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spikeycloud
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Problems with ego death
#19144161 - 11/16/13 04:23 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Ok I had a trip yesterday, I did not have an ego death but certainly did got hints of how it would be so I looked it up during the trip and now I do truly understand what it means...And I find it very hard to accept it and let it go. I just don't like the idea that everything and everyone is you.. but in the trip I felt it was the truth....I thought the whole night of this and could not sleep.
Are there any tips to accept this revelation in your life because I feel a bit bad now.
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: spikeycloud]
#19144219 - 11/16/13 05:30 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I dont have any tips.
But I can say I can kind of relate in a way.
What I will say is give it some time. Ponder it. Question it. Think about it. Often I have had revelations like that that take me weeks or months to uncover the whole thing. I have also felt off, guilty and unhappy soon after wards. But as time passed I realised that that was just part of a bigger revelation and I didnt get the whole message the first time, that`s why it felt so off. But when you do get the whole, or more of, the picture it often makes sense and leaves you feeling amazing and positive about it. I think It does sometimes take time to realize the full meaning of big revelations. Specially ones that directly affects, and to your ego it threatens, your sense of existence.
My worst experiences and revelations have grown into my best and most life changing over time.
Give it time, question it, think about it, and I hope it will become positive. Its definitely an opportunity to grow
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: Whiplash]
#19144316 - 11/16/13 06:32 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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why don't you like that idea?
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I hoped u would ask that..I don't like it because it feels like that everything and everyone is not real a bit like that everyone died..You can experience it, but you know that all if it is still you.
Edited by spikeycloud (11/16/13 10:14 AM)
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: spikeycloud]
#19144738 - 11/16/13 10:20 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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How can you possibly be alone if youre everyone? thats a wonderful feeling
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: Agentchewy]
#19144955 - 11/16/13 11:37 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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That's the beauty of it, life is like a drama. A temporal illusion. There is nothing to fear ever, you are all of it. It's the most ultimate form of liberation.
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: LysergicX7]
#19145355 - 11/16/13 01:37 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Maybe I'm confusing the ego with the me that tis all....and how about other enteties and aliens are those connected as well?
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: spikeycloud]
#19145488 - 11/16/13 02:04 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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spikeycloud said: Maybe I'm confusing the ego with the me that tis all....and how about other enteties and aliens are those connected as well?
I don't really like discussing metaphysical subjects as if I somehow am enlightened and know all this stuff.
But it is fairly common for people who dabble with ego dissolution to come to the conclusion that consciousness is the fundamental reality.
Hell, there are ayuasca tribes around the world who have no real knowledge of science, what a car is, etc. But they will tell you they know all is one. It is all one consciousness having subjective experiences through all sentient beings everywhere. Everybody, all life and beings everywhere are all literally connected (aliens too!). They are all the one experiencing itself in various forms.
Ego death is the recognition of the illusory aspect of your ego and the realization of who you truly are. The bill Hicks quote summarized this pretty well: We are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
I don't see how you'd feel bad about that, unless it conflicted with some previous beliefs you might have had. But that's the beauty of psychedelics, they can show you profound truth that you simply can't deny.
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Edited by LysergicX7 (11/16/13 02:05 PM)
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: LysergicX7]
#19145745 - 11/16/13 03:14 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I don't like the term Ego Death. To me death means loss of life, rotting, dead, permanent. That's not what it's about. And it sounds so mysterious.. Hey, did you hear about Jim? He tripped and experienced EGO DEATH.
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: LysergicX7]
#19145965 - 11/16/13 04:16 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I have not experienced this yet but I am planning to do some psychonautic exploration in the near future. Frankly, I'm scared.
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Edited by MaxwellSmart (11/17/13 07:54 AM)
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you could put in a search engine of your choice: " anicca " and / or " anattaa "
Anatta means no self or more accurately, no independent, separate, permanent, self.
