A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y

 

Id
Idealization
Idealizing Transference
Ideals
Identification
Identity

Identity Attachment
Image
Impeccability
Impersonal Witness
Impressionability
Individual
Individuality
Individuation Narcissism
Inertia
Infant Soul
Inner development
Inner Journey
Inner Mother
Inner Realization
Inner Space
Innocence
Inquiry
Insecurity
Insight
Instinct
Instinctual Drives
Integration
Intelligence
Interference
Introjection
Intuition
Ipseity
Issues

Insecurity

Of course all the myriad manifestations of narcissistic insecurity arise as certain ego identifications are dropped in the process of inner realization. Our unlimited hunger for love, money, admiration, power, insight, even inner development and enlightenment, come to the fore, and we see that they are continually generating fear and anxiety. Seeing these desires for what they are, and disidentifying with the structures they support, generally precipitates the experience of Being in the aspect of the Personal Essence. (The Pearl Beyond Price, pg 63)

 

 

Ego stance and insecurity

But when we do become aware of this basic stance of ego, we can begin to understand the psychodynamic causes of our self-centeredness. We gradually become aware of how thoroughly we are enslaved to security in all its forms, physical, emotional, and financial. We become aware of the deep insecurity that is basic to ego, both to its sense of self and to its sense of individuality. This insecurity results from the fact that ego is not Being; how could a structure of images, concepts, memories, and feelings be secure? And the insecurity might for a while seem to become even more pronounced as we learn how readily these images evaporate as a result of our simply seeing them for what they are. Actually the basic insecurity that has always been there in the unconscious is simply being exposed by the process of dissolving ego identifications. (The Pearl Beyond Price, pg 61)