Not The Only Game In Town

The ego is a conceptual entity that identifies with the body. It's like the operating system of a computer. As long as the ego thinks it is the one and only, it is top dog.

When presence, or pure awareness makes itself known, the ego most often resists. However, at some point the ego may realize that it is futile to resist. It realizes that it is not the only one in town. Eventually it realizes that it is a fiction, and that pure awareness, God, source, whatever you call it, is the real master. Then there is a surrender. The ego remains, but it is no longer the top dog. Spirit or intuition takes on the greater role.

Gee Whiz

Scientists often forget that most science starts as a hunch or an intuition. One open minded person has an intuition and decides to investigate. Gee whiz, he discovers something. Others get excited and a whole new area to explore evolves. Soon it is forgotten that the original investigation was on a hunch, an intuition. 

First the guy is crazy. Then he is condemned. Then, because the discovery works, or is undeniable, he is accepted. A few years down the road it is completely forgotten that some brave soul followed a hunch, an intuition. 

Thirst tells us there is water. Hunger tells us there is food. The search for meaning tells us there is a God.