ego death is the best way to embrace the Ultimate experience, the only certainty for humans -> WE WILL ALL DIE
This is one of the opportunities brought by an ego death experience.
When you understand and accept, that one day, you will die, you become better able to live HERE AND NOW.
I guess that you probably already know that one day, you will die. But an intellectual understanding is not the same thing as an emotional understanding, an understanding that comes from your heart, from the inside.
Ego death leads you to such emotional confrontation. It can eventualy help you to understand that you are not only your ego, that there is something deeper than this psychological structure/defense.
For ego death as for biological death, the key word is ACCEPTANCE .
You do not find your soul, it finds you
You do not unravel you soul, it unravels you
You do not experience your soul, it experiences you
You do not express your soul, it expresses itself through you
You do not seek you soul, it seeks you
You do not come to know your soul, it comes to know you
You do not get given a soul, it gets given you
You do not release your soul in death, it releases you
The ego cannot accept this
If you are but the by-product of a multitude that astounds you
And if you acquire this
By your frustration the idea itself
Because so much presses itself
Upon your understanding
That you no longer believe in free will
What complaint have you
Your ego
Your I
Of not knowing nothing else
You're nothing anyway!!
Ego death is not annhilation.
It is emancipation.
You do not cease to exist.
The boundaries that define you cease to exist.
Having no boundaries, 'you' become nothing.
Yet 'nothing' is still apart of 'everything', and thus 'everything' remains.
The experience: There is no You.
The revelation: There is only you.
We are the Universe.
Ego death allows you to experience a state of being free of the attatchments you've used to form your personal identity and use to interpret your experiences. By experiencing ego-loss you are given a glimpse at how significant these attatchments are and how they can effect your life. While the actual experience can be terrifying, retrospective examination of the experience can increase your understanding of who you are and what you value.
That said, not everyone should seek an ego-loss experience. It is very intense and potentially too difficult for some psychonauts to handle with any degree of comfort.
The knowledge that you are not this body and can never die are very encouraging and is joyous.
People who are too entrenched in the material world and the "Game" probably wouldn't enjoy their whole life (ego) dying.
How can money and possessions possibly compare to becoming one with infinite love/experience?
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