Medusa symbolizes the multiple ego |
The ego and its dissolution
The separate I or ego is a kind of energy (not a thought) that creates the sense that we are the body; in other words that ''the body is me'' or ''the body is what I am''. Identifying with the body we feel and think that as a ''body-me'' we have a heart to feel and a mind to think, imagine, reason, etc.
We identify with the feelings, emotions, sensations, impulses and thoughts in the same way we identify with the body.
The ego is the factor of all identifications. The ego makes us identify with the body, with the psychological functioning and conditioning and the external objects, persons and situations as well.
The central way to dissolve the ego is to disidentify from feelings, emotions, sensations, impulses, thoughts and the ego itself (the sense I'') and identify with the silent space of awareness which is the ever present background of everything that it is manifested in us and all external (sensory) experiences.