In this episode, I talk about alignment with what I call the "other self" — the equal counterpart to us that I've talked about before, and how being honest with yourself and others is the key to connecting with it. I share a personal story about a promise I made to never lie to myself or anyone else, and how that shift eventually brought me into alignment. I also talk about a falling out I had with a group of people over dishonesty and inconsistency in how someone represented their feelings to different people. I get into a Facebook exchange I had with a stranger about nose-picking, which turns into a bigger point about authenticity versus ego. I talk about the difference between the ego and the soul, what it means to work in partnership with your other self rather than trying to merge with it, and a period of a few days where I felt like I was w ...