Doesn't the human ego in the age of the consciousness soul tend to emancipate itself from all laws - including those of human life in a general sense? What would individual development as a biography (life record) still mean if, in light of all the universally applicable laws, there were ultimately only a minimal scope left for authorship? What, then, does the lawless apprentice ego do in the tension between its claim to freedom and the multitude of determinants from which it cannot escape? Can one really read from the calendar when the next life crisis will come and what kind it will be? The following philosophical-anthroposophical reflections revolve around the riddle of the ego in biography.