Beyond the Ego: A Course in Miracles and Depth Psychology
Oct 5, 2026 · 43 min · 8 segments
“The world is your oyster,” we’re told in childhood, and so we imagine a world of promise and adventure; a place where we can soar. And that is what we are encouraged to do. Yet, *A Course in…
She really despised religion and the idea that we are here to serve God and others.
She didn't like that idea at all, nor did she like the idea of collectivism.
It was the secular idea of collectivism, where instead of serving God, we're here to serve the state.
So in both these answer- in situations, what she doesn't like is what she says, "You are called to serve any need but your own." So the idea of self-sacrifice in these two positions is what she really didn't like.
So she felt that religion and collectivism, or the collectivism of things like communism, she felt that it was demeaning to the individual, demeaning to the dignity of the individual.
That was where she was born and, and raised, and we'll get more into her childhood and, and, um, begi- early- earliest beginnings later on in this video.
But she moved to America, where she became a screenwriter, and she also wrote novels, one of them, again, being The Fountainhead, which was made into a movie, uh, with Gary Cooper, I think, as the, as the head guy, the architect.
Howard Roark, who is the main guy in this book, uh, yeah, Gary Cooper, I think, played the main character.
So one of the things about Ayn Rand which I think makes her so contentious is that she's very unapologetic and straightforward about her thoughts.
I mean, that's pretty brazen in itself to say, "My philosophy is about man worship," not God worship, not state worship, but man worship.
And by that she also means the worship of the individual and the individual's freedom.
She really despised religion and the idea that we are here to serve God and others.
She didn't like that idea at all, nor did she like the idea of collectivism.
It was the secular idea of collectivism, where instead of serving God, we're here to serve the state.
So in both these answer- in situations, what she doesn't like is what she says, "You are called to serve any need but your own." So the idea of self-sacrifice in these two positions is what she really didn't like.
So she felt that religion and collectivism, or the collectivism of things like communism, she felt that it was demeaning to the individual, demeaning to the dignity of the individual.
That was where she was born and, and raised, and we'll get more into her childhood and, and, um, begi- early- earliest beginnings later on in this video.
But she moved to America, where she became a screenwriter, and she also wrote novels, one of them, again, being The Fountainhead, which was made into a movie, uh, with Gary Cooper, I think, as the, as the head guy, the architect.
Howard Roark, who is the main guy in this book, uh, yeah, Gary Cooper, I think, played the main character.
So one of the things about Ayn Rand which I think makes her so contentious is that she's very unapologetic and straightforward about her thoughts.
I mean, that's pretty brazen in itself to say, "My philosophy is about man worship," not God worship, not state worship, but man worship.
And by that she also means the worship of the individual and the individual's freedom.
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