The ego is the part of us that creates and maintains a sense of separate self-identity, shaped by our experiences, beliefs, and survival instincts. In the Divine Self Embodiment process, we relate to the ego as something that evolves through awakening rather than dissolves entirely. We honor the stage or phase that the ego’s consciousness evolution is rooted in. It is not about obliterating or going on a witch hunt around the ego, yet rather supporting its transformation and awakening to occur.
We have discovered in our own processes and in serving others that the ego transformation can be named as the 3D strategic Ego moving into the 4D awakening Ego and eventually the 5D Divine Ego (which admittedly becomes less about a self-identity at all).
Below are distinctions between these as a deepening journey of self-awareness, reconciliation, and integration:
3D Strategic Ego -
‘Strategic’ reflects the ego’s primary role in the 3D realm, which is ensuring survival and navigating external challenges through planning, control, and defense mechanisms. There is a calculated, protective nature of the 3D ego, which works to preserve a sense of security and separateness.
The core focus of the 3D ego really is survival, individualism, and maintaining a sense of separate self-identity. It is rooted in fear-based patterns, societal conditioning, and attachments to material and external achievements. It creates rigid structures to protect the self, often through defense mechanisms like control, judgment, and resistance to change.
Denser and heavily influenced by lower vibrational energies, the 3D strategic ego has a strong emphasis on polarity and duality so it is naturally in a lower frequency to survive 3D densities.
Healing path work with the 3D ego involves ego individuation through connecting with the fragmented parts of the self (such as Inner Protector, Inner Controller, Inner Child, Inner Teenager, Inner Critic, etc.), helping them differentiate from collective Matrix programming and societal roles.
Through gentle witnessing, negotiation, and love, the parts’ needs are acknowledged, allowing them to soften and feel safe as it integrates with the soul's higher frequencies.
Here’s a video with Raphael and Jelelle sharing more about the Individuation Phase of awakening with the 3D self and parts:
4D Awakening Ego -
‘Awakening’ captures the transitional and exploratory nature of the 4D ego as it begins to perceive spiritual truths, question old patterns, and seek connection with the soul.
The core focus is awakening, spiritual seeking, and reconciling polarities. Our awakening ego becomes aware of the soul’s journey and is drawn to spiritual growth, but it can remain entangled in dualistic thinking and unhealed karmic patterns. The 4D ego often gets caught in shadow projections, spiritual bypassing, or a need to "save" others.
Its energetic frequency is transitional, fluctuating between the denser 3D structures and lighter 5D unification energies. There’s a sense of "half-in, half-out" as the self grapples with surrendering deeper layers of control.
The 4D ego benefits from reconciliation work to bring shadow aspects into conscious awareness and clearing soul-based wounding through connection with the Gatekeeper, who opens up access to the soul field. The process of recognizing false light patterns and resolving karmic dynamics allows it to align with the heart-centered guidance of the Divine.
Here’s a video with Raphael and Jelelle sharing more about the Reconciliation Phase of awakening with the 4D self, Gatekeeper and soul aspects:
5D Divine Ego -
‘Divine’ speaks to the integration of the ego within the Divine Self, where it aligns in service of unity consciousness and unconditional love. This term honors the evolved role of the ego as a functional part of expressing the soul’s divine essence in human form, with humility and grace.
The core focus of the Divine Self ego is unity consciousness, unconditional love, and service to the whole.
While the sense of a separate self is greatly diminished, a “lesser ego” remains as a functional aspect, maintaining healthy individuation and boundaries in service of the greater whole. This ego is no longer in resistance to the Divine but rather serves as a vessel for its expression.
High-frequency and heart-centered, the Divine Ego has an emphasis on integration, surrender, and authenticity. It acts as a bridge between the Divine Self and the human experience, holding humility and grace in its role.
This phase focuses on refinement and ongoing surrender to Divine will. The Divine ego integrates fully into the unified field, no longer needing to assert itself but simply participating in the flow of Divine love and purpose.
Here’s a video with Raphael and Jelelle sharing more about the Unification Phase of awakening with the 5D Divine Self and higher dimensional soul aspects, especially through Divine Union and soul family communion:
We move in and out of these ego expressions as we are triggered, challenged or supported by life and others. Feeling what dimensional consciousness frequency your ego is relating from in any moment can allow for defusion (if to 3D), reconciliation and upgrade. Each stage is sacred....reflecting a necessary layer of the soul’s journey, honoring where the self has been while embracing its evolution toward Divine union.
Raphael's comment:
Each dimensional shift we make is like what we refer to as passing away, aka ‘dying’.
For to leave one dimension and to enter another is indeed death, except in this case, we retain the body as well as precise memory of the previous dimensional experience (past life in this life).
Each dimension is a total immersion experience of ourselves that provides our orientation to life in the body. Who and what we are on all levels, especially socially, as a primary mirror for the ego to see and recognize itself in, is the divine-higher seat of our being, as it creates feedback and feed-forward loops for itself.
When we ‘pass away’, while retaining the body and life memories, we are in a total unique divine school. What is most interesting to me is the overlaps though between these ‘lives’, how they bleed through into each other, where exact distinction is not the learning ground. Confusing for sure, but it is what makes for the most growth.
It’s a bit shocking and totally humbling though to come to learn that we are not actually the student, but rather the divine itself is the student learning through us, through our embodiment, which isn’t even ‘ours’ ultimately.
The Divine is choosing the disorientation and reorientation process, the culture shock and all that goes with it.
We, (that is what remains of us as an ego) gets to be in arising awe and reverence and wonder, which is the seat of infinite true being.
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