IZULAT Spiritual : What Is Ego Death?

 

Before we define what is ego death mean, we must first define what ego means. Ego means your sense of self or yourself or your identity in the world and or in reality; it is the “I” or “I Myself”. Spiritual teachers say we suffer if we are into much of our ego because they say ego live in duality; ego lives in a dualistic world and in dualistic perspective of life or in dualistic perspective of existence. Living in duality according to spiritual teachers, put someone into sufferings like fear, anxiety, hatred, judgement, etc. Ego believes we are separate identities from one another and the feeling of separated from one another according to spiritual teachers put us into great sufferings.

In duality if we are in the bad one, we suppress, reject and deny the judgement and perception to our selves or to our ego. Spiritual teachers says if we divide life instead of accepting its wholeness we suffer or we experience suffering in our lives. Duality is the dividing of life into two as in good and bad, right and wrong, love and hatred, etc.

“When we divide life, we suffer. The result of the dualistic ego is judgment, hatred, condemnation, and alienation. While we accept some things, we reject other things. While we love some people, we hate other people. Instead of unconditionally accepting life in its wholeness, we slice it into "acceptable" and "unacceptable" experiences, people, beliefs, thoughts, and emotions. Thus, we suffer...”(Mateo Sol / LonerWolf website)

 

In ego death duality or the perspective of duality is dissolved and makes one united in the world one can no longer see life dualistically.

So, What Is Ego Death?

Ego death or ego dissolution some call it, is being out of yourself temporarily and having a transcendent experience. Once you become out of yourself you felt non-dualistic perspective in life and in the world. Ego death can be induce by psychedelics or by deep meditation.

“In this state boundaries created by the ego are utterly dissolved. You are fully “in the moment” and able to see things from a macroscopic, more objective perspective. You are no longer an individual isolated from life as it takes place around you, but rather feel interconnected with the universe and all its inhabitants, experiencing intense feelings of love, euphoria, and unity while the self is temporarily forgotten. This state of selflessness and subsequent feelings of connectivity with the universe are often referred to as “ego death.””(Double Blind)

According to Mateo Sol, ego death is what they called “Enlightenment” where one experiences inner peace, freedom, and the capacity or ability to give unconditional love and acceptance.

“Transcending duality and the grip of the ego, we develop the capacity to give unconditional love and acceptance. This is the state of ultimate inner peace, freedom, and what people refer to as "enlightenment," yet those who experience this know that no possible label or mental construct can describe such an experience.”(Mateo Sol)

Ego death as the Wikipedia define it is a"complete loss of subjective self-identity” or ego loss in other word.

In Philosophy, ego death is a temporary shift of outlook from egoistic into non-egoistic outlook.

“From a philosophical point of view, ego death can be described as a temporary transformation of the psyche—shifting from self-centered to completely unbiased. This could foster a novel perspective, unclouded by the lens of duality that the ego casts over our mundane consciousness.”(Double Blind Mag)

In scientific view, ego death means the temporary quieting of the Default Mode Network of the brain which result into resetting thought pattern.

“From a scientific standpoint, ego death is hypothesized to be the result of dampened activity in the Default Mode Network [DMN]. This temporary quieting can act as a “reset” or “rewiring” of the network, and consequently the rewiring of thought patterns, which are otherwise constrained by the ego.”(Double Blind Mag)

The Benefits Of Ego Death

Ego Death depending on an experiencer, can bring you a better outlook in life and well-beingness. One become open-minded, empathetic, unbiased, understanding, loving, non-egoistic etc. person because those who discuss it says you are jumping into the undying and immortal consciousness and experiencing the non-self-consciousness.

Ego Death also brings healing to those who have mental illness by taking psychedelic drugs like psilocybin, DMT and LSD and mescaline. The drugs brings better mind-set and outlook on oneself and in life for mentally ill people.

image from Loner Wolf website