In general, a person's life can be seen as a wandering through the subtle world and serving various egregores, more or less friendly to him and more or less karmically connected with him. This material is taken from Avesalom Podvodny's book "The Public Subconscious."

Egregor and Man

The egregor provides a person with purpose and meaning in life, as well as the will to live and the strength to live. An elderly actor, a complete wreck in life but a remarkable performer on stage; a mother who single-handedly raised a large family; a warrior enduring the enemy's tortures with fortitude—these are vivid examples of how the egregor to which a person devotedly serves gives him literally superhuman strength. However, not every egregor is capable of this.

Before granting a person a channel, the egregor often tests him by creating obstacles of both external and internal nature. The most common test is to first provide the channel and then take it away to see whether the person will become disappointed and give up on the opportunities opening up to him or continue striving for them (for example, in science, art, as a sports master, or in a House of Scientists).

Upon opening a channel for a person, the egregor supplies him with thoughts, emotions, and strength through this channel, but it also begins to program him in a certain way, ensuring its integrity, existence, and further development. A strict principle operates here: "Do not enter another monastery with your own rules." When a person joins a new collective, he must feel its unwritten laws and adhere to them strictly; otherwise, he will be expelled from that collective. A strong egregor, protecting itself from unwanted intrusion, can even influence the circumstances of a person's external life, preventing him from entering the collective (for example, a train is "accidentally" canceled).

Every person connected to a certain egregor can influence that egregor directly, that is, through the channel (examples: prayer, intense contemplation on the fate of that collective, planning, and so on) or indirectly, simply by the course of his life: any action of a person serving the egregor affects that egregor.

Thus, whether a person wants to or not, serving the egregor is continuous, not just when he thinks about it in one form or another. The egregor needs the initiative and creativity of the person in all situations, particularly in his independent contemplation of them; therefore, the egregor is not inclined to provide a precise and complete analysis and unambiguous recommendations for the person's behavior. Only in special cases, when the cost of mistakes is too high, can the egregor (with a strong connection between the person and the egregor) even disconnect consciousness, and the person will act like a puppet—literally.

Behaving unethically towards the egregor, that is, not fulfilling its requirements, can only last a very short time: it quickly closes communication channels and pushes the person first to lower levels of service and then completely rejects him. It is much easier to spoil relations with the egregor than to restore them. Ethical behavior, from the perspective of this egregor, is that which helps fulfill the karmic tasks of this egregor; unethical behavior is that which hinders the fulfillment of this program.

Egregor Ethics

The goal of any form of knowledge is to develop a symbolic language through which the egregor can convey energy information to a person. Ethics is the primary means by which egregores manage human collectives and individuals. The complexity lies in the fact that any person is connected to many egregores, and each of his actions somehow affects all the egregores associated with him, so often the same action is ethical from the perspective of one egregor and unethical from the perspective of another.

The egregor creates ethics, and the corresponding collective embodies it in specific forms. The ethics of the egregor concerns the fate of the egregor itself, so it is, in principle, indifferent to the fate of an individual, at least in that part of it that does not affect the interests of this egregor.

In other words, ethics is an attempt to understand what is happening at the level of visible phenomena. Ethics should not be confused with morality. The morality of the collective is the rationalization of the ethics of the corresponding egregor by that collective.

Morality is crude, schematic, and static, and, naturally, cannot adequately reflect the ethics of the egregor. Morality is, so to speak, the end of service, not its beginning, in the sense that a person serving the egregor, trying to rationalize the principles by which he acts, arrives at certain principles of morality. However, the reverse transition is impossible: a person following principles of morality does not receive a channel in the egregor and does not begin to serve it. Therefore, the categories of morality are always perceived by the younger generation as "fake."

For a person without a channel to the egregor, morality, at best, serves as a hint to help him behave in a way that does not incur the wrath of the collective, and at worst—as chains that limit freedom. Morality is extremely convenient for abuse. The function of morality, in theory, is to compel members of the collective to serve the corresponding egregor. A person who always behaves morally is difficult to reproach, but he fundamentally cannot serve an egregor that requires ethical behavior in every particular and creative situation, and the patterns of morality in pure form are rarely applicable in reality. Any situation is complex, and one should first see it in as much detail as possible and only then seek an ethical way of behaving, rather than schematizing it first through moral categories in order to directly apply moral principles.

Karmic Egregor

One of the main ethical problems is the choice of an egregor.

Every person has the highest egregor among his karmic egregors, and his entire life, whether he wants it or not, is service to this egregor. In this case, immoral behavior towards oneself is an incorrect implementation of one’s karmic program, particularly serving the wrong egregors; others may regard such a person as completely moral. His behavior towards all egregors may be quite ethical with one exception: it is unethical towards his higher karmic egregor, which is often not connected to any specific collective, and therefore individual ethics is comprehended with such difficulty.

