Ego self is not complete and authoritative. It is airbrushed and sanitized

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Egoic control

It has been shown that religiosity can reect a form of compensatory control (Kay et al. 2010): by believing that transcendent forces aligned with one’s convictions govern the world, the ego avoids the anxiety associated with its own inability to overcome uncertainty. This way, religiosity creates an opportunity for control by proxy: although the ego cannot determine the course of nature, an external agency far superior to it is believed to do so in a way consistent with the ego’s preferences. The ego’s need to avoid anxiety by exerting control is thus indirectly fullled

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