Do you believe in the ego self?

The ego and the spirit do not know each other. The separated mind cannot maintain the separation except by dissociating. Having done this, it denies all truly natural impulses, not because the ego is a separate thing, but because you want to believe that you are. The ego is a device for maintaining this belief, but it is still only your decision to use the device that enables it to endure. T-4.VI.4:1-4

A Course in Miracles . Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

At magical and mythic stages of consciousness we believe we are something special. We have yet to wake up from the dream of separateness from our Divine Source. We think this thing we call ourself is real when it is really an illusion. Jesus tells us in the Course that we maintain this belief through dissociation. Then, Jesus tells us that it is belief in this illusional self that allows the illusion to continue. It is like magic which seems so real at the time we perceive it but afterwards we get curious about how the magician performed the trick. As we ask this question we start to wake up and move from the magical and mythic to the rational and then to the nondual level of consciousness. This waking up and growing up is a further development of spiritual intelligence.

How does Unitarian Universalism facilitate the growth of spiritual intelligence? Sadly, it doesn’t because it has lost its way and no longer is interested in facilitating spiritual growth but rather in social justice issues which are the concern of lower levels of consciousness because we are led to believe that they are real and not the result of our own illusional making.

Today, it is suggested that we consider the stages of spiritual intelligence and discern at what stage we primarily reside and that of our congregation and spiritual leaders.