The ego is the individual body's collected and stored memory. Some of this will be ancestral, some will be the impact of all the crazy happening right now. You don't want to leave yourself at the mercy of getting pushed, prodded and manipulated by all the emotional hooks that your ego is subject to. One of the tricks I learned along the way is to really take up the narrative and storyline of certain well known and written about spiritual archetypes. And then when a challenging situation arises, you don't have to read a thousand page manuscript on what to do when you are confronted with the demiurge, for example. Put on the armor of Christ, the mindfulness of Buddha, the wisdom of Sophia, the tenacity of Kali, the leadership of the prophets, the concern of Krishna, the strength of the Saints, the curiosity of the Shaman, the intellect of the Trickster and all the stories we know of groups and collectives of human beings who have risen to the challenge after unbelievable circumstances.
Don't reinvent the wheel. Commune with characters already mastered and get some advice for your own coming into.