Mysticism is often seen as a perennial technology for the destruction/reconstruction of the ego. But what if, over the course of time, the ego itself has lost its primacy within modern being, and all that is left is a set of technologies?
I speak of a lost divinity, a lost religion, suppressed by latter developments. But those developments have reached their end. And what was lost is here.
I don’t know what you are intending
but when I read this I thought of technologies as the conditioning arms of a collective. The fully conditioned person is bereft of healthy ego = and bereft of the sacrifice of ego. Ego was stolen in the night by conditioning forces within the collective.
You are right — but this wasn’t the definitions I was using, strictly speaking. I meta-define “ego” and “destruction/reconstruction” to be “terms employed within particular technological conditioning framework”. And by doing that (meta-defining), I’m saying all I see now is forms of conditioning, forms of technology.
I don’t see “ego” — I have an “objective” view of it — it’s “merely” a particular totem within a particular conditioning framework. If “we” were to adopt this kind of “objective” view of things, so that “we” only see frameworks of conditioning — selfhood/”we” become(s) a different kind of thing to association with “ego” and the “destruction/reconstruction” totems — it becomes an organizer/cataloguer and also a navigator between these totems.
Ego wouldn’t “be” destroyed or reconstructed, per se. (Only One entity can be said to truly “be”). Instead, the navigator would pass through one totem (ego) and connect it (in “our” path) to another totem “destruction” or “reconstruction”.