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"So on the basis of the abstract 'criterion' of service—to—others, it's always possible to grow the 'ego of helpfulness'. Very many people have the ego of helpfulness and of course to 'external inspection’, to the socially evaluative eye, the effects which proceed from such orientation seem enough; the results often seem eminent justification of the attitude. What's never perceived with the checklist of the standard psychological pattern, is the tremendous internal imbalance, the swollen disproportion of psychic parts which has taken place at behest of the common ego—interpretation. As you've correctly observed, all that's really taken place in the true or ‘internal’, subtle framework of the being is a massive, almost cripplingly dysfunctional distortion in the ratios—of—balance characterizing the current alignments of the centers; and that distortion, classically, is permitted and encouraged by the primacy of categorial abstraction characterizing the criteria which have been allowed to dominate and in fact to describe, the ego—function. "So although what the personality is 'doing' may seem to others quite meritorious, it in fact establishes no net improvement. The personality has not purchased its way to a higher—density position on the basis of what it has 'done', or the 'positive' effects which may have emanated from its actions. This, incidentally, takes care of the classic question re the manifest 'ambiguity' of results, i.e. how often 'positive' effects seem to come from deliberately negative actions, and vice versa — there is no credit extended, or spiritual consideration registered, for 'actions' in themselves whether technically 'positive' or 'negative', whether bearing sweet or bitter fruit etc." "That's not the criterion. It just isn't. After all, how do you weigh the effect? Certainly her care and kindness promote a kind of good will, a 'spiritual' example...and at the same time encourage a grossly unbalanced, doctrinaire attitude toward sexuality, population regulation, the 'expectations' of 'Divine being' while inferentially promoting a personality cultism of grotesque egoity — after all, since there are manifestly few 'MTs' of her particular type and calling, what overweening pride authorizes such a soul to state that all those ‘born unwanted into the world' should just be ‘brought to her'...! Oh hell yes..." "It's still there, and it's still important; but as usual the importance that really attaches to it is chronically misperceived at the sluggish,3rd—density level. In keeping with the predictable modus operandi of this level, 'service—to—others' is taken to be some key of recitation given to the ego whereby it may 'correctly' display the ‘answer' that will act to promote it; it's grasped as the chief clue as to how the ego may best 'show off, how it may draw attention to itself and so be perceived in the 'winning' light — just like conventional school, you know, always looking for the catechistic recital that will objectively 'prove' the ego's worth as an exterior display of Rewardable Effort. "The ego's always looking for the thing it can do in order to achieve some imaginary minimal percentage in the 'required' expenditure of energy. It may not possess subtle insight; it may not have ever generated an independent ambition or innate—born curiosity with respect to its own being sufficient to have achieved any of the philosophical acumen characteristic of those ‘different’ ones, the baffling oddities in our human-history; it may not bear much more than a perplexed relation to those occasional teachings of occasional, 'elevated' personalities or extraordinary sources that come along to furnish the real indicators and directional arrows toward Freedom, toward Conscious resolution with Whole—being value — but, by god, ego certainly knows what it can do, ego certainly understands where it does habitually thrive and therefore where it may best stand in the 'spiritual' spotlight to Shine according to its comprehension: ego always ‘accepts' Divine tutelage best where that counsel may seem to intersect the 206 T-Bird_Vs_The_Flying_saucers.htm against which the mind may accurately assess its real room for growth. "Then you mean...even Mother Teresa..." "I see what you mean. But then, what happened to our 'service—to—others' category anyway"!"