Stay Human!!! (Trip Report)

[Shin]

Deal with the consequences ...

 

[snowleopard]

@egoless  Seems you might have to change your forum pseudonym 

I agree that too much is made of this so-called ego 'death' -- and the heroic spin it is given.  Yes, the dispelling of the exclusive segregated self-identity is crucial, but it is not the 'death' of an individual locus of perspective, without which this relational experience, however dreamlike it may be, wouldn't be happening. If anything, it's the 'death' of a belief. Ok, great news ! Now 'chop wood, carry water', as the zen saying goes.

[pluto]

Humans are cool but i prefer to be myself

[Nahm]

@snowleopard That ‘death’ part is accurate in my experience. I was at my own funeral, meeting people as me. It was really beautiful. There is an overall perspective I had that I could never get back. I agree it’s  all  beliefs, and very much chopping wood & carrying water. 

[snowleopard]

@Nahm  Well, no doubt that insofar as the exclusive egoic identification as a body is deeply entrenched, then the dream of its death will appear very real, and utterly convincing. But ultimately that experience can't be avoided, and eventually there will be no dream of a body to return to, and likewise the curtain falls on the whole human theatre, so might as well get used to it in dress rehearsal 

[snowleopard]

12 hours ago, pluto said:

Humans are cool but i prefer to be myself

lol ... Oddly enough, in the weird way this imaginative mind works, your words reminded me of the opening theme of the old Looney Tunes TV show, which kind of sums up the whole cycle of the incartoonations of life and death in one minute ...