The Egoic Mind  Most people are so completely identified with
the voice in the head—the incessant stream of involuntary and
compulsive thinking and the emotions that accompany it—that we
may describe them as being possessed by their mind. As long as
you are completely unaware of this, you take the thinker to be
who you are. This is the egoic mind. We call it egoic because
there is a sense of self, of I (ego), in every thought, every
memory,every interpretation, opinion, viewpoint, reaction,
emotion. This is unconsciousness, spiritually speaking.  Your
thinking, the content of your mind, is of course conditioned by
the past: your upbringing, culture, family background, and so
on. The central core of all your mind activity consists of
certain repetitive and persistent thoughts, emotions, and
reactive patterns that you identify with most strongly. This
entity is the ego itself.  In most cases, when you say "I," it
is the ego speaking, not you. It consists of thought and
emotion, of a bundle of memories you ident