Stages Of Ego Death
What is an "Ego Death"?
Before trying to understand what is an ego death, we might want to start of understanding what is Ego.
Ego
Ego is the collection of believes about the self, the "I".
There is the Super Ego, which is the social conditioning, and there is the Ego, the man in the middle between the animal instincts/desire, and the Super Ego.
There is a nice analogy by Freud who tried to explain what is Ego.
Ego "is" the driver of the horses when there are the people behind yelling at the man and telling him where to go.
The horses are the animal instinct, the yelling people are the Super Ego - the social conditioning.
Ego Death
So ego death, is basically the "death" of the distinct I.
Generally it can be achieved via spiritual practice (yoga, meditations), or phsycadelic drugs (LSD, DMT etc.)
The eastern philosophy tells us, that we miss the self when we identify too much with thinking.
That our true nature is everything, being one with the creation, with the world.
Stage 1 - Breaking The Social Conditioning
When you awake, and you understand that you just like a ship, following the horde, the media propaganda like bio-robot.
When you understand that life is not the way that you used to think it is, and you are not limited to the "I" you believed you are.
Stage 2 - Realization Of Oneness
When the lines between you and other become to bluer, and you start to feel one with all around you.
You start to understand the connection between all the things.
Real self begins to dissociate with the Ego, the thinker, connecting to the real self.
You start to see how others same like you instead of focusing on how the different.
Stage 3 - Accessing The Astral World
You realize the astral dimension, the dimension of infinite possibilities.
You understand you can be and do whatever you want, it is all there.
You understand your current identity is no more than illusion, and you have infinite possibilities to be.
Stage 4 - Full Ego Death
Complete loss of personality, you may panic you going to die.
You become only pure awareness, fully dis-identified with the physical self.
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very nice thought. thanks god that i don't have any kind ego problem.
Hi @davidconstantine,
I love Freud's analogy with the driver of the horses!
Here is an extract from my self-help notes, it's pretty related to giving up personality and replacing it with awareness:
I'm glad I've bumped into your post as we seem to like similar topics, I've followed you.
Cheers!