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danlennon3
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Re: What is Ego death? [Re: CrazyEarl]
#7759040 - 12/14/07 04:18 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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ego loss is one of the craziest and most meaningful things you could ever experience, but for some, it can be earth shattering.
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Re: What is Ego death? [Re: danlennon3]
#7759189 - 12/14/07 04:54 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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the term isn't something concrete, just as "ego" isn't concrete. it's not tangible or measurable, but it's all referencing something we can agree we experience, which is a sense of control, and the sense of losing that control, a sense of centrality to the sourcing and experiencing of your feelings, to a sense of losing that centrality and expanding, imploding, changing into a state where theres seems to be a more chaotic nature to experience, however in this chaos of experience, there is a witnessing of inherent orders of our universe that are usually gone unobserved in a normal state.
imagine yourself at a party where a large group of people are being wild, and you are thrown into thier slurry of fun, tossed around, crawled on, picked up touched talked and yelled at and what have you, theres no real control, or at stages you feel like you become part of just the energy of the whole mass...this is moderately what a trip can be like in its essence, except instead of a party of folks it could be the very natural structures and growths of the world, and there can be not so much a contacting of spirits and thought streams, but a becoming of them, as if they possess and move through you, thier speed and property overwhelming, creating feelings of being "more real than real". After such an experience, and you seperate yourself from the barrage of pulsating interexchange with reality, you realize alot of the petty small minded games you were probably playing before tripping, basically what I realized was that a good trip is a microcosm of a really well lived life, many lessons can be learnt from its experience and applied, its all a matter of interpretation and effort.
To take psychedelics, you are willing to transform, for these experience can move into your soul quickly, with alien dexterity, and once there most panic before they let go, but if your in a solid, sacred and safe place to trip, with loved ones or alone, let go of that fear, let it race through and out, let the voice of another world leap into you, whatever you fear losing will return to your consciousness afterwards, maybe not necessarily so valuble as you had thought, maybe more, but what you were before isn't lost, in as much as your shown something wildly different and it can be so powerful you know not changing with it would be foolish.
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Re: What is Ego death? [Re: dshroom]
#7759317 - 12/14/07 05:36 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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my second trip, high dose of amazonian mushrooms. no visual effects but complete ego loss/death. I was stuck in a kind of loop of thoughs about our lives, we are born, we live, we die, and hten we start it all over again. I felt like life is run by this loop and theres no escape and no rest. I looked at parts of my body and i felt like im in some alien body, i didnt recall these parts being my own (they werent distorded by any visual way). Everytime i tried remembering anything about my life i couldnt, it seemed like every part of my life was an immagination of my mind, i dindt even remmeber taking the shrooms. it was very intense and it hit me so hard and fast, it was scary as hell scariest shit iv ever experienced in my life. its hard to explain in words, but its like your whole life seems like a lie and you feel like a complete lone entity of some sort.
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dshroom
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Re: What is Ego death? [Re: Anarleaf]
#7759472 - 12/14/07 06:12 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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i, on the othyer hand felt connected to everything at once and it was wonderful beyonf=d description.. i am also sort of old and have much experience with my mind.
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spanky43
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Re: What is Ego death? [Re: dshroom]
#7759821 - 12/14/07 07:28 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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it's when you stop being you, and start being everything.
and that alone is easily a simplified definition, that could be misleading. Ego loss is something one must personally experience. It defies any language.
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Re: What is Ego death? [Re: spanky43]
#7760074 - 12/14/07 08:40 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
What is Ego death?
Spiritual transcedence to a higher level of experience,consciousness, or thought. Beyond ego,identity, and self,and leaving them far behind as you plunge into the psychedelic unknown. You'd have to experience it to truly know what it is.
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Re: What is Ego death? [Re: Robo]
#7760183 - 12/14/07 09:11 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I've been there a few times.
It's not somewhere i'd reccomend you going after. To much shit can go the wrong direction.
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Re: What is Ego death? [Re: spanky43]
#7761038 - 12/15/07 07:02 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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spanky43 said: it's when you stop being you, and start being everything.
and that alone is easily a simplified definition, that could be misleading. Ego loss is something one must personally experience. It defies any language.
succinctly and beaytifully said.
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