Until you become "spiritually" awake, you are an "empty" "vessel of consciousness" into which God poured His abundance at creation. That emptiness is big enough to contain the fullness of God. "The ego" is a masquerading entity produced by your upbringing and efforts in human culture as you try to fill that huge emptiness using the human method because you were not "spiritually" conscious of the abundance of GOD and the culture of His kingdom within you (see Luke 17:20-21 - KJV). "The ego" is not you, it is who you, the "empty" "vessel of consciousness" have come to identify with, as you gradually wake up from the "sleeping" state of infancy into human adulthood. Its root is your subconscious. It is not you. You are the “empty” "vessel of consciousness" that contains this usurping entity on this plane of life. The Ego is your own consciousness captured by a phantom called "subconscious memories" of your life from birth. This is why it has the power to influence how you perceive, interpret and interact with LIFE and experience yourself.
However, you also contain the fullness of God. That is even more fundamental to your nature. Just as you identified with the ego and became one with it when you woke up into the consciousness of this world, so would you fully identify with God and become one with Him when you finally wake up in the spirit into the consciousness of CHRIST (see John 10:30), the fullness of God and the culture of the kingdom of heaven contained within you. In John 10:10, Jesus said: “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." The thief is that phantom (THE EGO) that has stolen your identity and threatens to destroy your life.
When by just being silently aware (not thinking, just being) in meditation, you once again experience that primordial "emptiness", you will gradually become one with your self, the "empty" "vessel of consciousness", and withdraw the thoughts and emotions that currently define your consciousness from the sub-conscious phantom that constitute your ego, thereby becoming free from what you inadvertently projected as the ego life and the ego world (see Ephesians chapter 4). You will thus receive the GRACE to gradually perceive (ie experience) the PRESENCE of God in you. In Psalm 46:10, God says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” That means God will predominate over the ego.
This is the beginning of your union with GOD and a transmutation in the character of "the ego". The sub-conscious memories that formed the ego will remain, but now without life, without the power to influence your perception, interpretation and interraction with life like they once did. This is the death of "the ego". Now that you have swiveled the light and life of your consciousness away from "the ego", first, to experience your own "emptiness", your lowly helplessness, you will become gradually aware of the PRESENCE of God, the source of your abundance and blessings
