Egoic Mind

My dad asked an excellent question in response to my collective consciousness post and I'd like to clarify:


So do you find the collective egoic mind functioning in India or more specifically in the government school?

Eckhart Tolle argues, and which I entirely agree, "You are not your mind."  There is the mind which composes the ego, our rambling and wandering thoughts that can be amusing at times but also poisonous. It is responsible for some of our emotions and everything that the mind creates such as the past and future. Beneath the mind lies our true and pure consciousness. "Most humans are still in the grip of the egoic mode of consciousness: identified with their mind and run by their mind. If they do not free themselves from their mind in time, they will be destroyed by it." So we're basically all slaves to it, apart from a select few enlightened individuals. One of them being Jesus, another being Buddha. The Power of Now teaches you to free yourself from the egoic mind, and to truly find peace and in every moment. Free from the future, free from the past, and to simply just be.