PDU said:

Ego - loss eh....

How do you know? While, there's been some good suggestions already, i would describe it as;

The moment when all sensory input and consequently physical output on your behalf stops. Its when your brain shuts your body down completely and fools the mind, the mind shuts down its defense's and you loose all sense of every-body that restricts you, no gravity, no rules, no laws, no physics, no humanly constraints, no *memory or knowledge* to influence your thoughts, Just you processing every aspect of life/humanity/future.

Your brain receiving input through taste, sight, hearing, smell, and sensory receptors is processing these minute electrical signals and reacting appropriately, everysingle second of everysingle day. With egoloss, these outside stimulus are cut off, and you are left with nothing but the functioning ability of pure imagination. You might see your entire life flash by on metaphysical cards, you might float, or die, you might enter a realm with teachers, or you might just be a pure beam of light traveling at the speed of light through your neural network processing every imaginable aspect of your psyche - However, how this processing manifests itself to you, can be freightening or feel like overload. Since there will be no *rules* or *decency* applying - it's just you and whatever can come up in your mind.

Reading Ketamine - metaprogramming from the eye of the storm, Last nite offered me alot of insight into this. A *dream* is simply random blocks of memory resurging and combining at a completely random cycle, to create some sort of structured imaginary reality. I feel that the same could be said for a trip, especially an egoloss one. Its all you, what you experience through egoloss, its all there, its all in your head .. and you may or may not have the ability to sway your experience in the direction you want using the content youve accumulated to use at your disposal.

Anyways, you'll certainly know when it hits you.

The first few times i *looked out for it* and *waited* for my "ego to be crushed*, and i can tell you, The analytical approach just wont work.

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ninjapixie said:

So true. I think the ego exists only in language. Egoloss is moving into non-verbal reality and shutting down that little running commentary inside your head that tries to put everything into words. When you stop trying to analyse everything with language, your sense of self disappears, you become the experience instead of the experience happens to you, and your sense of time disappears as you move into the eternal now.

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Emmett said:

When one looses their ego they feel a part of the eternal NOW and the eternal universe.. there is no differentiation between the person sitting next to you or the plants in your back yard, or the refrigerator in your kitchen.. everything becomes one..

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donkey_lipz said:
Does that mean I have less chance of having a bad trip? Would an egotistical person have a bad one when they lose their ego?

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GnuBobo said:

    I'm wondering if anyone here has experienced clinical depression to the point of getting seriously sucidal (e.g. having the gun in your mouth). 
    I was struck with clinical depression due to an extended illness.  I'm much better now, but I really don't feel  the same as before dealing with acute depression.  I sort of want to call it "detached" but this isn't really the correct word.  I suppose there is something of a "borrowed time" feeling about my life right now.
    I've used acid, 'shrooms, ecstasy back in college.  I was standing alone in the Amsterdam red light district tripping out waiting for my roommate to finish with a prostitute.  I mean, I've been frightened while tripping.  Confused, scared, etc.
      But since being so depressed, and using the fruits of my own labors, it's sort of been like my experiences have been quite different.  I feel like I have control, understanding of the lens I'm viewing the world through. 
      I'm interested in getting to "ego-loss," but I was wondering if others have had a similar experience with depression and entheogens?  Right on.  Thanks all.

GB

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GnuBobo said:

    I'm wondering if anyone here has experienced clinical depression to the point of getting seriously sucidal (e.g. having the gun in your mouth). 
    I was struck with clinical depression due to an extended illness.  I'm much better now, but I really don't feel  the same as before dealing with acute depression.  I sort of want to call it "detached" but this isn't really the correct word.  I suppose there is something of a "borrowed time" feeling about my life right now.
    I've used acid, 'shrooms, ecstasy back in college.  I was standing alone in the Amsterdam red light district tripping out waiting for my roommate to finish with a prostitute.  I mean, I've been frightened while tripping.  Confused, scared, etc.
      But since being so depressed, and using the fruits of my own labors, it's sort of been like my experiences have been quite different.  I feel like I have control, understanding of the lens I'm viewing the world through. 
      I'm interested in getting to "ego-loss," but I was wondering if others have had a similar experience with depression and entheogens?  Right on.  Thanks all.

GB

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I been there man. Only advice I have for ya is don't buy a gun!

J/k I can offer a lot more than that. I just found out about 4 years ago that I have clinical depression, and it's weird I never thought of it before because I remember being suicidal as young as 12 years old and very depressed ever since the age of 7 or 8.

Around 18 or so I started using acid and that made my condition a lot worse. It wasn't until I was about 22 that I found out I had major depression and anxiety issues, possibly elevated by my use of acid and shrooms. I tried therapy and various medications. To this day the only thing thats working for me is the Zoloft, and #1 most importantly NOT USING ANY PSYCHOACTIVE DRUGS! The last time I did shrooms on meds I locked myself in a closet for four hours with my gun. 

Now all I do is drink and smoke tweedz, and aside from some mild depression from the drinking I feel great.

I've never heard of this ego-loss stuff but it sounds a lot like things that I have experienced.

I'm tellin you this right now if you have any kind of depression/ anxiety/ brain chemical imbalance issues do not touch shrooms, acid, or X! 

Besides, if you grow shrooms and you don't do them that's 100% profit for you!