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 No.47085

I'm looking to perform a successful ego death on myself as I've had trouble in the past isolating where my thoughts end and I begin.

"In order to radically improve global quality of life, it seems necessary to have a fundamental transformation of the psyche. Such a shift in personality has been labeled an "ego death" in Buddhism or a psychic death by Jung, because it implies a shift back to the existential position of the natural self, i.e., living the true purpose of life. The problem of healing and improving the global quality of life seems strongly connected to the unpleasantness of the ego-death experience."

So, /x/ how do I go about performing an ego death?

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 No.47090

>>47085

if jumping straight into ego death seems to be the solution to your problems, then do you think you have really thought them through enough? i wouldn't try to think of it as some ritual you perform, but rather a rearrangement of puzzle pieces from a major shift in your perception (contrary to the many micro-adjustments it makes on a regular basis)

>where my thoughts end and I begin

your thoughts are ultimately how your inner self makes sense of your outside world. do you believe what you see or see what you believe?

>living the true purpose of life

is the true purpose just "be" rather than "do"? who's to decide?

>The problem of healing and improving the global quality of life

depending on who you are, the odds are that you have the ability to improve a "global" anything are slim to none, but the closest thing you can achieve is your own self, then family, then community, and as far as you can go

>strongly connected to the unpleasantness of the ego-death

this is where I think the meat of it lies. when you spend all this time building a house just to see it destroyed by a natural disaster, it will hurt, but it may hurt depending on the the amount of effort put into the building the house. the bigger they are, the harder they fall.

>how

meditation, psychedelics, extreme shock

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