Human Development
Spiritual rebirth of the ego
Description:
Integral philosophy maintains that when the separate, individual ego is dissolved in the One of the eternal, it is reborn in the enlightened, spiritual sense to a cosmocentric existence in profound joy and harmony. Such teaching has echoes in Christianity, with the image of the resurrection of the dead "... born a natural body, raised a spiritual body" and the need for the seed to "die" before it can grow and bring forth fruit - "Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit".