Ego

[FlyingNarwhal]

Tolle recalls going out for a walk in London the next morning, and finding that “everything was miraculous, deeply peaceful. Even the traffic".

I've had something very similar to that happen after having an epiphany about 3 years ago. Up until that time I had been severely depressed for a while, and for two weeks after my mind was in a place of bliss. I felt freed in a certain sense. I've also had a few life changing trips too. I don't know if I would call any of them an ego death though. Sounds entirely too profound to come from a blotter.

[Psykhronic]

I suppose what I experienced while taking psychedelics counts, as well as some of what I went through lucid dreaming. I started learning how to lucid dream at a couple years of age and had it mastered by 5, so there's a lot of dreaming material and instances that could count as 'ego death'.

[Angrboda]

I believe the Buddhists would say that, if you notice that you had ego, then you still have ego, as it is ego that stands apart from the self as a seperate thing and notices itself.

It is the observer observing itself. Thus to notice it falling away is just another form that the ego takes. If it has truly fallen away, there is no noticing, and no not-noticing.




Not that I believe it myself, but it sounds nice, and it has that deepity we expect from religious twaddle.

[Odysseus]

Yes, I believe I have (no pun intended).

[houseofcantor]

Fucking Buddhists spend too much time fingering their moon.

[Neo-Scholastic]

Yes. And only once while doing mindfulness, jogging in the winter. It was like first person experience without any personal references and what you normally experience as self seems like someone else. That's my best attempt to describe the ineffable.

[dscross]

Has anyone here experienced any measure of what is called "Ego Death"?

Has anyone identified their ego, confronted it, and exposed it?

Peace

I did once, for about a month - and I felt amazing. Unfortunately, it came back. I started thinking 'look at these people...they need to find self-esteem..like me. That was my ego coming back