The Whole Health Center presents

Ego and Essence

our new Thursday evening

zoom series begins this week, May 5

with Paul Weiss

We know every day what it's like to approach life from the ego's point of view. The body-mind is naturally alert to our inner and outer world to advance or protect our acquired identity and thought system. This we do consciously and unconsciously, successfully or unsuccessfully. But since our sense of self exists in our thoughts, it is naturally vulnerable to shifting thoughts and images, and the projections and judgments of our inner and outer worlds that come between us and our direct experience; and that reinforce the paradigm of our separation from others.

We may have also experienced those moments when those mechanisms have relaxed, and our sense of self derives from something less defined and less relative; not from our self-conscious identity, but from some natural and underlying presence, awareness, and availability that is already true of what we are. That is when we are resting in our essence; and we experience – and respond from – our oneness with the moment and

with others, rather than from our separateness.

Understanding and Navigating The Two Paradigms

of our Psycho-Physiological Functioning.

This series is meant to help us distinguish two fundamental modes of our functioning that are central to all of our life experience We will explore the psychology and the physiology of our ego mode of functioning. And we will contrast it with the psychology and physiology of an essence-based or presence-based mode of functioning that allows for awareness rather than judgment, genuine emotion rather than drama, and connection rather than projection and separation.

We will examine these from spiritual, psychological, and brain science points of view,

including the wiring of our four-part brain; the natural history of the ego;

the mechanisms of projection, identification and drama; the impact of trauma; and the

natural maturation of the ego, in which the "I" gradually replaces the "me."

And we will explore our own pathways of conscious development that enable our growing clarity, choice, and natural evolution towards our innate being; and to

our mature and intimate functioning with each other and with the world.

Whole Health Center Members have free access to this program. To learn more about membership- click here or you may register for just this program.