(EvolutionNews.org)

By Mike Zonta, H.W., M.

In Prosperos classes we’re taught about ontogenetic and phylogenetic information. Ontogenetic information is stuff we ;pick up from birth on. You could say it’s our many ego identities. Things we pick from here and there that compose what we call our identity.

Phylogenetic information is information imprinted in us from a biological perspective. Our DNA. We usually think of our bodies as something separate from who we are because we usually have little control over them.

Without our bodies … Well, they’re pretty important to get us from one place to the other, for example.

So it’s easy to understand how ontogenetic information, which is basically stuff we made up about ourselves or accepted as true ’cause somebody else made up something about us …

We call this the ego self. Or the ego state. We really have many ego selves.

But phylogenetic information can be looked at in the same way, you know. Somewhere along the line our body’s cells figured out how to create a heart or a pair of legs and they passed this information on from one generation to the next.

Since we are all the beneficiaries of this information, we don’t question it too much. But that doesn’t make this information sacrosanct, just like our egos are not sacrosanct.

We need our egos just to get across the street, not only psychologically, but physically as well.

So we might as well refer to phylogenetic information as phylogenetic egos. Like our ontogenetic egos, they can be improved upon or even transcended.

This might be an ego-deflating concept to our trillions of cells, but it’s an inflating and exciting concept for those of us who want to transcend our ego-based identities.

For a list of Prosperos classes, go to: https://www.theprosperos.org/teaching\