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EndFeeDotCom
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Ego Death and Stroke?
#13984831 - 02/18/11 01:44 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I came across this article/video out of curiosity and thought "man..sure sounds a heck of a lot like an ego death experience"..and was just wondering if anyone could shed some light on how/why her description of having a stroke sounds like an ego death.
note: this isn't when shes at the peak of her stroke, it was during the onset that she kept slipping into what she calls "lala land".
She also does appear to act/think like a typical post ego-death person. (ie. whole new outlook on life, wishing everyone could experience it at their will and imagining how peaceful the world would be, etc..)
any thoughts appreciated.. jw.
thanks!
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Comcouveflor



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Have you died yet?
I'd already heard Alan Watts as well mention a heart attack episode of a friend of his, whom then reccomended it.
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FuckImAwesome
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Probably because the ability to experience ego death/dissolution is an inherent quality that all of us have and can be brought about by any number of things - ritual dance/drumming/trance, meditation, fasting, sleep depravation, psychedelic drugs, any combination of the aforementioned, or just out of the blue on it's own. I suppose we can add 'having a stroke' to that list as well.
Seems reasonable to me - a near-death experience probably provides one with a radically new outlook and perspective.
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EndFeeDotCom
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yes I believe I have experienced an ego death.
I've always read people saying "you'll know when it happens".. But I actually had no idea about ego theory or ego deaths when it occured.. It's occurring was enough to make go on an endless search to find as much information about what had just happened to me(or if I really was God, lol). So yeah, I knew. But at the same time, I read all the time about other people who claim to have had the experience, but their descriptions don't seem to add up sometimes, and obviously it can be different for everyone, and also lots of factors play into how it is perceived, but I still feel like people that it has happened to can sense out the other people it has happened to.. /enddigression
Anyway since she is (luckily) a brain scientist, she mentioned that it had something to do with losing communication(or w/e) with the left side of the brain. I was just wondering how the right side of the brain might be related to ego death.. physically or psychologically or whatever..Would it mean that all ego deaths might actually be caused from detachment from the left side of the brain as she experienced, or are they 2 entirely different occurances that have similar symptoms?
Edited by EndFeeDotCom (02/18/11 11:28 PM)
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Comcouveflor



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Sincerely, for the most part descriptions of ego-death (as such stated) seem much too poor, though there've been reports round here of folks who truly understood. I'd much rather have a zen terminology simplification; or say that most reports of psychedelic experiences, however bizarre and enlightening, are only on the way there. Even though it is in describing that the experience is distorted, it rings very clear when one knows it or not.
I'd reccomend going for it again as a means of integration. 
I didn't talk like a golden retriever nor had either of my sides paralysed - it wasn't a heart attack. Plus she seems to have distanced herself from her mundane personality other than having it solved. And I wouldn't take her speech there as neurologically accurate, even if only because information lacks enormously (not that I'm a neuroscientist but it'd seem to me the brain and its mind-interface are exceedingly more complex than as stated, i.e., did she write a book on it?).
Off to lunch
Edited by Comcouveflor (02/19/11 07:08 AM)
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