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OfflinevinceTM
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What is Ego Death?
    #8803436 - 08/20/08 10:55 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

Can someone explain Ego Death to me. I didn't understand Wiki.

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OfflineCoaster
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Re: What is Ego Death? [Re: vinceTM]
    #8803443 - 08/20/08 10:58 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

when u become one with everything and u have no body/soul


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Re: What is Ego Death? [Re: vinceTM]
    #8803448 - 08/20/08 11:00 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

The ego is the incessant noise in your head. The voice that is constantly talking, the part of you that shit talks other people, the part of you that identifies with material things, and the part of people that most people consider to be themselves. The thing that is always looking for something wrong with the present, and can't be fully content with things.

That gets erased for a period of time :smile::thumbup:


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Re: What is Ego Death? [Re: vinceTM]
    #8803451 - 08/20/08 11:01 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

I've never experienced it, but from what I understand it is the sensation of complete dis-attachment from your 'self'. No memory, no desire, no identity. I guess people strive towards the same thing through meditation -- complete awareness of the present moment.

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Re: What is Ego Death? [Re: vinceTM]
    #8803459 - 08/20/08 11:02 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

your ego is you, it's when you dive pretty deep into a psychedelic experience and you pretty much cease to exist.

And you are emersed in the spirit zone pretty much.

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Re: What is Ego Death? [Re: Cameron]
    #8803478 - 08/20/08 11:08 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

Ego-death is without a doubt, the most difficult thing to explain. You gotta experience it first hand to even get a grasp of it


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Re: What is Ego Death? [Re: danlennon3]
    #8803487 - 08/20/08 11:10 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

I'm highly anticipating it! :smile2:
Fall won't get here fast enough. :igor:

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Re: What is Ego Death? [Re: danlennon3]
    #8803506 - 08/20/08 11:15 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

Quote:

danlennon3 said:
Ego-death is without a doubt, the most difficult thing to explain. You gotta experience it first hand to even get a grasp of it




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read countless Trip Reports about Ego-deaths before I experienced it. the way anybody describes it has to be taken at face value, the experience far surpasses the English language. it was the best 1,000 or so years of my life, and it only took 4 hours of ego world time. can't wait to see if it ever happens again!

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Re: What is Ego Death? [Re: danlennon3]
    #8803532 - 08/20/08 11:21 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

Quote:

danlennon3 said:
Ego-death is without a doubt, the most difficult thing to explain. You gotta experience it first hand to even get a grasp of it




and even then, what one person experiences as Ego Death, other people experience a completely different "thing". the experience is 100% personal and is utterly impossible to explain, there is not a language that we have access to (yet :smile: ) that can convey the experience properly to people who haven't experienced it.


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Re: What is Ego Death? [Re: Syle]
    #8803540 - 08/20/08 11:23 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

wikipedia has an article on ego death?

I gotta check this out


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Re: What is Ego Death? [Re: Nunbuh_Chrubble]
    #8803722 - 08/21/08 12:15 AM (15 years, 7 months ago)

i was tripping really hard on 3 hits of acid a couple of days ago, and i was staring at the light around the moon and it was spiraling and i felt like i was being sucked towards it, and i started to think to myself i should get home, but i didn't know how to get there...so i stood there and looked all around the sky and in front of me, still completely lost.

after about 10 or 15 minutes i remember i can turn around and look as well, so i did that and the steps to my front door were right in front of me...i was out front of my house the whole time.

i think that was my personal ego death.


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Re: What is Ego Death? [Re: Pursuance]
    #8803733 - 08/21/08 12:17 AM (15 years, 7 months ago)

dude, that happens when i get high. no way is that an ego-death. ego loss = normal. ego death = different dimension, nothing left of the material world, including your ego.

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Re: What is Ego Death? [Re: uber_aj]
    #8803739 - 08/21/08 12:20 AM (15 years, 7 months ago)

i was having a real spiritual trip. my whole vision kaleidoscoped out of existence to the music i was listening to, all kinds of wildness.


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Re: What is Ego Death? [Re: Pursuance]
    #8803780 - 08/21/08 12:32 AM (15 years, 7 months ago)

well thats pretty cool, and i dont mean to downplay your experience, but i wouldnt call it ego-death if you think thoughts or know what a 'moon' is. maybe its just IME, but during my ego death it would have been impossible to have my own thoughts. there was no I, I became everything, and was beyond spirituality.

it lasted at least three hours and i couldn't figure out anything when i got back, i felt like my apartment was an alien society and i had to figure things out like "put water in cup, put cup to mouth and drink." i had to piss for hours but didnt know where to go or what to do. it felt really weird to be confined to a single human body, much less one that i had fleeting memories of. i didn't really come to until i fell asleep and woke up the next day.

you didnt elaborate much in your first post, so maybe you know what i'm talking about, or maybe your experience was just a way different kind, but either way, isn't it fucking :awesome: !

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Re: What is Ego Death? [Re: vinceTM]
    #8803860 - 08/21/08 12:51 AM (15 years, 7 months ago)

Its that feeling of melting into the cosmic goop.. where 'you' let go and merge with the cosmos.

Its really hard to describe, but it is one of the most beautiful, most rewarding and most deepest of all feelings.

You'll know when it happens.. because 'you' won't have any choice in the matter :grin:.


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Re: What is Ego Death? [Re: vinceTM]
    #8803893 - 08/21/08 12:59 AM (15 years, 7 months ago)

Pure self-awareness.

Any further words would only mar the essential beauty that is this state of being.


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Re: What is Ego Death? [Re: deCypher]
    #8804000 - 08/21/08 01:58 AM (15 years, 7 months ago)

the best way i can describe it is observing the world and yourself without any pre-conceived notions/biases while forgetting you have a body. it is a very enlightening experience.

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Re: What is Ego Death? [Re: JT]
    #8804003 - 08/21/08 02:01 AM (15 years, 7 months ago)

its like arm barring god

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Re: What is Ego Death? [Re: vinceTM]
    #8804044 - 08/21/08 02:28 AM (15 years, 7 months ago)

its somthing you are going to have to accept.

first I noticed colors becoming brighter,.. then you will notice just how amazing life is, it will prob scare you but u will feel closer to nature thats for sure.

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Re: What is Ego Death? [Re: Diddyds]
    #8804053 - 08/21/08 02:35 AM (15 years, 7 months ago)

when you expirence ego death you will think your in a video game.

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