Annica means all things, including the self, are impermanent and constantly changing moment to moment.
some results with in depth discussions from a meditative tradition:
http://the-wanderling.com/ego.html
http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/awakening101/noself.html
http://www.buddhanet.net/nutshell09.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatta
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/various/wheel186.html
http://www.howtopracticezen.com/dukkhaannicaanatta.html
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: laughingdog]
#19148138 - 11/17/13 01:17 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I always had difficulties accepting what was being thrown around in my head on shrooms. I tell ya, the only enjoyable trip Ive had was where I was so engulfed in the experience that there was literally no room for doubt or anxiety. Only trippiness and awe
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Well I always saw tripping as recreational. And to be honest my life didn't go very well before the the trip. It's not that it is going bad but not finding a good job, being alone a lot really makes you feel that doing weed and tripping is the only thing to live for. Maybe that's also a reason why I felt so terrible at the end of the trip and almost the whole day yester day. (I was ill because I drank some alcohol at the end of the trip. Did 4-ho-met as substance btw). I did get very ill after while it were only 2 beers..So guys never mix 4-ho-met with boose haha.
About the ego, so if I have it right now, you are a 1 trillion piece of an conciseness that you share with everyone?
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: spikeycloud]
#19148473 - 11/17/13 04:43 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I might be wrong here but i think you putting ego and oneness into the same basket. Maybe they are, i don't know i'm certainly no expert but i think they have their differences.
In my experience with my ego i realise -i am not my beliefs and ideas of my self -i am not my thoughts -i am not my actions -i am not my body -i am nothing
^ You'll understand my surprise when i found out that Buddhist thinking is somewhat similar to this.
Not sure this helped but that's my 2cents.
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: spikeycloud]
#19148489 - 11/17/13 05:02 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Heres my 3cents 
You are dividing/separating things, you are just one. The only barrier between you and everything else is your skin, that is an illusion. Ah profound things are always hardest to explain. But once you get it you just get it.
As for your life situation is sounds like maybe your due for some abstinence. Maybe look into some meditation? To live with others you must first be able to live with yourself, a clear mind helps with day to day living in general .
Peace man i'll leave you with this
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: Jars]
#19148564 - 11/17/13 06:16 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Thanks everyone for your advise and wise words. Though I still don't feel very good right now, I do feel a bit better than yesterday. And I do realise that I need to find things that I enjoy rather than filling my time with smoking weed. (although that can give you sometimes insights as well).
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: spikeycloud]
#19148625 - 11/17/13 07:02 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Don't worry about ego death. Just focus on your breath.
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ego death is unnecessary but not avoidable.
the good thing is if you actually experience ego death you wont care, its when your on the verge that is scary shit.
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: LysergicX7]
#19167664 - 11/20/13 09:29 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I have thought about it this week and I don't agree that you can't deny that we are all one( if that's what you mean). It is after all still an experience. If you didn't knew that cutting a man in two was a magic trick you would have believed it was really possible. The mind is a very power full thing for sure. And we don't even know that much about our brains yet. So saying that you can deny it is almost saying that the pink elephants you see in the trip are real...
Also a friend of mine had around 5 grams and thought he was death, still he didn't see anything related to this at all...
Edited by spikeycloud (11/20/13 09:34 PM)
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: spikeycloud]
#19167683 - 11/20/13 09:34 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Fuck ego death. It's an irrational term meant to describe something that is indescribable.
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: spikeycloud]
#19168199 - 11/21/13 12:13 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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had a trip yesterday, I did not have an ego death but certainly did got hints of how it would be
Mmm, no you didn't. How it would be is not anything you can even think about. Don't try. 
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but in the trip I felt it was the truth....
That's the trouble with tripping... 
Now, you know, it's true that all is one, and that we each individually only appear to have separate conscious experience, and that there are some serious barriers working to keep anybody from realizing their fundamental identity with the godhead, and that when you trip hard enough these barriers dissolve and you get to experience this cosmic oneness directly...
But people in general can't handle that, so they call it "ego death" or other names - which are just meaningless labels that confuse people - and if it happens they try to talk themselves out of it, and if it happens to somebody else they try to talk them out of it, as if somehow it's not real. It is real, you can experience it, and WHEN you experience it, even if only once, it has the power to change you FOREVER.
But you can't be a good conforming cog in the social machinery if you've seen the lie at the heart of it - the lie that denies your essential divinity and identification with everything - because who could possibly OWN you after that happens? You'd become fucking dangerous, an unpredictable entity with a mind of its own (when you weren't linked up with everything), and there'd be no way to control you anymore. And that would be bad for everybody who doesn't share this insight or denies it. 
So just be careful who you share these essential truths with, that's all. 
