Ego Death

[eprec]

I recently read of the 18 year old who died in an Aya retreat.

I don't mean to speculate about the nature of another person's death without admitting the possibility of other complications being involved with his death, however i feel as if it can be seen as a sign of the nature between the thoughts a person has, and the reality a person experiences.

Unreal things can trigger real things, remember it, If you think they are real, they function for you as reality - only for you. It is a dream reality, but it can affect you. It can affect your whole life.

I feel no shame in spreading the same old message about disidentification from the ego.

It seems likely that this young man died as a result of ego death, but he did not have the seed in his mind that he is not separate from the universe.

That is the death seed, one can eperience ego-death with few problems as long as that little seed has ben sown.

That's the search for nirvana, enlightenment, moksha, the kingdom of God- The state of deathlessness. But the condition that has to be fulfilled is very frightening. The condition is: first you have to die as a separate entity. That's what surrender is all about: dying as an ego. And in fact it is nothing to be worried about, because you are not separate, it is only a belief. So only the belief dies, not you. It is only a notion, an idea.

"The word "surrender" gives you a very wrong idea, as if you are surrendering something. You are not surrendering anything; you are simply dropping a dream, you are simply dropping something arbitrary that the society has created.
The ego is needed, it has certain functions to fulfill in the society. Even when one is surrendered to God, one goes on using the word "I" - but now it is only something utilitarian, nothing existential. He knows he is not: he uses the word because not using it will be unnecessarily creating trouble for others, it will make communication impossible. It is already impossible! It will be more difficult to communicate with people. So it is just an arbitrary device. If you know it is a device, arbitrary, utilitarian, usefil, but nothing existential, then it never creates any problems for you."


I propose the possibility that this young man was not aware that he was indeed something more than ego, his ego death triggered death in some form to come to him.

Only as food for thought for living hyper-psychonauts.

But whether it existed or not, those drops of perspiration were real; the fear, the trembling, the heartbeat going faster, the blood pressure - all those things were real.