I think I'm in the process of undergoing ego death. I've been in a nihlistic malaise for quite a while now but I feel something changing. How do I finish the process?
Or should I not let go of my ego? I read on /x/ that in the process of ego death, if you choose to remain to your ego it will be stronger than ever and that only NPCs become pacifists after an ego death
Not literature related.
Doesn't Freud talk about ego death or some shit? It is literature related
You didn't phrase your question in that way I mean. Regardless, religious literature is going to be the best for learning what exactly ego death means; Meister Eckhart and Plotinus are my two favorites in western religion that deal with the ego, but they aren't really the edgy sort of violent ego death you are referring to. You aren't going to achieve such a thing without years of practice regardless. There is ego death in a upward sense (you losing yourself in contact with the divine) and ego death in a downward sense (you losing yourself in matter, without any transcendent value). If you think you can disassociate yourself quickly, you are in reality likely just becoming schizo and losing yourself to matter.
>If you think you can disassociate yourself quickly, you are in reality likely just becoming schizo and losing yourself to matter
Can confirm. Don’t do this. Put in the work. Don’t ask me to explain. I won’t.
>Put in the work
What?
Why would you want to kill your ego? That will happen naturally when you die
Because I want to transcend
1. Never listen to /x/ unless it's about gnosticism or mudfloods
2. Ingest psychedelics
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you can't kill a thought
Read the Holy Bible and get saved by our Lord Jesus Christ
Nah
matter isn't real faggots do you even gnosis?
based
i've had an ego death on lsd
faccs
you seem to be quite strongly stuck in its grasp for something imaginary?
Force yourself through a very humbling experience. I’d recommend going on a 7 day hike with 3-4 days of rationed food/water.
>ego death
>nihlistic malaise
>/x/
>NPCs
When you feel an itching sensation, do you (even for a fleeting moment) have a paranoid urge or instinct that such sensations are brought about by targeted energy weapons
OP here. Yeah, for a fleeting moment in the back of my mind
Begome Buddist :^DDD
There's no further step. There's no enlightening or catharsis or further meaning. You're there and you will be stuck there or move to a new illusion
>Gnosis
fuck off
Start with the Greeks. Ignore /x. Suicide cannot be logically justified. God, in His infinite wisdom, made all man mortal.
Death is a result of Adam's sin, not God's willing death to be.
>the Two
incredible
The definition of "I" is ego
>ego
>death
>process
>NPC
So many words you know nothing about. Go back to school, kiddo.
You do it with vipassana.
Or you can keep reading and thinking about and cling to the concept of egolessness, but that way is a bit shit desu
Why do you continue to be an edgelord?
This is good advice, I may take it
Read again, kiddo.