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JacksonMetaller said: why don't you like that idea?
everyone is a hippie inside they just dont know ;-) everyone is you / me;)
but that is just my experience 
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: spikeycloud]
#19168638 - 11/21/13 04:46 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Egodeath is a term that gets thrown around a lot. Most people who claim to have it these days really haven't. It's not like a badge of honor or something. People talk about it like it's some great accomplishment, or some profound thing. It's not.
I especially hate it when people think ego means egotistical when it's supposed to mean ego in the Freudian sense.
I've really grown to hate the term just because of how it gets thrown around, and how inaccurately it's used. Seems like every new member just throws into their trip reports "and then I experienced ego death" when it's clear they don't even know what they're saying. They just say it because they think it will make them look cool or experienced or something.
Saying egodeath does not make you cool. The thing that the term originally referred to is a really brutal experience that you would probably want to avoid if you could.
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: nooneman]
#19230234 - 12/05/13 07:46 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I always saw tripping as a tool to experience things differently, see funny stuff and feel like Alice in wonderland feeling you are dreaming etc. But always with the thought that, that experience is not real. Like a magic trick is not real.
Seeing that some people here think that those tripping experiences are real. Makes me don't like tripping anymore. It would be the same as you're drunk and seeing double, that the world in reality is double as well. Nah don't like such ideas at all. And I don't understand how people can find fulfillment in that.
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: PrimalSoup]
#19230414 - 12/05/13 09:11 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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had a trip yesterday, I did not have an ego death but certainly did got hints of how it would be
Mmm, no you didn't. How it would be is not anything you can even think about. Don't try. 
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but in the trip I felt it was the truth....
That's the trouble with tripping... 
Now, you know, it's true that all is one, and that we each individually only appear to have separate conscious experience, and that there are some serious barriers working to keep anybody from realizing their fundamental identity with the godhead, and that when you trip hard enough these barriers dissolve and you get to experience this cosmic oneness directly...
But people in general can't handle that, so they call it "ego death" or other names - which are just meaningless labels that confuse people - and if it happens they try to talk themselves out of it, and if it happens to somebody else they try to talk them out of it, as if somehow it's not real. It is real, you can experience it, and WHEN you experience it, even if only once, it has the power to change you FOREVER.
But you can't be a good conforming cog in the social machinery if you've seen the lie at the heart of it - the lie that denies your essential divinity and identification with everything - because who could possibly OWN you after that happens? You'd become fucking dangerous, an unpredictable entity with a mind of its own (when you weren't linked up with everything), and there'd be no way to control you anymore. And that would be bad for everybody who doesn't share this insight or denies it. 
So just be careful who you share these essential truths with, that's all. 
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I experienced the 'ego death' and oneness, enlightenment, etc in a couple of my trips. The only thing I wonder is how do I know that it is really real and not just...drugs..even though it felt as real as anything. That, and how do I know that there is really only 1 consciousness, that it doesn't just feel like that because I am 1 person.
As far as what it actually is, is hard to say. I only REALLY felt the the oneness for a split second a few times. It's almost like you black out in a way just for half a second, and come back just thinking 'I get it, I can't explain it but I get it'.
It's like, think of a white wall, if I show it to you you don't know where on the wall to focus. But if I make a mark on that wall suddenly that's all you focus on. Just like our brain/thoughts, in oneness you are simply the wall, with no point of focus, any thought is a mark on the wall. IDK if that makes sense but it does in my head.
Thoughts in my head during the trip felt like bugs flying through the air. It felt like if my head wasn't stuck to my body it could of floated off anywhere. When no thoughts were in my head I quite literally felt like a plant.
What makes me think it's all real is that I did no research about oneness, enlightenment, consciousness, or any of that before the trip. Like literally, didn't think about any of that any time before. But when I researched what I felt after the trip it was scary how similar other peoples descriptions were to my own. I remember the phrase 'pure consciousness' popped into my head as a way of describing it, and I've seen that phrase around after that experience.
What's funny is that one of the times I felt it me and my friend were playing GTA 5. It was on a bigscreen and we were driving on the mountainy roads(we just swapped 1 controller back and forth, but it didn't seem to matter who was playing because of how out of body I was). The graphics of that natury road were really beautiful, it was more or less like this...
We both started laughing and crying, like actually crying, during the drive. But it wasn't like, stoned off weed dumb laughing, it didn't feel pointless. It was just because of how awesome it was, in the most literal sense of the word. This song was also playing and it really helped the mood..
