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A friend asked:
“Sam please tell us more about ego death.”
To which I replied:
“ Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality—it’s all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I’m attending here is a show with another set. And the show I’m attending is myself. “
— Fernando Pessoa
In the above quote Pessoa was describing death of ego. The process of “ego death” or as William James called it “deflation at depth” often involves some disturbing, but temporary, effects:
- a feeling of impending doom;
- a feeling of urgency that something needs to be resolved
- lack of comfort from things which previously gave comfort
- an urge to escape
- an urge to isolate
- a feeling of unreality
- a feeling of loss of identity
- a feeling of fear but without cause
- loss of appetite
- constant thoughts of death, not suicide, but the idea of death
After this transitional period you will experience a preternatural calm. You will feel exhausted but in a pleasant way, spent, like after lovemaking. You will sense a new meaning to life. Fear will evaporate. You will see connections between people, events and places you never saw before. Others will comment that you seem “different” or “glowing”. People will seek you out for counsel and to help them “get what you have”.
Sam.
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Yes, this describes EXACTLY what I went through. My ego evaporated with my traumatic salvia trip. I stopped identifying...
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Let the ego go, and become one with you’re inner peace, and higher self.
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thealphamare said:
P.S….LOVE this! Thanks so much for sharing!
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check check check check check check check check check check well shit...have experienced...
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toxicgarden said:
Interesting how much the symptoms mimic those of depression
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