with the creation of Identities, that are alternatives to the Ego, like the Identity of the risk-taking stunt-man or the night owl.
Everyone has an Ego. Everyone has one or more Identities. Both the Ego and the Identities are used as interpreters of reality, relative to
circumstance and situation. There is only one Ego, but it is often buried by Identities, and there are many methods and techniques of discovering the true self, which simply means here, the discovery of the Ego.
Generally the individual uses the Ego to interpret in specific ways, primarily from the perspective of the body, but also will usually have one or more Identities as creations of the mind, which are used mostly to interpret the world, from perspectives created for the purposes of producing alternatives to the limitations of the body and Ego. For instance in ordinary life of the body and Ego, the individual will not encounter any experience for the occupation of surgeon, and must adopt the Identities of student, intern and finally say a heart specialist.
If one is to understand one's true motives in the circumstances of life,
the understanding of the Ego, the Identities and their relationships may be of some advantage. The
Principle Interpreter means either the Ego or some Identity is used as the primary means of interpretation.
Metaphysical Psychology One (4 of 22)
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