Ego death

@jasperfrompelepens

I've honestly never heard of this concept, I hope others who have might share 🥰

@jasperfrompelepens

Hi there--I haven't experienced this myself, but there's a lot out there that might be relevant.

In terms of just stabilizing if you're feeling really overwhelmed or disoriented, grounding is something that often helps with dissociative experiences in general:
https://www.therapistaid.com/therapy-worksheet/grounding-techniques

Most contemplative/religious traditions have supportive practices and theology that are designed to help with integrating or processing any difficult or unusual experiences that come out of practice.

For example, within Buddhism (what I'm most intellectually familiar with):
1) Emotional: metta (loving-kindness), self-compassion, mindfulness
2) Intellectual: teachings on emptiness, impermanence, interdependence, karma/causality, and relative vs. ultimate truth
3) Practical: ethical precepts (actions to continue doing/not doing, general principle of non-violence toward self and others)

Hinduism has a similar supportive framework plus some other tools like devotional/bhakti practice, physical practices (yoga/pranayama) and a somewhat different theology for understanding dissolution of the self-sense (e.g. oneness of Atman and Brahman).

Christianity processes these experiences through the lens of humility, self-emptying, vulnerable intimacy with the divine, understanding the divine as the ground of one's own being, and leaning on faith/charity as one's normal intellectual bearings are less readily available. St. John of the Cross has some of the clearest and most compassionate descriptions of this process.

In a Western/secular context, Stan Grof and the field of transpersonal psychology in general are the reference points for understanding spiritual emergencies and how they can lead to growth/integration rather than being something that needs to be reversed.

Hope some of this is helpful 💜

@jasperfrompelepens I have experienced ego death through deep meditation.