Redpill me on ego death

>The cause of your bondage is that you are still resorting to stilling the mind.
I don't get it

just intuit bro

Imagine that the software in your brain that is responsible for you feeling like a complete person shutting down. It's one thing to tritely say that you're nothing but masks but it's another to clearly see the hall of mirrors that is your identity. After ego death you'll recognize all kinds of detritus. Ideas and emotions that you felt were an integral part of you suddenly looking quaint and non-essential. You'll understand that at your best you're simply a process

I don’t think I’ve ever had an ego. If enlightenment is the understanding and intuition of the collapse of subject-object duality, I think I’m there. It’s so boring that I turn to other topics, albeit ones with less gravity

The massive systematic anxiety attack is no different from what people experience when they are truly afraid of death (situations where some peoples hair turns white). Such experience often transforms their identity, without drugs.

When you OD on LSD or DMT, you'll experience something close to it, but not quite. It too can be transformative, but instead of vividly internalizing the trauma of natural stimulation, you tie it up with the bullshit you see on LSD. So your reassembled and patched up ego afterwards won't usually be a pretty sight, as now it's wired up towards hallucinated superstition - leaving you half schizophrenic for a while, or even permanently.

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It's bipolar people who were socialized on Yea Forums and similar places having their first manic episode and mistaking it for some kind of spiritual revelation, ego death etc.

Cool materialist reading, bro. Didn't you know that all spiritual revelations are just chemicals in the brain?
I've already accounted for the explicitly materialist understanding (brain damage) but it doesn't change the fact that it will give you access to a less constrained version of yourself, or, if you want to be fatalistic about it, an even less socially viable version of yourself.

Also it's a somewhat bug-brained interpretation of social phenomena to talk about this as if only losers on Yea Forums are affected by atomization, isolation and increasing fear. It's a development facilitated by society and it's important to understand why it happens beyond "losers will be losers"

>uses the word "I"
>doesn't think he has an ego

I was mostly generalizing from a first-hand observation I was able to make of one such case three years ago, when a friend of mine, who had always been depressed, experienced "ego death" after reading Plotinus on amphetamines for 16 hours straight and then flew to Myanmar to become a Buddist monk, but returned three weeks later, more depressed than ever. Of course most cases aren't like this one