
Let's start at the easiest place: the dismantling of the false ego.
A great bald man (Sir Grant Morrison) described the false ego as a scaffolding around the structure of the true ego. As the fragile skeleton of our ego rises in childhood, the false ego is built up as a support system. We learn to like this and hate that. We learn to "express ourselves" and "be an individual". We learn to believe in Jesus instead of the Batman.
All of these lessons give us a stable sense of...