Known ways to trigger ego death
What ego-death is to me: when the bubble of self that your mind actively maintain bursts, you’ll be fearless to everything because you realize you’re one with everything.
- Live like a monk for an extended period. This is the safest way, but it takes a lot of time.
- Use psychedelic and hope you get an ego-death experience instead of some kind of bad trip. This is the most effortless way, but also the most unreliable way.
- Snap out of an intense enough depression (whether acute or chronic). This is the most stressful way, but also the way many people know that ego-death is a thing.
There’s also a reported case of a woman experiencing ego-death when she has internal bleeding inside her brain. I don’t include this to the list above for obvious reasons (e.g. it’s hard to replicate safely).
Why would you want to trigger an ego-death experience? Well, you don’t have to, but I believe that experiencing it gave me some perspective on things.