The ego cannot be said to be conscious or unconscious, because the ego doesn’t exist at all.

But the ego is literally unconscious-ness, the unconscious part of your mind is where it hides from you. So, the spiritual process can be said to simply be a process of making all of your unconscious conscious, bringing up the layers of unconsciousness to the light of awareness, seeing them for yourself, which can be very disorienting, scary and unpleasant.

The less unconsciousness there is in your mind, the happier you are, and the completely enlightened state is simply when nothing in your mind is unconscious any longer, when you no longer hide anything about yourself from yourself, as well as about other people, when you are no longer in denial of anything. It doesn’t mean you never forget anything, know the future, or you are always aware of every cell in your body (even though such experiences happen, but they are dreaming experiences). But you never forget yourself, and you no longer lie to yourself about anything that is going on in your life.