The egregor itself is usually indifferent to the individual actions of a person but monitors the overall trajectory of his life, namely, the change of his main egregors. Not only are the egregors with which this person will be connected predetermined, but also the level of service (the width of the channel). Unethical behavior towards the karmic egregor leads to the necessity of narrowing the communication channel, and then the person is unable to fulfill his karmic task in relation to this egregor.

This is done simply and for the sake of learning. It creates a hole in the protective field of the egoic egregor (which will be discussed later) that spoils the energy of the latter and does not allow it to patch it up until it properly changes. Such an energetic leak is a very important sign indicating in which direction one needs to expand the essential consciousness and change the egoic egregor. These energetic holes in the egoic egregor can be of various kinds, but two are the most typical: fateful loneliness and unrequited love.

However, maintaining a wide communication channel (intensive service to the egregor) requires a lot from a person. Now, in order to behave ethically, a person needs to be able to assess situations very accurately, not only through his own eyes but also through the eyes of the egregor. Only after this will the egregor give a task, sometimes quite complex, concerning the person's behavior in these situations, and any failure to fulfill this task will be unethical.

The interesting thing is that the more a person is connected to the egregor, the more creative the tasks received from the egregor become, and the more complex and engaging the egregorial ethics is.

So, what should one be guided by when choosing egregors and channels to them? The egregor should be chosen, if possible, in accordance with one's evolutionary level. However, sometimes one has to work with egregors of a higher or lower level; even then, there often remains the possibility to choose a type of service and channel that is more or less suited to one’s evolutionary level. Go where you are called, but do not do what you are asked; rather, do the maximum of what you are capable of.

Egoic Egregor

Regulating the role of the egoic egregor is extremely important for a person's entire life, and it is very difficult to give any general recommendations here. Karmically, this role varies widely among different people. Some are destined by fate to follow generally accepted norms of behavior and go with the flow (the egoic egregor is weak). At the other end are people who are karmically destined to create a powerful egoic egregor, opposing themselves to the environment, surrounding tendencies, and morality, and creating their own system of behavior, ethics, perhaps an original philosophy or a unique environment. For such people, attempts at adaptation (which is always demanded by the environment) are destructive: adaptation turns out poorly, and they cannot realize themselves. The failure to realize one's abilities, that is, the failure to use the communication channel with the egregor, heavily burdens karma, regardless of whether a person is aware of his abilities or not. A genius writer should write novels, not engage in agricultural work.

Serving the egoic egregor should not be confused with egoism.

An egoist (in the usual sense of the word) is one who, receiving energy through the channels of various egregores (work, informal groups, family, and so on), tends to give it only to the egoic one; this is a kind of energy vampire. Such behavior leads to egregores, not achieving service from him, closing communication channels, and energy from them ceases to flow. Externally, this looks quite unseemly; such people are expelled from various informal collectives, and in formal collectives, they are generally disliked.

Being expelled from a collective (that is, excommunicated from a certain egregor), a person may try to change his manner of behavior, or he may continue the same actions, trying to infiltrate the next egregor and use its energy for his purposes. For a time, such behavior may go unpunished, but one should remember that an egregor is different from another; some are softer, others are harsher, but the overwhelming majority of them are stronger than the egoic one.

However, there is another, less naive line of behavior. A person, feeling the weakness of the egoic egregor, may try to infiltrate the egregor he desires, using the energy of other egregores to which he serves and whose channels are at his disposal. A typical example is the attempt to win the favor of a woman by using one's professional position or expertise, say, by inviting a beloved to a scientific seminar or by introducing an object. Sometimes this is quite effective.

On the one hand, this approach is more effective since it uses more energy. On the other hand, using significant energy flows for personal purposes leads to a strong increase in chaos in all involved egregores, and they take appropriate measures. If minor personal egoism does not attract the attention of a larger egregor, significant energy impacts, particularly losses, will undoubtedly be noticed, and a response will follow at an equivalent energetic level. This is the position of a spy working for several warring countries at once: sooner or later, he will surely be killed (and the life leading up to this event will be quite nerve-wracking), but until then, he can cause his masters a considerable amount of trouble and inconvenience.

A description of the egoic egregor would be incomplete without mentioning one of its characteristics. A person serving it has minimal free will of all conceivable kinds: he often becomes a slave to his desires, that is, the lower programs of the subconscious. The strength to overcome such slavery can only be found in following higher goals, ideals, and switching to a higher egregor.