I know it sounds silly to say you felt enlightenment while playing GTA 5, but it was just because of the nature scene and the music...and the fact that we both had about 8 grams in us.. that kicked it in so hard. Easily one of the most amazing moments of my life.
Edited by Thecrimson (12/05/13 09:35 AM)
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: Thecrimson]
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That's a really good way of describing some of the psychedelic states.
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JacksonMetaller said: why don't you like that idea?
Because it means you're every bad guy that ever lived and his victims experiencing all of their torments.
It's hard to be ok with that even if you are all the good people and have experienced all of the "good things".
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: Allisterem]
#19231041 - 12/05/13 12:35 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yeah good point also. What I understand is that shrooms and other psychedelics make different connections in the brain. This is for me a huge hint that the experience is not real and it might be still in your head. Even being one with other things can still be inside your head. Because that too can be an hallucination. Like on shrooms you sometimes see patterns on the wall or halo's around streetlights. Because you see them while tripping does not mean there are actually halo's and patterns.
What I do believe is that you see the world subjectivity sober. The believe system that you have is not necessary true. For an example if you are teased a lot in the past you might think you are less than other people. Even though in reality people don’t think that about you. I believe psychedelics dampen those believe systems so that you can look things from a new perspective.
IMHO the best thing to do is to see it as an experience from which you can learn more about yourself and nothing more.
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It's definitely was amazing the first time i experienced ego death. I didn't nesscary think everyone died or disappeared, but we are not what we think we are. We are just conscious energies, that push and pull different conscious energies in and out of out lives. Our bodies had nothing to do with are actually selves. It was just a vessel. All that mattered was our minds. It was truly profound moment for me in my life.
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: Trrrex92]
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So ego death everyone speaks of is when you become one with everything? Sounds like some new age bullshit to me. As a person who has studied conspiracy stuff for a decade, who has studied scripture and seen how flawed the entire "Christian" system is, and religion in general, but obtaining eternal truth from therein, without being subdued with theological nonsense. And after seeing how much of a mind fuck reality truly is, it will be interesting to see what new introspection I receive from the sacred fungi, to reach new levels of wisdom and enlightenment.
Now if one views ego death as examining oneself, seeing the flaws of oneself, and the wrongs one has done, as many have described, and going about to change in order to become a more wholesome human being, and seeing how insignificant mankind is, yet how important at the same time, to that I can relate. Man is small in greatness, and again great in smallness.
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: Trrrex92]
#19231185 - 12/05/13 01:10 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Nobody can tell you who you are, you just know
But personally I am the same as before (same always), and my body is a reflection of my inner state always
so I can learn a lot by just noticing my body if it is unhealthy the mind is usually too, and reverse too often
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: lessismore]
#19231204 - 12/05/13 01:16 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yep I saw a documentary that claimed that you can change your brains with your body and vice versa. There is scientific proof to back that up too.
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mio said: Nobody can tell you who you are, you just know
But personally I am the same as before (same always), and my body is a reflection of my inner state always
so I can learn a lot by just noticing my body if it is unhealthy the mind is usually too, and reverse too often
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spikeycloud said: Yep I saw a documentary that claimed that you can change your brains with your body and vice versa. There is scientific proof to back that up too.
You guys should listen to this..
Take it with a grain of salt since it's hard to know how much is actually factual, but it relates to what you're saying.
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: Thecrimson]
#19231355 - 12/05/13 01:51 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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It's like, think of a white wall, if I show it to you you don't know where on the wall to focus. But if I make a mark on that wall suddenly that's all you focus on. Just like our brain/thoughts, in oneness you are simply the wall, with no point of focus, any thought is a mark on the wall. IDK if that makes sense but it does in my head.
That's a pretty good observation. Check yer ratings. 
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So ego death everyone speaks of is when you become one with everything?
No, of course not. It's when you stop existing as an independent "entity" conscious of itself. That's a much scarier prospect when it happens for the first time.
"Becoming one with everything" is just a perversion of Buddhist teaching. It's like that lame joke:
This Buddhist monk walks up to a hot dog cart and says, "Make me one with everything."
The popular perversion - like all popular "knowledge" - fails to transmit anything of value. As if, somehow, we were all the same, and didn't realize it, but how warm and fuzzy it would be if we did. That's bullshit.
