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>Phencyclidine It is not possible to experience ego death. EXPERIENCES are subjective and must be experienced by a SUBJECT (i.e. a concept of self or ego). Talking about experiencing ego death is mystical mumbo jumbo. It is NOT possible to experience something wit... |
>Phencyclidine "Ego death" is often used in a metaphorical sense to describe an experience where one's concept of self has changed so radically that they feel the old self is gone. |
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Since the ego is a functional necessity of experience, complete ego death is not possible to experience. Experiences must be experienced <u>by something</u>; namely, the ego. What is experienced as "ego death" during psychedelic drug use is a complete transformation of the way one conceptualizes their self to the point of being vanishingly small or feeling as though one no longer exists and is "nothing." However, in order to feel that one no longer has an ego requires an ego because a <i>subjective experience</i> requires subjectivity (i.e. a model of one's self, or an ego). | Since the ego is a functional necessity of experience, complete ego death is not possible to experience. Experiences must be experienced <u>by something</u>; namely, the ego. What is experienced as "ego death" during psychedelic drug use is a complete transformation of the way one conceptualizes their self to the point of being vanishingly small or feeling as though one no longer exists and is "nothing." However, in order to feel that one no longer has an ego requires an ego because a <i>subjective experience</i> requires subjectivity (i.e. a model of one's self, or an ego). | ||
The term "ego death" is also used to describe experiences where one's sense of self has changed so radically that they feel as though the 'old' self has died and they have been reborn into this new, very different self (e.g. feeling like a dot in one's head). | |||
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