Our ego has a bag of tricks that it uses on us from time to time.
When we feel sad or full of self pity it is our ego behind the scenes manipulating our emotions.
It judges the events in our lives and compares them to the standards of society and our programming.
Instead of using loss and difficulty to teach us lesson for our conscious growth the ego punishes us emotionally.
It judges events as bad or wrong when in truth they are needed and right.
All of our life is a test to see if we will accept and learn from adversity or do we fall into self judgement, condemnation, and punish ourselves.
We are always in control, but we project responsibility onto imaginary gods and demons.
It is not the gods or demons that are against us, but our own judgements and emotions that our ego manipulates to keep us down.
Robert.