The journey is essentially about turning the mind (ego) on itself—becoming self-observant—in order to shift the momentum of our energy from unconsciously operating out of a conditioned response to life to allowing a greater intelligence to inform our response to life, on a moment-to-moment basis.

Prior to embarking on the inner journey, we learn, from childhood onwards, how to respond to life in ways that protect our sense of identity. These early experiences quickly set the stage for the behavioral patterns that’ll drive us for the rest of our life (if we never challenge them).

Our ego is like a sponge that takes in all of the prevailing thoughts from the society, culture and family we’re born into, along with our experiences that contribute to the makeup of our psychological self and organizes them into the way in which we view ourselves and our relationship with the world.

From here, we associate who we are as this web of relationship between the thoughts we’ve learned to think and the experiences we’ve learned to define ourselves by. This is what creates the veil between knowing ourselves as a soul and falsely …

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