ego death
Complete identity dissolution
Ego death is the complete loss of subjective self-identity, typically during intense psychedelic experiences or deep meditation.
The boundaries between self and world dissolve; the usual sense of being a separate "I" temporarily vanishes.
Users describe it as terrifying, liberating, or both: I experienced ego death on a high dose of mushrooms and felt merged with everything.
The term comes from psychedelic research and Buddhist-influenced spirituality.
- loss of selfDisappearance of individual identity
- dissolutionBreaking up completely
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
- mystical experienceProfound encounter beyond ordinary perception
- psychedelicInducing altered perception
heroic dose · mushrooms · ayahuasca · DMT · mystical · void · dark night · oneness · surrender · rebirth · awakening · nirvana · satori · boundless · selfless · cosmic · oceanic · merging
- humiliationashamed, abasement, embarrassed, chagrin, mortified
- ego termsnarcissist, narcissism, self-love, self-esteem, self-image
- philosophy termstruth, reason, knowledge, wisdom, logic
- altered statestrance, altered states, hallucination, altered perception, consciousness expansion
- asceticismabstinence, celibacy, ascetic, austerities, chastity
- mystical statesecstasy, rapture, religious ecstasy, mystical union, divine union
ego deathego
One's self-image
self-identification · self-awareness · personal identity · selfhood · self-concept
ego deathegotism
Inflated sense of self-importance
narcissism · egomania · megalomania · self-aggrandizement · hubris
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