No. Nor do I think we need to. Our purpose here in this iteration of life is to live as a successful human being and find, feel and spread as much love as we can while we're here, but ulltimately, it is to experience. Simply to experience at all. While it is important to understand that the ego is not all that we are, that it is in fact the limiting factor on who we really are, I think it's important to reach a balance where we realize this to the extent that we can most effectively perform our purpose in life, while still performing that purpose. I'm not sure if sitting in silence for 40 years is really a worthwhile pursuit of our time in this particular location in the multidimensional universe.
I agree that the majority of society is in desperate need of an understanding of the ego, its function, and who we truly are. Maybe for them, such a teacher would be quite beneficial. But surely an enlightened individual can do perfectly well for him or herself without wasting the time we have here thinking about nothing other than ego loss. We've got egoes for a reason. it's so that the universal consciousness can experience itself subjectively in every conceivable way.
here's food for thought. Being enlightened as to what the ego's function really is and what we really are at a higher level is one way to subjectively experience life. So is sitting quietly removing oneself from their ego for 40 years. But then, so is walking through life having no idea of any of this, exercising the ego at every opportunity. So is being an animal, existing only to survive and procreate.
Maybe we're not all enlightened because we're not all supposed to be? If we were, then who we really are could not experience itself in every possible way. Remember, there's nothing wrong with being an average, unaware individual. They're fulfilling their purposes as much as you or I. That purpose is to experience.
