yo t. i was thinking today at work and did a little writing about my thoughts on what you said about "sacrificing our ego needs and wants to what the Self would have with us" towards individuation. I'm thinking that before you can do that, you have to consciously experience ego. and also begin knowing that Self and maybe it's not so much sacrificing one to the other, but maybe a joining of the two? Like ego has to be conscious enough to participate? Interesting stuff, t. I'm going to do some more reading about all of this before I come back so we can discuss it more.

eta: i'm sure i'm completely wrong in all of this right now. you only barely began to scratch the surface of the surface the other night.