^I think the meditation trance-state is probably more effective, as it is not determ,ined by how much of XxXx drug you've consumed. It takes a lot of effort, which is offputting and seems to absorb those who seek its lives. What I would think it means is a permanent knowledge that you are indeed nothing but what you think you are, and when you stop thinking you are something, your free.
It seems that the general consensus is not to seek ego death (but let it come). However if one were too, how would you describe it in the sense of "good" or "bad". I release these are relative words, but generally would you say that it is fun/good/pleasing/positive/blah blah or the contrary?
Well, you can certainly seek it- but, fact is, it doesn't really happen to the You we are referring to. It happens to a component of you; a facade that we all seem to have.
To be honest, when one approaches the state of utter Nothing (or Everything...) it can be terryfying, but the actual experience is so hard to quanitify that good/bad are meaningless. The only way to describe it is to say that it Is. You, or the voice of your thoughts, is gone- there is no real values placed on "things" and hence there is a pure state of knowing/experiencing/being which is utter bliss- known throughout the world as ecstasy, samadhi, satori, nirvana, heaven; but not something that occurrs to the person you think you are. Thus, a lot of ego-death/dissolution experiences- what takes place at least- may not be remembered, but the feeling of joy and bliss which has no perceivable origin is profound.
I will say that, upon returning from a DPT trance after voyaging the Innerverse, the sensation is utterly astouding; frightening, yet euphoric- strange and unsettling, yet also familiar and more "real" then what we consider real. The benefits are in the knowing that You went somewhere where you can't go, and you came back with a whole pocket of gold, or a brain filled with stars :D