what exactly is the concept known as “ego death”?
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Ego death, in terms of psychedelic drugs, happens when you take a large dose.
From a scientific perspective, it is a reduction of brain activity in the parts of the brain associated with your ego/self. But I think that’s not the explanation you are looking for.
From a personal perspective, ego death means temporarily losing your sense of self. You don’t necessarily forget who you are, but it becomes unimportant. Your normal thought patterns, biases, and things you couldn’t get off your mind before all seem to fade away. You think differently, as if you are a new person or a blank slate. You just observe things around you and feel free to make new conclusions. You might think of things you could never think of with your ego in the way.
For me, I learned to appreciate that everyone shares the same physical world, but we all have our own mental interpretation of it. And I can coexist and even be good friends with people who have a very different understanding of the world and how it works. I no longer need people to hold beliefs similar to mine in order to feel close to them. That’s one just example of something that ego death helped me learn.
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