Cogito meaning is a philosophical principle concerning the self, claiming that the “I” exist as the very essence of the existent “You.” This principle is closely linked to the Searching meaning of the Universe. In reclaiming Your Spiritual Power I refer to the searching meaning as the “I” experience. In doing so, it makes sense to use the same term for the process of discovering the self and the concept of “ego.”
The word “ego” comes from the Latin word “ego,” which means “a personal being” or “a person.” According to the philosophical teachings of the ancients and the neo-classical school of thought in the Western world, the concept of individual self-esteem and self-confidence is the product of the intellectual capacities of the individual and the intellectual abilities of the surrounding social environment. In my own opinion, this concept is extremely limiting. It is the opposite of what God and the spiritual teachers of earth originally had in mind. It is the intellectualization of the mob mentality and the intellectual ignorance of the masses. Thus, it is not the original meaning.
Rather, the term “ego” should be understood as the opposite of the intellectual vacuum that is the product of the self. In its place is the intellectual capacity for reasoning that is the very basis of the concept of reason and the human species. Consequently, the concept of the “ego” and “ego ergo sum” are mutually inseparable. The concept of the “ego” is the very grounds of the concept of reason. It is the very source of all concepts of value judgments. To dissolve the ego – i.e., the vacuity of the masses, we must be able to go through the process of profound illumination.
Accordingly, the negation of the “ego” creates a void that allows room for the intellectual functioning of the human species. The process of illumination is the intellectual awakening of man. In other words, man is now able to rise above the vanity of the body and the epidermis to the contemplation of the spirit. This contemplation is the beginning of the creation process of the new intellectual being.
Thus, when one speaks of “ego” one generally means the “intellectual mind.” And when one says of “ego” one generally means the “frictional desire.” However, the negation of the ‘ego’ does not imply the absence of any desire or the non-existence of any intellect. Rather, the negation simply indicates the chasm created between the body and the spirit – the intellectual and the animal.
In modern parlance, the ‘intellectual’ and the ‘spirit’ are used interchangeably because both are one and the same thing. The concept of the ‘mind’ in this context is dependent upon the definition of the word that is used by the philosopher Parmenides more than two thousand years ago. The concept of the ‘mind’ is dependent upon the understanding of the various possible modes of expression of the human intellect. The concept of the ‘intellectual’ is the intellectual conception of reality that is not dependent upon any experience of the senses. It is the idea of an abstract reality that is the product of mankind’s emerging cognitive development.
When the thinker Leo Tolstoy defined the “cogito” in his famous book “The God Delusion,” he explained the meaning of the term by observing that the religious and the political elements that effected the rise of major world religions were the result of the secret crevices of “human ignorance.” The religious and political ideologies that arose from the establishment of these secret crevices were the necessary corollaries to the establishment of the rule of Reason – the sole motive that had driven man throughout his existence. And it was the very process of Reason that created the negation of the cogito, the idea of the irrational and the contradictory. The very fact that the negation of the cogito was required for the emergence of reason as the sole meaningful truth-is the most revealing explanation of the meaning of the “cogito.” The meaning of the “cogito” can be explained by recognizing the essential function that the concept of the “cogito” plays in the explanation of the emergence of mankind from the animal state.
In the age-old book “The Fabric of Reality” the thinker Immanuel Kant provided a detailed explanation of the reasonableness of the proposition that the mind causes its own reality. According to the logic of this logic, the mind can also cause its own reality – the necessity to resort to the recourse to the concept of the “cogito” in order to get around the inevitable problem that the existence of the mind creates. Furthermore, according to the logic of the modern human mind the idea that the mind can affect its own reality and the reality of the external world can be explained by the same logic as the fact that the human mind can get around the difficulty of reasoning from the internal world that the mind can understand, it must be assumed that the external world is just as real as the human mind believes them to be. This would mean that the reasonableness of the proposition that the mind causes its own reality lies in the fact that the human mind is capable of abstracting knowledge from the external world through the concept of the “cogito” and reason could then be used as the means to remove the self-created obstacle of the belief that the external world is just as real as the mind perceived it to be – the concept of the “cogito.” If the mind can be made to realize that the belief of the external world is just as real as the belief in the mind could then be used to remove the obstacle that the mind perceives to be in its way while reason would become the means to gain access to the knowledge of the mind was denied before.