A beautiful essay of deep knowing and clarity - thank you Caitlin. Alan Watts would be smiling, I’m sure. Carl Jung saw the ego as a construct of the psyche to enable us to interact and function in the world as a seemingly separate entity, even though we are intrinsically a part of and as one with that same world around us. Great problems have arisen from us identifying too strongly with the ego and believing that the separation is real, exacerbated by social and religious reinforcement of this easily exposed myth.