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Cognitive disconnection: Difference between revisions
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>Phencyclidine It is not possible to EXPERIENCE ego death as the ego is a functional necessity of experience. Experiences don't float around in a void. Experiences are experienced by something (an ego). |
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*Feeling as though one's conscious thought stream is not one's own, allowing it to be analysed from an unbiased third person perspective. | *Feeling as though one's conscious thought stream is not one's own, allowing it to be analysed from an unbiased third person perspective. | ||
At higher dosages, the disconnection from consciousness eventually makes the transition from partial to all-encompassing. This results in the complete failure of a person's conscious thought stream, sense of self and [[memory suppression|long-term memory]]. It can be experientially described as a state that is functionally identical to [[Ego suppression, loss and death|ego death]] | At higher dosages, the disconnection from consciousness eventually makes the transition from partial to all-encompassing. This results in the complete failure of a person's conscious thought stream, sense of self and [[memory suppression|long-term memory]]. It can be experientially described as a state that is functionally identical to [[Ego suppression, loss and death|ego death]], hence there is no memory of the experience as ego is a functional necessity of experience. | ||
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