Ego Death
Ego death is an experience that reveals the illusory aspect of the ego, sometimes undergone by mystics, shamans, monks, psychologists, alchemists and others interested in exploring the depths of the mind.
The practice of ego death as a deliberately sought “mystical experience” in some ways is said to overlap with, but is nevertheless distinct from, traditional teachings concerning enlightenment/”Nirvana” (in Buddhism) or “Moksha” (in Hinduism and Jainism), which might perhaps be better understood as transcendence of the notion that one even has any actual, non-illusory “ego” with which to experience “death” in the first place.
Many methods, practices, or experiences may induce this state, including prayer, sleep deprivation, fasting, meditation practice, ingestion of psychedelic substances, or the use of an isolation tank. It is suggested that individuals experiencing depersonalization may also claim to have had an ego death, although it may be misconstrued for deeper psychological irregularities.
An ego death is said to be characterized as the perceived loss of boundaries between self and environment, a sense of the loss of “control”, the loss of the accustomed feeling of existing as a “personal agent”, and loose “cognitive-association binding”. This “perceived loss of boundaries between self and environment” is said to be experienced through a sensation that one is the whole universe (and therefore there is no need to differentiate the “I” from the “universe”) or by simply acknowledging the “I” does not exist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_death
The practice of ego death as a deliberately sought “mystical experience” in some ways is said to overlap with, but is nevertheless distinct from, traditional teachings concerning enlightenment/”Nirvana” (in Buddhism) or “Moksha” (in Hinduism and Jainism), which might perhaps be better understood as transcendence of the notion that one even has any actual, non-illusory “ego” with which to experience “death” in the first place.
Many methods, practices, or experiences may induce this state, including prayer, sleep deprivation, fasting, meditation practice, ingestion of psychedelic substances, or the use of an isolation tank. It is suggested that individuals experiencing depersonalization may also claim to have had an ego death, although it may be misconstrued for deeper psychological irregularities.
An ego death is said to be characterized as the perceived loss of boundaries between self and environment, a sense of the loss of “control”, the loss of the accustomed feeling of existing as a “personal agent”, and loose “cognitive-association binding”. This “perceived loss of boundaries between self and environment” is said to be experienced through a sensation that one is the whole universe (and therefore there is no need to differentiate the “I” from the “universe”) or by simply acknowledging the “I” does not exist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_death
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