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I fear failure, my ego likes to believe im smarter than most and because of that I selfsabotage because than I can always fall back on "if I tried id probably could've done it."
I can identify with that as well. Although not written by Jung it's nonetheless written by a Jungian Analyst - Robert Moore's "Facing the Dragon" addresses that sentiment well.
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Why are you trying to identify with the planet?
The "I" or "ego" (the German word for "I") is specifically the thing that does not feel like a part of other things—it is the part of us which feels like an isolated observer (or 'eye'). So there is no way this part of you will ever feel equivalent with the planet, except through illusion. The truth is that the 'I' is the alienated part of us. The book Jung and the New Age by David Tacey expands on this perspective, taking the Jungian approach of putting "god(s)" "out there". Another book about identification with the divine, and the problems this often causes, is Facing the Dragon by Robert Moore.
There are methods to dissolve the edges of the ego (the "barrier" you refer to, I think), but these methods are either slow (years) or dangerous.
Is this what you are asking about? Methods of ego-dissolution?