If you’ve read books on mysticism and enlightenment, you’ll know that mystics and psychologists often focus their attention on the ego. They do this because the ego is a ruthless little self-reflection machine. From the perspective of inner alchemy, much of what is said about the ego holds true with some important nuances that I may explore further in another article. But for our purposes here, it is fairly accurate to describe the ego as, to some extent, a worn-out circuit that endless...