Thanks Sevara, I appreciate the many points you make in regards to my question but I am not sure if I made myself very clear and would like to rephrase the question.

My question is based on my fear and in defence of fear, the many walls the ego builds with the belief that it is preserving and protecting the delicate balance of mind, body and spirit which is our primal means of survival.

I realize that these walls only serve to protect the ego and however heroic that can feel, walls must come down to unite, body, mind and spirit.  And yes of course we need our intellect to think for ourselves, to analyse and ‘choose the will’ we serve.

Every instance is an opportunity to choose our response and in doing so, we choose from either an intellectual (ego) frame of reference or Spiritual frame of reference. What is the difference? Are we able to choose between our own will and the will of a higher power?

So, this is my question:  If we are able to choose between our own will and the will of our higher power, and in doing so, how does our frame of reference change our response to life events and how does it affect the larger picture, or play out in the Universe?  

My ego, as I know it, is a fierce defender of survival and of strong desire to experience aliveness, pride, honour and purpose but on the other hand it is the devil that I also come to know through the suffering I create for myself and others. It doesn’t matter how kind I have been to others in my life with attempts of generosity... even giving can be selfish and only serving the ego. There is a bright side to this and that is that life, if it has an intention is to reflect our true essence through the experience of living and example of to bring about balance and I’d have to say that every experience and all of life’s lessons have the same intention. I realize it’s not logical to cling to life, to my opinions, or my experiences after all. I think that’s a pretty healthy serving of humility for this ego, but of its’ surrender the humbling experience of Grace.

We cling to life and all that we have created and built because we are ‘Spirit’ having a human experience but we are not in-Spirit when we are in-ego and if this is so, the human species has actually served its purpose for this period of time in evolution.

Our Spiritual source; an in-spirit response or in-consciousness response that certainly requires the intellect however seemingly by-pass’s the ego and renders the in-fear response in active.  (An in-spirit response is part of creation and of human/ universe evolution.)

Just as I am observing obvious states of ‘Awakening’ and although this refers to relatively new terminology, it is not a new state of consciousness I am, simultaneously noticing obvious states of extreme fear in the world.

I’m tempted to use the term petrified which was used throughout the early 1700’s or later`1800’s and depicted in the Gothic era and in the architecture of the great cathedrals such as Notre Dame.  The state of being petrified or states of extreme fear.  I hope I don’t see this in my lifetime or collectively create it in another.