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Ego disintegration is an experience sometimes undergone by psychonauts.
It can be brought on by deep long meditation of trained professionals, or the ingestion of psychedelics such as dimethyltryptamine, psilocybin/psilocin, mescaline, salvinorin A or LSD; though some religious practices claim to do the same using varying techniques..
It is characterized by the perceived loss of boundaries between the self encased in skin and possessing a physical body and environment as a whole, a sense of loss of control, and the loss of the accustomed feeling of existing as a personal agent.
This concept of disintegration and Oneness with the universe is part of the spiritual aspiration called Nirvana in eastern religions.
References
- Grof, S: "LSD Psychotherapy", page 35. Hunter House, 1980
See also
- Collective Unconscious
- Cosmic consciousness
- Higher Consciousness
- Stanislav Grof
- Ego (spirituality)
- Self (spirituality)
- Near-death experience
- Entheogen
- Nirvana
- Alan Watts
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