PHILOSOPHY, MINDFULNESS AND PSYCHEDELICS
What Ego Death Feels Like
When your sense of ‘self’ dissolves
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Your ego houses your sense of self, your idea of who you are at your core, your sense of individuality. Ego-death is the dissolving of your sense of ‘Self’.
How Is Ego-Death Experienced?
It can come about in a few different ways; when a person hits rock bottom and is forced to reflect, for example, but most often and most easily ego-death can be experienced through psychedelic compounds, like magic mushrooms, LSD and even ketamine.
Classic hallucinogens like mushrooms, LSD and DMT activate a specific receptor in the brain which deals with consciousness and perception. Ketamine reduces the activity of a receptor which connects your brain to your body, resulting in a disconnect between your physical senses and your sense of self.
The ‘Self’
The notion of the Self has been debated for thousands of years, recorded way back from the times of Plato and Aristotle and continues to be debated to this day.
The reason the Self is so difficult to define is because of it’s highly intangible…
