from personal experience I have never been one to seek out/dive into ego death nor have I thought about the similarity between the experience and dying (I actively avoid the thought of mortality when I’m in the middle of a psychedelic exp)
perhaps I’m jaded or burnt out but I really do believe psychs are tools to explore a different form of consciousness and they aren’t always a net positive. sometimes it’s also very disturbing, not every psych experience I’ve had resulted in ego dissolution or loss but it’s helped me negotiate the size of my ego in many cases when it’s been positive
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AND IF YOU GAZE INTO THE ABYSS, THE ABYSS ALSO GAZES INTO THEE"-Friedrich Nietzsche
i've been surrounded by extremely wealthy people lately. i was shocked by the fact that there were people who truly had no idea how the world worked; they appeared to me to be aliens since their reality was so different from mine. their morals, their complete ignorance, and how disconnected from reality they were scared me. it only occurred to me today that i am already normalizing a lot of what they say, and i find it frightening. i was shocked when i said something similar to what everyone around me often says when i was speaking to an old friend today. he reminded me of this line after i apologized, but he simply said it was alright, he was not offended but deep down i know he trully meant it and i will remind this phrase till the day i die. maybe it is not that deep but i do not want to lose me, how scary...
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