What actually happens at the point of ego dissolution is completely indescribable. There are no boundaries, no barriers, no division of self and other - because there is no self. Experiencing this firsthand feels like mainlining God. Most people reach for some sort of religious analogy or another to try and depict it. But there is no religious understanding either, because there is NO UNDERSTANDING IT AT ALL. That's why it's initially so confusing, you want to make sense of it but can't.
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: PrimalSoup]
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Ego- The self, especially as distinct from the world or other people. So death of this technically is saying loss of one's identity. However, identity in and of itself is a metaphysical "idea" that has no concrete structure- meaning it can change through experiences in life- whether they be drug induced or not.
Anyways, I have only tripped once and never experienced this feeling- however it sounds like a feeling where one feels connected to EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE. As if I would be a part of the whole. As if we are no longer different, or distinct from others, but connected to them- a sense of unity with the human race it sounds like. This is all speculation of course, and I'm not saying I am right or wrong, because in this situation and context I don't think there is a right and wrong- I think it is merely individual interpretation of an experience many people have had whilst expanding their mind with a psychedelic substance. Just my .02
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"Ego death" is just a name. It's not identity loss but loss of self, entirely. Not technically, not an "idea", not a concept, not anything you can even think about - beyond thought altogether.
The sense of unity is merely the inevitable flip side of the coin. If there's no you, then there's no them, and there's no distinction between any of that anymore. Buddhism has another name for it, the end of Samsara. And it's not unity with the human race, or even with all life, but unity with the universe, because all division has ended. 
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: PrimalSoup]
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You do not have to worry about permanently destroying your ego. If you let it go during a trip, your ego will be right back there with you in short time. Even if you want to destroy your ego, it will still come back.
If you REALLY REALLY REALLY want to destroy your ego permanently, that will take much time and effort.
So you have nothing to worry about.
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spikeycloud said: Ok I had a trip yesterday, I did not have an ego death but certainly did got hints of how it would be so I looked it up during the trip and now I do truly understand what it means...And I find it very hard to accept it and let it go. I just don't like the idea that everything and everyone is you.. but in the trip I felt it was the truth....I thought the whole night of this and could not sleep.
Are there any tips to accept this revelation in your life because I feel a bit bad now. 
this is one of the reason people tend to think they are enlightened in fact they arent, from the small ego during the trip u switch to the large ego, u become one with the consciousness this is still an observer and still identification in this case not with the body but with the whole consciousness..
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blckmynnse8 said: You do not have to worry about permanently destroying your ego. If you let it go during a trip, your ego will be right back there with you in short time. Even if you want to destroy your ego, it will still come back.
If you REALLY REALLY REALLY want to destroy your ego permanently, that will take much time and effort.
So you have nothing to worry about.
there is no ego and there is nothing to destroy its all about letting go all the attachments
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: Aero]
#19233246 - 12/05/13 06:38 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I dont think "ego death" is realizing everything is connected or feeling connected to everything. Ive always taken ego death as completely losing yourself. There is no you to feel connected. There is only the experience. An "out of body experience" except you dont remember there ever was a body to leave when your in the deep of it
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You can accept that true ego death is impossible. Only an ego pause seems to be manageable.
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Let me put this simply, there are two kinds of people in this thread:
Those who have done DMT...
And those who have not.
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Nihon_Hyperspace said: Let me put this simply, there are two kinds of people in this thread:
Those who have done DMT...
And those who have not.
and those who meditate, dmt is just way too rapid, u dont have clear comprehension whatsoever, u have thoughts what had happened
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: PrimalSoup]
#19235499 - 12/06/13 08:22 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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It's like, think of a white wall, if I show it to you you don't know where on the wall to focus. But if I make a mark on that wall suddenly that's all you focus on. Just like our brain/thoughts, in oneness you are simply the wall, with no point of focus, any thought is a mark on the wall. IDK if that makes sense but it does in my head.
That's a pretty good observation. Check yer ratings. 
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Re: Problems with ego death [Re: Thecrimson]
#19235956 - 12/06/13 10:59 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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The little mushrooms above your avatar pic... 
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Well either way...the problem is that in my eyes people should see it purely as an experience and not a real thing. There's a medical term for that and it's called a psychosis, which is not a good thing.
I would never do DMT btw If have enough on my head sober already.
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