What is Ego Death?

Why does everybody seem to want it?

The ego is one of the outer layers of our personality. All humans develop an ego very early on. The known and feared stage is called toddler. Every parent knows what I am talking about. Later on we learn to share and work together but the ego never disappears without inner work.

me just before an Ayahuasca retreat in 2017 (when it was still legal), copyright by author