Book Review: Ego Degradation

 
Ego Degradation by Alexx Shaw
This book begins with a wide ranging discussion on ego. How, after years of evolution, ego is the primary driving force to every aspect of our lives, and visible to all as brain personified. And Ego Degradation as the pulling back of the show curtain we use to shield the ego, which can happen due to many a reason. Chapter 2 discusses Id, Ego, Superego and the pleasure principle and Karmic lessons. The next chapter is about the human brain, its functional organization and various mechanisms of brain waves, OBE, or trauma. Now comes a foray into emotions and feelings. How connected, yet different, those are, and how positive or negative, those could be. Next comes chapter 5, which introduces us to the tricks, ego plays, and how to avoid pitfalls here. A chapter about navigating Ego Degradation effortlessly, follows, which lays emphasis on approaches of acceptance or submission that can be of help. Quite naturally, the next chapter deals with what to do next, once one has fathomed the sea of ego-degradation. How different, one would now feel, and how to avoid stigma, and also some more features of relevance. The last chapter is an answer to all the problems, ego can cause - non-attachment. How, non-attachment is not at all detachment, and how it is a state of ebb and flow and practice of mindfulness.
I found this book an extensive study of human mind. It explains the role ego plays as perceived reality, and the role we can be of, in maintaining it fine and healthy.