What if everyone is a different version of you so that you can experience the world in different ways.
And the true self is nothing more than a collective of various ways of different people being and living in different experiences.
As for the individual ego that just maybe an evolutionary construct to ensure survival.
Sometimes by diminishing the individuals ego it can deepen ones own personal understanding via formulating a new perspective.
I guess being mentally healthy is a balance of individual ego and the other parts of the psyche and the collective self.
No i did not take acid.
I borrowed this from hinduism or is it buddhism a lil bit
Eastern philosophy
I ching
Tao
Sun tzu
Book of the five rings
Buddhism…
The vedas
Etc…
Mid eastern philosophy…
Mostly the quran
Also i keep coming across greco roman and renaissance and enlightement of western europe.
With the exception of jung most Modern european philosophy makes me yawn.