My friend is a psychology student but I still don’t get it after they explain it to me.
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You know how you can tell where “you” end and “the world” begins? You can tell your arm and memories are part of “you” and somebody else’s arm, memories and a random table are “not you”? Ego death is when that stops being possible.
I’ve experienced it on high doses of shrooms and ketamine.
looks like they’ve started/finished a section on Jung………..consider that everything we are, our outward representation is all fake but we never allow the real stuff to come through
how do we see ourselves if we strip away all outside expectatuibs……..is the class clown really self loathing and depressed? is someone who is never single fighing every day to keep the sense of abandonment away…..is the kid mad at everyone or mad at himself
ego death is what psychologists hope to help patients find so they can get honest answers to their problems and why the act the way they do
Ego death removes your sense of self. Not necessarily a good or bad thing. You simply become an observer with no bias and a sense of being “one” with the world
Your ego is the part of your mind that sees a clear distinction between yourself and the rest of the world. It focuses on the things you want to do in the world, and the great successes you achieve and the great injustices that others cause to you. It can be a very useful way to look at the world if you want to achieve specific goals.
Ego death is when this view of yourself as distinct from the broader world dies, and it doesn’t necessarily have to do with drugs. It can just mean that you, through inclination and practice, focus on the interconnections between all beings. You stop having a “main character” perspective: bad things that happen aren’t great injustices, they’re just things that happen. Joys for others are joys for you as well. You feel unthreatened by bad outcomes at work or school, because you don’t have a fragile identify that is dependent on external validation or success.
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