How To Transcend the Ego | Commandment #2: You Shall Have No Other Gods | The Ten Commandments

How do we make the second Commandment, “You shall have no other gods,” relevant in an age when the practice of idolatry is largely obsolete? In this episode, I seek to challenge our understanding of what truly counts as “idol worship” in today’s society. There is a fine line between sincere worship of God and ego-driven ritual, and only by reflecting on our ego’s worship of Self can we achieve true spiritual fulfillment and transcendence based on the worship of God alone.

Chapters
00:00 What is the Spotlight Effect?
01:17 What is the 2nd Commandment?
02:05 How is idolatry relevant today?
02:43 The worship of the Self, the I, the Me
06:35 It’s all about the Ego
08:08 Consider why we do what we do
08:18 Spirituality as a refuge from ego
09:08 Outro

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Executive Producers:
Shalom Schwartz
Nitzan Bergman

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Lauren & Ezra Kest
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