Alnaes (1964) defines ego death as "oss of ego-feeling". Several psychologists working on psychedelics have defined ego-death. There are only pure awareness and ecstatic freedom".
There are no visions, no sense of self, no thoughts. complete transcendence − beyond words, beyond spacetime, beyond self. In psychedelic culture, Leary, Metzner and Alpert (1964) define ego death, or ego loss as they call it, as part of the (symbolic) experience of death in which the old ego must die before one can be spiritually reborn. The second phase is a phase of self-surrender and ego-death, after which the hero returns to enrich the world with their discoveries. In comparative mythology, ego death is the second phase of Joseph Campbell's description of the Hero's Journey, which includes a phase of separation, transition, and incorporation. Such a shift in personality has been labeled an "ego death" in Buddhism, or a psychic death by Jung. In Jungian psychology, Ventegodt and Merrick define ego death as "a fundamental transformation of the psyche". Ĭarter Phipps equates enlightenment and ego death, which he defines as "the renunciation, rejection and, ultimately, the death of the need to hold on to a separate, self-centered existence". It is the experience that remains possible in a state of extremely deep trance when the ego-functions of reality-testing, sense-perception, memory, reason, fantasy and self-representation are repressed Muslim Sufis call it fana ('annihilation'), and medieval Jewish kabbalists termed it 'the kiss of death '".
2.3 Mythology – The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
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This conception is an influential part of Eckhart Tolle's teachings, where Ego is presented as an accumulation of thoughts and emotions, continuously identified with, which creates the idea and feeling of being a separate entity from one's self, and only by disidentifying one's consciousness from it can one truly be free from suffering. The concept is also used in contemporary New Age spirituality and in the modern understanding of Eastern religions to describe a permanent loss of "attachment to a separate sense of self" and self-centeredness. to describe the death of the ego in the first phase of an LSD trip, in which a "complete transcendence" of the self occurs. The term was used as such by Timothy Leary et al. In descriptions of psychedelic experiences, the term is used synonymously with ego-loss to refer to (temporary) loss of one's sense of self due to the use of psychedelics. It is a recurrent theme in world mythology and is also used as a metaphor in some strands of contemporary western thinking. In death and rebirth mythology, ego death is a phase of self-surrender and transition, as described by Joseph Campbell in his research on the mythology of the Hero's Journey. Jungian psychology uses the synonymous term psychic death, referring to a fundamental transformation of the psyche. The term is used in various intertwined contexts, with related meanings. Ego death is a "complete loss of subjective self-identity".
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