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Psychedelics and Boundary Dissolution

Boundary dissolution, for me, means things that I once conceived of as separate entities (such as "self" and "other") have been shown to correspond, be connected to each other, or comprise the same substance in some previously unforeseeable way.

I think what people call "ego death" falls into the broader category of boundary dissolution: it has everything to do with dissolving some given boundaries (in this case, those that are imposed by the normal functioning of the ego), but these are by no means the only boundaries that can be dissolved, via psychedelics or otherwise.
 
Boundary dissolution, hmmmmm. If i had to say what those words mean to me while tripping, I would have to say that when I'm tripping and I feel that I am becoming a part of the earth, i'm experiencing boundary dissolution. Or i can translate it as meaning total break down. or as ikkyu put it ego death.
 
When I use this term, I mean that the sense of separation from my environment or other humans/animals/plants whatever is dissolved. Sometimes to the point where I really can't identify myself as a separate entity.
 
The distance between 'you' and 'everything else' shrinks, and the lines that separate those two things blurs a lot to varying degrees.
 
When your psyche dissolves into its self and the boundary's become non existant.

When you notice that were all just a complex make up of molecules, similar to everything around us just in a different make up.
 
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."
 
I don't know about ego death. I do know I've had a few experiences of feeling like I'm here in my body, but also millions of miles away in any given direction at the same time. Like underneath the normal tactile sense of touch, I'm also "in touch" with everything via something like a personal energy field. I've since thought that it might be the sensation of feeling gravity all around us, as well as our own personal gravity field. There is also a corresponding intangible, emotional feeling of "oneness" with all other matter, especially matter infused with life.
 
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