Topic: What can you tell me about “ego deaths?”
Anonymous A started this discussion 6 months ago #127,921
I want to know everything.
TL;DR version only please.
TL;DR version only please.
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 6 months ago, 10 minutes later[^] [v] #1,380,049
Britannica says: ego death, in psychoanalysis, mysticism, and some religions, the disappearance of an individual's sense of self, or the removal of one's perception of oneself as an entity separate from one's social or physical environment.
Oatmeal Fucker !BYUc1TwJMU joined in and replied with this 6 months ago, 19 minutes later, 30 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,380,053
Catherine
boof joined in and replied with this 6 months ago, 13 minutes later, 43 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,380,057
since that doesn't make sense, maybe it really means you lose the capacity to think thoughts and all you can do is experience whatever your brain delivers to you
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 6 months ago, 4 hours later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,380,131
It's about washing away your old understandings and gaining the after effect of new realizations.
Oatmeal Fucker !BYUc1TwJMU replied with this 6 months ago, 14 hours later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,380,196
@1,380,057 (boof)
You only think it doesn't make sense because you're used to having it, but actually it's something that develops over time. Babies for example and young children don't understand the difference between themselves and other people.
You only think it doesn't make sense because you're used to having it, but actually it's something that develops over time. Babies for example and young children don't understand the difference between themselves and other people.
boof replied with this 6 months ago, 4 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,380,243
@previous (Oatmeal Fucker !BYUc1TwJMU)
now how would you know such a thing, how would we know such a thing, really
also that makes no sense -- but I think you are referring to the idea of the capacity to recognize that other beings have minds and agency, something that I sense from any animal that eyeballs another animal compared to it eyeballing a rock. that concept is the badly named "theory of mind", and is not exactly whatever I was trying to infer from "the difference between themselves and other people" earlier, which sounds like simply the capacity to form perception of distinct objects be they rocks or beings regardless.
now how would you know such a thing, how would we know such a thing, really
also that makes no sense -- but I think you are referring to the idea of the capacity to recognize that other beings have minds and agency, something that I sense from any animal that eyeballs another animal compared to it eyeballing a rock. that concept is the badly named "theory of mind", and is not exactly whatever I was trying to infer from "the difference between themselves and other people" earlier, which sounds like simply the capacity to form perception of distinct objects be they rocks or beings regardless.
Oatmeal Fucker !BYUc1TwJMU replied with this 6 months ago, 25 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,380,254
@previous (boof)
No, they literally do not have the capacity to understand the boundary between themselves and the outside world.
No, they literally do not have the capacity to understand the boundary between themselves and the outside world.
boof replied with this 6 months ago, 5 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,380,255
@previous (Oatmeal Fucker !BYUc1TwJMU)
how would we know that and why would we have that notion about them
how would we know that and why would we have that notion about them
Oatmeal Fucker !BYUc1TwJMU replied with this 6 months ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,380,256
boof replied with this 6 months ago, 12 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,380,318
well that'll do it