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LucidShroomDmtier

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i cant grasp what exactly you guys mean by ego death, i have expirienced loss of self boundries feeling of conectidness but dont know what exactly it is . if someone could shed some light i would be greatful
 
Perhaps ego loss is a better term, and there are degrees of it. You seem to have experienced some degree of ego loss. I think when people use the term ego death, they mean the experience of such profound ego loss that you are barely aware of your individual life anymore and instead experience being as the oneness, universal consciousness, whatever you want to call it. That's what I mean when I refer to ego death.
 
I don't think anyone really knows what it means. It's a term Tim Leary made up in the 60s that seems to have been perpetuated because it sounds more dramatic and deeper than saying "i tripped hard".

It seems to mean that you forget who you are. Tho seeing as all the people who experience it can remember it in great detail the ego was obviously still intact otherwise you wouldn't remember the experience. How can you remember something if you didn't exist while it was happening?
 
good point ^ , are you sure it was made up by leary i gogled it alitle and it says that the practise of ego death goes into occult and meditation and etc .
now when i read you it looks like we have ego death each time we sleep. people also say that you contact your real whole self whatever taht means, when ego death hapens.

so maybe ego death its just these obe expiriences where you go so far that the fact you are a human with name and a life , seems funny and fake and unreal?
 
That's why I remembered that I decided years back to call it "ego loss" and not "ego death", because yes, obviously it's true that it's still there if you remember. But it's more than simply "forgetting you who are". It's like realizing that who are is just a tiny part of who you are at the core. It puts in perspective the concerns of a physical life with the realization of just what the nature of consciousness in the universe even is.
 
funny thing is when u take so much acid you feel consciousness transporting kind of extreme empathy,its like I imagine what it is like to be anything I lay me eyeballs at...

look a wood floor,how about take a look at evolution of that tree this wood came from,image how it was cut and polished,where it was sold,what type of people handled it at its journey from forest to your home,isnt it sad? do you care about that tree??
 
I've been wondering that too.. I tripped the night before I was supposed to go to rehab for heroin, missed my flight because I was incoherent and got lost the whole night and my friends said I was talking to myself/god and crying all night saying how I was upset I died and I want a second chance and I love my friends and family and Lauren..this was after a year hiatus from tripping and ingesting 8 microdots.. each dot (did 1 first than 7 at once) was about as strong as 3-4 hits of other acid I've done.. I literally don't remember shit besides finally being coherent laying on the ground and seeing my dad (he had extreme bird features to him, idk why...I was literally out of there) and my friends gave me a recap afterwards when I got out of rehab. So I'm thinking minus all external factors brcause of the trip, it means I value my friends and family and Lauren more than I value anything considering I thought I was dead?
 
i once ate 10 gs of shrooms that would have most people tripping balls at 4gs or less and experienced ego death. curled up in a ball not knowing who i am and just feeling like an insignificant being compared to the enormity of the universe. it was one crazy trip to say the least, yet i had the mental strenght and ability to not be scared or have it turn bad. i remember my room glowing yellow as this was happening
 
red_eyed_wonda said:
i wouldnt say painful as much as awe inspiring and a touch scary, though thats my experience
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my ego deaths have been horrifying and beautiful. however, the beauty prevails and is what makes the trip. looking back on them leaves me with a slight smile, but I do not forget the darkness that has come along with them at times.
 
i feel ego death/loss is knowing and realizing we're just cogs in the gears of life, a feeling of being insignificant as a being but oneness with the universe. and i totally get the horrifying and beautiful part. and the major perspective shift, i found shrooms and lsd to be among the best antidepressants because of the perspective shift and a glow that last a few days, helps me work out my inner issues. after that 10g trip i was no longer depressed and had a grip on my life
 
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