Ego Trap After Ego Death: Why Taking Off the Mask is Only Half the Journey

Taking Your Mask Off When The World is Still A Masquerade Ball One of the strangest paradoxes of self-work and growing real is that the more real you become, the more unreal the world around you starts to look. At first, this can feel liberating: You’ve made it to the other side of your own internal chaos; you’ve peeled back layers of ego, maybe even been through your dark night of the soul, and finally reached a point where you feel lighter, clearer, more ‘you‘. But then you walk out into the w...