First, thank you for writing this series. I started today with the latest shamanism installment, which I was drawn to both by my interest in Jung and my intent to one day vanquish my Minataur with the aid of shamanistic plant medicines, and have now also read the first two installments in the series.

I highlighted and chose to comment on these words because the sentence points out what I feel, which is that ego is too often derided in spiritual circles. I do not want my ego to disolve. Ego does indeed provide protection. As I wrote in one or two of my descriptions of my spiritual awakening and then the ongoing process of integration and alignment, the relationship between the animus and the soul is one of interdependence and not one without conflict. If it pleases you to do so, his short piece focuses on that duality. https://medium.com/p/e456c0729e99 There are back links therein to a few of my stories descrbing my journey.