Explore soul retrieval, shadow work, and more. To cease to exist, even for just a minute.ĭiscover profound insights and practices that will help you to access deep levels of love and freedom. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.Įgo death can feel scary because it is the ultimate threat to the ego: to die. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. However, as Terence McKenna once said, the abyss must be approached with courage, because only then can you discover that the fear is an illusion: Psychedelic explorers Dennis and Terence McKenna (who referred to themselves as the “Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss”) often mentioned the state of pure awe and also terror experienced in the face of ego death. Why? The answer is that shamanic plants such as ayahuasca, DMT, and psilocybin mushrooms are powerful gateways to the Divine experience. If you’re familiar with the psychonaut community (a collection of people who use psychedelic substances to access higher states of being), you would have heard of many “ego death” experiences. (Whether that is a good thing is up to you decide!) I have experienced both states of pure ecstasy and pure horror – and let me tell you, it can turn your life upside down and inside out. Those who report ego death generally fall into two groups: those who found the experience illuminating, and those who found the experience tormenting. However, while the experience of ego death is indescribably beautiful, it can also be indescribably horrific for those who are not aware of the spiritual path, and for those who resist the actual experience. This experience is the most mind-bending, awakening, awe-inspiring, peaceful, and unconditionally loving experience you could ever have.Įgo death is essentially an experience of embodying your True Nature (or returning back to who you really are), temporarily. I’ve used the term “ego death” in this article because it’s the most popular phrase out there used for such an experience.īut the truth is that the ego can never really “die” instead, it can be made conscious so that it’s no longer running our lives.Įgo death is the experience of temporarily transcending the ego, self, or personal identity. We suffer because of the separate self we carry (i.e., the ego) that believes it’s a little isolated speck cut off from existence. The depression, anxiety, mental illness, murder, hatred, greed, poverty, war, and environmental destruction we experience is all a reflection of our internal suffering. Living through the ego can be observed in our world very clearly.

Thus, we suffer.Īs a result of our feelings of being separate from the Whole (which gives birth to duality), we also begin to reject ourselves.Īny thought, feeling, sensation, experience, or belief we have that is judged to be “bad,” “unacceptable” or “wrong” we suppress, avoid, and deny.Īs a result of this repression, we fuel our Shadow Selves which become more twisted and monstrous the longer we keep them buried under shame. Instead of unconditionally accepting life in its wholeness, we slice it into “acceptable” and “unacceptable” experiences, people, beliefs, thoughts, and emotions. While we love some people, we hate other people. While we accept some things, we reject other things. The result of the dualistic ego is judgment, hatred, condemnation, and alienation.

Duality is the opposite of reality – it is the division of life into opposing forces such as love/hate, good/bad, right/wrong, and holy/sinful.

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