A Shift in the Superego - 08.18.09

Student Comment: From my parents and everyone I grew up with I used to get, “Sex is the most beautiful thing, and overeating is the most beautiful thing, and money and cars and beaches and vacations and drinking. It’s the best thing. And do it!” While the superego used to manipulate mankind in a puritanical way, in recent generations there has been a shift from “You can’t do this and that. You have to save. Early to bed and early to rise,” to “No no enjoy. Spend it all. Watch pornography. There’s no limits.” To walk the spiritual path takes great courage to break away from the current ideology of the collective hedonistic lifestyle and to make a stand for what is right. Recorded on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 18, 2009.